Wiggins said the following items are difficult to recycle, but for those who are determined to find a way, it can be done: • Plastic food containers. When possible, Wiggins suggests you buy items in cardboard. Some containers — including … Continue reading
Piñon Elmentary School PTO President Gloria Brehm introduced Terracycle to the school last year and the results have been significant. Three thousand juice pouches have been given to TerraCycle, a company that turns non-recyclable waste into eco-friendly products. Additionally, 1,000 … Continue reading
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