New Jersey-based TerraCycle collects waste packaging from over 60,000 schools and community groups nationwide and “upcycles” them into new, useful products. Known for their “Brigades,” which has students and groups collecting everything from single use drink pouches to empty yogurt containers, Terracycle pays for shipping, prints the shipping labels the Brigades use, keeps track of how many items each Brigade has collected and even provides the shipping boxes. To make the Brigade program successful, TerraCycle has partnered with a number of well-known manufacturers like Kraft, PepsiCo and PaperMate to help turn the nonrecyclable into recyclable. Earlier in the year, TerraCycle partnered with Walmart to showcase and sell a wide variety of the repurposed products they’d created including tote bags made from Frito-Lay wrappers and purses and shoulder bags made from candy wrappers like M&M’s and Skittles. Terracycle has expanded its recycling program into eleven countries and, since its 2001 founding, has diverted billions of pieces of waste that were either upcycled or recycled into over 1,500 different products. They partnered with Toys R Us and Macy’s in New Jersey to collect in-store materials like used sneakers, shoes, used diaper packaging and used and broken toys. They’re discussing a possible regional program roll-out in the northeast. TerraCycle has also opened several retail stores featuring their innovative “new” products. They’ve also developed the TerraCycle Classroom Curriculum to teach students about the problems of and solutions to waste. TerraCycle is a company with both a vision and the ability to give trash a new, useful second life. You can find out more about them at www.Terracycle.net <http://www.Terracycle.net> .

On Monday December 21st, Michael Jasmin and his After School team packaged and UPS’ed to a site in NJ approximately 1100 empty juice pouches which will be “upcycled” in exchange for a financial contribution to PS 261 via a company called TerraCycle. The funds raised won’t single- handedly close 261’s budget gap, and the trash they collect won’t reverse global warming on its own, but over the course of a year After School’s collection team will raise hundreds of dollars for PS 261 while saving thousands of square feet of garbage from a landfill. Not only is this TerraCycle program a fundraiser and great for the envi- ronment, but it is an even better opportunity for the kids who participate. Recently, studies have demonstrated that children who participate in recycling programs score higher in school–particularly on math and science tests. Anyone involved in recycling with kids, such as PS 261’s After School, could have told you that but it is nice to have it confirmed with data.

Tom Szaky tinha apenas 19 anos quando decidiu criar a TerraCycle. O que seria apenas uma empresa de fertilizantes feitos de húmus de minhoca se expandiu para uma companhia internacional que hoje fabrica diversos produtos sustentáveis reutilizando materiais que iriam para o lixo.

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Mission Foods has partnered with Trenton, New Jersey-based upcycling firm TerraCycle to recover and reuse the steady stream of plastic foods bags and metal lids the tortilla giant produces. Mission packages its tortillas and tostadas in LDPE plastic, a material that typically don't make their way into recycling streams. Under TerraCycle Tortilla and Tostada Bag Brigade program, any individual or organization can collect and return Mission packaging, which will be upcycled by TerraCycle into new items like tortilla warmers, bags and accessories.

McMurrer rode the momentum from last year's contest even further, as she used the impetus of the contest to start, with the help of local mom Karen Baker, the TerraCycle Juice Pouch Brigade in the schools. The brigade is another one of those win-win-win propositions. The kids recycle their juice pouches at conveniently located receptacles within the schools, the schools get $0.02 per pouch that goes to TerraCycle, and TerraCycle turns the pouches into totes, backpacks, pencil cases, lunch bags – in total, 185 items for the home, office, garden, pets, school and more. Besides the first place winners each winning a $100 savings bond, donated by PNC Bank, all of the contest winners (first through third place) each won a prize donated by TerraCycle.

When people inquired into CLIF’s business I would have cool things to tell them such as CLIF’s purchase of over 100 million pounds of Organic food products for their bars in their years in the industry or their programs such as the 2mile challenge that collected $100,000 to donate to Nonprofits  working toward promoting greener  forms of transportation. Another appreciated aspect of CLIF is their partnership with TerraCycle. While CLIF strives to remain as sustainable as they can possibly be, they have not been able to as of yet package their products in any materials able to preserve them in a way that keeps them adequately fresh and is at the same time ecologically agreeable. Whereas these situations occur too often in corporate endeavors, heavily favoring commercial margins over ecological costs, CLIF has striven to eliminate as many traces as only possible of their carbon footprint by allying themselves with TerraCycle, an outfit that acquires all non-recyclable consumer packaging that would take up space in a landfill otherwise in order to rework these materials into slick and reusable consumer products that range from fences made of juice pouches to kitchen cutting boards composed of empty soda bottles to high back park benches that had been energy bar wrappers.

The Secondary Transition Program (STP) has joined forces with TerraCycle to begin a recycling project for the Sanilac Intermediate School District Special Education Programs and Services. Each year millions of candy wrappers, chip bags, glue bottles, and drink pouches end up in landfills. TerraCycle is a proud partner with Mars/ Wrigley, Nabisco, Frito- Lay, Capri- Sun, and Elmer’s Glue. Terracycle works with these companies to upcycle materials into fun new products! The Sanilac ISD Special Education Programs will also earn $0.02 for each wrapper/ package that is sent in. TerraCycle has been such a success in schools everywhere that they now require a 250 - 500 piece minimum send in! Due to this increase the ISD is reaching out for help. Please send in any Wrappers, packages, and drink pouches to the Sanilac ISD at Maple Valley or at the Sanilac Career Center.

Mission Foods has partnered with Trenton, New Jersey-based upcycling firm TerraCycle to recover and reuse the steady stream of plastic foods bags and metal lids the tortilla giant produces. Mission packages its tortillas and tostadas in LDPE plastic, a material that typically don't make their way into recycling streams. Under TerraCycle Tortilla and Tostada Bag Brigade program, any individual or organization can collect and return Mission packaging, which will be upcycled by TerraCycle into new items like tortilla warmers, bags and accessories. The program is being conducted in concert with Mission's "Today's Mission for a Better Tomorrow" sustainability initiative, and consumers have the opportunity to donate two cents per unit of packaging they turn in to a charity of their choice.

TerraCycle Juice Pouch Brigade in the schools. The brigade is another one of those win-win-win propositions. The kids recycle their juice pouches at conveniently located receptacles within the schools, the schools get $0.02 per pouch that goes to TerraCycle, and TerraCycle turns the pouches into totes, backpacks, pencil cases, lunch bags – in total, 185 items for the home, office, garden, pets, school and more. Besides the first place winners each winning a $100 savings bond, donated by PNC Bank, all of the contest winners (first through third place) each won a prize donated by TerraCycle.