Fountain City Elementary School second-grader Maia Koontz helps her mother, Nelia Koontz, sort through juice pouches and chip bags that will be sent to TerraCycle for recycling.
Fountain City Elementary School is getting paid for its trash.
Taking recycling beyond the blue and green bins, the school collects drink pouches and chip bags and then sends them to Terra-Cycle. The company diverts the waste from landfills by using it to create items such as tote bags and lunch boxes. TerraCycle pays schools and nonprofits for the otherwise non-recyclable waste.
Teachers and students at Purvis Lower Elementary School used to see a lot of juice drink pouches get thrown away.
But in little more than a year, the school has recycled almost 38,000 drink pouches.
It has become part of a nationwide effort that has just reached an impressive milestone of keeping 50 million pouches out of landfills. That's enough pouches to cover 480 football fields.
Machado Elementary in Lake Elsinore is hoping to turn those staples of schoolyard lunch bags into cash through TerraCycle, a firm that transforms the discarded items into eco-friendly products such as pencil pouches, book bags and insulated coolers.
Terracycle Speakers: these M&M speakers done by Terracycle are made with recycled M&M boxes, in fact everything Terracycle makes were previously trash, which in the green world, we call this process upcycling. They also donate a small percentage of each trash a school or an individual sends them and so far have donated over $1.5M. You can also find other cool gift ideas such as a circuit board desk clock, a bike chain frame or an Oreo wrapper kite.
Bain Elementary School has earned $999.14 by collecting and donating 49,957 Capri Sun pouches through TerraCycle, a free nationwide program that pays schools and nonprofits to collect nonrecyclable waste that would otherwise go to a landfill.
The school earns two cents for every pouch they send. TerraCycle and Capri Sun are recognizing Bain Elementary as one of the Top 100 collectors nationwide. Interested organizations can learn more at
www.terracycle.net.
Norwell: Members of the Norwell Cub Scouts 66 use to see a lot of Capri Sun drink pouches get thrown away. Once they signed up to recycle them through a company called TerraCycle, the school began earning 2 cents for every one of the pouches and became part of a nationwide effort that has just reached a milestone of keeping 50 million pouches out of landfills.
Five bins and food tumbler keep waste, packages out of landfill.
A few times per month, a separate set of students get together to count the plastic bags and juice containers that students drop off at the end of lunch. The school sends the waste materials to TerraCycle, a New Jersey company that fashions a range of products — including toys, backpacks and pet products — from the waste it receives as part of the company’s Upcycling program.
“It saves the trash from going to the landfill,” said 10-year-old Vincent Scott.
When students have collected 500 juice pouches, cleaned them and packed them, the school mails them to TerraCycle. The schools gets 2 cents apiece in return, and TerraCycle pays the postage.
BAINBRIDGE -- Teachers and students at Bainbridge Elementary used to see a lot of used Capri Sun drink pouches get thrown away.
Once they signed up to send them to a company called TerraCycle, the school began earning two cents for every one of those pouches and became part of a nationwide effort that has just reached a milestone of keeping 50 million pouches out of landfills.
Members of the Norwell Cub Scouts 66 use to see a lot of Capri Sun drink pouches get thrown away. Once they signed up to recycle them through a company called TerraCycle, the school began earning 2 cents for every one of the pouches and became part of a nationwide effort that has just reached a milestone of keeping 50 million pouches out of landfills.
In addition, TerraCycle, which makes affordable, eco-friendly products from packaging waste, and Capri Sun have paid $1 million to schools and nonprofits in return for the recycled drink pouches.
10-11-18-- NorwellMariner
