Today, April 22, is Earth Day! And if you’re wondering how you can contribute to our planet’s conservation, gather your junk and take it to Old Navy or Office Depot. Until tomorrow, people can take their unwanted pens, markers and mechanical pencils of any brand to Office Depot. TerraCycle, a recycling company, will then use them to make office supplies like organizers and trash cans. Meanwhile, until May 21, people can take their unwanted flip-flops to Old Navy. TerraCycle will mix, melt and extrude the footwear into plastic boards. The boards then will be used as structural pieces in playgrounds which will be donated to communities across the country.

Calling all Angelenos: honor your “other mother” this earth month by gathering up those hard-to-recycle sandals and pens for drop-off at TerraCycle Centers this weekend. TerraCycle, trash-to-treasure pioneer, has been turning heads with their signature circuit board picture frames, capri-sun lunch boxes and PepsiCo bottle all-purpose cleaners.

New Jersey Recycling Co. offers program for Ladue and other communities. A recycling company from Trenton, NJ has teamed up with Old Navy and Office Depot to recyle hard-to-dispose of items. TerraCycle Inc. is participating in Earth Month collections throughout the United States. TerraCycle has teamed up with organizations and school groups to collect used flip-flops and used pens. The program runs April 22 through May 21, a press release from TerraCycle said. Shoppers can deposit their old flip-flops in colorful collection bins found inside the Old Navy Store at 8881 Ladue Rd. in Ladue. TerraCycle will then recycle the flip-flops into playground materials that will be donated to communities around the country. This is the first time any nationwide retailer has initiated a large-scale effort to collect and recycle hard-to-dispose-of items like flip-flops.

Looking for a way to celebrate Earth Day today? Old Navy's making it easy for you by offering drop-off bins for your used flip-flops, which they plan to turn into playground turf for playgrounds around the country Starting today, Old Navy's making it a lot easier to reuse one hard-to-recycle item: flip-flops. The clothing chain, with a store at The Strip in Jackson Township, has partnered with the New Jersey-based recycling company TerraCycle to gather customers' unwanted flip-flops and turn them into turf for children's playgrounds across the country. The recycling initiative runs today through May 21.

Today, April 22, is Earth Day! And if you’re wondering how you can contribute to our planet’s conservation, gather your junk and take it to Old Navy or Office Depot. Until tomorrow, people can take their unwanted pens, markers and mechanical pencils of any brand to Office Depot. TerraCycle, a recycling company, will then use them to make office supplies like organizers and trash cans.

Old flip-flop sandals can be recycled into public playgrounds, seriously, so take them to the Old Navy store during Earth Month. An international recycling company is collecting used flip-flop sandals at all Old Navy clothing stores starting today, Earth Day, for the next month until May 21. The miracle of recycling means the flip-flops will come out on the other end as public playgrounds—those rubber-like ground surfaces that save teeth, knees and possibly broken arms when children take a fall. TerraCycle, Inc. has partnered with Old Navy for the flip-flop drive. They say it's the first time a retail chain has agreed to a large-scale collection for recycle inside the store.

The rubber flip-flops will be turned into material used for playgrounds. As the mother of a 3-year-old daughter who often takes spills, Heidi Weiss appreciates the soft rubber mats that break her little one’s falls on the playground. “I think they’re awesome, they really are,” she said. “As a mom, I know I don’t have to worry.” That is why Weiss, store manager of the Old Navy store in Cranberry Township, is pleased her company is teaming with international recycling company TerraCycle to collect used flip-flops in honor of Earth Month. The rubber flip-flops, which TerraCycle spokeswoman Megan Yarnall said are difficult to recycle, will be repurposed into four public playgrounds across the country through the Flip-Flop Replay program. Although Weiss said the store has participated in other company-wide initiatives such as collecting T-shirts for the troops overseas and donating coats through the One Warm Coat program, this is the first time the store has participated in a large-scale effort to collect and recycle flip-flops.

Old Navy is also launching a recycling initiative called "The Flip Flop Replay" that runs from Earth Day (Friday, April 22) through May 21. Shoppers can bring in their old flip flops that will be turned into playgrounds in four communities across the country. Even Office Depot is getting in on the action. Customers can trade in used pens, pencils, and markers this week that will be turned into new office supply products ranging from trash cans to desk organizers.

Today, April 22, is Earth Day! And if you’re wondering how you can contribute to our planet’s conservation, gather your junk and take it to Old Navy or Office Depot. Until tomorrow, people can take their unwanted pens, markers and mechanical pencils of any brand to Office Depot. TerraCycle, a recycling company, will then use them to make office supplies like organizers and trash cans.

  Beginning Sunday, April 17 and running through Saturday, April 23, customers can trade in their used writing instruments, regardless of brand, to any Office Depot retail store location nationwide. In exchange for ten pens, pencils or markers, customers will receive a coupon toward a new product from Newell Rubbermaid Office Products, maker of Sharpie®, EXPO®, Paper Mate® and more. The collected instruments will be sent to TerraCycle, the pioneering upcycling and recycling company, to be turned into new office supply products ranging from trash cans to desk organizers.