Each week, members of the Recycling Team of The Green Team gather all the drink pouches, squeeze out the excess liquid and count them. They are participating in TerraCycle's Drink Pouch Brigade, an initiative to allow schools and nonprofits to recycle drink pouches and earn money for their schools and organizations. So far they have received more than $300. They intend to use the money to help with the community garden that The Green Team will be building this spring.
Fourth-grader Joe Seese said he thought "it is a great way to earn money for the garden because everyone brings them for lunch."
Haerbig, however, said it is "a gross job and you go home covered in juice and smelling like fermented grape juice." But she was quick to add that all the students who count the pouches volunteered for the job. Their best week was 2,500 pouches.
The fourth-graders also recycle their food wastes, putting them into a compost heap built by the team last spring. A new initiative to recycle the plasticware is also being piloted by fourth-graders.
Conheça várias empresas que estão apostando pesado em produtos e serviços sustentáveis.
To help, one company is offering consumers a way to reduce their household garbage while earning money for local schools or charities. Through free collection programs called Brigades, upcycling pioneer TerraCycle is collecting and paying for packaging waste from household staples- from the bathroom to the kitchen to the classroom.
Many major brands are getting on board with upcycling. Scott Tissue and Huggies are sponsoring programs to collect plastic packaging waste from paper products and diapers. And since most oral hygiene products aren't recyclable, Colgate and TerraCycle have partnered to collect used toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes.
Uno de los principales programas del movimiento es la alianza que Tang tiene con TerraCycle, invitando a todos lo niños a ser parte activa del Movimiento, recolectando y enviando sus empaques para que sean re-utilizados y transformados nuevamente en artículos.
El proceso es sencillo: recolectar y enviar los sobres a TerraCycle, y seleccionar una institución sin fines de lucro para que esta reciba 0.25 centavos por cada sobre enviado.
IMC Licensing, the nation's leading full-service licensing agency specializing in consumer product brands, announced today that it has entered into a representation agreement with TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing green companies in the world.
TerraCycle provides free collection programs for non-recyclable and difficult-to-recycle materials and then turns the waste into affordable, eco-friendly products. By upcycling and recycling traditionally non-recyclable waste (drink pouches, chip bags, toothbrushes and much more) into various consumer products and materials, the company keeps waste out of landfills and contributes to a cleaner world. TerraCycle products are available at major retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target as well as online.
IMC Licensing, the nation's leading full-service licensing agency specializing in consumer product brands, announced today that it has entered into a representation agreement with TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing green companies in the world.
TerraCycle provides free collection programs for non-recyclable and difficult-to-recycle materials and then turns the waste into affordable, eco-friendly products. By upcycling and recycling traditionally non-recyclable waste (drink pouches, chip bags, toothbrushes and much more) into various consumer products and materials, the company keeps waste out of landfills and contributes to a cleaner world. TerraCycle products are available at major retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target as well as online.
Grupo Kraft comenzó un proyecto interesante y ambicioso proyecto con su producto “Tang” en alianza con Terracycle .
TerraCycle maneja programas nacionales llamados “Brigadas” en varios países. Cada Brigada es para un tipo específico de basura. En México ofrecen su primer Brigada de bebidas en polvo.
Estas Brigadas están comenzando con 1277 lugares disponibles para Equipos de Recolección de Brigadas.
Cada equipo recibe un pago de 25 centavos MX por cada Sobre de bebida en polvo enviada a TerraCycle. Los pagos van a una Organización no lucrativa de la preferencia del equipo. Si el equipo es una escuela u organización no lucrativa, es capaz de recibir el pago ganado por medio del programa. (Nota: todas las organizaciones deben de tener un número de RFC para poder ser acreedores a los pagos.)
TerraCycle se propone eliminar por completo la idea de los desperdicios mediante la creación de sistemas nacionales de reciclaje para materiales previamente no-reciclables. Lo hace a través de programas de recolección de desperdicios, que se usan posteriormente como materia prima para diversos productos y materiales. Hoy más de 14 millones de personas, en 11 países, están recogiendo desperdicios y han logrado desviar miles de millones de ítems de desperdicio para fabricar 1.500 tipos de productos.
Garbage is irresistible to some of the most devoted eco-entrepreneurs. Already old hat are the many crafts industries producing purses and totes made out of tossed-out potato chip packages and bottle pop tops. Always looking for new notions, recycling firm TerraCycle has a 25,000-square-foot warehouse in New Jersey stuffed with old Skittles bags to fabricate into kites, Capri Sun juice pouches for backpacks and chip bags converted into coolers. The company makes pet toys and garments out of emptied dog food bags and is seeking constructive uses for expired pills, old pill bottles and razor blades.
