This year, bringing green into the fall and winter is easy. While packing lunches for kids as they head back to school, options for staying eco-friendly and keeping lunch tasty are at your fingertips. TerraCycle, a pioneering recycling and upcycling company, offers eco-friendly, upcycled and recycled lunchboxes as well as a way to earn money by collecting non-recyclable food packaging such as cookies, chips, and juice pouches.
Spiral Notebook (8.5” W x 10” T) - Frito Lay/Doritos
TerraCycle
Upcycling and recycling, this company has some products that are just uber neat. Making eco-friendly products from the upcycling and recycling of common everyday items which otherwise would be tossed into landfills.
These items are great for families and kids. Coolers made from recycled chip bags or from Capri Sun juice pouches, even portable mini-speakers. How cool is that? If you’re looking for a hostess gift I would certainly suggest checking here because TerraCycle really offers unique products.
If you want to go a step farther and introduce these methods to your kids then do not overlook their DIY upcycling projects that can be done together. Family time! TerraCycle goes beyond this with a wide variety of gifts – gifts for anyone!
I personally adore the TerraCycle MP3 Speakers are just the neatest things, upcycled (of course) from candy wrappers and/or chip wrappers. Cost? Not insanely priced. You can purchase the speakers for $13.99.
The school works with an East Coast company whose goal is to eliminate waste by not only recycling but upcycling, the process of re-using items close to their original purpose.
Students and staff of a Burr Ridge school are stepping up their efforts to be green by focusing on difficult-to-recycle products that, until now, ended up in the school's garbage cans.
Trinity Lutheran School sends drink pouches, potato chip bags and cookie wrappers to TerraCycle in New Jersey, which recycles trash typically not recycled. The company has about 45 brigades worldwide of individuals and groups such as Trinity that collect and send garbage.
Why not go for something different and give your child a green gift for Christmas instead? Our top 10 green gifts for kids are eco-friendly and good for the planet; they come in minimal packaging and are made from recycled materials and products. They are also great fun for kids and their friends, encourage imagination, and best of all, each one is under $20!
1) Skittles Boombox1) Skittles, Peanut M&M or Starburst Gummie Boomboxes $18.99
Looking for the perfect gift to light up your child’s face this Christmas morning? Look no further! TerraCycle has joined forces with Merkury Innovations to create these fun “upcycled” boombox eco-speakers. Upcycling takes unused rolls of wrapping material that would otherwise go to waste, and turns it into a variety of useful, eco-friendly products. These boombox speakers are universally compatible with all MP3 players and are battery-free, plus the kids absolutely love them! Choose from Skittles, Starburst Gummies or Peanut M&M versions.
