In an effort to further reduce waste, TerraCycle, Inc. and Old Navy are joining a month-long drive to collect used flip flops and recycle them into four public playgrounds around the country. The Auburn community is encouraged to participate by stopping by an Old Navy store to deposit used flip-flops in designated collection bins. Starting April 22 and running through May 21, Old Navy shoppers can deposit their used flip flops in colorful collection bins found inside any Old Navy store. TerraCycle will then recycle the flip-flops into playgrounds which will be donated to communities around the country.

4.       Potato chip wrappers   TerraCycle takes potato chip wrappers, foil wrappers from candy bars and other junk food, as well as department store plastic bags, and uses these materials to create a variety of items from messenger bags to office supplies.  To find out more about their products and how you can contribute to this fun creative recycling process, go to www.terracycle.net.

Also new this year, Kraft is playing on consumer’s “green” concerns by partnering with TerraCycle to encourage customers to recycle the cheese wrappers, through a promotion called “Cheese Brigade.” Families collect wrappers, bags and containers from their Kraft Cheese purchases and send them to TerraCycle, which upcycles them into other products ranging from office supplies and totes to decorative accessories. TerraCycle and Kraft Foods pay postage and two cents per unit of packaging to a charity of the collector’s choice. Several Kraft Foods brands, including Capri Sun beverages, Nabisco and Oscar MayerLunchables are now lead sponsors of TerraCycle Brigades. Since 2008, the Capri Sun Drink Pouch Brigade has diverted over 50 million pouches and paid over $1 million to schools and non-profits.

  Garnier is making greener strides. The L'Oreal-owned brand is proud to announce an exclusive partnership with TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing green companies specializing in making consumer products from post-consumer materials. Garnier is the first to provide such a comprehensive solution to personal care and beauty packaging waste anywhere in the world – no small feat considering that personal care and beauty products account for 1/3 of all landfill waste.

Garnier is making greener strides. The L'Oreal-owned brand is proud to announce an exclusive partnership with TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing green companies specializing in making consumer products from post-consumer materials. Garnier is the first to provide such a comprehensive solution to personal care and beauty packaging waste anywhere in the world -- no small feat considering that personal care and beauty products account for 1/3 of all landfill waste.

For Earth Month this year, upcycler and recycler TerraCycle has teamed up with Office Depot, Sanford, and Old Navy to offer recycling opportunities to spring shoppers and re-use difficult-to-recycle materials. Old Navy will be collecting used flip-flops at all locations between April 22 – May 21. The flip-flops will be recycled into rubber for playgrounds and donated to four communities around the country.

Beginning Friday, April 22, Old Navy stores including the Albany location at Heritage Mall will be collecting used flip-flops for recycling. The project, called Flip Flop Replay, will send the old footwear to TerraCycle, a company that  takes hard-to-recycle materials like tooth brushes, drink pouches and flip-flops and turns them into green products. Material from the flip-flops will be used in playgrounds around the country.

L'Oréal's Garnier brand has inked an exclusive partnership with TerraCycle, a company specializing in the collection and reuse of nonrecyclable post-consumer waste, to help reduce the amount of personal care and beauty packaging waste sent to landfills. To help support the partnership, a mobile marketing program kicks off in New York on April 11. Under the partnership, Garnier expects to collect millions of pieces of waste globally. Through the sponsorship of its worldwide Personal Care and Beauty Brigade — individuals or groups who sign up to participate — packaging will be collected and shipped to a TerraCycle facility.

MILDRED — A 10-year-old Mildred student is showing Americans what they can do with their waste, by making it to the final four of a national eco-design competition with a product made from recyclable materials. Aniq Chunara, a fifth-grader at Mildred Elementary, used recyclable materials to create a light-up desk organizer in a process known as upcycling, where instead of recycling the products, he simply turned them into something else. The eco-product design contest, being run by Terracycle, accepted entries from schools across the United States up until March 28, and now it is down to members of the public to vote for their favorite, by no later than April 20.

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