Other things such as juice pouches and potato chip packages are collected and sent to Terracycle, a company which promotes a way to help “outsmart waste.” Items from Terracycle include fence partitions made from “up-cycled” drink pouches, insulated coolers made from candy wrappers, and recycling bins made from recycled plastics. Backpacks and shower curtains also are made from the recycled trash the school kids are sending in. These things can be found at stores including Target, Wal-Mart and Home Depot, said Galvan.

Students at Liberty Elementary School are receiving classroom instruction at all levels, including art, which are based on the United States Environmental Protection Agency's guidelines to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. In fact, the top three Recycle ART projects will be presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Artr in Spring. Every Friday, between 8 a.m. and 8:35 a.m.., studens, parents, staff and community members bring their recyclable items to teh school. Students are learning to recycle  beyond the usual plastic bottle or can. They bring in all plastics, metals, cardboard, newspaper, and more.

Saintly Recyclers mail in their trash. Terracycle.net will recycle (usually postage is free) and donate to charity your candy wrappers, yogurt cups, drink pouches, cookie wrappers, Flavia Freshpacks, Frito-Lay chip bags, energy and granola bar wrappers, Bear Naked wrappers, Kashi packages, cell phones, Huggies and Scott tissue wrappers, Aveno tubes, Scotch tape dispensers, corks, cereal bags, Sharpies and Papermate writing instruments, Neosporin tubes, coffee bags, lunch kits (like Lunchables), Colgate tubes and packaging, Ziploc bags and containers, Inkjet cartridges, and Sprout and Revolutions food containers. Preserveproducts.com recycles your No. 5 plastics (same company that has the receptacles at Whole Foods) and water filters into toothbrushes and razors.

GREENVILLE — The 25 students in Rochelle Eggebrecht’s fourth-grade classroom at Greenville Elementary School are learning how to turn trash into treasure. And they’re asking their peers and the community to join in the effort. The students have organized Project Upcycle, a district- and community-wide project that collects plastic waste such as drink pouches and Ziploc bags and sends it to TerraCycle, a company based in New Jersey. TerraCycle uses the plastics to create useful, eco-friendly products like tote bags, purses, kites, fencing, coolers, school pencil cases and binders.

Winte learned about TerraCycle, a company that pays for trash and makes items out of it, about two years ago and started saving some of the acceptable items last spring. At about the same time, she started talking to other people about it and was led to Grow Berlin Green, the nonprofit that will benefit from the sales proceeds of trash collection. TerraCycle will send checks to Grow Berlin Green to pay for the items deposited in the containers at the park. When she accumulates enough of any one item, she will mail it to TerraCycle. The pay is not much, about 2 cents per item, and many items must be accumulated. For example, TerraCycle pays 2 cents each for 500 empty drink pouches for a grand total of $10. For some other items, like candy wrappers, the sender is told to fill a provided box, but is not told how many should be sent. Boxes or bags for mailing the items are provided. Pre-paid postage labels are also provided.

Tom Szaky, a 28-year-old wunderkind from Canada, wants you to send him your garbage, and he’ll pay the shipping. Oh, and he also wants to make a lot of money and save the world by taking unrecyclable waste like chip bags and juice pouches and turning them into new products like backpacks, kites, coolers and clocks. Now he and his company, TerraCycle, take tons of hard-to-recycle plastics and other waste collected from collection “brigades” formed in schools, churches businesses and service organizations and turns them into products sold at Walmart and Target. They pay the shipping for articles like shopping bags, used pens, whatever, and pay 2 cents per unit to a charity on behalf of the collecting organization. All of it is organized through the company Web site, terracycle.net. The feel-good business model has worked with giant companies like Kraft Foods, Frito-Lay and Kimberly-Clark, who pitch the program on their packaging. Walmart and Target also have joined up, setting up collection points and selling products.

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