The recycling project started four months ago, when 14-year-old Alex Copado was reading the packaging of Capri Sun drinks, a lunch-time favorite of students. Alex, a Perris resident who just finished his freshman year at Rancho Verde High School in Moreno Valley, had loved the drink since he was 10, but knew there were no recycling bins designed for containers, like there are for cans and bottles.

Aveeno lotion tubes can now be upcycled through Terracycle and is launghing a Road to Healthy Skin Tour. I'm going share most of the press release in a minute with you but I wanted to note, that when my kids get dry skin (especially in wintertime) or have an allergic reaction, they usually go into the tub with the Aveeno soothing oatmeal bath.  I love that Aveeno is a huge brand looking to encourage and help people recycle- and upcycle!!  I know so many families who swear by Aveeno for babies, kids and adults (and dogs. I do have a friend who uses Aveeno baby wash on her dog because she loves the smell) and I think this partnership between Aveeno and Terracycle is going to make them all love it a little bit more.

Kraft Foods México anunció el día de hoy una nueva alianza con TerraCycle, la compañía encargada de la reutilización de empaques usados, que recolecta aquellos empaques difíciles de reciclar para transformarlos en productos económicos y amigables para el medio ambiente.

Southwest-area schools are among many in the county earning cash by sending non-recyclable waste products to a New Jersey company that transforms the trash into new products like kites and backpacks. TerraCycle partnered with home city brand Malt-O-Meal Cereal Company to collect Malt-O-Meal packaging through “Cereal Bag Brigades” stationed in schools across the country. There are about 1,250 brigades, TerraCycle reported in June.

In honor of the upcoming holiday, Our Daily Green would like to celebrate a company that is taking huge steps to free our nation from trash. Last summer, we wrote about the company TerraCycle and their unique way of helping organizations raise money with trash. TerraCycle is a New Jersey based company that turns items such as juice bags, candy and chip wrappers, and glue bottles into funky, fun school and office supplies and other novelties.

Existe un proyecto ecológico que está llevando a cabo la empresa TerraCycle con el que buscan reducir la basura tanto en México como en otros países del mundo y esto lo hace comprando los desechos domésticos.

Insecticides with ingredients such as vinegar and orange oil are sold at many nurseries, Spiegelman says, and boiling water kills weeds. She likes several organic lawn care products, including TerraCycle's liquid lawn fertilizer made with worm waste, available at its Web site (terracycle.net).

¿Cuántas veces ha tenido la intención de echarle una manita al medio ambiente? ¿cuántas veces lo ha logrado?, muchos se quedan en el intento…pero, ¿qué pasaría si existiera la forma de reutilizar eso a lo que le llamamos basura y obtuviéramos dinero por hacerlo para darle una ayudadita a personas que lo necesitan?… ¿cambiarían las cosas?

  Did you know that you could earn money for your homeschool group by turning in your trash? TerraCycle's free national collection programs pay non-profits and schools money for collecting used packaging such as drink pouches, energy bar wrappers, yogurt cups, cookie wrappers, chip bags, glue bottles and more! TerraCycle makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials.

Terracycle <http://www.myatlantamommy.com/2009/12/terracycle.html>  is a fantastic organization which takes used wrappers and turns them into some super cool stuff! They are always coming up with fun and cool ways to recycle, but they also have come up with a way (actually 6 ways) Moms can go green, reduce waste at home, AND raise money for their kids school and/or favourite charity.