With the American observance of the traditional Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo taking on a life of its own, here are tips for giving new life to the remnants of your festivities.
Tortilla chip bag: These aren’t accepted in your blue bin, however you can join or start a local “brigade” of collectors for many hard-to-recycle items including candy wrappers and earn cash for your school or nonprofit by signing up at
www.terracycle.net.
Fans of minor league baseball and Kraft Singles American cheese can double their fun this summer. The Tuesday Night Tickets promotion delivers one free ticket with the purchase of a ticket and the redemption of any Kraft Singles package wrapper at the box office. The plastic wrappers are collected by TerraCycle and made into consumer products. This is the third season of the promotion by Kraft Foods, Northfield, Ill. It said that in 2010, wrapper redemption increased 43% compared to 2009. The promotion runs through Sept. 6.
Although Earth Day has passed until next year, Dallas schools continue to show their support for the health of the environment, community and their student’s education through working with
TerraCycle, Inc., the world’s leader in the collection and reuse of non-recyclable post-consumer waste. TerraCycle re-purposes waste like chip bags, pens and toothbrushes into new eco-friendly materials including recycled fencing and biodegradable flower pots and reusable products like jewel cases.
TerraCycle® is proud to announce that we have partnered with Old Navy to collect used flip-flops at Old Navy stores through the Flip Flop Brigade! The Brigade begins on Earth Day Friday, April 22nd and runs until the bins are full or Saturday, May 21st (whichever comes first) in all continental US Old Navy stores.
From April 22 to May 21,
Old Navy stores are accepting used flip-flops for recycling. You can find the collection bins inside the store, usually up front by the entrance.
TerraCycle will recycle the flip-flops into playground material which will be donated to communities around the country.
One environmentally friendly company is partnering with Old Navy stores nationwide to give communities a chance to turn their trash into treasure and help the environment at the same time.
Beginning on Earth Day and continuing through May 21, the green company TerraCycle is collecting ready to be discarded flip-flops at more than 900 Old Navy locations nationwide, including the location in Aiken. TerraCycle will then take the discarded flip-flops, which many people do not realize are very difficult to recycle and would sit in a landfill for a long time, and use the material to create four playgrounds in communities throughout the country.
In an effort to further reduce waste, TerraCycle, Inc. and Old Navy are partnering in a month-long drive to collect used flip flops and recycle them into four public playgrounds around the country. The community is encouraged to participate by stopping by an Old Navy store to deposit used flip flops in designated collection bins. This is the first time a nationwide retailer has initiated a large-scale effort to collect and recycle flip flops.
Running through May 21, Old Navy shoppers can deposit their used flip flops in colorful collection bins found inside any Old Navy store.
- TerraCycle | Outsmart Waste. This site is dedicated to helping rid the globe of waste. TerraCycle diverts billions of pieces of garbage from our landfills and incinerators (both of these options produce added carbon and other greenhouse gases) and either upcycles or recycles the waste into new products, which reduces the need for new materials to be extracted from our planet.
