The school is ranked 63rd nationwide among elementary schools in the Drink Pouch Brigade of TerraCycle.

Você já se imaginou usando uma bolsa Doritos, uma mochila Ruffles ou uma carteira Fandangos? A TerraCycle, com criatividade e inovação, criou uma maneira de fabricar esses produtos que, além de descolados e divertidos, são eco-amigáveis.

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This school in Souris was the first Manitoba school to join TerraCycle's Brigades and has been tops in collecting drink pouches this year.

Secondly, swing by TerraCycle (http://www.terracycle.net/) to see if you regularly accumulate the nonrecyclable items that they will pay you to send them! Terracycle is an organization pioneered by Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer, two freshmen at Princeton University in 2001, who believe that in nature, there is no such thing as waste. Animals eat each other and become fertilizer for plants that are eaten by animals that are eaten, etc. While Szaky and Beyer don't promote cannibalism, they do promote upcycling, meaning they reuse what we might consider waste.

El término "upcycling" que se traduce por "suprareciclaje", fue utilizado, entre otros, por William McDonough y Michael Braungart en su libro titulado Rehaciendo la forma en que hacemos las cosas (2002).

Uma proposta inovadora para a eco-moda, ou uma nova solução ambiental?

Com essas embalagens, a TerraCycle produz bolas, mochilas, estojos, cadernos e outros produtos, evitando que mais lixo seja produzido.

In a process called “upcycling” products that cannot be recycled are used to make a new product.  Things like drink pouches, chip bags and candy wrappers that would otherwise fill landfills across the U.S. are collected by an industrial waste management company called TerraCycle and re-purposed into backpacks, lunchboxes, tote bags, pencil cases and more.  2 cents from each drink pouch that is collected through a program called Drink Pouch Brigade is donated to charity.

NEW BEDFORD – Going green pays off. Literally. That's what students and staff at the Carlos Pacheco Elementary School have discovered since they got involved in a recycle project with Capri Sun and the TerraCycle company. The Pacheco School is part of the Capri Sun Drink Pouch Brigade, a free program that pays schools and non-profits to collect non-recyclable waste that would otherwise go to a landfill.