If you have someone who is a wine lover and  appreciates environmentally friendly products, this TerraCycle Wine Cork Board is a wonderful choice. This is a great example of style meeting function in a way for the eco conscious consumer! It can be purchased with or without the private vineyard labels on the corks! TerraCycle combines wine corks collected through cork brigades with a wood frame to create a fun way to pin up notes (while lightening the load on our landfills). The dimensions of the wine corkboard are 16″ by 16″. The Terracycle Billboard Fierce Messenger Bag is a unique bag that is truly one of a kind. Since each bag is made from a different billboard, no two are exactly alike. The modern look and eco friendly design is a fabulous gift for anyone on your gift list! The TerraCycle Billboard Fierce Messenger Bag is the ultimate in eco-dialed-bodacity. This sturdy everyday messenger bag brings an eco-friendly twist to vinyl billboard. Each pack is crafted from a unique piece of billboard vinyl and a reclaimed seat belt. Designed with enough room and the strength to carry anything, your one-of-a-kind bag can make a hip green statement as bold as the billboard it came from.

Playing into the established "reuse is better than recycle" eco-sensibility, TerraCycle takes trash and transforms it into useful eco-products. TerraCycle runs a series of free national brigades, inviting people to send their garbage in exchange for cash to be donated to schools and nonprofits. From a kite made out of Skittles wrappers to an upcycled bike chain picture frame to fire logs made out of recycled cardboard and wax, TerraCycle's 1,500 products range from the quirky to the utilitarian and are available in a wide range of major U.S. retailers, from Whole Foods to Wal-Mart. Founded by a Princeton freshman in 2001, TerraCycle has collected nearly 2 billion waste units to date and raised more than $1.5 million for charity.

I asked her,"Are those Capri Sun pouches? Did you make that?" She started laughing and telling me how she found this company called TerraCycle that takes recycling to a whole new level. They do what they "upcycle" things like Capri Sun pouches, Frito-Lay potato chip bags, M&M wrappers, and a ton of other things you and I throw out every day and turns them into things like the bag A'Driane has. I was sold, especially after I saw their website. They sell everything you can think of, but what I really think is cool is that not only do they have stuff you can give your kids to use like pencil cases, kites, colored pencils, etc, but their products aren't expensive at all. They even have what they call "Brigades"-which are basically recycling programs that pay you to send them your trash. Capri Sun pouches, yogurt lids, toothbrushes, candy wrappers, you name it, you, your buisness, or kid's school can collect these items and get paid for collecting it while helping reduce waste-pretty incredible.

Innovative New Jersey-based company Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net>  has made a name for itself by collecting and recycling literally tons of trash into an ever-growing array of fun, unique consumer products, from plant food for gardeners to clocks, coasters, bags, office products and much more. These colorful speakers are made from discarded chip bags, and they don't require any additional power source (they are designed to plug directly into an MP3 player or other audio source).

Kraft Foods has added cheese packaging to its TerraCycle collection programs. Called the Cheese Brigade, TerraCycle and Kraft Foods will pay postage and two cents per unit of packaging to a charity of the collector’s choice for any packaging from Kraft Naturals, Philadelphia, Philly, Athenos, Kraft Singles, macaroni and cheese, Easy Mac, Cracker Barrel, Polly-O, Breakstone, Velveeta and Knudsen. TerraCycle finds new uses for the packaging, thereby keeping it out of landfills. Kraft Foods has had previous success with upcycling packaging with its Capri Sun, Nabisco and Lunchables products.

On top of this, you can give your Kenco pouches to Terracycle and they’ll upcycle them into products.

Today, I found TerraCycle Kid's Growing Kit and snapped them up! They consist of a three-pack of used Stonyfield Yogurt cups that have been filled with soil. The cardboard packaging that holds the containers is actually embedded with seeds for either tomatoes or basil, depending on which you pick. The best part? They only cost a $1 each. When I got home and started looking at TerraCycle's site, I found that they have a bunch of products that are made from “upcycled” products - a bike pouch made from energy bar wrappers, a bubble kit made from milk bottles, backpacks and totes made from drink pouches. What an innovative and fun company! Check it out to see if there's something you just can't live without. Of course, if you wanted to go one step further, you could save all your own yogurt containers and break a seed packet out among several cups so that the seeds are already planted and watered for the first time when you hand them out, but these were too convenient for me to pass up.

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.

For the Earth loving person on your gift giving list, consider a couple of gifts from Terracycle. I personally think that Terracycle is just a wonderfully brilliant company, who produces beautiful items from recycled trash. I myself own one of their tote bags and a few of their pencil cases. They are made ridiculously well and are always a conversation starter.

WILDWOOD — Throwing away an empty Funyuns bag or an old Laffy Taffy wrapper was routine for students at Glenwood Avenue Elementary School. Not anymore. Now, teacher John Fuscellaro and his homeroom students have launched a recycling program that has students, teachers and staff collecting everything from old Ziploc bags to empty toothpaste tubes. His class then sorts them and he sends them to TerraCycle, a company that turns the materials into new products and gives small cash payments to the school in return.