,100 beauty, food, and home products were recently put to the test by Health Magazine to determine which are the “healthiest.” BEST HOME BUYS All-Purpose Cleaner: Seventh Generation Disinfecting Multi-Surface Cleaner ($2.99, SeventhGeneration.com) Bathroom Cleaner: Biokleen Lavender-Lime Bac-Out Bathroom Cleaner ($7.99, BiokleenHome.com) Glass Cleaner: Terracycle Natural Window Cleaner ($2.99, Terracycle.net)

Thankfully Terracycle and SC Johnson & Company (ZipLoc Bags) have devised a way to keep these bags out of our landfills, our forests, our streets, our oceans....... Every time you use a Ziploc® product - any type of bag or container - you can help save it from being discarded into a landfill by sending it to TerraCycle.

Along the way, Szaky (photo below) described how Terracycle had to negotiate with Pepsi and Coke for the rights to use their bottle shapes. He also talked about bottling, sleeving, and capping thousands of bottles of liquid garden fertilizer by hand before opening a factory in New Jersey; about getting sued by Scott’s, the garden product company, for trade dress infringement; and about how Terracycle and its unique upcycling concept of turning packaging waste into consumer products—bags, kites, pencil cases--is taking off around the world. “We’re establishing ourselves in a new country about every six weeks,” he told his Packaging Summit audience.

Terry Welington, Author of  The Mom's Guide to Growing Your Family Green, says,  “Neosporin has an initiative right now where you can recycle the empty or expired tube through a company called Terracycle that takes packaged goods and turns them into something better.  You go online and get a starter kit and you mail in the tube, they recycle it and donate the money to a charity or school in your community. So you benefit as well.”

I am always on the prowl for new baby products.  So when friend told me abo=t Sprout Organic Baby Food and mentioned words like mint, organic, Tyler F=orence....I was all in! eco-friendly pouch that can be up-cycled through TerraCycle (LOVE)

Terracycle is one of those odd little success stories. If you read their story – it all boils down to the fact that this is a company that takes recycled fruit juice pouches and turns them into backpacks cooler bags and lawn fertilizer.

In 2007, Honest Kids and Terracycle joined together to create the first Drink Pouch Brigades, helping to make a positive impact on the environment by reducing waste throughout our communities and teaching kids about sustainability.

TerraCycle contribuirá con la transformación de los empaques usados en productos de bajo costo y amigables con el medio ambiente. Entre las acciones que ha realizado esta corporación se encuentra el procesamiento de bolsas de plástico, botellas, envolturas de golosinas para la fabricación de mochilas, estuches, entre otros artículos. Cabe mencionar, que estos objetos también pueden fungir como medios para impulsar una promoción.

Until recently, students at Jessie Mae Monroe Elementary School were unfamiliar with the idea of up-cycling. Up-cycling, as explained by Albe Zakes of TerraCycle, is “the process of taking non-recyclable material that can’t be traditionally recycled and find=ng a way to directly re-purpose it into a new product. By doing that, you̵'re giving it a new life cycle thus you’re up-cycling it.” Students at Jessie Mae Monroe Elementary are collecting, sorting, packing and sending drink pouches, chip bags, zipper style bags and Nabisco and Keebler cookie wrappers to TerraCycle. They will receive 2 cents per container for their efforts. Special needs teachers Emma-Lou Edwards and Lindy Hylton are coordinating the ongoing project.

Ziploc® and TerraCycle, Inc. today announce the well-known food storage brand has become a sponsor of TerraCycle's newest Brigade, and will provide fundraising opportunities exclusively for K-12 schools.  Through the Ziploc® Brigade, schools can collect bags an= containers of any size and send them free of charge to TerraCycle to be tur=ed into new plastic-based products.  For each bag or container collected, Ziploc® and TerraCycle will pay two cents to the school actually doing the collection.  Signups are beginning immediately at www.terracycle.net/brigades.