We’d love you to save all your used pouches and pack’o'snacks and send them – free of charge – to TerraCycle. And not only just Ella’s packaging… you can also send TerraCycle any other brand of baby food pouch in the same envelope! You could maybe get together with a group of friends or other parents at your little one’s nursery or school to start collecting.
In particular, she cited the "upcycling" firm TerraCycle as an example of a company who used social media in order to publicise its activities and green credentials. The firm recycles rubbish collected from schools and other public institutions and turns them into items such as recycling bins, fences and insulated coolers.
Companies should not "lose light of the consumer perspective...and so they get insight into what the consumer is thinking about when it comes to sustainable packaging", she added.
What is upcycling? According to a very cool company, TerraCycle, upcycling is defined as using every aspect of waste as value. Every year billions of drink pouches and candy wrappers and of in dumpsters and landfills across America. Check out these items below and see upcycling in action. See the volunteering section at highschoogle to learn more about how you can be part of TerraCycle’s Brigade movement, by starting a club at your school.
What is upcycling? According to a very cool company, TerraCycle, upcycling is defined as using every aspect of waste as value. Every year billions of drink pouches and candy wrappers and of in dumpsters and landfills across America. Check out these items below and see upcycling in action. See the volunteering section at highschoogle to learn more about how you can be part of TerraCycle’s Brigade movement, by starting a club at your school.
TerraCycle donates 2 cents to the school or charity of your choice for every piece of waste collected through its Brigade program. As of July 2010, Brigade participants could earn five times donation credit on their first shipment. That means the first 25 pieces in a large shipment you send is credited at 10 cents each. The rest is credited at the standard rate.
On the national level a company called TerraCycle believes in a bold goal of eliminating the very idea of waste. Through an extensive network of collection and manufacturing locations, Terracycle is teaming with organizations to have schoolchildren collect trash products such as Ziploc bags, candy wrappers, chip bags, drink pouches and toothpaste tubes — paying 2 cents per product to the charity of their choice.
These materials, rather than going to a landfill, are diverted into manufacturing to produce products such as coolers, trashcans, benches, and even fences. Started in 2001 by a college student, TerraCycle has already collected more than a billion different waste products and turned them into a range of products that are sold at stores like Walmart and Whole Foods. So far they have yielded more than $1 million for charity, and the numbers continue to grow.
Legacy Traditional School in Casa Grande recently has been named part of America’s Best Brigade for 2010 for being one of the top 100 schools in the nation in a recycling program for drink containers.
TerraCycle’s Drink Pouch Brigade has helped the organization reach the milestone of 50 million pouches collected and $1 million paid to schools and nonprofits.
Legacy sent its first shipment of Capri Sun drink pouches in December 2009. In the past 12 months, the school has collected more than 47,000.
On the national level a company called TerraCycle believes in a bold goal of eliminating the very idea of waste. Through an extensive network of collection and manufacturing locations, Terracycle is teaming with organizations to have schoolchildren collect trash products such as Ziploc bags, candy wrappers, chip bags, drink pouches and toothpaste tubes — paying 2 cents per product to the charity of their choice.
These materials, rather than going to a landfill, are diverted into manufacturing to produce products such as coolers, trashcans, benches, and even fences. Started in 2001 by a college student, TerraCycle has already collected more than a billion different waste products and turned them into a range of products that are sold at stores like Walmart and Whole Foods. So far they have yielded more than $1 million for charity, and the numbers continue to grow.
Every year, billions of drink pouches end up in dumpsters and landfills across America. Working with school volunteers, the manufacturer, TerraCycle, takes tons of waste juice pouches annually and donates 2 cents ($0.02) to a charity or non-profit for each pouch collected. The color of each lunch box will vary depending on the type of drink pouch used.
TerraCycle is in the business of Upcycling, making affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials.
This fun lunch box is made from waste drink pouch material. Send your kids to school in style with this attractive lunch box from
Green Ostrich.
Every year, billions of drink pouches end up in dumpsters and landfills across America. Working with school volunteers, the manufacturer, TerraCycle, takes tons of waste juice pouches annually and donates 2 cents ($0.02) to a charity or non-profit for each pouch collected. The color of each lunch box will vary depending on the type of drink pouch used.
TerraCycle is in the business of Upcycling, making affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials. The process of upcycling converts useless products or disposed-of waste into new products of better quality or or higher environmental value.
This fun lunch box is made from waste drink pouch material. Send your kids to school in style with this attractive lunch box from
Green Ostrich.
