Wertvolle Ressourcen können auf kreative Weise wiederverwendet werden. Wie? Zum Beispiel indem daraus ein neues Bürodesign entsteht. Türen werden zu Tischplatten, aus Schallplatten oder Korken wird ein Sichtschutz zum angrenzenden Kollegen und aus Shampooflaschen werden Raumtrenner.

With the help of a program called TerraCycle, St. Kate’s students are flexing their creativity and caring for the earth all at once. According to their website, TerraCycle is “a highly-awarded, international upcycling and recycling company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material into affordable, innovative products.”  Materials like old toys, Capri Sun pouches, and material that isn’t fit for its original purpose are being saved from a trip to the landfill and instead finding their way into participating companies and institutions, including St. Kate’s, so that they can be made into new products.

Your family will probably be generating a little more trash than usual over the next few weeks as you make your way through unwrapping your favorite Halloween treats. Instead of tossing all those wrappers in the rubbish bin, use Terracycle’s Snack Wrapper Zero Waste Box and turn your trash into recycled plastic products like park benches or watering cans. The boxes, which are available in three sizes, come with a prepaid return shipping label, so just fill them up and send them on their merry soon-to-be recycled way.

Printed on woodfree paper in a fresh design with DYI projects for all ages, Make Garbage Great has broad appeal—it’s smart and instructive, playful and crafty, environmentally contentious and inspiring. With craft projects ranging from a simple, folded coin purse from a CapriSun pouch to a beautiful pallet coffee table, the colloquial voices of Tom Szaky and Albe Zakes make the engaging information, little known facts, compelling graphics, and sustainable suggestions accessible for teachers, parents, DIY artists, and even young readers.

Fully titled Make Garbage Great: The TerraCycle Family Guide to a Zero-Waste Lifestyle this book is AWESOME! It's a large hardbound, 224 page, book.  You will find fascinating information, little-known facts, awesome graphics, and colorful images on every page.

TerraCycle, Inc. started in 2001 when CEO and Founder Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton University after his freshman year to sell liquefied worm poop in a reused soda bottle, for fertilizer purposes. Despite having little brand recognition and only rudimentary manufacturing operations, Szaky managed to get major big-box retailers like Walmart and The Home Depot to start testing the product in 2004. By 2006, TerraCycle's worm-poop-based plant foods were being sold nationally across the United States and Canada in Walmart, Target, The Home Depot and Whole Foods Market retail stores.

Karen Marietta, who leads the school's TerraCycle program, said since it began in 2011, faculty and students have recycled more than 204,000 items from plastic cereal bags and snack pouches to Elmer's glue sticks and plastic tape dispensers. "It's between the drink pouches and the granola energy bar wrappers," Marietta said. "Those are probably our biggest things." TerraCycle, an international recycling program that specializes in difficult-to-recycle packaging and products, covers the cost of shipping and pays schools a penny per piece.

The Hain Celestial Group has announced that members of the recycling club at Pinecrest High School are among the nation’s top 10 collectors of snack bags in The Hain Celestial Group Snack Bag Brigade, a free, national recycling program created by The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. and TerraCycle. By collecting used snack bags, the Pinecrest students have helped to divert more than 20,000 used bags from landfills while earning more than $1,000 for their school or charity of choice. “Pinecrest High School continues to be one of our top collectors, collecting 20,823 snack bags in 2015 alone,” said TerraCycle publicist Colleen Duncan.