This summer, you can help clean up the environment while your family cleans up with savings and fun at Six Flags amusement park. Polly-O String Cheese and Twists along with the recycling company, TerraCycle, Inc., have partnered with Six Flags Theme Parks for a summer recycling drive that can earn you big discounts on admission prices.| At the Baltimore-area Six Flags, at 13710 Central Ave. in Upper Marlboro, you can participate in the program by taking specially marked Polly-O String Cheese and Twists packaging to the park entrance. Through Oct. 10, 2011, each specially marked Polly-O package is good for one free Kid’s Ticket (for children under 10 years old) with the purchase of a general admission ticket on weekdays, or for $15 off a general admission on any day of the week.. The park collects the packaging, which is otherwise either non-recyclable or hard to recycle, and sends it to TerraCycle, where it is converted into a wide range of products and materials. This summer’s recycling/discount program is available at the Baltimore-area Six Flags as well as Six Flags locations in Atlanta, Springfield, Mass., Jackson, N.J., and Lake George, N.Y. For more information about the discount/recycling program, visit the website www.KraftPollyOSixFlags.com. To learn more about Six Flags, visit its website, sixflags.com. And, find out more about TerraCycle, at terracycle.net. BC

(ARA) - As a parent, you'd like your home, community, and children's schools to be greener. Unfortunately, daily life can get in the way of that. You have limited time and budget in which to make the world around you a more sustainable place. But fortunately, going green doesn't have to be difficult, time-consuming or expensive. In fact, a smart and savvy parent can go green and save green at the same time. Here are a few easy ways you can change the world for the better, and even have fun while you're at it: * Get trashy - As a parent you probably go through lots of food for your kids that comes in difficult- or impossible-to-recycle packaging, as far as you know. There's a company called TerraCycle that makes products like umbrellas to backpacks, gardening products to recycling bins from recycled trash. TerraCycle works directly with the public, enlisting their help in the form of "brigades," - self-organized groups of people, typically schools - that collect packaging. The newest collected product is Malt-O-Meal, the cereal company that long ago decided to "Bag the Box," skipping the paper box that is typical of cereals; that alone already reducing the packaging by 75 percent.

Company encourages residents to send in weekend party trash. With 4th of July right around the corner, local resident are gearing up for a long weekend of barbecues and pool parties. But one company wants you to keep recycling in mind before throwing out the trash. TerraCycle, an up-cycling and recycling company, has teamed up with brands like Frito-Lay, Nabisco, Kraft Cheese, Solo and Scott to cutback on non-recyclable party trash just being dumped in the garbage. The company wants local residents to send their difficult to recycle food packaging like chip bags, paper towels and solo plastic cups to them instead.

The Fourth of July celebrations will be in full swing this weekend. As you plan your party, think about what you will do with all the trash that is leftover. Some of these items can be sent to TerraCycle, an upcycling and recycling company with a unique point of view. They want to “Outsmart Waste”. TerraCycle works with large companies such as Frito-Lay, Nabisco, and Starbucks to “eliminate the idea of waste”. The waste generated by these companies is collected by schools, church groups, and other organizations as well as indivduals. The “trash”, shipped free of charge, is then turned into backpacks, speakers, pencil cases and more which feature the brightly colored packaging. Other items are used to make pictures frames, floor tiles and plastic lumber. These items are available online at www.TerraCycleShop.com, with some items, such as their new cooler, soon to be available at Wal-Mart.

A Nestlé e a TerraCycle, líder global na coleta e reuso de resíduos pós-consumo, acabam de ampliar sua parceria para a transformação de embalagens, com a criação de duas novas frentes de coleta: a Brigada Biscoiteiros Nestlé e a Brigada NESCAFÉ. A iniciativa vem reforçar o trabalho iniciado com a Brigada Nestlé Chocolover, que já registrou até o momento mais de 145 mil embalagens arrecadadas.

‘O que é um modelo de negócio’? e conceitos básicos

• Business Model Canvas – exemplo TerraCycle

Novas brigadas vão permitir que as embalagens de biscoitos e de cafés (sachês) também possam ser reaproveitadas na fabricação de novos produtos.