Terracycle <
http://www.terracycle.net/>
has so many great things that they make! For my review they sent me this great messenger bag!
Terracycle is giving the lunch bag above to one lucky Songberries Follower! To enter please go to Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> and look around, come back here and in a comment tell me comment something you learned. Make sure you’re a follower!
Walmart and TerraCycle are sponsoring the Trash to Cash Collection Contest, a program that will reward the top-collecting New Jersey public schools with $125,000 in grants. The contest is open to any public school in the state. The schools that collect the most used packaging and products through TerraCycle's free Brigade programs will receive grants ranging from $5,000 to $50,000. The contest runs through Dec. 15, and the winners will be announced in early January.
RUMSON, NJ - New Jersey based TerraCycle manufactures more than fifty products made from non-recyclable waste materials. Affordable, eco-friendly items such as shower curtains, purses and kites made from juice drink pouches and bulletin boards made from wine corks are sold in major retailers such as Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Office Max, Petco and Whole Foods Markets. The company has been featured on a National Geographic television program, (Garbage Moguls) won national awards and obtained high praise for its environmentally friendly products and for keeping hundreds of tons of garbage out of landfills. But, how do they amass the huge amount of materials needed to make their products? This is where the TerraCycle Brigades come in. The Brigades are part of a national program that pays school groups and non-profits to collect the items needed by TerraCycle to make its products.
SOUTHBOROUGH, MA, October 20 – The teachers at the Woodward Memorial School used to see a lot of Capri Sun drink pouches get thrown away. Once they signed up to recycle them through a company called TerraCycle, the school began earning two cents for every one of those pouches and became part of a nationwide effort that has just reached an impressive milestone of keeping 50 million pouches out of landfills. In addition, TerraCycle, which makes affordable, eco-friendly products from packaging waste, and Capri Sun have paid one million dollars to schools and non-profits in return for the recycled drink pouches.
Well I have read and heard some pretty awesome things about Terra Cycle so when I had the opportunity to share about them and check out one of their products I got really excited!!
TerraCycle <
http://www.terracycle.net/> makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials. With over 50 products available at major retailers like Walmart, Target, The Home Depot, OfficeMax, Petco and Whole Foods Market, TerraCycle is one of the fastest growing eco-friendly manufacturers in the world. Our hope is to eliminate the idea of waste by finding innovative, unique uses for materials others deem garbage.
We here the words 'reduce, reuse, recycle' a lot when it comes to cleaning our our environment and cutting down on waste in our landfills but have you thought much about the word 'upcycle'? To ucpcycle an item would be to use the product again in a totally different way than it was originally used. Terracycle <
http://www.terracycle.net/> has found a ton of ways to take our trash and recyclables and make them into something new. The great thing about this company is that YOU can get involved, too! Here is a little bit about Terracycle from their website:
As part of its recycling campaign, Walmart is beginning this month to sell eco-friendly pet products such as dog beds and kitty litter boxes made from trash.
Another new Walmart effort begun this month is a collection system for 28 types of trash that’s being tried at five stores on the East Coast. TerraCycle, takes the waste, including candy wrappers, pens and coffee bags, and upcycles the waste into products like tote bags and portable speakers.
TerraCycle, a Trenton-based company which specializes in upcycling or making eco-friendly products from post-consumer waste, partnered with Walmart in forming the Trash to Cash Collection contest.
The free program will reward the top collecting New Jersey public schools with $125,000 dollars in aggregate school grants. The grand prize is $50,000, with grants ranging down to $5,000.
Another new Wal-Mart effort begun this month is a collection system for 28 types of trash that's being tried at five stores on the East Coast. Another company, TerraCycle, takes the waste, including candy wrappers, pens and coffee bags, and upcycles the waste into products like tote bags and portable speakers, reports GreenBiz.com.
