Q: Although I’m no luddite, I prefer to communicate the old fashioned way: pen and paper. Sure, I have an e-mail account (not AOL, thank you very much) and all that jazz, but when it comes to penning missives, making lists … Continue reading
What have juice, cookies, or chips done for your schools, recently? Well, if your kids go to Garland Elementary, over the last year, the Parent Teacher Association has been collecting these empty bags, as well as Malt-O-Meal cereal bags, to … Continue reading
There’s nothing like shelf placement by a mass market retailer to bring an eco-friendly product from the fringe to the mainstream. When Target started carrying Method cleaning products in 2004, the biodegradable and nontoxic household cleansers stood out like a sore … Continue reading
Students at Woodward Elementary School are learning the meaning of the adage, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” In the students’ case, the trash consists of discarded juice pouches. For one New Jersey-based company, the little unwanted pouches represent … Continue reading
Every year BILLIONS of drink pouches end up in dumpsters and landfills across America. TerraCycle, Capri Sun and Honest Kids are working together to put an end to this awful loss of resources. As an eco-friendly innovator, TerraCycle is going … Continue reading
Thanks to one of the Mega Sales at Kroger, our school is now raking in the pennies. How? By doing something that’s good for the environment: recycling. It all started when I bought five packages of Capri Suns at Kroger … Continue reading
New Jersey-based TerraCycle, founded by Princeton dropout Tom Szaky, sponsors donation boxes at Macy’s in their state, asking for people’s used jeans and sneakers so they can re-purpose them into messenger bags, laptop sleeves, and high-end items. TerraCycle already makes bags … Continue reading
TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky has turned garbage into a revolutionary new industry.