Projeto escolar ensina a transformar embalagens usadas em cadernos e outros produtos reciclados, além de reverter a coleta em doações para entidades. A atividade partiu da professora de religião de 5ª e 8ª séries, Lorita Menegon de Souza, ao descobrir o trabalho da TerraCycle, uma das principais empresas do mundo na área de reciclagem.

Conhecimento, metodologia, informação e principalmente velocidade no desenvolvimento serão abordados no Lean Startup – Uma nova forma de criar negócios – em Porto Alegre – , uma grande oportunidade de adquirir conhecimento e fazer ótimos contatos. Um dos facilitadores será Tiago Mabilde, empreendedor em série, foi co-fundador da iVirtua, Eber Group e Warehouse Investimentos. Como consultor, trabalhou junto a organizações inovadoras, como Artemisia, CDI, Cria Global, Gestum, IDEAAS e Terra Cycle, outro ótimo motivo para participar no lean, afinal de contas estaremos diante de um empreendedor que já alcançou o que muitos empreendedores estão em busca.

14h às 15h - Palestra sobre Reciclagem, com Bruno Massote, Presidente da TerraCycle Brasil.

Cub Scout Pack 140 and Elizabeth Lane Elementary School are teaming up to raise money for the school with discarded candy wrappers. Mars, Wrigley and Cadbury candy companies have launched TerraCycle, a recycling project that gives schools 2 cents for every wrapper collected. The Cub Scouts and the Elizabeth Lane Green Team ask that students – and community members – bring candy wrappers from M&Ms, Snickers, Starburst, Swedish Fish, Twix and Skittles to the receptacle located in the school’s main lobby, located at 121 Elizabeth Lane in Matthews. The fundraiser will run through Nov. 4.

Students at a Michigan elementary school are raising money for their school, while keeping hard-to-recycle materials out of the waste stream. It’s called “upcycling” and at West Ottawa’s Pine Creek Elementary School, it’s becoming part of the school’s culture. “One of our focuses is incorporating environmental education into our curriculum and raise kids’ awareness,” said Principal Dave Gough. “We wanted to think about how we can problem solve and have a positive impact at the same time.” The school’s efforts are run through TerraCycle, a company that finds new uses for trash, turning otherwise unusable waste into things like coolers, picture frames and cleaning supplies. Students, teachers and staff members collect things like food wrappers and juice boxes and turn them over to TerraCycle, which transforms them into other, usable items.

Making costumes and treat bags can help save money and the environment during the Halloween season. A great way to make costumes with upcycled or recycled materials eliminates the expense of purchasing new items and the chance or running into someone with the same costume. TerraCycle, a recycling and upcycling company, has a do-it-yourself costume and candy bag that can be created easily using items from around the house. The PDFs for the project can be found on the following links...

Who doesn’t dream of receiving a product they use regularly for free? You and your readers can enter to receive a year’s worth of detergent for free, and save their cash for other items on their shopping lists. TerraCycle, Inc., an upcycling and recycling company, has partnered with Dropps Laundry detergent to create the “Search for the Largest Laundry Pile” Picture Contest on Facebook. The winner of this contest will receive a 1-year supply (240 wash loads) of Drops Laundry Detergent Pacs in Fresh Scent, Scent + Dye Free or Baby. All you have to do for a chance to win is take a picture of your already existing large, dirty pile of laundry and submit it to the TerraCycle Facebook contest page for a chance to win. The search for the picture of the largest laundry pile will run from October 11, 2011 until October 25, 2011. The winner will be announced on November 22, 2011.

This explains, for example, why I save packing peanuts and every so often take a big bagful of them out to Tait Farm, which re-uses them in their mail-order business. Or why I once spent money to ship a box of empty pill bottles I had accumulated to a friend in Madison, Wisc.—one of the few places where they can be recycled. So I was impressed to discover that Penn State’s Center for the Performing Arts has organized a drive to collect and recycle—of all things—plastic candy wrappers. Anyone attending a CPA show during the 2011–12 season is invited to bring in candy wrappers or multi-pack candy bags (trick-or-treat candy, anyone?) and drop them in one of the collection boxes in the lobby. The CPA staff will then ship the wrappers to an organization called TerraCycle, which will recycle them.