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.

The programs were all promoted as part of a themed eight-page insert in the chain’s April 18 circular. The tab also featured a spread that could be converted into a postage-paid envelope. Consumers who used the pages to mail five plastic Target shopping bags to recycled-product manufacturer TerraCycle received a coupon — via “earth-friendly email” — for $1 off the purchase of a reusable bag. Target and TerraCycle employed the same tactic in a 2008 ad in Newsweek.

Thanks to Terra Cycle I am now the proud owner of some really cool up-cycled products.  I entered their Blog Raffle and the lovely Emily picked me!

It is hard to believe that this lovely dress is made with M&M wrappers.  Such a beautiful design! I am loving the darker ruffle along the bottom too!  So pretty, and creative!  You can see this dress at New York’s Port Authority as part of a recycled art display. The dress was created by/for Terracycle, an upcycling company who use trash to manufacture new products.  Check em out!

For a limited time only, sign up and save with this printable coupon for $0.75 off any carton of Honest Kids organic drink pouches. Available in Berry Berry Good Lemonade, Goodness Grapeness, Tropical Tango Punch, Appley Ever After and Super Fruit Punch. The pouches, recyclable by TerraCycle too!

Con la misión de tomar a la basura como materia prima, la empresa TerraCycle impulsa un programa para transformar empaques usados de Tang en bolsas, lapiceras, portavasos, folders y mochilas, a través de una logística inversa que se nutre de la labor de miles de personas, agrupadas en brigadas de recolección

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

Mashpee -  For the students at Quashnet elementary school, it's easy being green . Every lunch period since August, the 520 third-through-sixth graders at the school have eschewed the trash can in favor of the recycling bin, collecting food wrappers in order to transform them in eco-friendly products through a partnership with  new Jersey based  comnpany Terracycle.

TerraCycle: We're a society of convenience which  means we have a lot of trash. That's where TerraCycle comes in. The company founded by a college student less than a decade ago takes non-recyclable stuff (plastic goodies like juice boxes, candy wrappers, lunch kits, chip bags, tape, pens etc) and gives them a second chance. They're refashioned them into useful consumer goods like bags, cork boards, flower pots and backpacks.

Eco Boombox Skittles : Another product made by TerraCycle. As reported on its website, "Upcycling takes unused rolls of wrapping material that would otherwise go to waste, and turns it into a variety of useful, eco-friendly products