Kraft Singles, America’s favorite brand of American cheese, has scored another money-saving season with Minor League Baseball, offering a deal at the ballpark beginning this spring. From Apr. 12 through Sept. 6, 2011, families can enjoy more of America’s favorite pastime for less with Kraft Singles’ “Tuesday Night Tickets” promotion at most Minor League Baseball parks nationwide. As part of Kraft Singles’ ongoing commitment to providing value to consumers, families will enjoy huge savings on a classic summertime outing. To enjoy the savings and the fun, fans simply bring any Kraft Singles package wrapper to the ballpark box office on Tuesday nights, buy one ticket and get another ticket free courtesy of Kraft Singles.

Har dessutom fått kontakt med ett företag som återvinner alla förpackningar och tillverkar saker av dessa så att inget slängs i naturen: http://www.terracycle.se/ positivt överraskad, ett genomtänkt alternativ till återvinning samt att det kostar inget att skicka in.

The Fourth of July is the holiday of holidays for the US-of-A (or at least should be) considering the infinitesimal impact the Declaration of Independence had on the formation of our country and venerable status in which we hold those revolutionary patriots and our Founding Fathers. But, I don’t mean to give everyone a history lesson on the birth of our country and ramble on about the philosophical, societal, and political significance of those events (although some could use a brush-up concerning the facts and events leading to the formation of our country, mostly just those self-aggrandizing and media-flunky politicians who often misquote and miscomprehend). Sorry, I watched too many news channels this past week.

Jag vill tipsa om den här sidan där du genom att återvinna förpackningarna kan skänka pengar till bla BRIS, SOS barnbyar mfl.

Here's a unique freebie, linking hiking and recycling. A company called Terracycle has taken on the challenging problem of how to recycle the non-recyclable waste which any hiker generates. Examples: juice boxes, Neosporin tubes, and my personal favorite: energy bar wrappers. I don't know about you, but I feel a little twinge of guilt when I come back from a hiking trip and throw all of my foil lined pouches and wrappers into the garbage can. Living in Seattle, a city which takes recycling VERY seriously, it's a shame to have to throw away anything. Now there's a solution, regardless of where you live! It's called the Terracycle's Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade.

Fourth of July is synonymous for cookouts and fireworks but after all the revelry has passed, hosts are left with piles of trash to tackle. TerraCycle has a solution for getting rid of all the non-recyclable waste from the Fourth and other summer parties through its collection program, the TerraCycle Brigade program. Anyone can send non-recyclable packaging from summer events – such as chip bags, napkin wrapping or plastic cups – to TerraCycle free of charge to be recycled or even repurposed into new, useful and innovative products. In addition to repurposing the waste, individuals that send waste to TerraCycle earn two cents per item for a charity of their choice – and there are plenty of great causes right here in Ashburn and Loudoun County. The program provides a great way for people to keep garbage out of the local landfill and give it another use.

Visitors who bring specially marked Polly-O String Cheese packaging to Six Flags will receive $15 off general admission any day of the week, or a free kids ticket with purchase of general admission on a weekday. Six Flags and Kraft have teamed up with TerraCycle to collect and recycle the cheese packaging. Normally, this packaging is not recyclable in most areas of the country , and this is the first time it will be recycled! TerraCycle will make the packaging into eco-friendly plastic products including trash cans, flower pots, plastic plywood, park benches, and picnic tables. Visitors can continue recycling packaging that is usually non-recyclable by signing up for TerraCycle's Brigade program, through which these items are collected. For every piece of trash that a Brigade sends in, they will receive two points, which can be put towards a specific charity gift or converted to cash and donated to the participant's charity of choice.

I’ll admit it. We don’t recycle much. I’m pretty sure that sooner or later everything ends up in a landfill anyway and the cost of human advancement and a hundred other things ( technology, population growth, industry, etc.) is that we’re going to produce waste. Leave no trace sounds nice, but in reality it’s not something we can do everywhere. Still…..my recent conversations with a leading-edge recycling company has me rethinking my ideas about recycling. Here’s how they convert old stuff into new stuff:

I have a confession to make: I am a chronic over-projector. This fact has even been reported several times by The New York Times. In May 2008 I was quoted predicting that our revenue would be “an estimated $8.5 million this year.” We actually finished the year at $6.6 million. Even as recently as June 2010, I thought we’d hit sales of “$16 million in 2010.” We finished the year at $13.5 million. A writer for The New York Times Magazine, Rob Walker, had this to say about TerraCycle in May 2007: “The privately held start-up can get a little carried away with its own hype at times. In 2005, the company projected sales of $3 million; it ended up selling a little less than $500,000. In 2006, the company said it expected annual sales of $2.5 million; the actual figure turned out to be a bit under $1.6 million.” The writer went on to quote our head of public relations, Albe Zakes, as calling me “very optimistic” — but he also reported that “even the actual figures represent a solid growth record.”