Ziploc® and TerraCycle, Inc. today announce the well-known food storage brand has become a sponsor of TerraCycle's newest Brigade, and will provide fundraising opportunities exclusively for K-12 schools. Through the Ziploc® Brigade, schools can collect bags an= containers of any size and send them free of charge to TerraCycle to be tur=ed into new plastic-based products. For each bag or container collected, Ziploc® and TerraCycle will pay two cents to the school actually doing the collection. Signups are beginning immediately at
www.terracycle.net/brigades.
The programs were all promoted as part of a themed eight-page insert in the chain’s April 18 circular. The tab also featured a spread that could be converted into a postage-paid envelope. Consumers who used the pages to mail five plastic Target shopping bags to recycled-product manufacturer TerraCycle received a coupon — via “earth-friendly email” — for $1 off the purchase of a reusable bag. Target and TerraCycle employed the same tactic in a 2008 ad in Newsweek.
For a limited time only, sign up and save with this
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TerraCycle too!
TerraCycle: We're a society of convenience which means we have a lot of trash. That's where TerraCycle comes in. The company founded by a college student less than a decade ago takes non-recyclable stuff (plastic goodies like juice boxes, candy wrappers, lunch kits, chip bags, tape, pens etc) and gives them a second chance. They're refashioned them into useful consumer goods like bags, cork boards, flower pots and backpacks.
Eco Boombox Skittles : Another product made by TerraCycle. As reported on its website, "Upcycling takes unused rolls of wrapping material that would otherwise go to waste, and turns it into a variety of useful, eco-friendly products
Wal-Mart (NYSE:
WMT) could play a big role in helping Earth-friendly start-ups survive.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Terracycle, a small,
private company that fashions products out of difficult-to-recycle packaging, is hoping that large retailers like Wal-Mart will take up its cause more consistently -- and help the tiny company finally turn a profit.
Wal-Mart carried Terracycle's wares during a promotion for last month's Earth Day. In one clever touch, the retailer stocked Terracycle's backpacks, crafted from
Kraft's Capri-Sun packages, next to the actual Capri-Sun beverages.
In his book: "Revolution in a Bottle,"
Tom Szaky shares how he took "unwanted molecules of industry and created a whole new venture." In simple terms, someone's trash became his treasure. In 2002 Szaky dropped out of Princeton to head up
TerraCycle a company known for eco-friendly products made from various non-recyclable products from such major retailers as Walmart, Target, and The Home Depot."
Most impressive was the display from
Middlebrook School, Wilton's middle school, where recycling is part of every student's day. As teacher Janet Nobles explained, every trash can in the school has an adjacent recycling bin for glass and plastic. Further, they are working with
Terracycle to send them juice bags (like CapriSun) and snack bags that are then recycled into new consumer products. They are glad to receive donations of these from anyone. If you don't eat those particular products, note that they also recycle wine corks. A list is on the
Terracycle web site
TerraCycle Inc. aims to make money by reusing the hard-to-recycle trash the U.S. produces each year—but it first needs to find out if Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other retailers think there's enough demand for its products.
