Recycling company TerraCycle is making it easy for Americans to start trash cleanup projects. Simply sign up at terracycle.net <http://www.terracycle.net/>  to have collection bags with prepaid return shipping labels mailed to your home or business. Fill them with chip bags, cookie <http://www.naturalhealthmag.com/terracycle_trash_recycle/green_living/191#>  wrappers, drink pouches, and other food-packaging waste and send them back to TerraCycle; the trash will then be “upcycled” into tote bags and pencil cases (you can buy these accessories at Target stores or target.com <http://www.target.com/> ). Thanks to partnerships with food <http://www.naturalhealthmag.com/terracycle_trash_recycle/green_living/191#>  giants like Frito-Lay, Mars, and Nabisco, plus well-known natural brands such as Kashi, Clif Bar, Honest Kids, and Bear Naked, TerraCycle will donate $.02 for every wrapper you collect to the charity of your choice. At the end of last year, volunteers had raised more than $100,000 for public school organizations and groups like the Arbor Day Foundation.

Mesa's Johnson Elementary School, 3807 E. Pueblo Ave., is collecting non-recyclable packaging (like Capri Sun Drink Pouches and used beauty product packaging) as part of a national Beauty Brigade program by Terracycle. The company will pay schools, families and communities to collect the waste, which is then repurposed to make eco-friendly products. Johnson students are also collecting candy wrappers, glue bottles and more, close to 750 pieces of trash so far.

TerraCycle loves us to recycle, no matter how we do it! We can join their brigades and mail our trash to them to be upcycled into products or we can use our trash to make new products of our own! TerraCycle Toothpaste Tube Holder: Upcycle your toothpaste tubes into this fresh bathroom caddy! Looking for a refreshing alternative to throwing away your toothpaste tubes? This easy do-it-yourself project upcycles your empty tubes into a simple toothbrush holder. Upcycling materials like these are a great way to reuse without costing a mint.

Check out this fun DIY craft using Colgate toothpaste tubes!   TerraCycle Toothpaste Tube Toothbrush Holder Upcycle your toothpaste tubes into this fresh bathroom caddy By: Tiffany Threadgould   Looking for a refreshing alternative to throwing away your toothpaste tubes? This easy do-it-yourself project upcycles your empty tubes into a simple toothbrush holder. Upcycling materials like these are a great way to reuse without costing a mint.

Well, obviously, Home Grown Families LOVES green!  We love green products, green ideas, green caring, green based in the US, and new green innovative products!  So, again, obviously, we LOVETerraCycle!  Have you heard of TerraCycle, yet?  Chances are, you have seen their green products whether you realized it or not.  I was at Wal-Mart a few months ago and noticed Capri Sun lunch boxes but I didn't know about TerraCycle, yet.  I went back to check them out and sure enough it was a TerraCycle product.

Teachers at Lounsberry Hollow Middle School used to see a lot of used Capri Sun drink pouches get thrown away. Now the school earns two cents for every one of those pouches they collect and return to a company called TerraCycle, which makes affordable, eco-friendly products from packaging waste. The schools use the program not only as a fundraising opportunity but as a way to educate and inspire their students.

A company founded in 2001 by a 19-year-old Princeton University freshman is increasingly finding a home for "un-recyclable" plastics and bridging the gap between consumers of everyday items like drink pouches and the brand owners that create them. Now, Tom Szaky, a grizzled 28-year-old that was named to Inc. magazine's 30 under 30 <http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060701/coolest-startup.html>  list at 24, and his company, TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  (Trenton, NJ), are reaching out to the plastics industry.

Volunteers will also collect energy bar and candy wrappers, and vendors will collect wine bottle corks. The town of Vail has partnered with TerraCycle, a New Jersey based eco-friendly innovator that converts these items into unique accessories and other “upcycled” products. For each item collected, TerraCycle will donate two cents to the Eagle Valley Alliance for Sustainability.

TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  has an extensive, far-reaching recycle-able materials collection system running nationwide.  These collected bottles, lids, wrappers, bags and more are brought together and recycled into so many cool (and once again useful) products:  From purses to shower curtains to flower pots.  As their “Terracycle” saying goes, “Send us your trash, and we’ll make it into cool products!”

ReCellular, the world's leading electronics sustainability firm, today announced a new strategic partnership with TerraCycle, the upcycling company that has revolutionized the market for recycled goods. By the end of the year, the partnership hopes to have over a thousand brigades that collect and donate cell phones, raise funds for local causes and keep e-waste out of landfills. The companies have also committed to expand the relationship through additional upcycling opportunities in the future.