TerraCycle has introduced new Office Product Brigades, open to any supplier or consumer of office supplies and modeled after TerraCycle’s programs for schools that pay for the collection of drink pouches, yogurt cups and chip bags. These new programs, which … Continue reading
The Aveeno Healthy Skin Tour will be in town and will be collecting empty tubes for the Aveeno Brigade.
Teachers at Woodbine Elementary School used to see a lot of used Capri Sun drink pouches get thrown away. Now the school earns two cents for every one of those pouches they collect and return them to a company called … Continue reading
eco-conscious and earth-friendly, but sometimes your kids don’t always buy the coolness factor. Drive the message home with recycled candy wrapper Eco Boomboxes from Fashionation <http://www.merkuryinnovations.com/product_center.asp?pagenum=2&parent_id=100001&dept_id=100120> . Two lucky Chicago Parent readers will win a Skittles boom box, worth $19.95. … Continue reading
Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> is always coming up with fun and cool ways to recycle, but they also have come up with a way (actually 6 ways) Moms can go green, reduce waste at home, AND raise money for their kids school … Continue reading
when you have kids, you tend to start thinking about things you may not have before. like garbage, landfills and what part you can do to help said kids have a better place to live long after we are … Continue reading
Terracycle, an organization that transforms trash into new products, has a new curriculum series on Waste. Each set of lessons is tailored to K-2 and grades 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 and meets McRel National Standards (listed in each lesson plan). … Continue reading
Great companies are built on good ideas. Entrepreneur magazine’s story, 100 Brilliant Ideas, highlights some of the best concepts that spawned startups. For the Green section, 10 companies were highlighted, including TerraCycle, Advanced Electron Beams, Bloom Energy, Environment Furniture, QD … Continue reading
As a parent, you’d like your home, community, and children’s schools to be greener. Unfortunately, daily life can get in the way of that. You have limited time and budget in which to make the world around you a more … Continue reading
Southwest-area schools are among many in the county earning cash by sending non-recyclable waste products to a New Jersey company that transforms the trash into new products like kites and backpacks. TerraCycle partnered with home city brand Malt-O-Meal Cereal Company … Continue reading