RUMSON, NJ - New Jersey based TerraCycle manufactures more than fifty products made from non-recyclable waste materials. Affordable, eco-friendly items such as shower curtains, purses and kites made from juice drink pouches and bulletin boards made from wine corks are sold in major retailers such as Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Office Max, Petco and Whole Foods Markets. The company has been featured on a National Geographic television program, (Garbage Moguls) won national awards and obtained high praise for its environmentally friendly products and for keeping hundreds of tons of garbage out of landfills. But, how do they amass the huge amount of materials needed to make their products? This is where the TerraCycle Brigades come in. The Brigades are part of a national program that pays school groups and non-profits to collect the items needed by TerraCycle to make its products.
SOUTHBOROUGH, MA, October 20 – The teachers at the Woodward Memorial School used to see a lot of Capri Sun drink pouches get thrown away. Once they signed up to recycle them through a company called TerraCycle, the school began earning two cents for every one of those pouches and became part of a nationwide effort that has just reached an impressive milestone of keeping 50 million pouches out of landfills. In addition, TerraCycle, which makes affordable, eco-friendly products from packaging waste, and Capri Sun have paid one million dollars to schools and non-profits in return for the recycled drink pouches.
TerraCycle have just joined forces with Danone to help reduce landfill. What’s more you can raise money for charity or for a school by collecting Danone yoghurt pots. Terracycle will upcycle and recycle your collected waste materials into new products. Take a look at the TerraCycle site to see the range of products you can buy.
Szaky explained how he started TerraCycle in his dorm room at Princeton University, collecting waste from the campus.
Tom Szaky, the recipient of the College’s 2nd Annual Award for Innovative Leadership, may be the creator and CEO of TerraCycle, a Trenton-based company pioneering an international movement to help save our planet — but he hasn’t always been the conventional role model.
A company has recognized Holy Name School for its extensive efforts to recycle Capri Sun drink pouches. TerraCycle makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials, according to its Web site. The company and Capri Sun recognized Holy Name for being one of the Top 100 collectors nationwide. The school earns two cents for every pouch that is saved.
Where: Ziploc and TerraCylce’s “Make-A-Difference Mom” <
http://www.terracycle.net/>
What: The official title of “Make-A-Difference Mom,” a Ziploc and TerraCycle Prize Pack, $1,500 to reward herself or her community and a video camera.
How To Enter: See contest/giveaway page for details
Deadline: December 15, 2010
Well I have read and heard some pretty awesome things about Terra Cycle so when I had the opportunity to share about them and check out one of their products I got really excited!!
TerraCycle <
http://www.terracycle.net/> makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials. With over 50 products available at major retailers like Walmart, Target, The Home Depot, OfficeMax, Petco and Whole Foods Market, TerraCycle is one of the fastest growing eco-friendly manufacturers in the world. Our hope is to eliminate the idea of waste by finding innovative, unique uses for materials others deem garbage.
We here the words 'reduce, reuse, recycle' a lot when it comes to cleaning our our environment and cutting down on waste in our landfills but have you thought much about the word 'upcycle'? To ucpcycle an item would be to use the product again in a totally different way than it was originally used. Terracycle <
http://www.terracycle.net/> has found a ton of ways to take our trash and recyclables and make them into something new. The great thing about this company is that YOU can get involved, too! Here is a little bit about Terracycle from their website:
In March some members of the Environmental Club took a field trip to Terracycle in Trenton to deliver 12,000 juice pouches they had been collecting. Club Co-leader Behm praised the hard work of the 25 members.
"Every day they went around collecting the juice pouches, and then on Wednesdays after school they counted them, washed them and packed them. They worked so hard," she said.
Their efforts raised $200 for the school playground.
