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.

One company is making a big impact with their innovative initiative to find a practical use for nearly all commercial packaging waste. TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  not only encourages recycling through their upcycling brigades, where consumers are paid for their waste, but they turn said waste into valuable products! These products are then sold at major retailers nationwide, such as WalMart, Target, Petco, and Whole Foods.

Before those Halloween candy wrappers end up in the trash, you may want to know about a free way to give them a second life as purses, kites and other items. TerraCycle, a company that makes products from non-recyclable waste materials, has partnered with Mars/Wrigley and Cadbury for the "Candy Wrapper Brigade." It collects the wrappers and upcycles them into products. It's organized many such brigades and sells more than 50 items at major retailers such as Walmart, Target, The Home Depot, OfficeMax, Petco and Whole Foods Market.

Yesterday I bought a bag of M&Ms. I know that sounds exciting, right? Well, when I got home, I noticed that on the back of the bag there was an infinity sign and the name Terracycle.  Next to that it says, "Mars is turning used candy wrappers into eco-friendly products," and gives the website terracycle.net <http://terracycle.net/> . I proceeded and checked out the website.

A ação leva a assinatura da campanha Nestlé Chocolover e incentiva a coleta de embalagens de chocolates no pós-consumo, independente do tamanho e da marca.

TerraCycle has a more unusual model. It collects all kinds of hard-to-recycle stuff by mail — drink pouches, candy wrappers, plastic bags, wine corks, toothpaste containers — and then turns them into other things. “In 2011, you’ll see a playground made out Capri Sun and Honest Kids drink pouches,” said Jo Opot, TerraCycle’s vice president of business development. Consumers who send trash get rewarded with donations to schools or charities, and they get the psychic satisfaction of knowing that something useful was made out of their garbage. You’d think that  few people would bother to send their trash in the mail to New Jersey–Terracyle’s home base–but the company says 12 million people have participated, returning 1.8 billion items. The company gets paid by brands whose products it recovers, by manufacturers who buy its materials and by marketers who use its logo on finished products. There’s lots more about this all works at the TerraCycle website, here.

TerraCycle: We’ve already mentioned TerraCycle–a company that collects potato chip bags and food wrappers to make useful products. Join their Candy Wrapper Brigade to turn in your wrappers for some cash! Just sign-up and they’ll send you prepaid postage labels–for each wrapper you send it, TerraCycle will donate $0.02 to your favorite charity or school.

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TerraCycle has a more unusual model. It collects all kinds of hard-to-recycle stuff by mail — drink pouches, candy wrappers, plastic bags, wine corks, toothpaste containers — and then turns them into other things. “In 2011, you’ll see a playground made out Capri Sun and Honest Kids drink pouches,” said Jo Opot, TerraCycle’s vice president of business development. Consumers who send trash get rewarded with donations to schools or charities, and they get the psychic satisfaction of knowing that something useful was made out of their garbage. You’d think that  few people would bother to send their trash in the mail to New Jersey–Terracyle’s home base–but the company says 12 million people have participated, returning 1.8 billion items. The company gets paid by brands whose products it recovers, by manufacturers who buy its materials and by marketers who use its logo on finished products. There’s lots more about this all works at the TerraCycle website, here.

We’ve talked before about how eco friendly wine corks are, but one of the reasons they’re so good for the environment is because they’re recyclable (unlike plastic caps or corks). There are also a ton of places to send corks for recycling, so save them up when you drink and when you’re box is full (which for us is weekly) you can connect up with ReCORK America, Yemm & Hart, Korks 4 Kids or TerraCycle.