TerraCycle, an award-winning company that specializes in recycling hard-to-recycle waste, wants to help small businesses achieve their green initiatives while giving back to the community. If your company signs up to a TerraCycle “Brigade” and begins collecting specific items such as Scotch tape dispensers, toner cartridges, pens, drink pouches, potato chip bags and more, TerraCycle will process those items and your company can earn money for the school or charity of your choice.

These days it seems like every company is trying to go green, and we’ll be the first to back those efforts up. To prove how supportive we are, we decided to bring back our “Green Office Tip of the Week” segment this week to offer up our thoughts on how your company can improve its recycling efforts. In order to do so, we’ve compiled a list of 19 things that your office can, and should, recycle. Recycling is the easiest way to go green. There are businesses around the country that will take pretty much any material from you, and some of them will even pay you for certain items. If you need help finding a place to recycle any of these materials, check outEarth911.com.

Recently Mrs. Erickson and a group of 4th graders learned about Terracycle by looking at the food packaging items we collect at RES and thinking about what becomes of these items.  They shared what they learned with other students.  Terracycle is a company that repurposes packaging, most of which currently can't be put in our recycling bins.  Students recycle in their classrooms at snack time and in the cafeteria.  The items are sent free of charge to Terracycle and they in turn send RES money, up to 3 cents for each piece. All this money is then donated to the Richmond Food Shelf.  To date, we have recycled over twenty-one thousand packages, raising money and reducing our landfill contributions!

MCLEAN, Va. (WUSA) - Trash has a new meaning at Churchill Road Elementary School. Some of it means money. Some of it means food for the hungry. And some of it means a bumper crop of vegetables this spring. The school produces 300 pounds of trash everyday, but only throws out 30 pounds. The rest of the 270 pounds of waste is recycled, turned into compost, or upcycled, meaning it's used again as it is. "Nothing is disposable. Everything has a use everything has a value and you just don't throw it away because you think its trash," says Debra Maes, the mother who started the program last school year.

Lo llaman ‘upcycling’pero para que nos entendamos todos, en y castellano,se trata de reciclar lo no recicable.Por ejemplo cuando alguien convierte un CD en un posavasos o una lata de conservas vacía en un cenicero lo está haciendo. Es decir, es el proceso de transformar un residuo, desfasado en un objeto útil, de igual o mayor valor que el original.Así TerraCycle,una compañía que lleva por lema ‘Aprovecha la basura’,ha aterrizado en Valladolid para poner en marcha esta iniciativa.

A Suzano Papel e Celulose, dando continuidade à estratégia de expandir a atuação sustentável da empresa para todos os elos da cadeia sob sua influência, dá novos passos em inovação e ganha destaque com ações que contemplam a gestão de emissões de Gases de Efeito Estufa e a reciclagem de embalagens de papel antes descartadas em aterros. O Programa Brigada Suzano Report® em parceria com a TerraCycle, tem o objetivo de estimular uma ação coletiva voluntária para a recuperação de embalagens de papel cut-size, promovendo novos usos ao material antes descartado.

A Coppertone lançou o programa “Protetores do Planeta” em parceria com a TerraCycle, que tem o objetivo de coletar as embalagens de protetores solares, de qualquer marca, após o uso. A iniciativa buscar a transformação dos materiais descartados em novos produtos.

L'amicale laïque, en partenariat avec l'équipe pédagogique du groupe scolaire Pierre-Perret, s'est lancée dans la collecte des stylos, feutres,... usagers. Ils sont ensuite rachetés pour être recyclés par Terracycle, entreprise spécialisée dans l'élimination et le recyclage des déchets.

I’m not much of a sports guy myself. For me, sports seem to be a detraction from more serious issues. But, I noticed on our TerraCycle Facebook page that we’re running a cross-promotion with Frito Lay for Super Bowl XLVI and asking people how they’re greening their football parties. I started to wonder about the Super Bowl and how detrimental it must be to the environment.

January and February may be among the coldest months of the year, but doing fun activities with your families can alleviate some of that winter chill. This Valentine's Day, think about what you love - children, family, friends and this wonderful earth we all live on. It's easy to lose track of that glowing feeling we all walk around with during the Christmas and New Year's holiday once the new year actually arrives. Spend some extra time with your families to keep that feeling intact.