BLOOMINGTON – Local locations of Office Depot and Old Navy are accepting used pens and flip-flops, respectively, during a nationwide recycling program. Between April 17 and 23, shoppers can bring 10 used pens, markers or mechanical pencils to Office Depot … Continue reading
Pack It Up The #1 best way that you can green your lunch is to pack it. Instead of using plastic or paper bags, you should choose a reusable lunch box. Why? According to the EPA, children who bring a … Continue reading
It’s hard to imagine that anyone would get excited about sorting trash. But each Friday, the third graders at Newtown Elementary School beg to do just that. In fact, they like it so much that they forgo recess just to … Continue reading
Americans bought 120 million pounds of candy last Easter. By the time the sugar high wears off, millions of candy wrappers have been discarded and end up in landfills. It doesn’t have to be that way. TerraCycle has partnered with … Continue reading
Method, a provider of premium, eco-friendly household and personal care products, and upcycling innovator TerraCycle Inc. have teamed up to enable families to recycle their used packaging. Members of the Method Refill Brigade collect their used soap refill packaging and … Continue reading
At the beginning of the school year, I volunteered to head a recycling campaign at Ethan’s school called TerraCycle. It’s a very cool company started by a guy who didn’t like throwing things away and wanted to find a purpose … Continue reading
Student teams launched a new student-led service learning campaign designed to make Lawrence Intermediate School a “greener” school by enlisting all of their peers and the staff in a school-wide recycling competition. As the students announced during Monday’s assembly, each … Continue reading
Many of the items we use on a daily basis produce a large amount of waste. Much of our trash comes from food and beverage containers. You eat a bag of chips, and then that bag sits in a landfill … Continue reading
EcoMom has a variety of natural and organic products available, including non-toxic cleaning products like TerraCycle’s, whose cleaners are derived from organic essential oils and natural plant and mineral extract. The All Purpose Cleaner is non-toxic, bio-degradable, and packaged in … Continue reading
Some of my favorite entrepreneurial companies have very strong social missions: Stoneyfield Farm, Honest Tea, TerraCycle, Timberland, and Patagonia, to name just a few. Note that these are all extremely successful companies whose CEOS routinely talk about how having a … Continue reading