“In 14 Years They are Decomposable…”
So there has to be other options right? Correct. Back in 2011 TerraCycle and Solo teamed up to create the Solo Cup Brigade, a disposable solution for the millions of single-use cups sold each year.
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Greenliving: Boost your recycling IQ
“Creating a soda bottle requires huge energy,” says Tom Szaky, CEO and founder of TerraCycle. “Then you drink from it, and it’s only gets one use after all that energy that goes into making it.” “People think that just because it’s … Continue reading
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Indian River daycare center collecting diaper packaging
Jubilate Childcare Center is working with Kimberly-Clark’s Huggies branda nd upcycling/recycling pioneer TerraCycle to keep as much diaper packaging out of landfills as possible.
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Star94 & Georgia United Credit Union Name Audrey Hughes of Clarke County as “Teachers Make a Difference” Grand Prize Winner & Heather MacKenzie Thompson of Henry County as Star Choice Winner
Parent Kristina Schultz Tanner had this to say about Mrs. Hughes: “When guided by an excellent teacher, enthusiasm towards education itself can be contagious! My daughter has had the unique opportunity to be a student of Mrs. Audrey Hughes, who … Continue reading
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Club hopes to “Terracycle” Bodley out of litter
The G. Ray Bodley High School Environmental Club is about to undertake yet another world saving task, upcycling. Upcyling was an idea that was brought to the club by sophomore Cayla Weaver. The concept is an offshoot of the old … Continue reading
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Riverkeeper Sweep Day of Service for the Hudson River
This year’s Riverkeeper Sweep, a day of service for the Hudson River, is expected to attract as many as 1,000 volunteers to help clean up more than 150 miles of shoreline in more than 60 locations on the Hudson River … Continue reading
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Go Green! Greenpoint! to Return This Weekend
The second annual Riverkeeper Sweep, a day of service to clean up the shores along the Hudson River, will have its headquarters at Go Green! Greenpoint! This year, Riverkeeper has teamed with recycling pioneer TerraCycle to recycle cigarette butts into … Continue reading
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Compass School Wins Green Ribbon
The Compass School in Kingston has been named a 2013 Green Ribbon school by the U.S. Department of Education for its environmental efforts. Sustainability practices include packing no-waste lunches, regular silverware, and reusable water bottles. Documents are printed on both … Continue reading
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Annual Flushing Bay Shore Line Clean Up – Riverkeeper Sweep
Riverkeeper Sweep, an annual day of service to clean up the shores of the Hudson River, takes place onSaturday May 11, 2013. Riverkeeper has joined recycling pioneer TerraCycle’s Cigarette Waste Brigade to recycle cigarette butts and related cigarette waste during … Continue reading
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Kamel: TerraCycling effective way to make one man’s trash another’s green treasure
TerraCycle has found a way to reuse and upcycle plastic waste into new products. The polystyrene in the hundreds of plastic cups I just shipped to TerraCycle will be used to make backpacks, trashcans, containers and more. In addition to … Continue reading
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10 Coolest Wallets Created from Recycled Objects
Upcycling company TerraCycle also collects snack food wrappers, transforming them into bags, scrapbooks and more. Meanwhile, on a smaller scale, many people have crafted their own products – like the Skittles wallet above – to use themselves or sell online.
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Kimberly-Clark Professional program to recycle cleanroom and laboratory gloves, garments
To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional recently introduced RightCycle, a program it says is the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste. The … Continue reading
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Cigarette butt redemption?
What will he do with them all you may ask? They’ll be shipped to Terracycle, a New Jersey based company that specializes in hard-to-recycle waste.
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Cigarette butt redemption?
What will he do with them all you may ask? They’ll be shipped to Terracycle, a New Jersey based company that specializes in hard-to-recycle waste.
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Cigarette butt redemption?
What will he do with them all you may ask? They’ll be shipped to Terracycle, a New Jersey based company that specializes in hard-to-recycle waste.
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Kimberly-Clark Professional Partners with TerraCycle for Laboratory, Cleanroom Recycling Effort
With the RightCycle program, items are deposited in either a RightCycle collection box or in the client’s own boxes. Full boxes are assembled onto pallets and picked up by Kimberly-Clark Professional recycling partner TerraCycle. After the products are collected, they … Continue reading
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Henry Barnard class receives Green Team Award from RIC
During their research, students discovered a company, Terra Cycle, who could recycle the cigarette butts and proposed it as a solution during their presentation to the Green Team. This initiative, creativity and passion for sustainable solutions led to President Nancy … Continue reading
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Whitemarsh Elementary Students Teach Older Kids About Upcycling
Whitemarsh Elementary Students Teach Older Kids About Upcycling
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Ranney students take on Earth Day project to recycle electronics
Ranney’s Lower School kicked off Earth Day last week with a new recycling project that focuses on electronics. In collaboration with Terracycle, which provides free waste-collection programs for hard-to-recycle materials, students and their families are collecting unwanted or no longer … Continue reading
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Elementary Students Take on Earth Day Project to Recycle Electronics
Ranney’s Lower School kicked off Earth Day during the week of April 22, 2013 with a new recycling project that focuses on electronics. In collaboration with Terracycle, which provides free waste-collection programs for hard-to-recycle materials, students and their families are … Continue reading
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Environmental clubs give tips on recycling at ‘Green Fair’ in Denville
Spearheaded by science teacher Carole Andreazza, the middle school group is making its mark by donating recyclable items like juice packets to Terracycle, a Trenton-based group that creates products and plastics out of recyclables.
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J.M. Grasse Elementary teachers don recyclable fashions at Earth Day celebration
This banner was made possible with almost $1,500 raised from recycling juice pouches and chip bags through a company called TerraCycle. Scocchi said the rest of the money will go toward more projects, like the tree planting, as well as … Continue reading
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Neal helps TerraCycle reach goal
TerraCycle Inc. reached $7 million donated to schools and charities across the country and around the world with help from Mary B. Neal Elementary School in Waldorf.
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TERRACYCLE OFFERS CHANCE TO DONATE TO SANDY HOOK
On December 14, 2012, just three days before the Sandy Hook tragedy, Terra Cycle received their school’s first shipment of juice pouches. As a new school brigade, you can just imagine the excitement at Sandy Hook among the kids, teachers … Continue reading
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Kimberly-Clark Professional Launches Innovative RightCycle Program To Recycle Single-Use Cleanroom And Laboratory Gloves And Garments
To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced RightCycle – the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste.
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Kimberly-Clark Professional Launches Innovative RightCycle Program To Recycle Single-Use Cleanroom And Laboratory Gloves And Garments
To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced RightCycle – the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste.
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Kimberly-Clark Professional Launches Innovative RightCycle Program To Recycle Single-Use Cleanroom And Laboratory Gloves And Garments
To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced RightCycle – the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste.
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Kimberly-Clark Professional Launches Innovative RightCycle Program To Recycle Single-Use Cleanroom And Laboratory Gloves And Garments
To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced RightCycle – the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste.
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Kimberly-Clark Professional Launches Innovative RightCycle Program To Recycle Single-Use Cleanroom And Laboratory Gloves And Garments
To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced RightCycle – the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste.
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What I Learned About the Environment From Elementary School Students
I had the pleasure of speaking with each of the Kindergarten through 6th grade classes throughout the day. They were amazing! For only starting to recycle this year, they knew a tremendous amount about the environment. We talked about why … Continue reading
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New TerraCycle program kicked off at Franklin’s Helen Keller School
Helen Keller Elementary School in Franklin is participating in an innovative “green” program that, in addition to reducing waste and raising students’ awareness about recycling, will also earn extra money for the school by joining TerraCycle’s Chip Bag Brigade recycling … Continue reading
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‘Butt pickers’ unite to keep America beautiful
Let me tell you though, this idea has some legs to it. A company by the name of TerraCycle out of New Jersey has teamed up with Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company to launch the first U.S cigarette waste recycling … Continue reading
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Kimberly-Clark Professional Launches Innovative RightCycle Program To Recycle Single-Use Cleanroom and Laboratory Gloves and Garments
To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced RightCycle – the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste.
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TerraCycle, Kimberly-Clark partner to recycle cleanroom waste
Kimberly-Clark Professional, a division of personal care company that manufacturers contamination control products for laboratories and cleanrooms, has partnered with recycling company TerraCycle to launch RightCycle, a recycling program for hard-to-recycle cleanroom waste such as gloves, hoods, boot covers and … Continue reading
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St. Gregory the Great Cited for its Good Green Works
Terracycle, Inc., is a company that collects used products that are hard to recycle and changes those things into eco-friendly products. The company has been partnering with St. Gregory the Great in its recycling programs.
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Earth Day celebration to feature Terracycle executive
Princeton’s Earth Day celebration — featuring a 5:30 p.m. talk by Albe Zakes, recycling company Terracycle’s global vice president of public relations; informational tables for student groups and local businesses; free pizza and ice cream; and dance and singing performances … Continue reading
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Portland business owner: No more butts
The butts Roylos collects will be recycled through TerraCycle, a Trenton, N.J., company that offers free waste collection programs for hard-to-recycle items. TerraCycle converts the butts into plastic pellets. Other companies reclaim the chemicals that settle in the filters, Roylos … Continue reading
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Hackensack hospital teams up with Trenton recycling company
HACKENSACK — Diaper packaging, shoes and writing utensils don’t go into the garbage at Hackensack University Medical Center—not anymore. Now, they and other difficult-to-recycle items will be recycled. That’s because Hackensack University Medical Center has partnered with TerraCycle, a Trenton … Continue reading
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TerraCycle, Kimberly-Clark partner to recycle cleanroom waste
Kimberly-Clark Professional, a division of personal care company that manufacturers contamination control products for laboratories and cleanrooms, has partnered with recycling company TerraCycle to launch RightCycle, a recycling program for hard-to-recycle cleanroom waste such as gloves, hoods, boot covers and … Continue reading
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Elementary Students Take on Earth Day Project to Recycle Electronics
Ranney’s Lower School kicked off Earth Day during the week of April 22, 2013 with a new recycling project that focuses on electronics. In collaboration with Terracycle, which provides free waste-collection programs for hard-to-recycle materials, students and their families are … Continue reading
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New TerraCycle program kicked off at Franklin’s Helen Keller School
Helen Keller Elementary School in Franklin is participating in an innovative “green” program that, in addition to reducing waste and raising students’ awareness about recycling, will also earn extra money for the school by joining TerraCycle’s Chip Bag Brigade recycling … Continue reading
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Recycle Ink Cartridges, Dairy Containers and More at the Garwood Library
In addition to clean, empty dairy tubs and lids (yogurt, butter, cream cheese, etc.), the following items may also be dropped off at the Garwood Public Library for recycling with Terracyle: Any brand of empty inkjet cartridges, any brand of … Continue reading
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Zion Lutheran students learn about Earth Day
The Pre-Kindergarten students have also been learning about recycling and doing some of it themselves. Currently they are growing flowers in “recycled greenhouses” made out of 16- and 20-oz. plastic bottles. They have also been sorting a variety of garbage … Continue reading
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Grasse Elementary teachers don recyclable fashions at Earth Day celebration
At J.M. Grasse Elementary School last week, however, physical education teacher Audrey Coll and classroom assistant James Conwell strutted down the impromptu gymnasium catwalk, decked out in recycled materials like Capri Sun juice packs, plastic caps and newspaper, to the … Continue reading
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John V. Doyle School Joins National Recycling Milestone
In recognition of April being “Earth Month,” recycling pioneer TerraCycle is celebrating reaching $7 million donated to schools and charities across the country and around the world with help from groups in Rhode Island.
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Highland Pines wins environmental award
“We’ve done a whole bunch of recycling,” Muska said. “We collect used cell phones, batteries, crayons. We are with a company called Terracycle that we send chip bags and Capri Sun pouches. We get two cents for every pouch and … Continue reading
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Elementary school students learn about recycling at Whitemarsh
All of the sorted recyclables are sent to Terracycle, a company based in New Jersey. Their goal is to convert hard to recycle materials into a wide variety of items and materials. Some of the Upcycling products they offer are … Continue reading
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Ferri Middle School Joins National Recycling Milestone
Johnston students helped raise more than $7 million for charity through the TerraCycle Brigade Program. By Lauren Costa Email the author 5:45 am In recognition of April being “Earth Month,” recycling pioneer TerraCycle is celebrating reaching $7 million donated to schools … Continue reading
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Far Hills Country Day School’s Director of Sustainability, Priscilla Hayes, wins Garden State Green Award
Far Hills Country Day School (FHCDS) is proud to announce that Priscilla Hayes, Director of Sustainability for the school, has won the Garden State Green Award sponsored by Kean University. The Garden State Green Award honors individuals and organizations that … Continue reading
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Options abound for keeping household waste out of landfills
There’s really little need to toss things out these days — at least, not in the manner to which we’re accustomed. It’s part of a shift in policies, practices and products that has made it much easier than it used … Continue reading
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The 2013 Green Awards
A company rooted in worm compost and the resulting organic fertilizer, Trenton’s TerraCycle started in 2001 as an enterprise thought up by Princeton University freshman Tom Szaky. Now, it’s a multi-million dollar waste-eliminating business that operates across the U.S. and … Continue reading
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The 2013 Green Awards
A company rooted in worm compost and the resulting organic fertilizer, Trenton’s TerraCycle started in 2001 as an enterprise thought up by Princeton University freshman Tom Szaky. Now, it’s a multi-million dollar waste-eliminating business that operates across the U.S. and … Continue reading
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TerraCycle
Habitat for Humanity of Evansville is partnering with TerraCycle to make our community a better place to live! Habitat for Humanity of Evansville is currently collecting previously non-recyclable or hard to recycle waste. For each piece of garbage that you … Continue reading
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HOW TO RECYCLE ALL THE THINGS: GOING BEYOND BOTTLES AND CANS
Personal Care & Beauty Products — One of my main beefs with New York’s recycling program is that they won’t accept many of the plastic containers that hygiene products come in, whether it’s a toothpaste tube or deodorant packaging. To … Continue reading
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Terracycle Turns Pouches into Pennies…and way cool gear!
Did you know you could be raking in the pennies while doing something that’s good for the environment: recycling? It all started when I bought five packages of Capri Suns at Kroger to fulfill part of a rebate I … Continue reading
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Sewing trash into artful bags
The parents of one of my daughter’s classmates are taking recycling to a new level. Inspired by TerraCycle’s Drink Pouch Brigade, they’ve been collecting used CapriSun drink pouches and turning them into cool lunch bags. Last Sunday, they hosted a work … Continue reading
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GoGo squeeZ® Rewards Brigade® Participants for Earth Month
TRENTON, N.J., March 7, 2013 – GoGo squeeZ, the popular healthy snack brand, has been working with TerraCycle to solve the issue of snack pouch waste through a recycling collection program called The GoGo squeeZ Brigade. For each pouch collected and sent in to TerraCycle, … Continue reading
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Earth Day? This year, aim for Earth Week
Today is Earth Day. As you may have gleaned from reading my blogs over the last few years, I try to live every single day with a deep awareness of this planet, its environment, and how it all affects our health.
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5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle?
Recycling is an easy way to pitch in and save the planet. There’s the usual paper, plastic bag, cans and bottles that go in the big, blue recycle bin in your backyard. In addition to those, think twice before throwing these items … Continue reading
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Reenergizing the Office Recycling Program
Did you get the memo? Earth Month is about celebrating efforts, sharing best practices and getting inspired. Your office likely already has the bin in the kitchen for cans and glass and near the photocopier and fax machine for recycling … Continue reading
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10 Green Beauty Essentials inspired by Earth Month
As consumers we make a choice with every purchase. Not to sound preachy, but we should be aware of where we spend our hard earned dollars. And thankfully, for those who are spending wisely, it actually seems to be working! … Continue reading
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Loveland Business Briefs, April 20, 2013
TerraCycle, a company that works with local groups to encourage recycling of difficult-to-recycle products, has named Immanuel Lutheran School in Loveland as one of its top-five collectors.
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10 green ideas for Earth Day
9. Recycle. Recycling is a great way for kids to get involved in taking care of the planet. Talk to your kids about the items that wind up in the recycling bin and how they can be recycled into new products. … Continue reading
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Potato chip wrappers
TerraCycle takes potato chip wrappers, foil wrappers from candy bars and other junk food, as well as department store plastic bags, and uses these materials to create a variety of items from messenger bags to office supplies. To find out … Continue reading
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CLC students set tone for Earth Week on campus in Grayslake
Lisa Matson, 18, of Grayslake picks up trash at the College of Lake County campus in Grayslake during an Earth Day cleanup hosted by the Environmental Club. | Joe Shuman~For Sun-Times Media
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Alfalfa’s Kicks Off 2nd ‘B’Earthday’ Celebration
Natural and organic foods retailer Alfalfa’s Market will kick off its second B’Earthday celebration with an enhanced recycling program. Starting yesterday, Alfalfa’s will allow customers to deposit used baby food pouches, Tom’s of Maine personal care items, and No. 4 plastic bags at … Continue reading
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Alfalfa’s Kicks Off 2nd ‘B’Earthday’ Celebration
Natural and organic foods retailer Alfalfa’s Market will kick off its second B’Earthday celebration with an enhanced recycling program. Starting yesterday, Alfalfa’s will allow customers to deposit used baby food pouches, Tom’s of Maine personal care items, and No. 4 plastic … Continue reading
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Athletics: 2012 Akron Marathon Earns Certification from the Council for Responsible Sport
PORTLAND, Ore. – The 2012 Akron Marathon, presented by Time Warner Cable, has earned certification from the Council for Responsible Sport for efforts to reduce the event’s environmental footprint and increase its social impact. The Akron Marathon’s sustainability program is … Continue reading
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Local annual Earth Day celebration moving to Bluffton
Local environmental awareness nonprofit Experience Green will move its annual Earth Day celebrations from Hilton Head Island to Bluffton this month. Instead of taking place at Shelter Cove Community Park on Hilton Head as it did the last two years, … Continue reading
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Candy wrapper collection to provide more than 400 meals to hungry Americans
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State has collected more than 10,000 candy wrappers during its 2012–2013 season. Through an innovative recycling program, that translates into more than 400 free meals for hungry Americans. … Continue reading
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Athletics: 2012 Akron Marathon Earns Certification from the Council for Responsible Sport
PORTLAND, Ore. – The 2012 Akron Marathon, presented by Time Warner Cable, has earned certification from the Council for Responsible Sport for efforts to reduce the event’s environmental footprint and increase its social impact. The Akron Marathon’s sustainability program is … Continue reading
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HEALTH: No idle mother: Sheetal Patcheak’s crusade to reduce engine idling in Washtenaw County
Today, Sheetal is the Michigan Green Schools Committee Coordinator for EACA. With the steadfast support of Principal Leonard she continues to battle idling. She also established schoolwide in-classroom paper and plastic recycling. Every month she personally sorts hundreds of cheese wrappers and … Continue reading
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Grocers, nonprofit set Earth Day activities
BOULDER – Alfalfa’s Market and the nonprofit Center for ReSource Conservation are among the local companies and groups that have plans to celebrate Earth Day, Monday, April 22. Boulder-based Alfalfa’s plans to kick off a beefed-up recycling program on Wednesday, April 17, … Continue reading
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Alfalfa’s Kicks Off 2nd ‘B’Earthday’ Celebration
Natural and organic foods retailer Alfalfa’s Market will kick off its second B’Earthday celebration with an enhanced recycling program. Beginning April 17, Alfalfa’s will allow customers to deposit used baby food pouches, Tom’s of Maine personal care items, and No. 4 plastic bags … Continue reading
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TerraCycle: Providing Practical Solutions to Waste Management
It’s been said over and over again: reduce, reuse and recycle in order to help Mother Earth. But how many of us actually heed this call and live our lives consciously reducing, reusing and recycling? Not many, that’s for sure. … Continue reading
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Cosmetics And Body Care Products
Chances are you can recycle your shampoo or body wash bottle just as you would anything else. But if you’d like to recycle items like lipstick tubes, blush compacts and other cosmetic containers, the TerraCycle program is probably your best … Continue reading
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Small Business Success Story: TerraCycle Recycling & Upcycling
George Bernard Shaw said, “Youth is wasted on the young.” If you met Tom Szaky you might disagree. At fourteen, Tom was making …
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Alfalfa’s Kicks Off 2nd ‘B’Earthday’ Celebration
Natural and organic foods retailer Alfalfa’s Market will kick off its second B’Earthday celebration with an enhanced recycling program. Beginning April 17, Alfalfa’s will allow customers to deposit used baby food pouches, Tom’s of Maine personal care items, and No. 4 plastic bags … Continue reading
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Grocers, nonprofit set Earth Day activities
BOULDER – Alfalfa’s Market and the nonprofit Center for ReSource Conservation are among the local companies and groups that have plans to celebrate Earth Day, Monday, April 22. Boulder-based Alfalfa’s plans to kick off a beefed-up recycling program on Wednesday, April 17, … Continue reading
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TerraCycle recycles GoGo squeeZ fruit pouches
TerraCycle is now accepting GoGo squeeZ. Send in your pouches. Collect enough during the month of April and you could win 1,000 rewards points plus fun prizes. How it works: Collect enough healthy snack pouch plastic packaging to fill up … Continue reading
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American Entrepreneurs on the Cutting Edge of Social Innovation
SAN FRANCISCO – It’s said that small businesses are the economic engine of the nation, and the search again is on for those that also are helping in the drive toward a better world. The Social Venture Network honors such … Continue reading
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13 Hot Business Model Innovations To Follow in 2013
Last week we started a series of four “hot lists” outlining key developments worth following in our community this year. Our first installment highlighted 13 hot sustainable products; today we look at 13 hot business model innovations that are creating new markets … Continue reading
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Alfalfa’s Launches Up-Cycling Program
Alfalfa’s Market here will kick off its second “B’Earthday” celebration by enhancing its recycling program. Beginning Wednesday, customers can deposit used baby food pouches, Tom’s of Maine personal care items and No. 4 plastic bags at the store. Alfalfa’s will send … Continue reading
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What You Should Be Recycling
TerraCycle enables the recycling on unusual items, such as wrappers, electronics, pens, & shoes! Find out how you can recycle and raise money for communities & schools here.
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What You Should Be Recycling
TerraCycle enables the recycling on unusual items, such as wrappers, electronics, pens, & shoes! Find out how you can recycle and raise money for communities & schools here.
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HACKENSACK UMC PARTNERS WITH TERRACYCLE TO RECYCLE THE UNRECYCLABLE
New Delhi, April 14 – Hackensack University Medical Center is the first hospital in the country to partner with recycling pioneer TerraCycle to keep difficult-to-recycle items such as keyboards and mice, diaper packaging, chip bags and writing utensils out of landfills. TerraCycle … Continue reading
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What is made from your efforts? You’d be amazed!
The process of recycling aluminum, paper, bottles, and glass, has become a global effort. Businesses use much less energy than they would normally use to manufacture new products by reusing old ones. The world’s longest recycled bridge is in Peeblesshire, … Continue reading
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In search of old butts
Recycling pioneer TerraCycle invited City College to take part in “the world’s first recycling program for cigarette waste,” but according to City College Vice President of Administrative Services Bob Martinelli, campus participation isn’t feasible at this time.
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How to celebrate Earth Day in The Keys
The first Earth Day was celebrated April 22, 1970. For those who think this environmental awareness movement had little impact, here are some quick reminders: 20 million people participated in rallies across the U.S. at the first Earth Day. By the … Continue reading
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Planning to fill the pod
Lippitt School students know their three R’s – how to be respectful, responsible and ready. And to that they could add a fourth R – recycling. With the help of parents Kelly Pennacchini and Monica Burr, first grade teachers Christine … Continue reading
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Hackensack UMC, TerraCycle announce partnership
Hackensack University Medical Center announced Wednesday it will partner with recycling pioneer TerraCycle, of Princeton, to convert difficult-to-recycle items such as keyboards and mice, diaper packaging, chip bags, and writing utensils into eco-friendly consumer products and industrial applications.
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Hackensack University Medical Center Partners With Terracycle® To Recycle The Unrecyclable
Hackensack University Medical Center is the first hospital in the country to partner with recycling pioneer TerraCycle to keep difficult-to-recycle items such as keyboards and mice, diaper packaging, chip bags and writing utensils out of landfills. TerraCycle will recycle the … Continue reading
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The Nest blog
It’s Earth Month, so I’ve been receiving some pretty interesting products in the mail. One that I couldn’t help but try right away: illy’s new “MonoArabica Ethiopia” coffee. My coffee obsession is well-known around the office…I drink it morning and … Continue reading
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NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan to co-host CNBC Prime’s ‘Crowd Rules’ reality competition
After co-hosting “Live! With Kelly” and other game shows, NY1 morning news anchor Pat Kiernan will also host a new reality competition on CNBC, the channel announcedThursday. New York 1 News anchor Pat Kiernan wants to help struggling small businesses … Continue reading
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Elmer’s Introduces Natural Glue Line
Reinforcing its commitment to innovation and to supporting consumer demand, Elmer’s Products, Inc., is proud to introduce Elmer’s School Glue Naturals — a school glue made with naturally occurring ingredients and available in recycled packaging.
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May River Clean Up and Earth Day Celebration!
Join our collaborative community effort to clean up the May River, connect with each other, celebrate the natural environment, and learn how to care for it and each other with green resources! This family friendly event promotes people and planet … Continue reading
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Industry Intelligence Webinar: Turning Waste Packaging Into Massive Equity
Los Angeles, CA, April 05, 2013 –(PR.com)– Industry Intelligence Inc., a market intelligence and information management company serving the forest products, packaging, and food and beverage industries, today announced it will offer a webinar with Tom Szaky, the CEO of TerraCycle, on April 17. … Continue reading
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Garnier Encourage Recycling Activism and Green Behavior
Did you know that beauty waste (all those pretty personal care and beauty packaging on your makeup table) account for one third of all landfill waste? Wow, we had no idea. In an effort to curb that, Garnier, along with … Continue reading
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Kicking some butts at ESU
Dr. Bill Cors, left, Chief quality medical quality officer at Pocono Medical Center, Dr. Marcia Welsh, president of ESU, Alyson Patascher, prevention services coordinator at ESU were part of the Kick Butts Day which was Monday through Wednesday. Here they are at the … Continue reading
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Jane Ryan School collecting juice pouches
For the month of April, Jane Ryan will be donating its juice pouch earnings to the children, staff and families of Sandy Hook Elementary School. They recently joined the Terra Cycle recycling program that was supported and encouraged by the … Continue reading
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Douglas MacArthur Elementary School named Great Drink Pouch Derby winner
Douglas MacArthur Elementary School has been named a Great Drink Pouch Derby winner by the New Jersey-based company Terracycle. Each day, MacArthur students recycle their drink pouches at school and send the pouches to Terracycle. Recently, MacArthur received a check … Continue reading
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Project Philanthropy: ‘It’s natural to want to help others’
FARMINGTON – The community at large is the fortunate beneficiary of several philanthropic projects, thanks to the talents of an seventh-grade class at Mt. Blue Middle School.
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Turning Waste Packaging Into Massive Equity
There is profitability in waste. Join Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, as he shares his thoughts on the state of sustainable packaging and the paths he sees for the CPG industry in the face of the rising costs of resources, … Continue reading
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Swigert Daisies Start a Terracycle Program
The Swigert Daisies have started a Terracycle program in our cafeteria. If you are unfamiliar with Terracycle, check the out here: www.terracycle.com. Terracycle reduces waste by recycling many items that are not traditionally able to be recycled.
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Review and Outlook
The best and brightest minds in consumer goods share predictions and guidance for the coming year.
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Candy Wrapper Collection Benefits Elmwood Park Zoo
Eating through a lot of Easter candy? Make all those candy wrappers earn money for Elmwood Park Zoo by dropping them off at the Admissions counter. The wrappers will be sent to Terracycle, which converts waste into a “wide variety of products … Continue reading
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Candy Wrapper Collection Benefits Elmwood Park Zoo
Eating through a lot of Easter candy? Make all those candy wrappers earn money for Elmwood Park Zoo by dropping them off at the Admissions counter. The wrappers will be sent to Terracycle, which converts waste into a “wide variety of products … Continue reading
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Not so far and away
I recently visited “Away”–that place things go when you put them out with the trash, otherwise known as the landfill. It was a really eye-opening experience, and I highly recommend it. Really. It’s not at all what you think it … Continue reading
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Tom’s of Maine launches new plant-based toothbrush
KENNEBUNK, Maine — Tom’s of Maine, a maker of natural personal care products, has introduced its new Naturally Clean toothbrush. With a plant-based handle made from renewable castor oil plants instead of petroleum, the Naturally Clean toothbrush also has dye-free, … Continue reading
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Tom’s of Maine launches eco-friendly toothbrush
March 29, 2013 – Tom’s of Maine has introduced its new Naturally Clean toothbrush made with a plant-based handle from renewable castor oil plants instead of petroleum. It also has dye-free, multiheight bristles to clean between teeth and along the gumline.
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Are We Ready For Compostable Packaging?
TRENTON, New Jersey, March 28, 2013 (TerraCycle) – Every day, more and more companies are thinking of how to get on the green “bandwagon” which leads to many engaging in what they believe to be eco-friendly behavior. A big trend for companies now … Continue reading
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Hop Into Proper Recycling Habits This Easter
The Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation outlines recycling tips as Easter Sunday approaches. As Rhode Islanders make plans to celebrate the Easter holiday, the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation is reminding residents that many of the prized, colorful favors that go … Continue reading
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TMI? Newest Entrepreneurs Advocate Open Source Culture
REUTERS For decades, the business community has been keeping secrets — from its employees. From financial data and salary information to long-term initiatives and succession planning, privately owned companies have long subscribed to the theory that sharing critical information with … Continue reading
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CLOTHES THE LOOP
Q: What is the Clothes The Loop program? Mott: Clothes The Loop is an apparel and footwear recycling program The North Face debuted in select retail stores including New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago, this February. Customers can bring in their … Continue reading
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Hop Into Proper Recycling Habits This Easter
As Rhode Islanders make plans to celebrate the Easter holiday, the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation (RIRRC) is reminding residents that many of the prized, colorful favors that go hand-in-hand with the holiday are not recyclable. In an effort to … Continue reading
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TMI? Newest Entrepreneurs Advocate Open Source Culture
While not going to the lengths of sharing payroll and stock-option details like SumAll does, recycling company TerraCycle also takes an unguarded approach with its employees. Albe Zakes, TerraCycle’s global vice president of communication, believes transparency aligns with the company’s … Continue reading
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Akron Marathon Earns Certification from the Council for Responsible Sport for Its Sustainability Initiatives
Akron, Ohio – The 2012 Akron Marathon, presented by Time Warner Cable, has earned certification from the Council for Responsible Sport for efforts to reduce the event’s environmental footprint and increase its social impact. The Akron Marathon’s sustainability program is … Continue reading
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TMI? Newest Entrepreneurs Advocate Open Source Culture
While not going to the lengths of sharing payroll and stock-option details like SumAll does, recycling company TerraCycle also takes an unguarded approach with its employees. Albe Zakes, TerraCycle’s global vice president of communication, believes transparency aligns with the company’s … Continue reading
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Riverkeeper Sweep Expands to More than 60 Shoreline Cleanups
In addition, the Riverkeeper Sweep is made possible through cooperative partnerships with dozens of municipalities, state agencies, clubs, organizations, scout groups, businesses and individuals who help to organize individual events. We are pleased to partner with TerraCycle, which will provide waste … Continue reading
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A Beauty Company Helps Beautify Newark
The Trust for Public Land, Garnier—a subsidiary of L’Oreal, USA—and the City of Newark’s Office of Sustainability and its Department of Neighborhood Services have announced the installation of 54 community recycling containers at Nat Turner, Jesse Allen, and Mildred Helms parks.
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Spencer-Van Etten: S-VE students win national video contest
“Vote early! Vote often!” is the old joke about Chicago politics but it is actually the new way to win contests online. The Spencer-Van Etten Middle School Greenhouse Program made a three-minute educational video on the recycling program they run. … Continue reading
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Hearts’ Kickstarter campaign has officially launched today!
Hearts’ Kickstarter campaign has officially launched today! Their exclusively designed “You’ve Got Mail Bag” was co-created by Hearts & (@Terracycle). It is the perfect example of style with a purpose. The materials utilized were once used for delivering mail and saving … Continue reading
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Go Green by Joining a TerraCycle Brigade
We’ve all heard it – “save the planet”, “go green”, “reduce, reuse, recycle.” Here’s an easy way to do just that and potentially earn money for your group or charity through TerraCycle.
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Akron Marathon Now Officially Green
Ohio’s Akron Marathon has earned certification from the The Council for Responsible Sport for its efforts to lower the race’s environmental footprint. The race joins a small but growing number of sporting events to be officially recognized for their eco-friendly and community-building … Continue reading
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Living Local Expo features green talks, food demos and more on March 23
Organizers of the Living Local Expo announce that Albe Zakes, the global vice president of TerraCycle, is one of the featured speakers at the sixth annual Expo, which will be held from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 23 in the … Continue reading
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Kids and Co. donates to United Way
Kids and Company, an after-school program for elementary students who need a safe, supervised, place after school, has been recycling juice boxes through Terracycle for the past few years and received the money from recycling. The donation will provide approximately … Continue reading
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How to organize your home office
As we continue into modernity, the trend of people working from home will only grow. Having a home office is going to become an important area in our abodes like a living room or dining area. It’s a place (hopefully quiet) to get work … Continue reading
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Huntsville Hot List
4. Recycle and raise funds You’ve probably got old cell phones, ink cartridges and other small electronics sitting around your house. You’ve been meaning to recycle them, and now’s the time. Nexus Energy Center, a Huntsville organization that provides services … Continue reading
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Sustainable Shepherdstown’s Good Habits Challenge
Plastic is so much a part of our lives. Just as it’s important to know where your food is from (and what it’s made of), it’s also important to know where your trash goes (and what it’s made of). So … Continue reading
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But What About Recycling the Butts?
Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. (SFNTC) has teamed up with TerraCycle, a world leader in developing solutions for hard-to-recycle materials, to do something about cigarette butt litter. SFNTC manufactures Natural American Spirit additive-free, natural tobacco cigarettes and roll-your-own tobaccos, which … Continue reading
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Terracycle: Changing the Way the World Imagines Garbage- U.S.
What are the current issues in your region is facing and why is it an issue (regarding waste)? In this day and age, most are familiar with the effects of non-sustainable consumer behavior and aware of the growing importance of … Continue reading
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Tom’s of Maine Takes a Step Towards Quantifying Goodness
One of those goals is to reduce the percentage of virgin materials used in their packaging from 60 to 40 percent by 2020. Innovations like moving from aluminum tubes to recyclable laminated BPA-free plastic tubes, their partnership with TerraCycle and their switch to … Continue reading
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That’s IT Baby! Review and #giveaway: Ella’s Kitchen = Fun Foods!
Ella’s Kitchen has four different categories for foods. Ella’s 1 for 4-6 month olds, Ella’s 2 for7 months+ , Ella’s 3 for 12 months+, and Special Diets for gluten-free, lactose-free and vegetarian options. Within each category, there are fantastic assortments of pouches in … Continue reading
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All Kinds of Junk
I signed up Dominic’s school with a program called www.terracycle.com. You can even print a mailing label, so there are minimal shipping costs (just the cost of a padded envelope or box). Right now, I send them used Capri Sun pouches. The next … Continue reading
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Eco Friendly Fundraisers By Terracycle
One company that I greatly admire is Terracycle. What they do is get teams (brigades) together to recycle things that normally go in the trash. They turn around and reuse them to make all sorts of eco-goodies.
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Recycle and Raise Money at The Same Time!
TerraCycle Brigade programs are recycling fundraisers for schools and community groups across nationwide. All Family Focus Blog readers have to do is collect trash, send it in for free (we provide prepaid UPS shipping labels), and earn points and receive … Continue reading
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SOLUTIONS FOR THE TRICKIEST RECYCLING PROBLEMS
There is a popular topic that I like to tackle every so often. It’s how to recycle items that may be a bit tricky. Never fear, you can Do Your Part to find eco-friendly solutions. Here are few items that … Continue reading
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Nipomo students sprucing up school
Alfredo Robles, the school custodian, has spent many hours coming up with a new layout for the area and has even built a scale model to show how beautiful and shady the eating area will be for the students to … Continue reading
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Hop Into Proper Recycling Habits This Easter
Candy Wrappers – Candy wrappers cannot be recycled in your bin, but they don’t have to be thrown out with the trash. TerraCycle, a national mail-in recycling program, allows large organizations such as schools to collect and mail-in certain types of … Continue reading
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Hop Into Proper Recycling Habits This Easter
Candy Wrappers – Candy wrappers cannot be recycled in your bin, but they don’t have to be thrown out with the trash. TerraCycle, a national mail-in recycling program, allows large organizations such as schools to collect and mail-in certain types of … Continue reading
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The Risks of Expanding Into Australia
While opening in a new country presents an opportunity for growth and revenue, it is also an opportunity to lose ours shirts — through unexpected issues and complications. As such, it is important for small businesses that don’t have gobs … Continue reading
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Some solutions for the trickiest of recycling problems
How many tubes of toothpaste do you think you’ve thrown in the trash after you’ve gotten that last squeeze? What about old toothbrushes? Once you’re done with them there are ways to get them recycled. In fact, Terracycle will pay … Continue reading
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St. Patrick’s Day at the Zoo
Be green and save some green on St. Patrick’s Day at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. If you have an old cell phone, aluminum cans (1 lb. minimum), shoes and/or cooking and dining supplies you’d like to recycle, drop it off at … Continue reading
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Holt Elementary Recycling Queen
Holt Elementary School is one of the only schools in the Eugene School District that participates in a program put on by Terra Cycle, a New Jersey based company that turns previously non-recyclable items such as chip bags, candy wrappers, … Continue reading
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Recycle Spa Flip Flops with TerraCycle
There’s no longer any reason to throw out used, disposable pedicure flip-flops! They can be recycled with TerraCycle. Thanks to the sponsorship of Old Navy, spas can send their old flip-flops to TerraCycle free of charge—and receive exclusive coupons to share with … Continue reading
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TerraCycle on KLAS (CBS)
KLAS-TV Las Vegas highlighted the recycling efforts of Henderson International School. Recycling has been integrated into the curriculum to raise money for important causes such as hunger, poverty, and clean water.
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Recycle Your Flip-Flops
Old Navy Launches Ongoing Collection Program with TerraCycle Thanks to the sponsorship of retailer Old Navy, consumers and salons can send their old flip-flops to TerraCycle free of charge and receive exclusive coupons in return. The flip-flops will be recycled … Continue reading
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Kids Feeling Green
Tennyson Elementary School is feeling green. Through the TerraCycle program, students and faculty at Tennyson have been cutting down waste by focusing on recycling Theresa Underhill and Alyssa Bruner are Green Team leaders for the project. Three fifth grade students … Continue reading
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Do Your Part: Solutions for the trickiest of recycling problems
There is a popular topic that I like to tackle every so often. It’s how to recycle items that may be a bit tricky. Never fear, you can Do Your Part to find eco-friendly solutions. Here are few items that … Continue reading
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Recycle Everything – Recycling Tips
TerraCycle makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials. Capri Sun – Honest Kids juice pouches can be recycled by Terracycle as can Candy Wrappers, Starbucks Coffee bags, Zip Loc Bags, pens, Cookie Wrappers, Colgate toothpaste, and more. Yes this is more … Continue reading
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Random Wednesday
Who knew the Nespresso pods were recyclable? Interesting collaboration with TerraCycle. The coffee grinds inside are scooped out and composted… and the pods (which I had no idea were 100% aluminum) are recycled just like soda cans would be … Continue reading
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Upcycled Easter Basket
Celebrate this Easter with a little upcycling flavor. I created this super simple project that from folded food wrapper. You can create it, too! You can download a PDF with the complete step-by-step over at DIY section on TerraCycle’s website. When … Continue reading
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Do Your Part: Solutions for the trickiest of recycling problems
There is a popular topic that I like to tackle every so often. It’s how to recycle items that may be a bit tricky. Never fear, you can Do Your Part to find eco-friendly solutions. Here are few items that … Continue reading
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Ayala ’84 and Szaky ’05 named ‘Social Entrepreneurs of the Year’
Jim Ayala ’84 and Tom Szaky ’05 were among 24 named Social Entrepreneurs of the Year for 2013 by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship on Feb. 15. Through this award, Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle Inc., and Ayala, a University … Continue reading
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Recycled Shoes Raise Money
Pocono Medical Center’s Environmental Awareness Council set up red bins to collect shoes through the TerraCycle Shoe Brigade in December. The goal was to recycle old shoes through TerraCycle to help raise money for the Dale and Frances Hughes Cancer … Continue reading
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Press Release: TerraCycle Creates Recycling Oppurtunities for Students
Recycling pioneer TerraCycle, Inc. is the newest partner of online fundraising program GoEco! The Ultimate Eco-Fundraiser. Schools and other non-profit organizations, including TerraCycle Brigade members, can earn 15% from the online sale of hundreds of eco-friendly, upcycled TerraCycle products just … Continue reading
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Tristin & Tyler Talk Trash with TerraCycle
It’s hard to believe that New York City, with residents that produce over 12,000 pounds of waste per day, does not have trash incinerators or landfills. But it’s true. The city that never sleeps, has to ship its waste to … Continue reading
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Tri Delta to recycle, compost all materials used at DHOP
Tucson isn’t able to recycle the Capri Suns that Tri Delta will be using as beverages; however, TerraCycle.net will pay for the shipping of the Capri Suns so they can be recycled. For every unit recycled, Tri Delta will receive … Continue reading
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Keep Martin Beautiful announces 2013 Environmental Stewardship Award winners
For nearly a decade, KMB has been hosting the annual Environmental Stewardship Awards as a way to recognize and celebrate the notable efforts within Martin County to promote environmental stewardship through education and action. But it was one group, in … Continue reading
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NEW SERVICE SPOTLIGHT: Cigarette Recycling by TerraCycle
Facility managers can send cigarette waste to be recycled free of charge by participating in a new program launched by TerraCycle and facilitated by funding from Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. The waste collected through TerraCycle’s Cigarette Waste Brigade will be recycled … Continue reading
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The Juice Pouch Brigade
LEWISBURG — Girl Scout Troop 60017 holds a check for $300, earned by spending 15 hours working on the project The Juice Pouch Brigade. The girls collected, emptied, counted, made posters, and shipped juice pouches to Terracycle. The troop choose … Continue reading
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Recycling Old Flip Flops to Help the Environment
One of our favorite things to do is to find people or organizations coming up with some innovative ways to repurpose items that could pose as an environmental threat to our land and our lives. This year Old Navy is … Continue reading
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ECO SPOTLIGHT: TERRACYCLE
Recycling has been one of the biggest movements in response to pollution, and dealing with the huge amounts of waste produced by today’s society. Of the biggest problems with recycling is that there are a lot of plastics, and other products … Continue reading
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National Recycling Program Launched For Cigarette Waste
According to Keep America Beautiful (KAB), 65 percent of all cigarette butts are disposed of improperly, which is why Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. has teamed up with TerraCycle to do something about cigarette butt litter. With funding from Santa … Continue reading
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SGA introduces recycling program
In its attempts to make Butler University a greener campus, the Student Government Association’s Green Operations Committee has a found a way for Butler to protect the environment while making the university some extra cash on the side. The Green … Continue reading
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Recycle Cigarette Butts to Earn Money for Charity
Instead of just collecting cigarette butts in indoor and outdoor ashtrays and throwing them away, facilities managers can recycle them to earn money for Keep America Beautiful. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company partnered with recycling pioneer TerraCycle to launch the … Continue reading
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The man, who recycles cigarette butts
In Early February 2013, I did a story for the Tribune de Genève on TerraCycle and its young CEO, Tom Szaky. Tom Szaky recycles all he can think of. It goes from used diapers to cans and to cigarette butts. He … Continue reading
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LARABAR Wrappers are Now Recyclable!
I just got word that LARABAR has partnered up with TerraCycle to make their wrappers recyclable. It was exciting enough that I couldn’t help but post about it! So if you’re a fan of their yummy date-sweetened treats, feed the … Continue reading
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McLoughlin Elementary Recycling Program
McLoughlin Elementary is starting a recycling program through a company called TerraCycle. With this program McLoughlin students can opt to recycle several different types of household materials with a goal of keeping these items out of the landfill and to … Continue reading
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Natick North Facestore recycles
In just over a year and a half, 21 The North Face stores across the country have recycled more than 1 million plastic polybags through a program with upcycling and recycling firm TerraCycle. The Natick store on Worcester Street is … Continue reading
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Natick North Face Store Recycles Polybags with TerraCycle
In just over a year and a half, 21 The North Face® stores across the country have recycled more than one million plastic polybags through a program with upcycling and recycling pioneer, TerraCycle. The Natick store on Worcester Street is … Continue reading
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Engagement high for TerraCycle’s cigarette butt recycling program
TerraCycle created recycling programs called “Brigades” for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste. It began a partnership with Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company (SFNTC) last November to launch the first US cigarette-waste recycling program. “SFNTC has a long-standing commitment to environmental … Continue reading
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How To Green Your Lunch
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
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Nightengale student forming CapriSun Brigade to raise funds for school
Mathis, a sixth grader at Nightengale Elementary, asked principal Mrs. Jordan’s permission to get started. With a little help from his mom and from his sixth grade ELA teacher Mrs. Powers, Mathis created flyers that he put up around school … Continue reading
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Recycle those flip flops!
Earth Day falls on Monday, April 22, this year, and Old Navy has partnered up with trash-to-treasure eco company TerraCycle to turn old, used, or broken flip flops into material for playgrounds. TerraCycle was founded in 2001 and has since become … Continue reading
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Massena elementary student launches campaign to help school, environment
MASSENA — Inspired by the back of a beverage, a Nightengale Elementary student has launched a campaign to help his school and the environment. Mathis LeBlanc, a sixth-grader, said it all started while he was downing a CapriSun. Reading the … Continue reading
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TROY STORE HELPS THE NORTH FACE® RECYCLE ONE MILLION POLYBAGS
In just over a year and a half, 21 The North Face® stores across the country have recycled more than one million plastic polybags through a program with upcycling and recycling pioneer, TerraCycle. The Troy store on West Big Beaver … Continue reading
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Raising funds to fight cancer, reduce landfill content
Becker first found out about TerraCycle on a Keebler cookie wrapper. Shortly afterwards, she read an article about the company in Parade Magazine, and then Becker got busy. Now many items thought to be difficult to recycle are being … Continue reading
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Donations
PLAINFIELD — The Freedom Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization will host an electronics and TerraCycle recycling event from 1 to 4 p.m. Feb. 23 at the school, 11600 Heritage Meadows Drive. The Freedom PTO will receive the current rate … Continue reading
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Greek Sustainable Council making strides
Last fall, The Daily Tar Heel’s editorial board wrote that Greeks, as an entire subset of UNCstudents, don’t recycle. This board mentioned the Greek Sustainability Council, but did not acknowledge its accomplishments/goals regarding sustainable living in the Greek community. The reporter … Continue reading
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Start Up a Recycling Brigade
Do you know about TerraCycle? This company runs recycling collection programs for previously on-recyclable items, such as drink pouches, diaper packaging, candy and energy bar wrappers, dairy tubs, and household cleaner packaging. They recently added the ability to recycle cigarette waste. Much … Continue reading
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Garbage in, garbage out?
This cliché has translated into success for one young entrepreneur. Tom Szaky is co-founder and CEO of TerraCycle, Inc., the leading player in “upcycling”, or turning disposable items into new products: fertilizers from worm poop, backpacks from juice pouches and … Continue reading
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2013 CSR Awards: Recycling Campaign
Results for 2011-12 include: More than 75 unique media placements in CSR, environmental and business trade publications–more than 100 million media impressions; thought leadership through bylined blog posts and interviews; 13 conference presentations on the benefits of EPR; and three … Continue reading
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Colvin Run Students Launch Food-Donation Effort
Colvin Run Elementary School on Feb. 4 launched a new food-donation program. During lunch periods, students will collect unopened food – including milk, yogurt, chips, and fruit – and place them into specially marked coolers and bins. The food, which … Continue reading
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Recycling entrepreneur stubs out cigarette garbage
TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky works in his office at the company’s headquarters in Trenton, New Jersey, on January 10, 2013. TerraCycle Inc., a company devoted to creating recycling systems for hard-to-recycle waste, has created an alternative to leaving cigarette butts on … Continue reading
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TerraCycle to Recycle Cigarette Waste
Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. (SFNTC) teams up with TerraCycle, a world leader in developing solutions for hard-to-recycle materials, to do something about cigarette butt litter. According to Keep America Beautiful (KAB), 65 percent of all cigarette butts are disposed … Continue reading
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Martin County Environmental Awards Presented
Young environmentalists also received major accolades throughout the night. The Pine School received an award for its organic garden, where produce is harvested and used to liven up cafeteria food. Students at Bessey Creek Elementary netted an award for their … Continue reading
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KCC student proposes new recycling program
LIHU‘E — A Kaua‘i Community College student is attempting to introduce a recycling program that would ship waste to the Mainland annually, with hopes that it would pay for itself over time. Britney Gurkin, a freshman biochemistry major with a … Continue reading
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Iconic Red Party Cup Goes Green
In a general culinary news article I wrote late in 2012 entitled Kitchen News November 2012 , I highlighted that the Canadian kitchen and housewares company Trudeau Corp had announced the launch of its version of the iconic Solo red … Continue reading
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E-Club Brings New Recycling Centers to the Cafeteria
As many of you have heard, E-Club has set-up new recycling centers in the cafeteria in an attempt to help our school become a waste free environment. Many of the materials that students and faculty can recycle are the same, … Continue reading
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What to do when an employee asks for a raise
Deciding how to distribute raises can be tricky, writes Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle. His company has created a committee to tackle the problem, but many employees still think they should be earning more money. The employees who have seen … Continue reading
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Community Notes
April Segura of Lincoln, Nebraska was chosen as the winner in the nation-wide Less in Landfills Sweepstakes, sponsored by Tom’s of Maine and TerraCycle. Her prize comes in the form of a $1,000 donation to Nebraska Friends of Midwives. … Continue reading
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Do consumers really value sustainable packaging?
It’s a fact of life that we, as social beings, look for common ground when building relationships. Companies are no exception to this rule. Often, people seek out brands and companies that reflect their values. For instance, whether a company … Continue reading
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Is Your Recycling Bin Recycled?
“It is so ironic that people don’t use bins made from recycled material for their recycling,” says environmental columnist Kristin Arrigo, author of Seasonal Home Repair Checklist: Eco-Alternatives for Maintaining Your Home. Choose plastic bins wisely. A receptacle Eco-innovator TerraCycle … Continue reading
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Smart, Simple, and Sustainable – The Search for the Perfect Package
Simplifying package design can directly benefit your business by reducing production costs and increasing branding opportunities. You can streamline clumsy designs by reducing materials, or you can promote closed-loop packaging by reusing recycled/recyclable materials like companies such as TerraCycle and … Continue reading
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Feed your children well
Celebrity chef Tyler Florence started SPROUT, whose organic offerings are inspired by recipes that his own kids liked. Ingrid Kellaghan, the founder of Chicago’s Cambridge Nanny Group and an expert in childcare issues like mealtime fussiness, says, “Infants go gaga over … Continue reading
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Try to Recycle Chip Bags? Is it Possible? Where Can I Wednesday?
The big game is right around the corner The PUPPY BOWL! (Speaking of which, fun fact! Last year, 9 of the pups came straight from Pennsylvania SPCA shelters!) (Oh, and that other game for those football fans.) With Puppybowl and Superbowl translates … Continue reading
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If You Bring A Farmer’s Market To Me, I’ll Love You Forever
ot only do I get to save time by ordering my goods online and having it show up at my door, but I also get to feel good about myself for supporting a company who believes in sustainability. They base … Continue reading
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Think Outside the Bin: What to Do With Hard-to-Recycle Items
Since many of these items cannot be recycled in your state and need to be mailed to the recycler, diehard recyclers may be faced with the moral dilemma of whether it’s worth the expense and resulting carbon emissions to ship … Continue reading
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Stub Out Butts! Cigarettes Turned into Plastic
In a program started in May in Canada and now running from the United States to Spain, TerraCycle collects cigarette butts from volunteers and turns them into plastic, which can be used for anything, even ashtrays themselves. The discarded cigarettes, … Continue reading
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Recycling 101: Turning Old into New
Recycling has come a long way from just simply separating paper, plastic and aluminum. Today almost all materials can be recycled; from old cell phones and computers to tires and used car batteries. Whether it’s making a swing from an old tire … Continue reading
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Trying to Answer the Inevitable Question: Can I Have a Raise?
As an employer of more than 100 people, I find dealing with the question of raises a constant challenge, one fraught with more negatives than positives. And yet, it’s an inevitable issue that crosses my desk constantly. While I can … Continue reading
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Join a TerraCycle Brigade Program
TerraCycle is on a mission to eliminate the idea of waste. They do this by creating waste collection programs (each one is called a “Brigade”) for previously non-recyclable, or difficult-to-recycle, waste. The collected waste is then converted into new products, … Continue reading
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Recycling entrepreneur stubs out cigarette garbage
In a program started in May in Canada and now running from the United States to Spain, TerraCycle collects cigarette butts from volunteers and turns them into plastic, which can be used for anything, even ashtrays themselves. The discarded cigarettes, … Continue reading
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You’re the Boss: Trying to Answer the Inevitable Question: Can I Have a Raise?
At TerraCycle, in 2012, we allocated $250,000 for raises on a total payroll of $5 million. In the hope of creating a coherent policy, we formed a compensation committee, consisting of five senior employees, to help figure out how to … Continue reading
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Earn Money For Your School: Recycle Candy Bars
Once you have joined a TerraCycle Brigade program, download the “Collect, Store, and Ship Guide” for helpful suggestions on how to become a successful waste collection station. When your waste is ready to be sent in, you can download a … Continue reading
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Waverly residents recycle with help from New Jersey firm
WAVERLY, Iowa — Recycling is second nature to Joanna Ewest, who remembers newspaper drives as a school girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest. Hanging on to more obscure trash — like empty cheese packages, cereal bags and pretzel containers … Continue reading
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Tom’s of Maine and TerraCycle: Recycling Personal Care Products
I love Tom’s of Maine. To me, the name is synonymous with great products and environmental stewardship — a winning combination. To that end, Tom’s of Maine does not conduct animal testing or include any animal-based ingredients in its products. The … Continue reading
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Every school, every week
Gegan Elementary: Families are asked to save any kind of juice pouch (not juice boxes) and bring them to the collection center in the front lobby. The pouches do not have to be washed, just empty and in a plastic … Continue reading
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Belle Aire Students Participate in 3rd Annual ‘Trash for Cash’ Raffle
Did you know that 99 percent of the total material flow in the United States becomes garbage within six months? Garbage goes to landfills where it releases carbon emissions that have a negative impact on the environment. Technically, some “non-recyclable” … Continue reading
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7 Points for Having a Charitable Super Bowl Party
Super Bowl parties are a nationwide staple and it is one of the few times where everyone invited brings something. Now that the two teams have been decided, let the scurry for who is having the best party and the … Continue reading
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Urban Action 1/23
Beyond the blue box ColorBrightonGreen.org will present “Recycling Beyond the Blue Box: TerraCycle and the Monroe County Ecopark,” at 6:30 p.m. onWednesday, January 23. Cheryl Bertou will explain how her son partnered with TerraCycle to reduce waste by recycling previously non-recyclable … Continue reading
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Are You a Precycler?
Waste Less, Save More by Precycling by Leah Blunt –> We’ve all heard the familiar phrase; ‘reduce, reuse, recycle.’ For many of us, recycling is a habit to which we have grown accustomed. It makes sense to find ways to … Continue reading
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Liz Swafford: What to do with used crayons and markers
Are there lots of broken and stubby crayons collecting dust at the bottom of your kid’s pencil box? What about dried up markers? Instead of throwing them out and sending them to the landfill you can recycle them. Crayons can be recycled at … Continue reading
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In the Bag: It’s Crunch Time for Pinecrest Recycling Project
A Pinecrest High School recycling club is striving to make Moore County a little greener. Aayushi Patel, a school senior and president of the Student Environmental Association, said her group has recently initiated a pair of projects that involve both … Continue reading
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Ex-smoker recycling cigarette butts
“It’s disgusting and wasteful, so I wanted to do something about it,” Stoner says. No, she’s not going to spend her off-duty time preaching about the evils of smoking and trying to get people to quit. Accepting that smoking will … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Collection List
TerraCycle is going to turn your trash into KME’s cash! These are all the items we are collecting.
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Absegami Environmental Group Collects Over 100 Flip-Flops for Recycling
Earth Shepherd Environmental Group of Absegami High School conducted its first fundraiser over the fall, collecting over 100 flip-flops to be recycled, according to Earth Shepherd President Jamie Infanti. The group teamed up with the Smithville and Reeds Road elementary schools in the collection effort. … Continue reading
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Absegami Environmental Group Collects Over 100 Flip-Flops for Recycling
Earth Shepherd Environmental Group of Absegami High School conducted its first fundraiser over the fall, collecting over 100 flip-flop to be recycled, according to Earth Shepherd President Jamie Infanti. The group teamed up with the Smithville and Reeds Road … Continue reading
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Absegami environmental group collects recyclable flip-flops
The Earth Shepherd Environmental Group of Absegami High School recently conducted a successful flip-flop recycling program. Participating schools were Smithville Elementary and Reeds Road elementary schools and Absegami. The three schools collected more than 100 pairs of flip-flops over a … Continue reading
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The Role of Profit in a Social Business
TerraCycle is a social business, which means that we focus on the so-called triple bottom line: planet, people and profits. For us, this has meant creating a business model that involves capturing nonrecyclable waste — like chip bags or diaper … Continue reading
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Broward College TerraCycle Goal 2013
Our partners at Broward College are trying to collect over 300,000 TerraCycle pieces this year. You can drop off items at Trash to Treasure or at Broward College Campuses. Here is the latest flyer. Take a look because items do … Continue reading
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Smokers might be saving their butts for cash
Earlier this year, New Mexico-based Santa Fe Natural Co., a subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc., the nation’s second-largest cigarette maker, and TerraCycle Inc. announced a partnership to recycle cigarette butts into pellets used to make such items as park benches, … Continue reading
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Wait, You Can Recycle That?
Cigarette waste can be found on most roadways and is very common in public places such as the beach or park. We have become immune to seeing cigarette butts on the ground and most people probably haven’t thought about recycling … Continue reading
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NEW LIFE FOR CHIP BAGS, DRINK POUCHES, AND MORE
TerraCycle is a company founded around ten years ago by a freshman at Princeton. Tom Szaky’s idea was to revolutionize how we think about waste…by eliminating it. TerraCycle began by producing organic fertilizer, packaging liquid worm poop in used soda … Continue reading
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Recycling becomes habit when learned in youth
We don’t have a beverage container deposit to encourage recycling in South Carolina, but for me, recycling has become a way of life. One motivating factor for me to recycle is the fact that I don’t want a landfill in … Continue reading
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Video of Honest Kids Product Review
The new drinks have 100% vitamin C, only has 40 calories per pouch and still has half the sugar than the leading kids’ drinks. I love the new packaging that is so easy to travel with and has really great kid-friendly messaging which … Continue reading
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Business Highlights
Doing good TerraCycle is a worldwide company based in Trenton. They create national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste. Anyone can sign up for these programs, called the Brigades. Visit www.terracycle.com for more information.
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Princeton Packet Mentions TerraCycle’s Important Work
TerraCycle is a worldwide company based in Trenton. They create national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste. Anyone can sign up for these programs, called the Brigades. Visit www.terracycle.com for more information.
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Students Change Behaviors, One Candy Wrapper at a Time
One group of students worked with Sarah Vorreiter, a resident assistant in Lincoln Avenue Residence Hall on a floor designated as a Sustainable Living and Learning Community whose students tend to care more about environmental issues. Vorreiter had already initiated … Continue reading
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Students Change Behaviors, One Candy Wrapper at a Time
Building awareness about environmental concerns is one thing. Getting people to actually change their behaviors and become better stewards of the environment themselves is quite another, and much more difficult to accomplish as University of Illinois students in Ming Kuo’s … Continue reading
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Brigades Index: TerraCycle
Nestled in the lowly depths of Trenton, NJ TERRACYCLE has been reusing waste for over a decade, giving it back to the consumer in the form of backpacks, non biohazardous cleaning products, scrapbooks, enviornmentally friendly fertilizers, and more. Check out … Continue reading
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Cigarettes Still Aren’t Cool, But Recycling Butts Is a New Trend
Founded in 2001 by CEO Tom Szaky, TerraCycle’s anti-butt campaign, dubbed Cigarette Waste Brigade, is a essentially a war on the seemingly countless discarded cancer sticks that litter our beaches, streets, and waterways. All parts of the extinguished cigarettes—the filters, … Continue reading
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Cigarettes Still Aren’t Cool, But Recycling Butts Is a New Trend
Founded in 2001 by CEO Tom Szaky, TerraCycle’s anti-butt campaign, dubbed Cigarette Waste Brigade, is a essentially a war on the seemingly countless discarded cancer sticks that litter our beaches, streets, and waterways. All parts of the extinguished cigarettes—the filters, … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Featured on News 8 WROC
A Rochester family helps the environment by recycling items that are usually not recyclable. Cheryl Bertou runs a small makeshift recycling canter in her basement. “We raised about $200.00 and kept about 13,000 items out of landfills,” says Bertou through … Continue reading
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Butt ugly? You bet, but there’s value in recycling them
Tom Szaky collects the most disgusting things. Yucky yogurt containers. Sticky candy wrappers. Old flip-flops. Now, he and his Trenton company, TerraCycle, are onto a new one: cigarette butts, the most common litter items on the planet. (And much, much … Continue reading
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Butt ugly? You bet, but there’s value in recycling them
Tom Szaky collects the most disgusting things. Yucky yogurt containers. Sticky candy wrappers. Old flip-flops. Now, he and his Trenton company, TerraCycle, are onto a new one: cigarette butts, the most common litter items on the planet. (And much, much … Continue reading
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Butt ugly? You bet, but there’s value in recycling them
Tom Szaky collects the most disgusting things. Yucky yogurt containers. Sticky candy wrappers. Old flip-flops. Now, he and his Trenton company, TerraCycle, are onto a new one: cigarette butts, the most common litter items on the planet. (And much, much … Continue reading
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Butt ugly? You bet, but there’s value in recycling them
Tom Szaky collects the most disgusting things. Yucky yogurt containers. Sticky candy wrappers. Old flip-flops. Now, he and his Trenton company, TerraCycle, are onto a new one: cigarette butts, the most common litter items on the planet. (And much, much … Continue reading
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Butt ugly? You bet, but there’s value in recycling them
Tom Szaky collects the most disgusting things. Yucky yogurt containers. Sticky candy wrappers. Old flip-flops. Now, he and his Trenton company, TerraCycle, are onto a new one: cigarette butts, the most common litter items on the planet. (And much, much … Continue reading
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Butt ugly? You bet, but there’s value in recycling them
Tom Szaky collects the most disgusting things. Yucky yogurt containers. Sticky candy wrappers. Old flip-flops. Now, he and his Trenton company, TerraCycle, are onto a new one: cigarette butts, the most common litter items on the planet. (And much, much … Continue reading
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Butt ugly? You bet, but there’s value in recycling them
Tom Szaky collects the most disgusting things. Yucky yogurt containers. Sticky candy wrappers. Old flip-flops. Now, he and his Trenton company, TerraCycle, are onto a new one: cigarette butts, the most common litter items on the planet. (And much, much … Continue reading
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New Life for Chip Bags, Drink Pouches, And More
Everybody’s heard of recycling. but have you heard of Terracycling? TerraCycle is a company founded around ten years ago by a freshman at Princeton. Tom Szaky’s idea was to revolutionize how we think about waste…by eliminating it. TerraCycle began by … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Brigade Participant Featured on Rochester News
Cheryl Bertou and her 9-year-old son, who participate in TerraCycle’s Brigade program, were featured on Rochester News. Cheryl effectively articulates what TerraCycle is all about in this two minute clip.
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Butt ugly? You bet, but there’s value in recycling them
Tom Szaky collects the most disgusting things. Yucky yogurt containers. Sticky candy wrappers. Old flip-flops. Now, he and his Trenton, N.J., company, TerraCycle, are onto a new one: cigarette butts, the most common litter items on the planet. So bring … Continue reading
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How TerraCycle Uses Twitter & Facebook Together for Greater Community Building
TerraCycle is a great example of a company using Facebook and Twitter together for a cohesive social strategy that addresses the needs of their audience. The New Jersey-based recycling company has won over 39,800 fans on Facebook and earned an … Continue reading
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2012 Review: Our environment, wise use of resources – important story themes
Cloth diapering has become popular these days, but cloth toilet paper may be where some people draw the line. Not Christena Little. Little decided to transition her lifestyle to “zero-waste” nearly a year ago, and hasn’t looked back since. One … Continue reading
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Bethlehem man launches cigarette butt recycling effort
The merchant is collecting cigarette butts in sand-filled buckets this year at the popular holiday market so that they can be recycled into plastic lumber, shipping pallets, lawn furniture and ash trays.“The idea of plastic lumber really resonates with me … Continue reading
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Sea Angels group works to keep Palm Beach County’s coast clean
The Sea Angels’ mission isn’t only to preserve Palm Beach County’s coast, but also to make the sand and the seas a safer place for the animals that call it home. Cigarette butts are the No. 1 littered substance on … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Brigades Index – Upcycled Mailbag
TERRACYCLE has been reusing waste for over a decade, giving it back to the consumer in the form of backpacks, non biohazardous cleaning products, scrapbooks, enviornmentally friendly fertilizers, and more. Check out this IPAD case made from what TERRACYCLE terms … Continue reading
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2012 Review: TerraCycle Is an Important Environmental Group
Cloth diapering has become popular these days, but cloth toilet paper may be where some people draw the line. Not Christena Little. Little decided to transition her lifestyle to “zero-waste” nearly a year ago, and hasn’t looked back since. One … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Helps Sea Angels Keep Palm Beach County’s Coast Clean
After Sea Angels collects the litter, members reuse the materials to create recycled artwork before dumping it. And any material that is not accepted by the Solid Waste Authority, goes to TerraCycle — a company that makes textiles out of … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Praised for Social Media Integration
We hear a lot of buzz about different social media networks and which one works better than another. In reality, using a combination of sites together is a solid strategy for reaching the greatest number of fans. Individual fans each … Continue reading
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Oakmont Students Raise Money with TerraCycle
Students at Oakmont Regional High have raised money selling craft items like bracelets made from soda can tabs. They also have an account with TerraCycle and collect 2 cents for every snack wrapper they turn in. “That’s our cash cow,” … Continue reading
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Man Launches Cigarette Butt Recycling Effort
Kubiak has placed four cigarette butt collection buckets in the outdoor smoking areas of Christkindlmarkt with a sign that says, “Make your butt useful.” Smokers have responded and the buckets were brimming with butts last week. Kubiak will send the … Continue reading
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Honest Tea Partners with TerraCycle to Upcycle Drink Pouches
Sustainable packaging: The reduction by 0.56 ounce in one of Honest Tea’s cartons resulted in the conservation of 354,000 pounds of material, not to mention the decreased fuel consumption needed to haul all those drinks from plant to store. Those … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Founder Tom Szaky Featured on Mashable Live Chat
Tom Szaky, 30, is the founder and CEO of TerraCycle, Inc., one of the world’s foremost leaders in eco-capitalism, recycling and upcycling. In 2006, Inc Magazine named TerraCycle “The Coolest Little Startup in America.” That same year Szaky was named … Continue reading
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Drum Maker Launches Cigarette Butt Recycling Effort
Conrad Kubiak, an environmentally-conscious smoker, hates the sight of cigarette butts littering sidewalks, parking lots and roadways. “It makes me sick,” he said. So now the well-known drum vendor, a regular at Musikfest and Christkindlmarkt in Bethlehem, is taking matters … Continue reading
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Meet Young Entrepreneur Council’s Tom Szaky, TerraCycle CEO
One man’s trash is another’s treasure — and Tom Szaky is living proof. The Hungarian native’s fascination with trash goes back a long way. While studying at Princeton, he and his mates cultivated a huge worm farm, which they fed … Continue reading
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College Lifestyles Interviews TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky
TerraCycle could arguably be named the world’s most innovative business. And after a long journey of invention, passion and hard work, TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky, 30, is certainly in the running for world’s most innovative young businessman. CL chatted with … Continue reading
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Webinar: Turning Waste Packaging Into Massive Equity
There is profitability in waste. Join Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, as he shares his thoughts on the state of sustainable packaging and the paths he sees for the CPG industry in the face of the rising costs of resources, … Continue reading
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Teen Collects Candy Wrappers to Help Cousin
Brittany Lowe, an eighth-grader at Citrus Hills Intermediate School in Corona, has collected candy wrappers — thousands of them — in less than two months. And someday, those wrappers may help people with a genetic muscular condition that most children … Continue reading
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Highland Christian School Partners with TerraCycle
PTO is excited to announce that our school is going GREEN! We teamed up with a program called TERRACYCLE. We are going to be collecting a number of items to recycle and earn CASH. Each classroom will have a bin to place … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Develops a Way to Recycle Cigarette Butts
From worm poop to cigarette butts. When you really think about it, there is a connection. They’re both disgusting, the sorts of things you would not want to touch, and the quantities of them are astronomical. For a Trenton-based recycling … Continue reading
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Front Cover of Trenton Times on TerraCycle’s Cigarette Waste Program
The Times of Trenton features TerraCycle’s cigarette butt recycling program on its cover.
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TerraCycle Featured in Brighton Memorial Library’s Recycling Event
The Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave., will host “Recycling Beyond the Blue Box: TerraCycle and the Monroe County Ecopark” at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 23, 2013. Guests may learn how Cheryl Bertou and her son were able to partner with … Continue reading
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Honest.com Holiday Gift Guide 2012
Turn trash to treasure with these TerraCycle Eco Speakers, which can be made from your child’s upcycled candy wrapper and transformed into portable speakers for his or her smartphone, MP3 player, and computer.
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TerraCycle Boxes Used in University of Pennsylvania’s Riepe House
Have ink cartridges? Old laptops? Batteries? Or any old tech that you’re no longer using? Bring it to one of our TerraCycle boxes, located conveniently in the Riepe computer lab or the mailroom. We’ll recycle it responsibly for free, and … Continue reading
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Penn State Freshman Joins TerraCycle Brigades
After learning about his elementary school’s project this year with Terracycle, Penn State Freshman, Augustus Perangelo decided to join many of Terracycle Inc.’s brigade. TerraCycle’s purpose is to eliminate the idea of waste. They do this by creating national recycling … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Hopes to Explore Film Recycling
TerraCycle specializes in partnering with individuals and corporations to collect waste, upcycle the things it can into objets d’delight, and recycle the rest, creating raw material for other products. As it happens, the TerraCycle headquarters in Trenton, N.J., features an … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Reusable Recycled Bear Naked Bag Given Glowing Review
The Terracycle Bear Naked reusable bag is made of nothing but canvas sewn into the plastic bags we eat from. It is just as durable as the one described above, but has an awesome design. Bear Naked also happens to be one … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Featured on 20/20 Office Holiday Parties
TerraCycle’s cigarette recycling program was mentioned in a video on office holiday parties on ABC’s 20/20.
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United Way Volunteers Recognized
Under the leadership of volunteer Sarah Martin, and University of Maine at Farmington intern Joe Dignam, TerraCycle was launched. In this program various products — from shampoo bottles to foil-lined granola bar wrappers — are sent to TerraCycle headquarters in … Continue reading
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Recycling Program at UC Davis Partners with TerraCycle
The UC Davis campus recycling program aims for zero waste, and, as an example of how thorough this is, they don’t just recycle the usual stuff. Over the past year, UCD purchased more than 150,000 pens, and they’ve partnered with … Continue reading
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Seventh Annual Holiday Gift Guide
TerraCycle: Upcycling: Trash to Tuneful Treasure. Upcycled Mail Sack iPad. TerraCycle.com
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TerraCycle – A New Way To Recycle
We’re always on the hunt for new ways to protect Mother Earth and recycle anything we can. When we found TerraCycle we got pretty excited. We’ve recently partnered with TerraCycle who is on a mission to eliminate the idea of waste. The collected waste … Continue reading
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Cigarette Wastes Getting Recycled by TerraCycle
TerraCycle, a small upcycling company based in New Jersey, has launched its new program, Cigarette Waste Brigade, which aims to collect various wastes from cigarettes and tobaccos – cigarette butts, rolling papers, loose tobacco pouches, plastic wrapper, foil, and ashes. … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Volunteers Recognized by United Way of the Tri-Valley Area
Under the leadership of volunteer Sarah Martin, and UMF intern Joe Dignam, TerraCycle was launched. In this program various products – from shampoo bottles to foil-lined granola bar wrappers – are sent to TerraCycle headquarters in New Jersey where they … Continue reading
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Reynolds subsidiary funding cigarette recycling
A subsidiary of the nation’s second-largest cigarette maker, Reynolds American Inc., is funding a national recycling program to reward do-gooders for cleaning up tobacco waste and turn cigarette butts into pellets used to make items such as plastic shipping pallets, … Continue reading
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Terracycle Review
Terracycle is a company that collects previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste and converts it into new products, ranging from recycled park benches to upcycled backpacks. They do this by creating waste collection programs, which are referred to as “Brigades”, for … Continue reading
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Scouts look to attend Jamboree
EPHRATAH – Two local Scouts from the Sir William Johnson Boy Scout District have been selected to participate in the 2015 World Scout Jamboree. The pair – 12-year-old Dallis Green and 11-year-old Makayla Gray – are holding a recycling drive … Continue reading
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Give unique upcycled gifts this holiday
With holiday-related “to do’s” dancing in our heads, the scurrying and worrying has begun. What to get for family members who are impossible to buy for? Where to find classy or unique gift for your husband, wife or that special … Continue reading
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Smart CEO Says TerraCycle Turns Garbage into Gold
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Volunteers recognized
FARMINGTON – Volunteers have been as busy as Santa’s elves at the United Way of the Tri-Valley Area this fall. During this season of thanks, it is important to recognize the impact that many generous volunteers are having in Greater … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Recognition
Under the leadership of volunteer Sarah Martin, and UMF intern Joe Dignam, TerraCycle was launched. In this program various products – from shampoo bottles to foil-lined granola bar wrappers – are sent to TerraCycle headquarters in New Jersey where they … Continue reading
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Why are there unrecyclables and other processing questions
Old or broken drinking glasses. Burned-out incandescent light bulbs. Empty prescription-medicine vials. These are on an increasingly shortlist of common waste items that we can’t put in our residential curbside recycling bin. They are the unrecyclables. That sounds … Continue reading
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Trash to Treasure Creative Reuse Center
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Creative Reuse Centers, Buy Recycled, Arts, Education, Community Gardens. Visit our web site www.trash2treasurefl.org CityLink Beerfest 2012 to Benefit Trash to Treasure It’s that time again beer fans. City Link Beer Fest and Trash to Treasure team … Continue reading
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Cigarette Wastes Getting Recycled by TerraCycle
TerraCycle, a small upcycling company based in New Jersey, has launched its new program, Cigarette Waste Brigade, which aims to collect various wastes from cigarettes and tobaccos – cigarette butts, rolling papers, loose tobacco pouches, plastic wrapper, foil, and ashes. … Continue reading
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Recycling Mystery: Cigarettes
As Earth911 recently reported, cigarettes can now be recycled in the U.S. thanks to a new partnership between TerraCycle, a company that finds recycling solutions for items that aren’t easy to recycle, and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. TerraCycle collects … Continue reading
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2012 MNN holiday gift guide: The festive 15
For Pam, your notoriously hard-to-shop-for sister-in-law: For impossible-to-shop-for gift recipients, sometimes a gift certificate is the safest — and most practical — option. Launched with the aid of erstwhile “Lazy Environmentalist” and former MNN columnist Josh Dorfman, Vine.com is a new, one-stop shopping … Continue reading
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Recycle ‘em if you got ‘em: TerraCycle launches cigarette waste collection program
From glue sticks to flip-flops, TerraCycle embraces hard-to-recycle waste with open arms. And with a new collection scheme, the company is taking on the country’s most pervasive type of litter: Cigarette butts. If you’re at all familiar with “waste solution … Continue reading
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Recycle ‘em if you got ‘em: TerraCycle launches cigarette waste collection program
From glue sticks to flip-flops, TerraCycle embraces hard-to-recycle waste with open arms. And with a new collection scheme, the company is taking on the country’s most pervasive type of litter: Cigarette butts. If you’re at all familiar with “waste solution … Continue reading
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Holiday Shopper’s Gift Guide 2012
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Tom Szaky at Social Venture Network
SVN was started by a few visionary “dough nuts” (rich hippies), who wanted to use their wealth to make revolutionary stuff happen. It has attracted a mix of successful social entrepreneurs over the years including Ben and Jerry and Virgin’s … Continue reading
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Banishing the ugly butts
Tom Szaky collects the most disgusting things. Yucky yogurt containers. Sticky candy wrappers. Old flip-flops. Now, he and his Trenton company, TerraCycle, are onto a new one: cigarette butts, the most common litter items on the planet. (And much, much … Continue reading
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Cigarette Butt Recycling, By Mail
Separate your recycling: glass with glass, and cigarette butts with cigarette butts. The little smoked ends of filters that clutter street corners and beaches will be “upcycled” into pellets by Terracycle, according to SF Weekly. The company specializes in hard-to-recycle … Continue reading
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Smokers, Take Heed: You Can Now Recycle Your Cigarette Butts
Forget about second-hand smoke; one company wants your second-hand cigarette butts. A new company has developed a method to get cigarette butts off San Francisco beaches and out of landfills by “upcycling” them into pellets, which will then be used … Continue reading
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Green Gifts from TerraCycle Review
We all want to be greener. The three R’s have become ingrained in our minds since we were little kids. I know I try to recycle and reuse what I can, when I can, but I fall short. Sometimes, I … Continue reading
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Get Those Butts Off the Beach
Earlier this fall—well before Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the New Jersey coast and changed the conversation about climate disruption and its consequences—the Sierra Club’s New Jersey Chapter and recycling pioneer TerraCycle teamed up to do a beach cleanup in … Continue reading
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Recycle ‘em if you got ‘em
They account for 38 percent of all roadside litter by count, according to one study, and they’re the most commonly picked up item during an annual coastal cleanup. Cigarette butts are truly nasty piece of trash, but a new program … Continue reading
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Volunteers bring animal joy
UW-Whitewater senior Samantha Robinson acts as a voice for animals who can’t speak on their own behalf. Robinson’s work at The Humane Society of Jefferson County has given abandoned animals much needed love and attention. Robinson, a Helping Hands student … Continue reading
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GREEN GIFTS FOR PARENTS
Oenophile parents will adore this corkboard made from actual recycled wine corks. It provides the perfect place to pin a shopping list or a photo of their favorite child – you!
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Holiday Gift Guide
The perfect bag is light, water resistant, and stain resistant and TerraCycle has it. The company has created toiletry cases, tote bags, and lunch sacksfrom recycling tent material. Each item is made from a different tent part, giving it a distinctive, custom design. The … Continue reading
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Upcycle that Christmas Gift this year with TerraCycle- Holiday Gift Guide
I am a big fan of recycling and Upcycling. Now many people do not even know what that term means, Upcycling. Basically it is like recycling, where you are saving something from the being thrown away and ending up in … Continue reading
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Beauty Brands with Recycling Programs
In honor of Recycle America, beauty product lines that recycle and have recycling programs America Recycles Day, November 15, is a day that is dedicated to promoting recycling across the country. In case you missed it, don’t fret. You can … Continue reading
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012- TerraCycle Review & Capri Sun Lunchbox Giveaway
There are tons of companies and individuals trying to capitalize on the recycling trend. Terracycle is taking that trend to another level. They are recycling waste products or upcycling to create new products while reducing the products that would normally … Continue reading
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Trenton-based Terracycle takes on cigarette waste
TRENTON — Trenton-based recycler Terracycle is making no butts about it, they’ve got big changes coming their way thanks to a new partnership with a cigarette manufacturer. The recycler announced last week that it has teamed up with Santa Fe … Continue reading
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5 Gifts for Eco-lovers
When shopping for the “green” friend or loved one, it’s important to remember their ultimate concern is reducing waste. However, that is no excuse to not buy a gift. Instead, give a high quality gift they are guaranteed to appreciate or, alternatively, a … Continue reading
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Meg Partridge: Co-Founder of Sustainable Fashion Initiative
This year, we’re focusing on that first step, of igniting student interest and shifting perspectives of fashion to reflect personal values. We’re really excited about upcoming and ongoing initiatives to do so, such as our successful “Stripe Swap” clothing swap, … Continue reading
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TerraCycle on Teen Kids News
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TerraCycle to recycle cigarette butts
SANTA FE, N.M. (Nov. 16, 11:50 a.m. ET) — Hold on to your butts … cigarette, that is. New Mexico-based Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., a subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc., the nation’s second-largest cigarette maker, and TerraCycle Inc. are … Continue reading
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Recycling Program For Cigarette Waste Launches
According to Keep America Beautiful (KAB), 65% of all cigarette butts are disposed of improperly. But thanks to another environmental breakthrough by TerraCycle, cigarette litter can now be recycled. With funding from Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. (SFNTC), TerraCycle is … Continue reading
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TerraCycle, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Launch Recycling Program for Cigarette Waste
TRENTON, N.J. – Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. (SFNTC) has teamed up with TerraCycle, a world leader in developing solutions for hard-to-recycle materials, to do something about cigarette butt litter. According to Keep America Beautiful (KAB), 65% of all cigarette … Continue reading
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TerraCycle: Upcycled and Recycled Unique Gifts and More
If you are looking for a great gift for your green-minded friends or family members, or even for someone who just loves unique and innovative items, look no further than TerraCycle! This worldwide leader of recycling and upcycling previously non-recyclable or … Continue reading
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My Take on Terracycle’s Cigarette Waste Brigade
I’m a big fan of Terracycle – if you haven’t yet heard about them, go check out their website. Recently they launched Cigarette Butt Collection & Recycling Programs in the US and Canada and I’ve seen some chatter as to … Continue reading
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Global VP of Trenton-based ‘upcycler’ to speak at campus
From unpaid intern to 27-year-old global vice president of media relations at TerraCycle, Inc., Albe Zakes will share his journey, which began as an inspired college kid looking to make a difference in the green industry, during his visit to … Continue reading
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TerraCycle wants your butts
TerraCycle Inc. has created the Cigarette Waste Brigade, asking people to send their butts so they can be recycled into pellets used to make items such as park benches, shipping pallets and railroad ties. Hold on to your butts … … Continue reading
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TerraCycle now accepts and upcycles cigarette butts
After a long two years of planning and tweaking, TerraCycle, the recognized leader in upcycling items that previously were considered non-recyclable, is now accepting used cigarette butts for its latest Brigade. This amazing project was the brainchild of TC’s founder … Continue reading
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Tobacco Company, Terracycle Team Up to Recycle Cigarette Butts
Cigarette butts are the most littered item in America and make up 38% of all trash on U.S. roadways, according to Keep America Beautiful. Annually, worldwide cigarette butt litter amounts to 1.69 billion pounds. TerraCycle Inc., a company devoted to … Continue reading
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Cigarette maker funds recycling
RICHMOND, Va. — A subsidiary of the nation’s second-largest cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is funding a national recycling program to reward do-gooders for cleaning up tobacco waste and turn cigarette butts into pellets used to make items such as … Continue reading
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Those cigarette butts? Reynolds wants to recycle
A subsidiary of the nation’s second-largest cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is funding a national recycling program to reward do-gooders for cleaning up tobacco waste and turn cigarette butts into pellets used to make items such as plastic shipping pallets, … Continue reading
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Reynolds subsidiary funding cigarette recycling
RICHMOND, Va. — A subsidiary of the nation’s second-largest cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is funding a national recycling program to reward do-gooders for cleaning up tobacco waste and turn cigarette butts into pellets used to make items such as … Continue reading
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Reynolds subsidiary funding cigarette recycling
RICHMOND — A subsidiary of the second-largest US cigarette maker, Reynolds American Inc., is funding a recycling program to reward do-gooders for cleaning up tobacco waste and then turn cigarette butts into pellets used to make shipping pallets, railroad ties, … Continue reading
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Reynolds funds cigarette recycling
A subsidiary of one of the nation’s largest cigarette makers is teaming up with a New Jersey company to reward do-gooders for cleaning up cigarette litter. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. is funding a national recycling program through TerraCycle Inc. … Continue reading
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Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Launches Butt Recycling Program
SANTA FE, N.M. — Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. (SFNTC) has teamed up with TerraCycle Inc., a developer of solutions for hard-to-recycle materials, to do something about cigarette butt litter. With funding from SFNTC, TerraCycle is launching a national program … Continue reading
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A tour of TerraCycle’s tastefully trash-strewn headquarters
TerraCycle is a company renowned for turning trash into treasure. Here’s an inside look at the graffiti-clad warehouse in Trenton, N.J. where much of the upcycling magic happens.
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Reynolds subsidiary funds cigarette litter recycling program
RICHMOND, Va. — A subsidiary of the nation’s second-largest cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is funding a national recycling program to reward do-gooders for cleaning up tobacco waste and turn cigarette butts into pellets used to make items such as … Continue reading
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From butts to benches: Reynolds American subsidiary funds cigarette litter recycling program
RICHMOND, Va. — A subsidiary of the nation’s second-largest cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is funding a national recycling program to reward do-gooders for cleaning up tobacco waste and turn cigarette butts into pellets used to make items such as … Continue reading
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Reynolds subsidiary funding cigarette recycling
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A subsidiary of the nation’s second-largest cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is funding a national recycling program to reward do-gooders for cleaning up tobacco waste and turn cigarette butts into pellets used to make items such … Continue reading
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Reynolds subsidiary funding cigarette recycling
RICHMOND, Va. – A subsidiary of the nation’s second-largest cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is funding a national recycling program to reward do-gooders for cleaning up tobacco waste and turn cigarette butts into pellets used to make items such as … Continue reading
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Reynolds subsidiary funding cigarette recycling
RICHMOND, Va. – A subsidiary of the nation’s second-largest cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is funding a national recycling program to reward do-gooders for cleaning up tobacco waste and turn cigarette butts into pellets used to make items such as … Continue reading
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Reynolds subsidiary funding cigarette recycling
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A subsidiary of the nation’s second-largest cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is funding a national recycling program to reward do-gooders for cleaning up tobacco waste and turn cigarette butts into pellets used to make items such … Continue reading
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Collect Scary Trash, Win for Class
Kure Beach, NC— After the jack-o-lanterns go dark and the last bits of candy eaten, a massive amount of trash remains to remind us of Halloween fun and excess. The N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher invites local students to put … Continue reading
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TerraCycle turns discarded USPS goods into cool, eco-friendly iPad cases
We all want to save the world. Nobody actively wants to destroy this green, beautiful orb we call planet Earth. Still, it’s not always easy to make the right, most eco-friendly choices as a consumer. Thankfully, some tech companies are … Continue reading
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Whatever Lola wants: Upcycled Old U.S. Postal Service Bags by TerraCycle
Waste not, and what not, I always say! And what better way to outsmart waste than with these upcycled bags made from decommissioned U.S. Postal Service mail sacks? TerraCycle is known for producing quirky accessories from material that would otherwise … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Upcycle Review
TerraCycle has made a name for itself by turning landfill-bound objects into one-of-a-kind accessories, and its newest line of bags is no different. Stitched together from decommissioned U.S. Postal Service cotton-canvas mail sacks, each upcycled pouch and tote features markings … Continue reading
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Henderson International Continues Recycling With Terracycle Program
Tara Lynn-Perez, math teacher at The Henderson International School, is focused on a lot of things. Multiplication tables, long division, fractions – the usual stuff. But what you might not know is Tara’s other passion: to “eliminate the idea of … Continue reading
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Terra Cycle – Outsmarting Waste – Product Review
TerraCycle is a great new way to recycle! You can send in your ‘trash’ things like chip and cookies wrappers, juice pouches and more to be turned into things like binders, pouches, and more. TerraCycle’s purpose is to eliminate the … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Brings Funds to Art Department
Over the years, Fallston High School has had a number of famous visitors such as President Ronald Reagan and Rudy Ruettiger, the Notre Dame Football player. This year we may be adding a new celebrity to the collection. Our new … Continue reading
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The TCU Environmental Club works with Terracycle
The university’s environmental club and Residence Hall Association partnered with Terracycle to bring a new recycling contest to campus. The competition, which started after fall break, allows students to turn in materials such as candy wrappers, chip bag … Continue reading
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5 Bizarre, Secret Green Habits
By Julie Hancher for Green Philly Blog via Living Green Magazine Although I have the beloved nicknames of “hippie,” “recycle nazi” and a few others, I tend to be proud with my green choices. But I still keep a few … Continue reading
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Environmental Club and Terracycle promote recycling on campus
The TCU Environmental Club works with Terracycle to help promote recycling The university’s environmental club and Residence Hall Association partnered with Terracycle to bring a new recycling contest to campus. The competition, which started after fall break, allows students to … Continue reading
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Turn students into recycling heroes this back-to-school season
With back-to-school season back again, now is a great time to instill a simple message your child will benefit from in the years to come: green is good. By implementing a few recycling tactics across your home and encouraging the … Continue reading
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Holiday Gift Guide: TerraCycle for Your Garden
I like to think of my self as a responsible consumer, I recycle what I can and compost when I remember but there is one company that takes recycling to the next level and reuses products I never would have … Continue reading
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Recycle With Terracycle 4th Grade Video
Creating Green Jobs In The USA TerraCycle Videos’s Channel Get 2 Cents For Your School Or Charity For Each Drink Pouch, Cookie Or Candy Wrapper, Etc. You Send To TerraCycle TerraCycle Pays All Shipping (all) Costs.
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Red Cup Cleanup gains momentum in Davis
Students will now have a way to keep their environmental consciences clear when throwing parties by recycling red cups through the Red Cup Cleanup campaign. The campaign, multilaterally coordinated by the Campus Center for the Environment (CCE), the Dining Services … Continue reading
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America Recycles Day at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
America Recycles Day, a program of Keep America Beautiful, is a nationally recognized day dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the United States. Every year on or around November 15 (America Recycles Day) events take place across the nation. … Continue reading
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AmigoNet Blogger Collects Highlighters
That’s right. Instead of throwing them away and adding that little bit to the landfill, give them to me. I’ll take them to work where they are collecting them. In turn, a company recycles them and donates 2 cents (for … Continue reading
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Reduce, reuse and recycle at Recycle Brevard’s toy swap
By Meagan McGone BREVARD – What is green, lots of fun and benefits needy children in Brevard? Recycle Brevard’s second annual “Recycling Fun: Toy Swap/Drop Off,” which will be held on Saturday, Nov. 10 at Viera Regional Park. Organized … Continue reading
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Terracycle: One man’s trash is another man’s cash
Have you ever thought what happens to your Snickers bar package after you finish eating it. Most probably it will end up in a bin and from there it´s a one way ticket to the trash yard, right? Well there … Continue reading
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What an Idea: Surfboard Bags from Billboards
A startup selling surfboard bags created from old billboards is perhaps the latest social enterprise to use recycled material in products. Called Rareform, the Ventura County, Cal., company was founded recently by Alec Avedissian and two fellow surfers, Ryan Judy … Continue reading
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Dating in the Office: Ten Do’s and Don’ts
From flirtations in the copy room to after-work drinks that lead to a walk down the aisle, office romances can be an exciting, if risky, proposition. Some bosses say they’re not worth pursuing at all. “It’s always better, if you … Continue reading
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Woodlawn Elementary PTO hosts flip-flop swap
Woodlawn Elementary PTO has partnered with Old Navy and recycling pioneer TerraCycle to host a flip-flop swap for the chance to win $1,000 and to keep flip-flops out of Boyle County-area landfills. Residents who drop off old, mismatched or broken … Continue reading
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UpCycled Mail Sack Tote Giveaway
Welcome to the It’s in the Bag Giveaway Hop hosted by Life With Two Boys and With Our Best! This is a “what’s in your purse?” themed giveaway hop and will feature a variety of products that women find in their purse. Here at How Was … Continue reading
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New Cigarette Recycling at TerraCycle
TerraCycle mentioned by KWSB for new cigarette recycling program.
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What businesses want from the next president
‘We need to hear more serious ideas’ The expert: Tom Szaky The company: Founder, TerraCycle “Mitt Romney, as an entrepreneur who has built a growing business over the past 10 years, I am increasingly annoyed by your comments that you … Continue reading
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On Volunteering Negative Information When Selling
Now that TerraCycle is almost a decade old and operating in 22 countries, I have realized how much sales styles differ throughout the world, especially in Europe. While the American style of sales is typically gung ho – energetic and … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Gift Bags
What do you think of this week’s spotlight crafts? Do you have a favorite? Pieces Together Plaque Craft – Kelly explains how to make a unique gift using crafts sticks and puzzle pieces. M & M Candy Wrapper Gift Bag … Continue reading
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It’s A Wrap: TerraCycle and Mars Co-Produce Plan to Stop Flow of Candy Packaging Into Landfills
Some of us are feeling a tad guilty about eating the kids’ Halloween treats. Well, here’s a way to atone — we can recycle all those candy wrappers through an ongoing partnership between Mars candy and the eco-friendly company TerraCycle. … Continue reading
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How Entrepreneurship Can Save Our Planet
Keynote Speaker: Tom Szaky Tom Szaky, 29, is the Founder and CEO of Terracycle, Inc., one of the world’s foremost leaders in eco-capitalism and upcycling. He is the founder of the world’s very first product made from and packaged in … Continue reading
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LEARN in Environment, Recycling and Waste
Continue to link Now there is a way to recycle cigarette butts in the U.S. Put them in package with a sealable plastic bag, or garbage bag (making sure they are fully extinguished), download a prepaid shipping label from the … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Launches Cigarette Butt Recycling Program
Now there is a way to recycle cigarette butts in the U.S. Put them in package with a sealable plastic bag, or garbage bag (making sure they are fully extinguished), download a prepaid shipping label from the link above, and … Continue reading
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Group recycles 100K cigarette butts
SAN DIEGO – A San Diego based organization that started a cigarette butt redemption program last year is about to embark on another innovative idea. Ripple Life will be the first group to send in cigarette butts to be recycled … Continue reading
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Denver collects leftover candy
LiveWell Colorado suggests you not eat every single Snickers bar your kids brought home Wednesday night. Instead, they suggest you drop off leftovers at Bellco Credit Union, and in exchange you’ll get some healthier snack options and a chance at … Continue reading
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Reduce, reuse and recycle at Recycle Brevard’s toy swap
BREVARD – What is green, lots of fun and benefits needy children in Brevard? Recycle Brevard’s second annual “Recycling Fun: Toy Swap/Drop Off,” which will be held on Saturday, Nov. 10 at Viera Regional Park. Organized in honor of America … Continue reading
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Columbus students reduce, reuse, recycle
By Starla Pointer Of the News-Register Instead of tossing empty juice pouches and granola bar wrappers into the trash, Columbus Elementary School students are recycling them by sending them to a company that uses them to make new products. The … Continue reading
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Food processors good for the environment
By Kate Bertrand Connolly, Packaging Editor | 11/02/2012 Using less packaging can be good for the environment, but it can also deliver business benefits by reducing packaging costs. No processor understands these dual advantages better than family-owned MOM Brands, Minneapolis. … Continue reading
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Gifts for Anyone: Eco-Friendly TerraCycle Gifts
This holiday season, give an awesome, unique gift that helps the planet with one of the many cool upcycled items from TerraCycle. From backpacks made out of your kids used juice pouches to speakers crafted from M&M packages, you’ll find … Continue reading
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How To: Recycle Beauty Products
It takes a lot of work to look our best, and especially a lot of products: Conditioner, bronzer, mascara and moisturizer, among others. With class presentations, sorority functions, date nights, formals and girls-night-outs, these products create a ton of waste … Continue reading
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NC aquarium promotes candy wrapper recycling campaign
FORT FISHER, N.C. — Bags full of candy on Halloween typically means trash bags full of wrappers the day after, but the NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher is trying to help cut down on the waste. Local The aquarium is … Continue reading
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Halloween candy swap
LiveWell Colorado is sponsoring a Candy Swap in Denver and Lone Tree, Colo. in the days following Halloween this year. On Friday, Nov. 2, take your candy bowl downtown between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to exchange it for a … Continue reading
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Roberts School recycles drink pouches, raises money for PTO
Students and teachers at a Syracuse school have found a way to turn trash into cash. Roberts K-8 School, at 715 Glenwood Ave., is participating in a recycling effort through the New Jersey firm TerraCycle Brigade Program, which gives … Continue reading
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Mars Upcycling with TerraCycle
Terracycle will be partnering with Mars, Inc. to upcycle candy wrappers into consumer products such as laptop sleeves. A Sweet Alternative Eco-conscious folks have thought of creative ways to repurpose candy wrappers. A quick search on the Internet for items … Continue reading
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Albe Zakes on his journey into TerraCycle
waste combater. difference maker. minute exerciser. Albe Zakes wanted to work for TerraCycle (a pioneer in innovative upcycling and recycling systems) so badly he took an unpaid internship. He’s now TerraCycle’s VP of Media Relations. [www.terracycle.com] I’ve always worked for … Continue reading
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Turn your Halloween candy wrappers into money
Halloween is here, bringing lots of tricks and treats. Each of those tasty treats come nicely wrapped in what will soon become trash. However, there may be a better place for all of those wrappers besides the garbage. TerraCycle is … Continue reading
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Go green this Halloween with recycling initiative
Helen Schuler Nature Centre has joined the TerraCycle Halloween Clean-up Brigade, sponsored by Nestle Canada, to create a second life for the millions of Halloween chocolate wrappers that are discarded every year. Until Dec. 31, save the wrappers from your … Continue reading
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How to Make a Gift Bag Using Candy Wrappers
Follow these instructions, provided by TerraCycle, and learn how easy it is to recycle your empty candy wrappers into a fun gift bag. You can save either the JPG version or PDF version of this project sheet. Right click on your … Continue reading
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Turn Halloween candy wrappers into cash for schools and more
TerraCycle’s Candy Wrapper Brigade collects empty candy wrappers, donates money or charitable gifts to the organizations that send them in, and turns the waste into new items. And … we made it through Hurricane Sandy. My family and I were … Continue reading
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Happy Green Holidays with TerraCycle
“Who put this recyclable item in the garbage???” My kids have gotten used to me asking this question as I’ve become more environmentally conscious over the years. I knew the habit had become deeply ingrained when I attended a church … Continue reading
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Recycle Candy Wrappers
Remember to recycle your candy wrappers to TerraCycle. Collect them at home or work in a bag or plastic container then bring them to the Waverly Recycling Center TerraCycle drop-off site. This is a fundraiser for the Waverly-Shell Rock schools. … Continue reading
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Green efforts spread throughout Highlands Middle School
Dana Krueger, a special education teacher at Northview’s Highlands Middle School leads a Green Team at the school, dedicated to mammoth recycling efforts. The recycling efforts have garnered awards for the school and money from a recycling company. Through the … Continue reading
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A review of TerraCycle’s recycled products
Do you like to keep the earth clean by recycling? I’m always finding ways to recycle. I’ve even got my daughter, who is only three, recycling. When someone tries to throw away a can or plastic bottle she will pull … Continue reading
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Give TerraCycle products as gifts this year and help outsmart waste!
A few weeks ago I was sent a set of M&M Eco Speakers from TerraCycle to try. I have to say, I am pretty impressed with the quality of sound these tiny little speakers can project. The best part, they … Continue reading
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Review: Terracycle Binder and Pencil Case
I have been in love with Terracycle items for a LONG time now. They have been “in the works” since 2001, but major sales began in 2004, with items being sold at The Home Depot and WalMart in Canada. They … Continue reading
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Eco-friendly Halloween Tips
Halloween is the second largest consumer driven holiday of the year, yet the scariest component of the holiday is the bite it takes out of the environment. Currently, the candy market consumes nearly as many resources as the meat industry, due … Continue reading
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Four ways smart companies make greener products
With consumers complaining about excessive waste in the packaging of products they buy, companies are being forced to pay attention to the issue. The paths they might take are illuminated by Deloitte in a downloadable paper on its website. The paper highlights … Continue reading
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Solmonese playground equipment being replaced
Norton — Through fundraising the Solmonese Parent Organization (SPO), of the J.C. Solmonese Elementary School, has been able to fill budget gaps and provide the school with necessary support over the years. Annually the group raises approximately $15,000 it puts … Continue reading
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Exchanging Waste for Awesome Gifts with TerraCycle #NGgiftguide
What if you could reduce waste and get some awesome gifts at the same time? No seriously. What if you could give someone garbage and they create the coolest gifts for those special people in your life? I’m for real! … Continue reading
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Solmonese playground equipment being replaced
Norton — Through fundraising the Solmonese Parent Organization (SPO), of the J.C. Solmonese Elementary School, has been able to fill budget gaps and provide the school with necessary support over the years. Annually the group raises approximately $15,000 it … Continue reading
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Washing trash for TerraCycle
My husband looked over at me the other day and said, “Two years ago if you’d told me I’d be washing trash, I would have called you crazy.” Ah, but look at the crazies now. I discovered TerraCycle while writing this blog. When I … Continue reading
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Fox Valley woman helps school cafeterias embrace recycling
While eating lunch with her children, Tracy Romzek was shocked to see how much of the meal was thrown out. Not just the food, but the other things that could be recycled, such as milk cartons. “I had lunch with … Continue reading
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Top 15 Most Fabulous and Green Products of 2012
This is about the time your favorite retailers – and loved ones – start dropping hints about shopping for the holidays so I figured I’d enter the fray with my list of The Top 15 Most Fabulous and Green Products … Continue reading
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A tour of TerraCycle’s tastefully trash-strewn headquarters
TerraCycle is a company renowned for turning trash into treasure. Here’s an inside look at the graffiti-clad warehouse in Trenton, N.J. where much of the upcycling magic happens.Late last week, I had the pleasure of touring the Trenton, N.J. offices … Continue reading
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TerraCycle PR Wins Awards!
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Eco-Friendly Storage; TerraCycle’s storage bin
For an eco-friendly storage option, reused vintage trunks are just what the doctor ordered, serving as a kitschy end table or coffee table while also providing you more space to put stuff. Yard sales and Craigslist are great places to … Continue reading
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Seven Tricks to a Green Halloween #3
3. Give candy wrappers a second life. If you simply must eat the candy Halloween brings—admittedly, most of us do—try something unique with those Snickers wrappers. For the craft-minded, take on a project like this colorful pouch or these cute … Continue reading
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Tom named among top 100 entrepreneurs who are using their “Aha Moment” to create jobs.
My “aha” moment was seeing so much waste in the dorms and cafeterias during college. The food and packaging discarded struck me as an environmental scourge, but also wasted opportunity. I realized making products from garbage would create a business … Continue reading
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Sustainability Week At Mount Holyoke, Brought to You by the Eco Reps!
In honor of National Campus Sustainability Day on October 24, Mount Holyoke is starting a new tradition, Sustainability Week! This year, students, faculty, and staff have come together to celebrate with several special events going on from October 20-27. I’ve … Continue reading
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The Environmental Club’s TerraCycle Brigade
This September, Stuyvesant’s Environmental Club began to take part in the Brigade programs of TerraCycle, an organization that engages consumers in the collection of recycled packaging and products. With each collected item, TerraCycle offers points that can later be redeemed … Continue reading
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Professional organizer offer organizing class
Just in time to get things under control before the holidays, Emmet County Recycling and Crystal Clear Organizing are offering an organizing class. The class, titled “Organize and Recycle,” is part of an initiative by the Michigan chapter of the … Continue reading
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Entrepreneur Risks
The entrepreneur: Tom Szaky The company: Founder, TerraCycle “What happens in the world that is outside of our control. Europe has been hammered by austerity, China may be slowing slowing down (we don’t really know), Japan is now into its … Continue reading
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Students recycle, ‘upcycle’ trash at UMF
FARMINGTON — Gloved hands sifted swiftly through bags of trash Wednesday, finding paper, disposable cups, foil-lined granola-bar wrappers and uneaten food that could have been recycled. For the fifth year, members of the Sustainable Campus Coalition at the University … Continue reading
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TerraCycle on Starting a Green Business
30-year-old social entrepreneur says movement’s time has come Friday November 19, 2012 — Kristian Partington Being true to a core strength is the biggest lesson entrepreneur Tom Szaky has learned in his business life and that’s the advice he offers … Continue reading
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“Get your Eco Answers Right Here” :
TerraCycle is very excited to be working with one of its largest and longest-standing partners, Malt-O-Meal Cereals. Malt-O-Meal is a company that has reduced its packaging by 75% through its Bag the Box campaign. Bag the Box, a concept that … Continue reading
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Handmade and DIY fire starter alternatives
A happier, healthier hearth: Handmade and DIY fire starter alternatives Avoiding chemical starter logs and gels but not in the mood to go out and gather pine needles? As fireplace season approaches, consider these fume-free fire starters as well as … Continue reading
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UMF’s recycling effort expands, local charities benefit
FARMINGTON – The scene on the green today at the University of Maine at Farmington was all about finding things that were thrown away that should have been recycled. The annual event was expanded further this year to include a … Continue reading
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District Candidate, Dan Hale, TerraCycle participant
Hale takes on Craig for Owen school board seat Four seats on the Buncombe County Board of Education are on the ballot this year, and county voters will be able to cast ballots for each of the four races, regardless … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Eco-Friendly Solutions
I’m super excited about the products I’ve been using from TerraCycle. I try really hard to be ‘green’ and sometimes it’s just not easy. It can be hard to think of alternative ways to do some things. TerraCycle offers wonderful … Continue reading
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The Cycle Of Life with TerraCycle
Turning poop into gold may sound like extreme alchemy gone wild, but it’s something that Toronto-born entrepreneur Tom Szaky has been doing literally since his undergrad days back at Princeton University, where he made much more than a few dimes … Continue reading
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OLD NAVY AND TERRACYCLE FLIP FLOP BRIGADE
Old Navy and Terracycle have partnered up to create the Flip Flop Brigade where every time you send your old used flip-flops into TerraCycle, you can get new flip flops and at the same time help out Mother Nature by diverting … Continue reading
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Old Navy and Terracycle Flip Flop Brigade
Old Navy and Terracycle have partnered up to create the Flip Flop Brigade where every time you send your old used flip-flops into TerraCycle, you can get new flip flops and at the same time help out Mother Nature by diverting … Continue reading
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Eco Etiquette: 16 Great Gifts for the Green Host or Hostess
15. Sweet speakers. A must-give gift for the iPod generation: A set of TerraCycle portable speakers made from upcycled M&M wrappers.
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TerraCycle Upcycled Products Review
TerraCycle is a company known for recycling and upcycling non-recyclable items that was founded in 2001. Their products can be found anywhere from Walmart to Uncommon Goods, a web site where you can purchase upcycled items made from old repurposed … Continue reading
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Grid Philly Tweets and Facebooks about TerraCycle
Grid Magazine ?@gridphilly Join @TerraCycle & @TomsofMaine in keeping their products out of landfills, & win $1000 for a school or nonprofit http://ow.ly/emP0f Facebook Post: Help TerraCycle and Toms of Maine keeping products of out landfills, and win $1000 for … Continue reading
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Brandywine campus promotes social responsiblity
Inspired by TOMS, Brandywine campus promotes social responsiblity Friday, October 12, 2012 What do shoes have to do with social responsibility? Penn State Brandywine is about to find out. On Oct. 25, the campus is asking Penn Staters to help … Continue reading
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Fall Fashionista Giveaway Event – Ends 10/17
The next item in this prize was sponsored by TerraCycle. I am completely smitten with this company, and oogle over their items anytime I see them. Here at Freetail Therapy, we are eco-friendly, and today’s consumers are searching for more … Continue reading
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Free Blogger Opp: Terracycle Upcycled iPad Case Giveaway, 10/12-10/26
I have a ton of great companies sponsoring giveaways for my holiday gift guide this year. One of them is Terracycle. They are giving away an upcycled iPad case ($55 value) to one lucky winner. This giveaway will run from … Continue reading
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I Didn’t Know You Could Recycle THAT
We all know that Earth Day comes in April. But since 1997, November 15 plays host to America Recycles Day (ARD)– a new day to stop and evaluate our environmental commitment, with help from the National Recycling Coalition (NRC) and … Continue reading
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‘Tithing with Trash’ cuts waste, turns hard-to-recycle rubbish into riches
[Episcopal News Service] Georgia Army National Guard Capt. Andrew Lane is a man on a mission. If it’s recyclable, “Captain PLaneT” aims to keep it out of the local landfill – and earn cash for his parish while he’s at … Continue reading
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Portland Pirates Winning Off the Ice, Building Community with Friday ‘Sustain Maine’ Series
ortland, Maine – After a brief September hiatus, organizers embraced a bigger goal for the weekly Frugal Fridays series and renamed it “Sustain Maine”. The Sustain Maine series is designed to raise awareness of local sustainability and community initiatives, and … Continue reading
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Upcycle your Halloween costume
The scary part about Halloween, for the environment, is all of the candy wrappers that end up in landfills when the trick-or-treating is over. TerraCycle , an organization that upcycles wrappers from all sorts of products, has a solution for … Continue reading
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Schools earn green buck$ by recycling
Hayhurst Elementary in Southwest Portland has gone from using seven 30-gallon bags of waste each lunch period to just half a bag. What’s the school’s secret? Hayhurst PTA sustainability chairwoman Kendall KIC, (who legally changed her name to all … Continue reading
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Think Outside the (Cereal) Box
We came across a staggering piece of information recently: nearly half of the containers and packaging that ends up in landfills can be recycled. Half. That’s a lot of every-day items in homes across America that can be re-used. Our … Continue reading
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My 6 Biggest Complaints About Business Travel
Although TerraCycle still has less than $20 million a year in annual revenue, it operates in 21 countries now. That means that my intense domestic travel — Minneapolis to Racine, Wisconsin, to Chicago — has morphed into intense global travel … Continue reading
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Alternatives to school fundraisers
Lots of Items Formerly Known As Trash can be recycled into new, slightly questionable items with TerraCycle. I’m not sure anyone needs a Capri Sun tree skirt, but they pay cash directly to the school for candy bar wrappers, drink … Continue reading
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Think Outside the (Cereal) Box
We came across a staggering piece of information recently: nearly half of the containers and packaging that ends up in landfills can be recycled. Half. That’s a lot of every-day items in homes across America that can be re-used. Our … Continue reading
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The Tom’s of Maine Natural Care Brigade
Tom’s of Maine is partnering with recycling and upcycling firm TerraCycle on the Tom’s of Maine Natural Care Brigade, a free collection program that enables consumers to keep packaging from all Tom’s of Maine products— and other brands—out of landfills. … Continue reading
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CPA collects candy wrappers to stop hunger
By Kelsey Tamborrino Collegian Staff Writer Candy bars, of all things, could help stop hunger through Feeding America and the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State this 2012-13 play season. The CPA is involved in a program called … Continue reading
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Cleaning Up the Beaches of Massachusetts
Beaches, Butts and Straws Last weekend brought beautiful weather to Massachusetts. It was warm with just a hint of fall peeking through. I love these days! Best of all, I was able to spend Sunday afternoon with my daughter and … Continue reading
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Branchburg Woman’s Club aiding the TerraCycle Paired Shoe Project
On Saturday, Oct. 13, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Branchburg Woman’s Club will host an indoor craft show and bake sale at Branchburg Central Middle School, 220 Baird Road, across from White Oak Park. The craft show features … Continue reading
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Concord Elementary Working with TerraCycle
Concord Elementary School students continued eco-friendly project over summer Students at Concord Elementary School, an Oregon Green School, recycled 13,000 wrappers, ink cartridges, cell phones and juice pouches this summer. The work was part of the TerraCycle program, which takes … Continue reading
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Tom’s of Maine launches collection program for recycling
Under new “brigade,” Tom’s will accept a range of personal care product packaging, regardless of brand. New initiative launches with a sweepstakes competition. Tom’s of Maine, a provider of natural oral and personal care products, has partnered with recycler/upcycler TerraCycle … Continue reading
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TerraCycle part of the guide to charitable shopping
Protect our Earth with these ultra hip school supplies from TerraCycle – all of which are made from upcycled materials. Each product, from backpacks to pencil cases to notebooks, is upcycled from common trash items you might find in any … Continue reading
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Small Business Success Story: TerraCycle
George Bernard Shaw said, “Youth is wasted on the young.” If you met Tom Szaky you might disagree. At fourteen, Tom was making a five-figure salary as a web designer. By age twenty, Tom dropped out of Princeton to start … Continue reading
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Donate Office Supplies
We seem to have a lot of things at our house that we aren’t really using anymore. Lots of old video games, sports equipment, just stuff. Probably because we moved six years ago and I never unpacked some things – … Continue reading
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Tom Szaky on why not all packaging deserves a bad wrap
Consider the following sayings: “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” “Good things come in small packages,” “Think outside the box” — what’s the common thread? Disregard the packaging! Okay, perhaps I’m being a bit too reductive, but it still … Continue reading
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Turning Trash into Treasure with TerraCycle
I think most people are at least aware of the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling as much as possible, even if they don’t do it. I think the problem for a lot of people is that sometimes they don’t … Continue reading
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Porter’s Partners with TerraCycle
Porter’s is pleased to continue its partnership with TerraCycle, a company that collects and upcycles trash into new products. As a TerraCycle partner school, Porter’s collects specified trash items, such as energy bar wrappers, chip bags, and juice pouches, to … Continue reading
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YWCA Green Team thanks partners for recycling efforts
LOWELL — The YWCA Green Team started without a name. As a small group of committed youth and staff volunteers, they piloted recycling efforts at the 2000 Lowell Folk Festival. Today, 12 years later, the group is about to surmount … Continue reading
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Reduce Waste and Upcycle with TerraCycle
While writing a previous article on green dental care, I found out about a great company called TerraCycle, which offers a program to accept “non-recyclable or hard to recycle waste,” such as toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes. After looking at the … Continue reading
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Another Successful Terracycle Shipment for PSU Campus!
Another Successful Terracycle shipment from the HUB! This shipment tacked up another 4670 points in Terracycle points. There were 316 Candy wrappers, 1208 Chip bags, 1420 Energy bar wrappers and 101 yogurt cups mailed! This was just the summer collection. … Continue reading
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Tom Szaky Talks About Issues with Company Retreats
Aside from eating rabbit, I think there’s only one thing I’m allergic to: company retreats. Even in elementary school, I found the idea of team-building games — from trust falls to three-legged races — nauseating. But in a professional environment … Continue reading
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Gross-out green week – Day four: Cigarette butt recycling
One of the most pervasive types of litter is cigarette butts. And contrary to popular belief, they are not biodegradable. Most cigarette filters are composed of cellulose acetate, a synthetic plastic-like substance used commonly for photographic film. Thousands of cigarette butts … Continue reading
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Tonda Elementary School Collecting for TerraCycle
Hi Tonda Families! It’s that time again… Terracycle Time! For those who are new to our school, let me explain. Terracycle is a recycling company that will “reward” us for recycling. We belong to 3 different “brigades”… Drink Pouches, Candy … Continue reading
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Major Chinese News Site Runs Tom Szaky’s Interview
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CPA candy wrapper collection to help feed Americans
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State wants to collect 5,000 candy wrappers during the 2012-13 season to benefit the charity Feeding America. Through a TerraCycle program called the Candy Wrapper Brigade, which awards … Continue reading
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Kraft Foods’ third-party alliances key to sustainability strategy
Well, a great example is our work with TerraCycle. They have consumers send them non-recyclable packaging and then reward consumers for sending it back rather than putting it in the trash. They have a great, unique business model. TerraCycle had … Continue reading
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Albe Zakes | Global VP, Media Relations, TerraCycle, Inc.
Albe Zakes is the 27 year-old Global VP, Media Relations at TerraCycle, Inc., the world’s leading ‘upcycling’ company, which converts difficult-to-recycle waste materials into eco-friendly, affordable products available at major retailers worldwide. TerraCycle partners with major CPG companies like Kraft … Continue reading
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Old Navy Flip Flop Brigade: Earn FREE Flip Flops Plus Coupons
With the official first day of Fall just a few days away it’s time to pack up those summer clothes and shoes, especially the flip flops! Instead of just throwing them away in the trash consider the Old Navy endorsed Flip-Flop Brigade. … Continue reading
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Flip-Flop Brigade: Recycle Your Old Flip-Flops and Earn a FREE Pair & Old Navy Coupons
Now that Summer has ended….and we are putting up the Summer clothing and shoes and breaking out our Fall and Winter items….it is a great opportunity to get rid of your old, worn-out flip flops. Instead of just tossing those … Continue reading
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Pens are new addition to list of things we recycle
Here at UC Davis we recycle bottles and cans, cardboard and Styrofoam, CDs and DVDs, fluorescent bulbs and sticky notes, toner and inkjet cartridges, batteries and electronics, and even wine corks. And paper, of course. But what about our … Continue reading
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Hudsonville Christian School Collecting TerraCycle Waste Streams
Hudsonville Christian School released the detailed list of waste to be sent to TerraCycle.
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Tom’s of Maine Partners with TerraCycle to Launch New Recycling Initiative
Tom’s of Maine has partnered with TerraCycle to launch a recycling initiative to give a second life to product packaging with the launch of the Tom’s of Maine Natural Care Brigade. Tom’s of Maine is a leader in natural oral and … Continue reading
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Capri Sun Recycling
Kindergarten will be collecting empty Capri Sun pouches and recycling through TerraCycle. To help, please send in empty Capri Sun pouches with straws removed. We will collect in our rooms and in the lunchroom throughout the year. Proceeds will benefit Beartooth Elementary School students. Thanks … Continue reading
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TerraCycle adds more classroom supplies to its upcycling list
When the glue sticks lose their sticky, the markers dry up and the tape is tapped out, we usually throw them out. In the course of the school year, that can add up to a lot of classroom waste. But … Continue reading
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TerraCycle – Upcycle Your Candy Wrappers and Flip Flops
What can you do with candy wrappers, worn out flip flops, or the box from your toothpaste? You can upcycle it! TerraCycle’s goal is to eliminate the idea of waste by creating national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle … Continue reading
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Recycling Mystery: Deodorant Tubes
We all use deodorant to avoid a stinky situation, but all those tubes can present a disposal dilemma. What exactly are deodorant tubes made from? Can I recycle them? And what local options do I have? Earth911 gets to the … Continue reading
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Recycling Can Benefit Schools, Charities
Students today know the importance of recycling, reusing and repurposing at home, but are they getting the opportunity to put the lesson into practice at school? A company called TerraCycle helps schools implement what they teach while also earning money for the … Continue reading
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Corpus Christi Joining TerraCycle Programs
Students today know the importance of recycling, reusing and repurposing at home, but are they getting the opportunity to put the lesson into practice at school? A company called TerraCycle helps schools implement what they teach while also earning money … Continue reading
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WAKOOS Nursery on a Mission to Reduce Landfill Waste
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Going Green Paying Off at Hillsborough High
With Hillsborough High School having received more than $2,000 worth of benefits from participating in TerraCycle programs since 2010, technology teacher Tim Zavacki has some big plans for this upcoming school year. TerraCycle is an “upcycle” company that makes consumer products from pre- … Continue reading
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Terracycle Upcycle Tent Dopp Kit Review
Looking for a gift for the traveling guy or gal that has everything? Search no further than Terracycle’s Upcycled Tent Dopp kit. Christmas may be a ways off, but keep Terracycle in mind during the holiday season or when searching for a … Continue reading
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Terracycle turns trash into cash!
Place your granola bar, energy bar, chip, cookie, candy wrappers and juice punches (not juice boxes) in the terracycle collection boxes at school and Terracycle will donate 2 cents per wrapper. They upcycle all the wrappers into backpacks, lunch boxes … Continue reading
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Leader in Natural Personal Care Products Launches New Recycling Program
Only recently, Tom’s of Maine, a company that specializes in manufacturing and supplying markets with natural-ingredients-only personal care products, decided to team up with TerraCycle, a company whose business agenda revolves around turning waste into affordable environmentally-friendly products. This partnership … Continue reading
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Chatter
Upcycling and recycling pioneer TerraCycle of Trenton, N.J., runs free collection programs for glue bottles, pens and markers, Scotch Tape, keyboards and computer mice, among other things. Any parent, teacher or other interested party can sign up for free at TerraCycle.com. For each … Continue reading
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Solo Cup Company Review & Giveaway
Summer is coming to a close this weekend with Labor Day. For my family, we have one final summer party as we kick football season into full swing. Granted we just love spending time with family and great friends. To … Continue reading
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Tom’s of Maine, TerraCycle Launch Brand-Blind Recycling
Tom’s of Maine has partnered with recycling company TerraCycle to keep product packaging out of landfills. The free recycling program, called the Tom’s of Maine Natural Care Brigade, accepts toothpaste tubes and caps, mouthwash bottles and caps, deodorant/antiperspirant containers, plastic soap … Continue reading
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TOM’S OF MAINE FORGES NEW RECYCLING COLLABORATION
A new collaboration between Kennebunk-based Tom’s of Maine and the recycling venture TerraCycle asks customers to squeeze even more out of each tube of toothpaste. In a press release from the company, packaging from Tom’s line of personal care products can be … Continue reading
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Recycling Mystery: Toothbrushes & Toothpaste Tubes
Oral care products, such as toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes, can seem nearly impossible to recycle. After all, how would a recycler remove all of that extra toothpaste from the tube or dissasemble a toothbrush for recycling? Let’s take a closer … Continue reading
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Where Can I (Wednesday)… Recycle Used Flip Flops & Shoes?
Last week I was on my way into the Phillies game… and RIGHT before they searched my bag, I blew out my flip flop… just like Jimmy Buffet once did. After mourning my beloved Havvies (and darting to the Clubhouse store to purchase a … Continue reading
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Lunchables Lunch Combinations And Tori Spelling Invite America To Help Fuel Kid Fun
New Campaign Pledges Up to $100,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs of America MADISON, Wis., Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The Lunchables Lunch Combinations team is challenging America to help all kids have the opportunity to “Never Be Bored Again.” Today, the brand … Continue reading
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Schools across the area are going green
Students send their used supplies to TerraCycle, Inc. instead of to landfills. TerraCycle uses the items to create trash cans, watering cans, park benches, playgrounds, and other products that are sold at stores like Walmart and Whole Foods Market. In … Continue reading
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Turning Waste into WOW – Tom Szaky of Terracycle Explains How
While most of his peers were at the library, or the bar, college freshmen Tom Szaky was busy launching a business out of his dorm room. For his first product he turned worm-poop into fertilizer as a way to transform … Continue reading
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That’s not Trash!
Something has been eating at me lately. Every time that I go to a sporting event, a school function or an event at work, I am disappointed to see how many water bottles and soda cans end up in the … Continue reading
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Green Gardening
1 CowPots: One cow can produce about 120 pounds of manure a day, creating a huge carbon footprint. But clever Connecticut farmers found a great solution for recycling great amounts of waste: making plant pots. No, they’re not stinky, but … Continue reading
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Back “Pack” To School With Green Supplies {Giveaway Winner Announced}
Giveaway ends on August 22nd at 11:59 PM. Open to US residents only. Ages 18+. Please use the rafflecopter form below to enter to win, daily entry available by tweeting! 1 TerraCycle 3-ring Binder Pencil Case - Honest Kids- $2.50 each
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9 Eco-Friendly Back to School Essentials for Kids
After a sensational summer, heading back to school may seem like a drag to some kids. Or perhaps your little one is excited to experience the monumental milestone of her first day of school this fall! You can help your … Continue reading
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Did You Know Terracycle
Back to school, means back to packing a lunch for lots of families around the Tennessee Valley. It also means lots of Capri Sun, granola bar, and chip bag wrappers that can’t be recycled. Oops, uh, check that last statement. ” … Continue reading
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Stylebook: Recycle those old flip-flops
Kids are heading back to school. The amount of daylight is diminishing each evening. Labor Day barbecues are creeping closer — the (unofficial) end of summer must be near. Rather than tossing tired flip-flops in a couple of weeks, … Continue reading
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It’s Not Too Soon to Think About Crowdfunding
I have taken a real interest in equity crowdfunding and its potential impact on social entrepreneurs. One reason: I would have loved to have been able to take advantage of it when I was doing my initial financing of TerraCycle. … Continue reading
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More gear we love to eat (with)
We already had all the big essentials (tents, sleeping bags) for our recent canoe camping trip, but we had some new gadgets and food that turned out to be fun additions. Food: GoGo squeeZ Apple: One of the things I consistently miss … Continue reading
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Recycling company tests chip bag
You know those crinkly snack bags? The ones made of foil or other materials that aren’t easily recyclable? Now someone wants them. Tom Szaky and Trenton, N.J.-based TerraCycle have made a successful business out of taking things no one else … Continue reading
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Old Navy: Free Coupons for Recycled Flip Flops #TerraCycle
Recycle your old flip flops and you can earn several great Old Navy Coupons, courtesy of TerraCycle. For each 25 reycleable pairs donated, you’ll get an Old Navy Coupon worth a FREE new pair of flip flops plus a coupon savings of $10 off … Continue reading
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Eco-Conscious Back-to-School Shopping
It’s time for back-to-school shopping, and you may find yourself feeling frustrated by the lack of green choices offered at your local big box stores. Fret not, oh eco-conscious ones–school supplies for kids don’t have to be harmful to the environment. Our back to school supply list includes … Continue reading
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Back to School with TerraCycle Supplies Giveaway
Have you heard of TerraCycle before? They upcycle and products that you wouldn’t normally think about recycling. Bags of chips, juice boxes, candy, etc. It’s up to YOU to help them out! Sign up to help collect or drop off … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Recycled Products Review
Have you seen TerraCycle products? I had heard about the company and had even sent drink pouches in for recycling through a co-op we were in a few years ago, but I hadn’t seen the products. I was excited to … Continue reading
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Happy Flip Flop Friday!
Happy Flip Flop Friday! It looks like my favorite budget friendly store Old Navy has joined forces withTerracycle to help us all recycle our old flip flops. What a great idea. Every time you send your old flip-flops to TerraCycle, you’ve done a green … Continue reading
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Earn FREE Old Navy Flip-Flops + Coupons for Recycling
TerraCycle is a recycling and upcycling company that collects traditionally non-recyclable waste and uses it to make new, affordable products. Through a partnership with Old Navy, you can do the right thing for the environment and send your old flip flops … Continue reading
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Flip Flop Recycling
Old Navy has teamed up with TerraCycle to collect old flip flops for recycling and wants your help. Collect 25 pairs from friends, neighbors, coworkers or school mates and mail them in (postage is free) and you’ll get a coupon … Continue reading
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Personalizing Your Back-to-School
Save It – School Supplies With a Cause TerraCycle I had heard about for their green cleaning products. So I was pleasantly surprised when I found out about their amazing school supplies made completely of recycled items. Not only that, … Continue reading
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Eco-friendly steps kids can take: Focus on kid-friendly green family tips
The message that the planet may be in peril is a big pill to swallow, especially when you’re a kid. When trying to get your youngsters interested in becoming eco-friendly kids when heading back to the classroom, keep the lesson … Continue reading
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Run a less wasteful business with tips from TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky
TerraCycle, a multinational recycling and upcycling company, got its start during founder Tom Szaky’s freshman year at Princeton University. Here, the founder shares how natural retailers and natural businesses can become less wasteful. Tom Szaky’s infectious passion has propelled TerraCycle, … Continue reading
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Campus news – 8/14
Clayton Snyder, who graduated in June from Lock Haven University, participated in a study abroad program, spending February to June in South Korea. Snyder, a senior recreation management major with a concentration in environmental/international studies, had received a $4,000 … Continue reading
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Upcycling waste
With a business plan that began by selling an organic fertilizer made from worm poop, or vermicompost, in empty carbonated soft drink bottles, Trenton, N.J.-based TerraCycle Inc. is a green company that has been linked to the beverage industry since … Continue reading
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Turning Your Waste into Massive Equity
On Sept. 20, Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of Trenton, N.J.-based TerraCycle Inc., one of the leaders in eco-capitalism and “upcycling,” will return to address Expo East attendees at 9 a.m. His talk, “Turning Your Waste into Massive Equity,” will … Continue reading
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Forget gold stars. Here’s how to get a green star this back-to-school season
Buy recycled As much as you may be fantastic at reusing last year’s supplies, you will need to buy some new things for the upcoming school year. The best way to maintain your green credentials is to buy upcycled products. … Continue reading
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Staples Back to School Deals Week of 8/12
Recycle a Binder and Save $2 – Stock up on new binders with this eco-friendly, money savings solution. Shoppers will receive $2 off the purchase of a new binder for each binder they bring in to recycle with this first-of-its kind … Continue reading
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Cherry Tomatoes: The Easiest Plant You’ll Ever Grow
Growing cherry tomatoes is the best way for newbies to ease into gardening. Love the idea of growing your own food, but daunted by a brown thumb? Grab a pot and a cherry tomato seedling, and you’ll never again wonder … Continue reading
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3 Things You Can Recycle For Cash Back, According To Investopedia
WASHINGTON (WUSA) – We all know that recycling our paper, plastic, and glass is important for the enviornment. But what if I told you that you that recycling certain items could earn you some cold hard cash? Investopedia gives us three … Continue reading
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The Problem With Performance Reviews
I don’t believe in formal performance reviews. I think they create an environment where employers risk not confronting unsatisfactory performance when it happens — or acknowledging great work when it is delivered. At TerraCycle, our approach has been … Continue reading
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Recycling Games – TerraCycle
TerraCycle creates national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste. Anyone can sign up for these programs, called the Brigades, and send them waste. Then, the collected waste is turned into different products and materials available at major retailers. Terracycle … Continue reading
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Painting the house…TerraCycle style
Painting the outside of a house can be a real chore – a hot, sticky, messy chore. But it’s not so bad when you have hundreds of people to help. Our friends at TerraCycle are hosting the 8th annual Jersey Fresh Jam this weekend at … Continue reading
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Are Games the Green Wave of the Future?
Editor’s Note: We asked our good friend Albe Zakes at TerraCycle, to share his ideas on gamification when it comes to living the eco-friendly lifestyle. Here are his thoughts. Playing games is an integral part of growing up. No matter the type of … Continue reading
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The Problem With Performance Reviews
Performance reviews are standard protocol in corporate America. The objective seems to be for the company to give formal and direct feedback to employees, who are assumed to understand that the reviews represent an opportunity to get a status check … Continue reading
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Valley News – LVC Campus Encouraged to Upcycle with TerraCycle
A new initiative by LVC’s Sustainability Committee provides a unique way to upcycle products typically thrown away on campus. TerraCycle creates collection and solution programs for non-recyclable waste, and will be rolled out on campus in time for move in … Continue reading
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Staples Back-to-School Deals Week of August 5
Other Deals Post-it 2” x 3” Multiuse Labels, assorted colors, Free after easy rebate Recycle a Binder and Save – Stock up on new binders with this eco-friendly, money savings solution. Shoppers will receive $2 off the purchase of a new binder for … Continue reading
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Staples Back to School Savings
Other Deals Post-it 2” x 3” Multiuse Labels, assorted colors, Free after easy rebate Recycle a Binder and Save – Stock up on new binders with this eco-friendly, money savings solution. Shoppers will receive $2 off the purchase of a new binder for … Continue reading
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Tom Szaky
By closing the loop between waste and raw material, Tom Szaky turned a dorm room project into a profitable and transformative business model. TerraCycle now churns out recycled products as varied as backpacks and dog bowls. Tom hatched the idea … Continue reading
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Group seeks laptops, cups, phones to recycle
Experience Green has partnered with TerraCycle to offer recycling for old laptops, cellphones and No. 6 plastic cups. The program collects previously nonrecyclable or hard to recycle waste and turns it into products such as tote bags, picture frames, notebooks, … Continue reading
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Center for the Performing Arts candy wrapper collection shatters goal
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Center for the Performing Arts has taken candy wrapper collecting to a new level. As part of a “green” initiative aimed at diverting waste from landfills while providing clean drinking water to people in developing … Continue reading
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Start-Up Culture Isn’t Just for Start-Ups: How Your Agency can Benefit from Office “Culture”
Make the irregular regular: put someone in charge of it or make it a rule. TerraCycle has a C.N.O. – chief NERF gun officer – who issues NERF guns and ammo to all new employees, so they can join the periodic … Continue reading
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Issues and Leaders With Don Longo: Tim Quinn
We use our brands as catalysts for change and encourage consumer participation in sustainability. We committed to reduce packaging use 10 percent by 2015, and we partnered with TerraCycle to produce affordable, high-quality consumer goods by repurposing surplus and used … Continue reading
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Cool School Supplies / Fun, quirky and ingenious products for back-to-school
3 / Upcycled Organization With the ambitious goal of eliminating waste, TerraCycle collects objects that would otherwise languish in a landfill and recycles or upcycles them into usable products. The result: stylish, eco-friendly school supplies that make a statement. We love … Continue reading
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Creative Solutions for Healthcare Recycling
The news that the London 2012 Olympic Games aims to be the first Olympics to be “zero waste to landfill” is an indication of the growing importance of finding new ways to fulfill the old mantra of “reduce, reuse, and … Continue reading
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Wachusett Region Recycling Events-8/4/12
Just in time for the upcoming school year, exchange your old worn binder for $2 off a new one at Staples. TerraCycle, Avery and Staples are working together on this initiative to recycle old binders. Click on this link for more info … Continue reading
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Trenton’s Terracycle chips in
Trenton-based recycling company Terracycle has launched a new campaign aimed at increasing the rate of recycling for chip bags, and they’re using Hamilton Township as the test case to see if the program can be a success applied to a … Continue reading
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Schools Participate in International Recycling Program
Some Callaway County schools are participating in an international recycling company’s re-purposing program. TerraCycle Inc. collects certain trash items that aren’t typically recyclable, such as candy wrappers and juice pouches, and uses them to create products like bags, park benches, … Continue reading
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Businesses that Increase ‘Eco-Cred’ Will See Green
Several studies confirm what many business owners already know: A large majority of consumers prefer to patronize companies with sustainable products and practices. But what does that mean for businesses that don’t necessarily consider themselves green? It means they can … Continue reading
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TERRACYCLE: TRASH TO SMASH!
Mother Nature wastes nothing, but people waste a lot. That’s why TerraCycle, a company that turns trash into usable products, is constantly being honored for their good works on behalf of society and the environment. Take a look at how … Continue reading
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Exeter Grange
The grange has partnered with TerraCycle and is collecting dairy tubs, Frito Lay bags, juice pouches, keyboards, computer mice, web cams, laptops, digital cameras, MP3 players and ink cartridges. Items can be placed in the large green bin at the … Continue reading
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TerraCycle turns garbage into usable products
Four years ago, Julie Beachboard saw a tiny ad for TerraCycle on the back of a juicebox. A paraeducator at Long Neck Elementary School, she helped jumpstart the initiative with her students. TerraCycle is a nationwide program based in New … Continue reading
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4 Trailblazing, Social Impact-Driven Entrepreneurs
Tom Szaky, Founder, TerraCycle TerraCycle was created when Szaky was a 20 year old student entering the Princeton Business Plan contest. TerraCycle had small beginnings as a worm-based fertilizer company and has since expanded as it tries to reduce consumer … Continue reading
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Back to School with TerraCycle: Review and Giveaway!
There are a lot of eco-friendly companies out there, but no other company is quite like TerraCycle. This company literally takes your garbage and makes practical products such as plant food, backpacks, frames, toys and more! This company pays schools and … Continue reading
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6 Things You Didn’t Know You Can Recycle For Money
Recycling is great for the planet, saves resources and basically helps clean up our world. Many of us know that we can recycle things like plastic, paper, glass bottles and metals. However, there are many other items that you probably … Continue reading
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You Can Recycle Some Pretty Ridiculous Stuff To Make Money
Recycling is great for the planet, saves resources and basically helps clean up our world. Many of us know that we can recycle things like plastic, paper, glass bottles and metals. However, there are many other items that you probably … Continue reading
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You Can Recycle Some Pretty Ridiculous Stuff To Make Money
Recycling is great for the planet, saves resources and basically helps clean up our world. Many of us know that we can recycle things like plastic, paper, glass bottles and metals. However, there are many other items that you probably … Continue reading
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Wachusett Region Recycling Events
Just in time for the upcoming school year, exchange your old worn binder for $2 off a new one at Staples. TerraCycle, Avery and Staples are working together on this initiative to recycle old binders. Click on this link for … Continue reading
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6 Things You Didn’t Know You Can Recycle for Money
Recycling is great for the planet, saves resources and basically helps clean up our world. Many of us know that we can recycle things like plastic, paper, glass bottles and metals. However, there are many other items that you probably … Continue reading
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Chipping in with TerraCycle
You know those crinkly snack bags? The ones made of foil or other materials that aren’t easily recyclable? Well, now someone wants them. And of course it would Tom Szaky and the folks at Trenton-based TerraCycle, who have made a successful … Continue reading
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Recycling at the 2012 Wine Bloggers Conference
When we gather together next month in Portland, more than 350 of us will sip, blog, and share the latest and greatest in the world of wine. Throughout the weekend, corks will be “popped” and wines will be poured – … Continue reading
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Introducing TerraCycle!
Balfour Beauty believes sustainability is a collective responsibility. As a group we want to work together with our customers, suppliers and residents to ensure sustainability is embedded in our daily lives. We are launching to TerraCycle program at Whiteman Air … Continue reading
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Winner, Winner, WINesday #1: Back to School with Staples $25 Gift Card Giveaway!
Happy WINesday everyone!! First up is a really fun giveaway from our friends at Staples! Staples is honestly one of my very favorite stores, and really my one stop shop for all things office supply related. What I love most … Continue reading
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COLUMN: Become a Member of the Solo Cup Brigade
TerraCycling? Is this a new form of bicycling? Something only Lance Armstrong would be interested in? No, but it is a fun and rewarding way to join ‘brigades’ of environmental stewards. TerraCycle is an innovative program where organizations are collecting … Continue reading
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Recycle Cosmetics at Garnier Greener Tour in Pooler, Hinesville and Brunswick
Starting Date Monday July 16, 2012 End Date Wednesday July 18, 2012 Additional Information http://www.terracycle.com/garnier_greener_tour Description Garnier is hitting the road for the Garnier Greener Tour and bringing upcycling pioneer TerraCycle along for the ride! •July 16, 2012 – Walmart @ 150 Altama Connector, … Continue reading
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Garnier Greener Tour Coming to Hinesville
When: July 17, 2012 10:00 AM to 06:00 PM Where: Walmart Phone: (609) 393-4252 x3704 Address: 751 W. Oglethorpe Hwy. Hinesville, GA 31313 Ages: All Cost: Free! Description: Garnier is hitting the road for the Garnier Greener Tour and bringing … Continue reading
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Breakfast bracelets
Ever wonder how you can wear your cereal? That’s right. Wear. You have a perfectly good bag when you finish your Malt-O-Meal cereal, so do something cool with it! Our friends at TerraCycle think this way every day of their lives. That’s … Continue reading
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More Good News
Hamilton Township in conjunction with TerraCycle recently launched “Chip in for Change,” an initiative aimed at reducing the amount of chip bags that goes into local landfills each year. Through October, Hamilton residents will attempt to recycle at least ten … Continue reading
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Breakfast bracelets
Ever wonder how you can wear your cereal? That’s right. Wear. You have a perfectly good bag when you finish your Malt-O-Meal cereal, so do something cool with it! Our friends at TerraCycle think this way every day of their lives. That’s … Continue reading
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Hamilton Chips In For Change
The next time you snack on your favorite potato, tortilla or corn chips,don’t throw away the bag! The folks at Trenton-based TerraCycle are teaming up with Hamilton Township officials like Mayor John Bencivengo to “Chip In For Change.” Dozens of … Continue reading
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DEAL: Staples Back To Bargains 7/15-7/21
Recycle a Binder and Save – Stock up on new binders with this eco-friendly, money savings solution. Shoppers will receive $2 off the purchase of a new binder for each binder they bring in to recycle with this first-of-its kind … Continue reading
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Trenton recycler offers bounty for chip bags
What do you do with your potato chip bag after you eat the chips? Most of those bags end up in the trash, but a New Jersey company wants to turn them into usable products. Trenton-based TerraCycle has selected neighboring Hamilton … Continue reading
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start now. live better.
Recycle. Research your township or municipality’s rules for what can and cannot be recycled, and just do it! You’d be surprised what can be recycled. Look for the recycling label on the bottom of all items before tossing in the … Continue reading
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
As we enter the summer months many of us are nurturing or just discovering the joy of gardening. Whether you have started your garden from seed in the cold winter months or bought ready grown seedlings after the first frost, … Continue reading
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Trenton recycler TerraCycle to launch program in Hamilton
The Trenton-based “up-cycling” company Terracycle has announced the launch of a new program to collect discarded potato chip bags and turn them into useful products. TerraCycle announced a pilot program in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, inviting residents to “Chip in … Continue reading
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Staples Back to School Deals Week of 7/15
Recycle a Binder and Save $2 – Stock up on new binders with this eco-friendly, money savings solution. Shoppers will receive $2 off the purchase of a new binder for each binder they bring in to recycle with this first-of-its … Continue reading
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Forget Recycling: Are You “Eco” Enough to Eat Your Own Packaging?
When I was young, an older schoolmate told me paper gum wrappers were edible. She said that if you pop the whole stick in your mouth, wrapper and all, the paper would just disappear. Later that night, I unwrapped a … Continue reading
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Forget Recycling: Are You “Eco” Enough to Eat Your Own Packaging?
When I was young, an older schoolmate told me paper gum wrappers were edible. She said that if you pop the whole stick in your mouth, wrapper and all, the paper would just disappear. Later that night, I unwrapped a … Continue reading
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Effort To Increase Chip Bag Recycling
What do you do with your potato chip bag after you eat the chips? Most of those bags up in the trash, but a New Jersey company wants to turn them into usable products. Trenton-based TerraCycle has selected Hamilton Township … Continue reading
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TerraCycle and Hamilton roll out chip bag recycling program
TerraCycle announced today that Hamilton would serve as the pilot township for its “Chip In For Change” program, which aims to collect 10 percent of empty chip bags thrown out by Hamilton residents. TerraCycle founder and CEO Tom Szaky said … Continue reading
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TerraCycle “Chip in for Change” Press Conference on WPVI
TerraCycle announced a trial test in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, inviting residents to “Chip in for Change.” CEO and Founder of TerraCycle, Tom Szaky joined Mayor John Bencivengo to unveil their goal to collect and recycle at least ten percent … Continue reading
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High School’s Environmental Work Highlighted
The ‘upcycling’ by teacher Tim Zavacki and the entire school recognized by TerraCycle Some great work by Hillsborough High School helping the environment is being recognized. TerraCycle, an “upcycle” company that makes consumer products from pre- and post-consumer materials, has focused … Continue reading
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Recycle old school binders for discount at Staples
Staples is offering a back-to-school deal on binders that will save you money and do your small part to help save the planet. Bring in an old beat-up binder for recycling and get $2 off on any new binder. It’s … Continue reading
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Win 1 of 2 TerraCycle Back to School Packs
Get ready for Back to School with these eco-friendly TerraCycle school supplies. Each one is upcycled from common trash items you might find in any classroom or cafeteria such as drink pouches, chip bags and granola bar wrappers. Not only … Continue reading
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Soul to Host Charity Flip Cup Tournament
PHILADELPHIA (July 5, 2012) – The Eastern Division Champion Philadelphia Soul (13-3) and Xfinity Live! will host the World’s Largest Flip Cup Game for charity Sunday, July 8 at Xfinity Live! before their game against the Spokane Shock. The flip … Continue reading
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EcoScraps Works: Big Retailers Change Food Waste Status Quo
It’s no coincidence that EcoScraps has so many similarities to Terracycle – just like Terracycle and companies such as Honest Tea, Recyclebank and Warby Parker, EcoScraps has the ability to successfully implement what BBMG described as Disrupt and Delight – … Continue reading
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East Meadow Girl Scouts Cleaning Up for a Cause
Troop 1811 has been working hard to collect wrappers that they can put to positive use. East Meadow Girl Scout Troop 1811 has been working hard to give back to their organization. “We have been collecting Nabisco and Keebler wrappers, … Continue reading
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Garnier Fructis Shampoo Coupons-Printable Garnier Fructis Shampoo Coupons
Garnier Fructis Shampoo Coupons-Garnier Fructis Shampoo Coupons: Garnier is a mass market cosmetics brand of L’Oréal that produces hair care and skin care products. The company started as Laboratoires Garnier in 1906, and was acquired by L’Oréal in the 1970s. … Continue reading
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Miami Event – The Garnier Greener Tour
My homegirl and Miami blogger Jewel of Jewel’s Fab Life is hosting the Garnier Greener Tour this Friday from 4pm-6pm in Miami. I’m all kinds of jealous that I can’t attend. It’ll be an epic event for several reasons… The beauty pimped out … Continue reading
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Garnier Greener Tour Coming To Miami!
If there’s anything that kissable Kermit the Frog taught us it’s this: It’s good to be green. So it’s no wonder Garnier and TerraCycle will be hitting the 305 for The Garnier Green Tour on Friday, July 6 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Walmart located … Continue reading
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Miami Event – The Garnier Greener Tour
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Have a red, white, blue, and green 4th of July!
TerraCycle has a solution for getting rid of all the non-recyclable waste from the Fourth and other summer parties through its collection program, the TerraCycle Brigade program. Anyone can send non-recyclable packaging from summer events – such as chip bags, … Continue reading
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Going Greener With Garnier
A few weeks ago, my friend and fellow blogger, Rachel invited some friends to check out the first stop in Garnier’s Greener Tour. I’m so glad I was able to attend the event, that the event was in my neck of … Continue reading
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Garnier promotes recycling with style
Got some empty bottles of foundation, sunscreen, body lotion, lip gloss or other beauty products lying around? Don’t toss ‘em. Take them to the Garnier Greener Tour bus, where they can be recycled into handbags, playground equipment and other cool … Continue reading
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Hopedale, Millis students go green
Students from Hopedale’s Memorial Elementary School and Millis’ Clyde F. Brown Elementary School recently received recognition for their environmental awareness as members of the Green Team, a statewide educational program. This past school year, nearly 94,000 students from 322 schools … Continue reading
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Hopedale, Millis students go green
Students from Hopedale’s Memorial Elementary School and Millis’ Clyde F. Brown Elementary School recently received recognition for their environmental awareness as members of the Green Team, a statewide educational program. This past school year, nearly 94,000 students from 322 schools … Continue reading
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Old Navy: $1 Flip Flop Sale & the Flip Flop Recycling Brigade!
If you know a lot of people or are a member of an organization (PTO, mom’s group, Girl Scouts, anything) you can also participate in the Flip-Flop Brigade ® to recycle old flip flops for exclusive Old Navy coupons through … Continue reading
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Garnier Greener Tour coming to the Tampa Bay area
Megabrand Garnier, in partnership with upcycling pioneer TerraCycle, is hitting the road for the Garnier Greener Tour. The fully loaded, glass tour bus will be making stops at multiple Walmart stores in Florida, offering beauty-lovers exciting ways to help protect the … Continue reading
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Turn old peripherals into a park bench with TerraCycle
We often hear about technology recycling places to turn in old computer systems and monitors so that they don’t wind up in landfills. But what about all the peripherals that go along with them, like keyboards and mice and web … Continue reading
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Natural Beauty Products Delivered to Your Door, Recycling Included
Goodebox, the service that delivers a monthly surprise bag of all-natural beauty products to your door, has launched an innovative recycling program that works to benefit the awesome watchdog workhorse, Environmental Working Group (EWG). Goodebox selects products that are thoroughly evaluated, … Continue reading
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Green ATF TACTs with TerraCycle
The TACT is the single most important decision in persuasion. Who does What Where and When (Target Action Context Time) drives everything. Please consider this strange combination of a Green business making TACTs with Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms! Read the … Continue reading
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TerraCycle comes to FAS!
I speak for many of our eco citizens and dedicated environmentalist when I say that it pains me to throw anything away, but unfortunately, there are just some things that just can’t be recycled. Chip bags, candy wrappers, tape dispensers … Continue reading
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2012 Beautification Winners Named
Town of Huntington honors homeowners, businesses groups, organizations and schools that improve appearance of the community. Winners of the Town of Huntington’s 36th Annual Beautification Awards were announced last week. The Huntington Town Board and the Huntington Beautification Council joined June 19 to honor … Continue reading
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2012 Beautification Winners Named
Town of Huntington honors homeowners, businesses groups, organizations and schools that improve appearance of the community. Winners of the Town of Huntington’s 36th Annual Beautification Awards were announced last week. The Huntington Town Board and the Huntington Beautification Council joined June 19 to honor … Continue reading
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5 Easy DIYs With Waste
It’s no secret I like to recycle the unrecyclable. I always strive to find new and innovative ways to turn garbage into something new. That’s why I wanted to share some easy DIYs I found that repurpose household items and … Continue reading
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How to Build a Brand and Launch Products in the Food Business
Appealing to the Green-Minded: As part of their “doing good and doing well”, GoGo squeeZ has partnered with upcycling pioneer, TerraCycle which they feel is a great attraction to parents… a snack that is both convenient and eco-friendly.
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Gana dinero con tu “desperdicio” con TerraCycle
¿Qué te parece la idea de ganar dinero por tu desperdicio y a la vez ayudas al ambiente? Pues ahora lo puedes hacer por medio de Terracyle.com. Esta compañía está dedicada al bienestar del medio ambiente y lo hacen de una … Continue reading
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The great green debate: Who’s to blame?
To achieve maximum sustainability, whose contribution do you think matters the most: businesses, consumers, or our national and state governments? Rather than playing the blame game with any of these parties, I believe that this question should be approached more … Continue reading
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Old School Sales Through #SocialCRM
Each year, the sales world seemingly is bombarded with the hot new trend, worthy or not. No matter the trend, the basics of sales can’t be dropped. The tried and true methods of sales, such as relating to the client … Continue reading
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Virginia Beach School Recycles Drink Pouches
Packing up drink pouches is a sticky, messy chore, but you do it if you want to earn extra money for your school. That’s why Cynthia Bowen and her student volunteers box and ship about 2,000 pouches each month to … Continue reading
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Recycling with TerraCycle helps United Way of the Tri-Valley Area
FARMINGTON — The plastic No. 6 Solo cup that holds an icy cold beverage this summer can become a 10-cent donation to the United Way of the Tri-Valley Area. Through a special summer promotion by TerraCycle’s UpCycle recycling program, the … Continue reading
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Get Garnier freebies at Tampa Bay Walmarts
If we know our readers, we know one thing. You all LOVE free stuff. And we would be jerks if we didn’t tell you how to get it. Garnier, the maker of the popular Fructis line of hair care products … Continue reading
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Recycle Flip Flops With TerraCycle & Old Navy
TerraCycle and Old Navy are encouraging us to ditch our old flip flops and donate them to their new recycling program. To be a part of this great green initiative, become part of the Old Navy Flip-Flop Brigade and start … Continue reading
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Recycling programs tackle problem of cigarette butts
Private companies are launching programs that not only encourage people to pick up the butts but also recycle them. Contrary to what many smokers may think, cigarette filters are not biodegradable: They are made with a plastic that can leach … Continue reading
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Recycling programs tackle problem of cigarette butts
(USA TODAY) - Recycling has moved far beyond paper and plastic to tackle the nation’s top litter problem: cigarette butts. Private companies are launching programs that not only encourage people to pick up the butts but also recycle them. Contrary to … Continue reading
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Mail your stinky used butts to this company, postage paid
There’s a company that desperately wants your used butts. Starting in July, TerraCycle will provide free UPS shipping labels (postage paid by a shadowy, unnamed U.S. tobacco company) so people can mail in their cigarette remnants for recycling. Why care about … Continue reading
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Interview with Albe Zakes pt. 2
Albe Zakes, Global VP, Media Relations for TerraCycle Inc., the key takeaways from his presentation given at the 2012 Consumer Goods Sales & Marketing Summit.
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Interview with Albe Zakes pt. 1
Albe Zakes, Global VP, Media Relations for TerraCycle Inc., summarizes the core message of his presentation given at the 2012 Consumer Goods Sales & Marketing Summit.
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Mail Your Stinky Butts To Be Recycled, Cigarette Butts That Is
Attention smokers, don’t dump your stinky cigarette butts in the garbage, you can now send them in free of charge to be recycled. Why? The filters are poisonous, and cigarette company’s want them back. According to MSN Starting in July, … Continue reading
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Program started to recycle cigarette butts
Some companies plan on launching programs that will encourage people to recycle cigarette butts. Cigarette butts are not biodegradable. Beginning in July, TerraCycle, a small business based in Trenton, New Jersey, will provide free shipping so people can mail in butts they’ve collected. Then … Continue reading
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Recycle Everything – Recycling Tips
TerraCycle makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials. Capri Sun – Honest Kids juice pouches can be recycled by Terracycle as can Candy Wrappers, Starbucks Coffee bags, Zip Loc Bags, pens, Cookie Wrappers, Colgate … Continue reading
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Ser Verde en la Rutina de Belleza
El color de la belleza empieza con verde, practicando el reciclaje y el ahorro de energia en nuestra rutina diaria de belleza. Todos sabemos que es importante reciclar , pero por lo general es en la cocina o la oficina. … Continue reading
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The Seneca Park Zoo
Also featured on the FOX affiliate in Rochester, NY., for recycling efforts.
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Beauty and style Expert Holly Crawford Recycles Garnier Product
Beauty and style expert Holly Crawford recycles a used Garnier product into the TerraCycle and Garnier recycling bin outside The Garnier Greener Tour Bus on Saturday June 16, 2012 in Houston. (Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher/Invision for Garnier/AP Images)
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UpCycle with TerraCycle for the United Way of the Tri-Valley Area
TerraCycle’s UpCycling (recycling) Program comes to Franklin County to benefit the United Way of the Tri-Valley Area. The United Way supports non-profit community programs and volunteer efforts across the region; TerraCycle offers a wonderful way to support this organization in … Continue reading
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Upcycle It! grants awarded in Westford
Westford — Sustainable Westford, the organization behind the Westford Summer and Winter Farmers Markets awarded $1,600 in UpCycle It! grants this spring to three organizers of sustainable programs. Blanchard Middle School Blanchard Middle School seventh-graders Naqiya Motiwalla, Liza Bernard, and … Continue reading
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The Seneca Park Zoo Recognized for Recycling Efforts
The Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester was featured on the local news for its recycling efforts.
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Organizations Can Benefit From Recycling Gaming Peripherals Through TerraCycle and Logitech
Wondering what to do with that pile of old and broken down gaming gear you’ve got stashed in your filing cabinets, closets and under your bed? Well now, it can have a new life thanks to TerraCycle and Logitech. Computer peripherals … Continue reading
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Wordless Wednesday 6-13-12 Red Solo Cup
Wordless Wednesday is a day for me to share an image from my green living life with you along with just a few words…or so This red Solo cup laid on the road for 4 days until I finally picked … Continue reading
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Industry Intelligence expands content to include opinion and analysis
LOS ANGELES, June 13 – Industry Intelligence Inc., a market intelligence and information management company serving the forest products, packaging and food and beverage industries, expands content contributors to include consultants, professors, researchers, business people and entrepreneurs. These experts will offer opinion … Continue reading
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Father’s Day Gifts Dad Will Treasure
Father’s Day is Sunday! Before you drop everything and rush out to buy the standard tie or sweater, stop and consider … how about something unique this year? What would make dad’s day special – and be kind to your … Continue reading
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5 Fashionable Things to Do and See This Week: Garnier Greener Tour.
Beauty brand Garnier, in partnership with upcycling pioneer TerraCycle, is bringing its Garnier Greener Tour to Houston. The fully loaded, glass tour Beauty Brigade bus will be making stops at area Walmart stores, offering beauty-lovers exciting ways to help protect the environment. You can … Continue reading
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Come Learn About the TerraCycle Program!
Join us today at the Housing Office at 2:00 p.m. as we learn about the Terracycle program and we create our fun drop off boxes!
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Terracycle for Church and the Earth!
Terracycle is an organization that will collect often otherwise un-recyclable items and also pay a small amount for the items you send. I have set up a stack of four plastic bins in the hall across from the Kitchen, where the … Continue reading
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What to do with all your empty products?
You know I am all about natural products and how to contribute to the environment at the same time, it is amazing the simple things you can do about it..One of my favorite writers Paulo cohelo says: “When you heart … Continue reading
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Junge US-Firma macht Neues aus Müll
Eine junge US-Firma macht Millionenumsätze mit dem Recyceln von Müll. Sie näht zum Beispiel Taschen aus leeren Saftpackungen und Zahnpastatuben.
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Discover New Sustainable and Natural Beauty Products with Goodebox
In the world of beauty, there’s a whole lot to be avoided. Synthetic chemical mixtures and animal testing are only the beginning of the wide world of toxic products that are not only harmful to your own health, but the … Continue reading
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Müll macht Millionäre: Deutsche Firmen wollen einsteigen
Aus Säftpäcken werden Taschen, aus Chips-Tüten Drachen In den USA ist ein Trend entstanden, der nicht nur das ökologische Gewissen stärkt. TerraCycle schafft das, was Recycling nicht gelingt: Die Verpackungen werden final und dazu originell verwertet. Aus zerquetschten Trinkpackungen entstehen … Continue reading
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Müll macht Millionäre: Deutsche Firmen wollen einsteigen
Aus Saftpäckchen werden Taschen, aus Chipstüten Drachen In den USA ist ein Trend entstanden, der nicht nur das ökologische Gewissen stärkt. TerraCycle schafft das, was Recycling nicht gelingt: Die Verpackungen werden final und dazu originell verwertet. Aus zerquetschten Trinkpackungen entstehen … Continue reading
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Church offers recycling info
Ever want to know what to do with an old mattress? How about used cooking oil? The Green Team at Albany United Methodist Church has a new pamphlet telling recyclers that and much more. The group, which started in 2010, … Continue reading
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Recycling a valuable lesson for Huddleston students
The Bedford County school’s program, done in conjunction with TerraCycle, promotes recycling items not typically thought of as recyclables: drink pouches, chip bags, used writing instruments and Elmer’s glue containers. Recycling can be gross. Imagine encountering tobacco juice spat into … Continue reading
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Pinecrest’s Student Environmental Association Launches Recycling Program
The Student Environmental Association (SEA) at Pinecrest High School is launching a new countywide recycling program to dispose of chip bags and Capri Sun pouches. The program is an extension of the SEA’s earlier recycling initiatives, which sought to collect … Continue reading
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Method Expands Program with Terracycle
After launching the Method Refill Brigade® in 2011, Method, a leading innovator in premium, environmentally-conscious household and personal care products, and upcycling/recycling pioneer TerraCycle, Inc. have now expanded the program to accept pumps, triggers, refill pouches and almost any cleaner … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Elmwood Park Zoo
Reduce your carbon footprint while directly benefitting the zoo! The Elmwood Park Zoo Docent Council runs a program to recycle/upcycle items that typically can’t go in your regular recycling collection. We’ve partnered with TERRACYCLE to save these items from the … Continue reading
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Method expands recycling program to all cleaner packaging
After launching the Method Refill Brigade® in 2011, environmentally conscious household cleaner products company Method Home, along with upcycler/recycler TerraCycle, Inc., has expanded the program to accept pumps, triggers, refill pouches, and almost any cleaner product packaging, regardless of brand. … Continue reading
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Students at Bridge Elementary School in Lexington are saving the world one polystyrene tray at a time.
No one is quite sure who first discovered the cleaning method, but its effectiveness is indisputable: If one person uses a brush to swirl soapy water in the tray-cleaning bucket while another person plunges a dirty tray into the water, … Continue reading
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Natural Home: Use Tiny Minerals to Soften Clothes
Dropps Fabric Softener Pacs are also eco-friendly, from formula to packaging. The formula, created from a clay material, is naturally formed from a chemical alteration of volcanic ash that is enclosed in an energy-efficient, dissolvable pac. The packaging, biodegradable and … Continue reading
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Suncoast Elementary first-graders get an early start on recycling
Suncoast Elementary School first-grade teacher Tandra Lamia wears a delicious-looking visual aid when it’s time to tend to the school’s recycling program. It’s an apron made with the empty bags of Frito-Lay products — Ruffles, Funyuns, Doritos, Tostitos, Fritos and … Continue reading
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Stay-at-home mom reduces environmental footprint, spending with ‘zero-waste’ lifestyle
Cloth diapering has become popular these days, but cloth toilet paper may be where some people draw the line. Not Christena Little. Little decided to transition her lifestyle to “zero-waste” nearly a year ago, and hasn’t looked back since. While … Continue reading
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Join the TerraCycle Flip-Flop Brigade – Earn Old Navy Coupons for Recycling Flip-Flops
Old Navy has once again teamed up to recycle old flip-flops with TerraCycle. This year you can sign-up to be part of the Flip-Flop Brigade and earn Old Navy coupons for yourself and those who help you collect. The program … Continue reading
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Terra Stone Plant Caddy – all recycled material Made in USA
TerraCycle, http://www.terracycle.net/en-US/, uses recycled plastics to make this attractive plant caddy. I asked the company to send me one so I could take a look at it and try it out. I love the concrete look. And, I especially love … Continue reading
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Pouch brigade: Company turns schools’ trash into products, cash
Green Kids: This is the first in an ongoing series about efforts by area students to live greener lives. Some environmentally savvy students in Memphis-area public and private schools are happily helping to turn their trash into treasure. Their efforts … Continue reading
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Pouch brigade: Company turns schools’ trash into products, cash
Green Kids: This is the first in an ongoing series about efforts by area students to live greener lives. Some environmentally savvy students in Memphis-area public and private schools are happily helping to turn their trash into treasure. Their efforts … Continue reading
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Greening the Great White Way
Greening the Great White Way began in earnest in 2008, when a few dedicated theatre professionals saw ways in which Broadway could set the stage for more sustainable productions, without losing any razzle-dazzle. TheBroadway Green Alliance has created a wide … Continue reading
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DeKalb school takes advantage of grants
Teachers and administrators at Collinsville School are taking advantage of grant opportunities, and students there are seeing the benefits. Three recent grants have allowed students to further a recycling program, get a pet in the classroom and give other students … Continue reading
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Charles H. Bullock School Gets Treats During Testing
No one likes tests, but last week kids at Montclair’s Charles H. Bullock School were treated with healthy snacks from Clif Bar during NJASK testing. “Yum!”, “Delicious!”, and “Really good!” were several ways Charles H. Bullock School (CHB) students described … Continue reading
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Method Expands Recycling Program To All Cleaner Packaging
After launching the Method Refill Brigade® in 2011, Method, the leading innovator in premium, environmentally-conscious household and personal care products, and upcycling/recycling pioneer TerraCycle, Inc. have now expanded the program to accept pumps, triggers, refill pouches and almost any cleaner … Continue reading
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Mason’s Cup of Tea
Have you ever walked into a small gift-type store and seen those recycled clutch purses made out of candybar wrappers and the like? I always thought they were the bees knees, and would love to have one of my own, … Continue reading
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Best Beach Totes
By Jan Schroder I’m rather demanding of my beach tote. It has to be large enough to hold a towel, book and sunscreen, have smaller pockets to stash my phone and of course be cute enough to make a fashion … Continue reading
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Recycled Flip Flops
Every time you send your old flip-flops to TerraCycle, you’ve done a green deed for Mother Nature by diverting waste from our landfills. To show our gratitude, for every shipment of 25 pairs of flip-flops received (about 18 pounds), you … Continue reading
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Huddleston Elementary earns cool cash for recycling
A lot of schools in Southwest Virginia are are teaching recycling but Huddleston Elementary is taking it to a whole new level. The Bedford County school is small with 220 students but those students are recycling and trying to save … Continue reading
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Best Beach Totes
I’m rather demanding of my beach tote. It has to be large enough to hold a towel, book and sunscreen, have smaller pockets to stash my phone and of course be cute enough to make a fashion statement on the … Continue reading
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Upcycle flip-flops for Old Navy coupons
Do you have a pile of rubber flip-flops from last summer? There may be a better place for them instead of the landfill down the street. Terracycle is a web-based recycling service that has a goal to eliminate waste by … Continue reading
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Upcycle flip-flops for Old Navy coupons
Do you have a pile of rubber flip-flops from last summer? There may be a better place for them instead of the landfill down the street. Terracycle is a web-based recycling service that has a goal to eliminate waste by … Continue reading
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Meet PHMS Teacher Kelly Dougherty
Meet this sixth-grade science teacher at Paxon Hollow Middle School who has been in the industry for 12 years. Marple Newtown Patch is featuring great teachers in the Marple Newtown area who deserve some spotlight. Teachers give a lot to … Continue reading
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You Can’t Do It By Yourself, So Find Others With Similar Ideals
“From a corporate perspective, you want to align your brand with organizations that have a good track record but also align closely with your ideals.” Turner wanted his gaming company to make money, but he also wanted it to benefit society … Continue reading
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Meet PHMS Teacher Kelly Dougherty
Meet this sixth-grade science teacher at Paxon Hollow Middle School who has been in the industry for 12 years. Marple Newtown Patch is featuring great teachers in the Marple Newtown area who deserve some spotlight. Teachers give a lot to … Continue reading
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5 Clever Hacks for Becoming a Social Entrepreneur
Social entrepreneurs create innovative solutions for tackling the world’s most vexing social problems. Whether they’re solving hunger, improving the environment, or fighting for political freedom, these entrepreneurs place social missions at the center of their business activities — aiming to … Continue reading
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LCA helps Kraft measure, improve environmental impacts of packaging
Most people have heard the saying, “You can’t improve what you don’t measure.” But measurement can be complex and time-consuming, especially when it comes to figuring out how to reduce environmental impacts. This is why Kraft Foods says it is using Life … Continue reading
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Have you tried the new AppleMango Applesauce from GoGo squeeZ? My Girls Have and Loved It! (Review and Giveaway)
100% fruit, squeezable applesauce in convenient, re-sealable pouches that offer a wholesome snack for kids and families on-the-go • SqueeZ ¾ serving of fruit into your day with just one pouch • Gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, and made with no artificial … Continue reading
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Accokeek students launch effort to raise money while recycling
Seventh-grader Diamond Lacy, 13, and her 12-year-old sister, Crystal Lacy, who is in the sixth grade, said they decided to begin a campaign to collect and recycle used Capri Sun juice pouches after seeing a program for doing so advertised … Continue reading
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Kraft Foods Releases Lifecycle Assessment of Environmental Impacts
Most people have heard the saying that you can’t improve what you can’t measure. But, measurement can be complex and time-consuming, especially when it comes to figuring out how to reduce environmental impacts. That’s why Kraft Foods is using lifecycle … Continue reading
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Pride & Prejudice: (What) Can Nonprofits Learn From the For-Profit World?
There are a wide and creative variety of these sorts of partnerships with both commercial companies and government agencies — strategies that produce value for both sides, rather than for only one. I’m reminded of TerraCycle, for example, an impressive … Continue reading
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Help moms in need get access to clean diapers by recycling common household items with TerraCycle!
Moms in need have babies in need. Research has shown that moms dealing with financial hardships often choose between buying diapers or other necessities like food. Some of these moms reuse soiled disposable diapers or leave a dirty diaper on … Continue reading
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Michigan Innovation – Gonzeaux Tour Begins
Really looking forward to hearing Tom Szaky at FEI — he’s CEO and Founder, TERRACYCLE and author of Revolution in a Bottle. That’s him in the picture. You’ve got to love a guy who makes millions from garbage nobody else … Continue reading
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Terracycle: Help Moms in Need Get Diapers
You can help moms in need get access to clean diapers by recycling common household items for free with TerraCycle and their newest charity partner, Huggies’ Every Little Bottom, an organization that provides free diapers to moms and babies that … Continue reading
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Disposable Garment Recycling Initiative Adds Pilot Program for Gloves
After reaching key collection milestones in its cleanroom and laboratory garment recycling program’s first six months, disposable garment distributor Kimberly-Clark Professionaland recycler TerraCycle are expanding their initiative to include a pilot program for gloves. Since the program’s launch in October … Continue reading
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Product Review: TerraCycle Eco-friendly Toiletry Case
The Upcycled Tent Dopp Kit is made from all upcycled materials, except the zipper. It is light-weight and compact, and has the feel of a tent, since it is made from ‘the reclaimed fabric discarded in the manufacture of tents.’ … Continue reading
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You Be The Judge
We had enough and we took our case straight to the top! All the way to the top, all the way to the Neal Supreme Court. Okay maybe it wasn’t quite so drastic, but to my fantastic 4th graders we … Continue reading
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Cumming Elementary Students Are Great Recyclers!
Cumming Elementary deserves congratulations for the amount of waste they are keeping out of the local landfill. The school is one of the top collectors of hard-to-recycle waste in TerraCycle’s nationwide Brigade programs. The students collect Capri Sun drink pouches, … Continue reading
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Honest Kids Deserve Honest Tea
Honesty has been on my mind lately. My dashboard dictionary defines “honest” as “free of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere”. For a company to use such an adjective in their name, they better mean it! I am not a big fan … Continue reading
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Film “Last Call at the Oasis” is Sobering Look at World Water Crisis
As trash takes over the planet via overflowing landfills, the growing Pacific Gyre, endless litter, and needless consumption, meanwhile something very important is rapidly disappearing – and you should be concerned. More and more trash, less and less… clean water. … Continue reading
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Fashion Can Be an Influence in Environmental Change
Let’s be honest – I don’t know a lot about fashion. It’s certainly not my expertise – that would be trash. In addition to knowing a lot about trash, I know a fair bit about changing people’s perception of trash. … Continue reading
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Tom Szaky, TerraCycle CEO, Profile
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Battle of the noodle: Allied heats up recycling rhetoric against Van der Linde
A company called Terracycle, featured last year on National Geographic’s series Garbage Moguls, recycles pens, candy wrappers, tooth brushes, and even that supposed scourge of the waste bin: dirty diapers. The materials are remade as park benches. Any young athlete … Continue reading
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In the business of recycling
The Maricopa Community Colleges and a national company called TerraCycle want to save the planet one pencil at a time. Ten MCC schools are now part of the Writing Instrument Brigade, a program under TerraCycle, in which they box and … Continue reading
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Honest Tea CEO on life as a green entrepreneur
Honest Tea, an organic beverage company, made headlines when it launched an app to recycle Facebook posts last week and set up a 30-foot-tall inflatable recycling bin in New York City’s Times Square on Monday. It’s all part of a … Continue reading
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Tennessee rabble earns income for schools on the approach to new identity
The saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. For TerraCycle, an upcycling and recycling company in Trenton, N.J., trash from schools in Knoxville and surrounding areas has become its treasure. Items that are traditionally non-recyclable — such as … Continue reading
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Cutting a Deal With Big Tobacco
Last May, I wrote a post about whether a green company, like TerraCycle, should partner with companies that make tobacco, firearms or alcohol. Our business relies on taking waste that has traditionally been considered nonrecyclable and finding ways to recycle … Continue reading
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‘The Great Recycle’ Debuts With Huge Recycling Bin in Times Square
NEW YORK, New York, April 27, 2012 (ENS) – In support of New York City’s pledge to double recycle efforts by 2017, a national crowd-source recycling initiative, The Great Recycle, will open in Times Square on Monday, April 30. The … Continue reading
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Longfellow Elementary Honored As Green Ribbon School
At Longfellow Elementary School, recycling comes as second nature to the students, parents and staff who are part of four California schools that recently received the Green Ribbon Schools award by the United States Department of Education. Longfellow, at 3800 … Continue reading
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Lawn and Garden Trailers and Wagons, Which is Best?
While choosing new designs with regard to bathrooms, a number of Us citizens are deciding to “go green” while they’re just at it. Here are some interior design tips for achieving ones own environmentally-sound bathroom. First, go organic with your … Continue reading
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Staples Binder Recycling
The Kent Staples Stores on 104th Avenue Southeast and East Valley Highway offer binder recycling. Anyone who brings a binder for recycling will receive a coupon for a new binder. Shoppers will save $2 on new binder for each binder … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Products are Cool and Useful
One thing at the Earth Day assembly got me interested. The thing was Terracycle products. As shown in the assembly, regular things like folders and pencil cases are made out recycled items like juice pouches. I decided to check out … Continue reading
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hipcycle – a place to buy hip upcycled products
As a social consumer, I knew I wanted to do something “good,” and when my career took a turn, I decided to go for it. The concept behind hipcycle is to make eco products affordable, durable and beautiful — create … Continue reading
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Stay beautiful with products who love you and the Earth!
Garnier Fructis created their “Pure Line” of haircare products in collaboration with TerraCycle to help reduce personal care and beauty waste in landfills. Pure Clean Shampoo is 94% biodegradable and Pure Clean Conditioner is 92% biodegradable. These non-ecotoxic formulas, infused with … Continue reading
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Earth Day Needs to Slim Down its List of Must-Dos to be Really Successful
Yesterday, Sunday April 22 was the 42st Earth Day in the United States, but if you saw less promotional activity wrapped aroun the day it may be because Earth Day has ‘jumped the shark.” Albe Zakes, global VP of media retalions for … Continue reading
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Earth Day MOOREcycle Event
While we’re talking Earth Day, if you’re reading this on Saturday, you might check out Moore College of Art & Design (20th Street and The Parkway) today between 11 am and 3 pm, where they’ll be doing a presentation called MOOREcycle. It’s an exercise “aimed … Continue reading
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Tom Szaky: Turning waste into new products
Tom Szaky is an unabashed capitalist. “Even for us, profit is king,” Szaky said in a 2007 interview with CNBC, the cable television news network dedicated to covering capitalism. But Szaky is also committed to do well by doing good and … Continue reading
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Part of Waste Problem Is Now Part of Solution
HONEST TEA, like other organic beverage sellers, normally promotes its real leaves, fair trade certified tea, less sugary taste and environmentally friendly packaging. Its newest campaign acknowledges that it is part of a problem of waste in discarded drink containers … Continue reading
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Tennessee trash earns money for schools on its way to new identity
The Terra Stone Plant Caddy is made from drink pouches recycled into TerraCycle plastic. The caddy can be found in Target stores. The saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. For TerraCycle, an upcycling and recycling company in … Continue reading
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Go Green
Travel to the past to gain perspective on the future at Red Mill Museum’s Go Green Fair. “Green” vendors will be on hand, and “up-cycled” jewelry and crafts and demonstrations and talks about what it means to be green will … Continue reading
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Can Social Media Really Help Make a Difference for the Environment?
Mat McDermott/CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Social media is applauded as a means of engaging crowds, creating change and encouraging action. To see where the perception of social media’s power originated, we need only to look at the pivotal role it played … Continue reading
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Students learn firsthand about going green
Drink pouches are tricky to puncture with a straw, and they’re a trick to keep out of the garbage. But pouches collected by local students are finding a greener life outside the landfill, and they’re earning schools a little green. … Continue reading
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Mars, Bright Tea Co. Recyclable Freshpacks
Single-serve hot drinks in the office have just got more sustainable, thanks to the new recyclable Freshpacks from Mars Drinks North America. The packaging innovation enabled the removal of an aluminum foil layer from two of the FLAVIA® single serve … Continue reading
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Sustainability Drive: ‘I Fell in Love With the Concept of Garbage’
Sustainability, transformational and disruptive technologies are concepts that often arise when discussing the newest trends unfolding in the global energy industry. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing energy efficiency go hand-in-hand. These inter-related goals can be addressed by designing innovative ways to … Continue reading
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Has Earth Day marketing jumped the shark?
As recently as a few years ago, campaigns and initiatives tied to Earth Day were worth a large chunk of any company’s marketing budget. As more and more companies got into the game, however, consumers came to expect everyone to do … Continue reading
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Protect the earth, it’s the only one we have
The essence of Earth Day revolves around the philosophy of “sustainability.” There is only one Earth and somehow, someway, we must figure out how to make it last to sustain life. In the last several decades, there has emerged a … Continue reading
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Earth Day Marketing Mayhem
Earth Day is now a marketing frenzy, but a recent GreenBiz article questions the value of promotions at this time of year. According to Albe Zakes, the global vice president of media relations for TerraCycle, Earth Day is not the best … Continue reading
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Earth Day Events
Jarrett Nature Center celebrates its 10th birthday and Earth Day with family friendly activities and appearance by eco-entrepreneur Tom Skazy of TerraCycle, Inc. with face-painting, music, interactive displays and booths, crayon and electronic/small appliance recycling and more, Saturday, April 21, 9am-noon, … Continue reading
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Has Earth Day marketing jumped the shark?
As recently as a few years ago, campaigns and initiatives tied to Earth Day were worth a large chunk of any company’s marketing budget. As more and more companies got into the game, however, consumers came to expect everyone to do … Continue reading
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Ford Motor Company to Launch New Sustainability Programs
To further enhance their eco-friendly philosophy, Ford Motors has gone onto create three exciting yearlong sustainability initiatives. Their recent partnership with lifestyle platformSHFT.com has allowed for the creation of a ten-part documentary series, the first of the three programs. SHFT, … Continue reading
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Asheville’s Biltmore has a long history of going green
Biltmore’s winery recycles corks through TerraCycle, an organization that collects corks and other post-consumer materials and “up-cycles” them into products. Corks are collected at locations across the estate, including the winery’s tasting room and estate restaurants. “Sustainability is very important … Continue reading
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Upcycling – Eco-Friendly Capitalism
Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. It reduces the consumption of new raw materials when creating new products, and is contrary to downcycling, which is … Continue reading
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Consider making some green upgrades in your home
Founded in 2001 by Princeton freshman Tom Szaky, Trenton-based TerraCycle collects pesky hard-to-recycle waste, figures out a way to make it happen, and turns trash to treasure — or at least useful household items, including this flower pot made from … Continue reading
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Ford and SHFT launch sustainability film series in New York Continue reading on Examiner.com Ford and SHFT launch sustainability film series in New York – National Baby Boomer Entertainment | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/article/ford-and-shft-lau
Ford Motor Company and sustainability lifestyle platform SHFT.com unveiled the first of 10 digital short documentary films profiling cutting-edge innovators in sustainable businesses at a promotional event last night at the 404 NYC space in Midtown New York. Ford executive chairman Bill … Continue reading
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And So, Once Again, We Delay Our Big New Project
The challenges of a waste-recycling business. This is getting a little embarrassing. Twice now I have written about a new program that I think is going to allow us to dramatically expand our recycling efforts. Both times — when I … Continue reading
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The Cause Marketing Masters Series Presents: Cause Marketing Lessons from the TerraCycle Experience
Since 2001, TerraCycle has risen from a dorm-room start-up selling worm poop-based plant food into a internationally-known growth business. Its focus: providing consumer packaged goods companies and retailers with cause marketing programs and nonprofits with fundraising opportunities. TerraCycle has over … Continue reading
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Has Earth Day marketing jumped the shark?
As recently as a few years ago, campaigns and initiatives tied to Earth Day were worth a large chunk of any company’s marketing budget. As more and more companies got into the game, however, consumers came to expect everyone to … Continue reading
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April 22nd is earth day
The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970, celebrated across the country by people concerned with environmental issues. The date was chosen because April 22 is the first day of spring in the Northern hemisphere and the first day of … Continue reading
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Longfellow Elementary youngsters cut waste
LONG BEACH – It’s the end of lunchtime at Longfellow Elementary School and students are lining up behind purple recycling bins to sort their trash. The bins are divided into six categories: energy bar wrappers, chip bags, plastic bags, city … Continue reading
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Longfellow Elementary youngsters cut waste
LONG BEACH – It’s the end of lunchtime at Longfellow Elementary School and students are lining up behind purple recycling bins to sort their trash. The bins are divided into six categories: energy bar wrappers, chip bags, plastic bags, city … Continue reading
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Longfellow Elementary youngsters cut waste
LONG BEACH – It’s the end of lunchtime at Longfellow Elementary School and students are lining up behind purple recycling bins to sort their trash. The bins are divided into six categories: energy bar wrappers, chip bags, plastic bags, city … Continue reading
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Longfellow Elementary youngsters cut waste
LONG BEACH – It’s the end of lunchtime at Longfellow Elementary School and students are lining up behind purple recycling bins to sort their trash. The bins are divided into six categories: energy bar wrappers, chip bags, plastic bags, city … Continue reading
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Longfellow Elementary youngsters cut waste
LONG BEACH – It’s the end of lunchtime at Longfellow Elementary School and students are lining up behind purple recycling bins to sort their trash. The bins are divided into six categories: energy bar wrappers, chip bags, plastic bags, city … Continue reading
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Little Actions, Big Effects
Since starting to upcycle Capri Sun packs four years ago, Vicki Dabrowka estimates that her Eagle Cove School third graders have saved more than 25,000 of the empty juice packages from entering landfills. Sitting on the floor of her classroom at Eagle … Continue reading
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Ford and SHFT launch sustainability film series in New York
Ford Motor Company and sustainability lifestyle platform SHFT.com unveiled the first of 10 digital short documentary films profiling cutting-edge innovators in sustainable businesses at a promotional event last night at the 404 NYC space in Midtown New York. Ford executive chairman Bill Ford introduced … Continue reading
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Cause Marketing Lessons from the TerraCycle Experience
Since 2001, TerraCycle has risen from a dorm-room start-up selling worm poop-based plant food into a internationally-known growth business. Its focus: providing consumer packaged goods companies and retailers with cause marketing programs and nonprofits with fundraising opportunities. TerraCycle has over … Continue reading
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Has Earth Day marketing jumped the shark?
As recently as a few years ago, campaigns and initiatives tied to Earth Day were worth a large chunk of any company’s marketing budget. As more and more companies got into the game, however, consumers came to expect everyone to … Continue reading
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TerraCycle – Earth Day could be Every Day?
As an environmental company, TerraCycle has a unique relationship with Earth Day. Celebrating our environment and spreading awareness and activism is wonderful, but we also like to remind people that the Earth needs to be taken care of every day. … Continue reading
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Girly Green Girl
I’ve also decided to take on a summer project of revamping TST’s website/blog. It serves its purpose but isn’t anything special. If you check out the website you’ll see that in the past few months we’ve hosted an Eco-book contest … Continue reading
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Kimberly-Clark Professional* and Terracycle Expand Industry’s First Cleanroom and Laboratory Garment Recycling Initiative to Include Pilot Program for Gloves
Kimberly-Clark Professional*, a global leader in contamination control solutions for cleanrooms and laboratories, and TerraCycle, a leading recycler, today announced that they are expanding the world’s first cleanroom and laboratory garment recycling initiative to include a pilot program for gloves after reaching … Continue reading
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Upcycled Travel Kits For the Feel Good Traveller
TerraCycle’s Upcycled Travel Dopp Kit We’re huge fans of the upcycled and recycled eco-friendly goods on the Uncommon Goods website so we had to share. What’s more? The TerraCycle upcycled tent dopp kit, tote bag, and lunch sack are all … Continue reading
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Blessed Sacrament students earn money by recycling
TOLEDO–A bag of chips is a popular addition to many kids’ school lunches, but most of those bags end up in the garbage at the end of the lunch period. Students from the environmental club at Toledo Blessed Sacrament School … Continue reading
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Green Beauty: What To Do with Your Old Beauty Buys
Frugal and clean ways to use and recycle all that makeup and moisturizer! Having a lot of beauty products is fun. But there’s a responsibility that comes with that, which includes begin green. I feel I must test samples before … Continue reading
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Sustainable Brands Community
Albe Zakes is the 27 year-old Global VP, Media Relations at TerraCycle, Inc., the world’s leading ‘upcycling’ company, which converts difficult-to-recycle waste materials into eco-friendly, affordable products available at major retailers worldwide. TerraCycle partners with major CPG companies like Kraft … Continue reading
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How to Market a Small Business with Pennies
Money is a concern for small businesses whether they’re just starting out, trying to stay afloat, or ‘swimming in the black’. There’s no way around it: money makes the world go ‘round, especially for small businesses. It makes sense when … Continue reading
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Any Brand Can Be a Green Brand!
It is that time of year again–no not for April showers and May flowers, but for Earth Day. As April 22 approaches, every small business will be trying to find ways to ride the green wave of increased environmental awareness. Positioning your … Continue reading
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New Scotch Masking Tapes Green Paint Jobs
3M introduced a more eco-friendly version of one of its core products: Scotch masking tape. The new Scotch Greener Masking Tapes are made with 56 percent renewable resources, including paper backing made with 30 percent post consumer recycled content and … Continue reading
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Green Beauty: What To Do with Your Old Beauty Buys
Frugal and clean ways to use and recycle all that makeup and moisturizer! Having a lot of beauty products is fun. But there’s a responsibility that comes with that, which includes begin green. I feel I must test samples before … Continue reading
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Students’ recycling efforts win awards, benefit schools and planet
As the student manager of his school’s recycling effort, James West, 11, has had to teach some Deep Springs Elementary teachers a thing or two. A dead mouse, for example, is not suitable for the recycling bin. “I had to … Continue reading
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Charlotte’s Earth Patrol cleans Elizabeth Lane campus
When my daughter, Olivia Moreland, told me last summer that she wanted to pick up trash at her school, I thought it was a passing fancy, something that she would forget when the school year started. But she didn’t forget. … Continue reading
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Celebrate a clean, green Cincinnati at events all around the city
Staples stores around Greater Cincinnati are holding a limited-time binder recycling program. Shoppers will receive $2 off the purchase of a new binder for every binder that they bring in to recycle. The used binders will be sent to TerraCycle … Continue reading
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Real-Life Action Hero
Tom Szaky: Recycling the Impossible Tom Szaky is the founder of TerraCycle, one of the fastest-growing green companies on the planet. What’s especially amazing about it is its mission: to recycle non-recyclable garbage, from gum to diapers. Find out about how … Continue reading
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Transforming diapers into picnic tables
Terracycle, a specialist in hard-to-recycle wastes, is planning to convert over 3.7 million tonnes per year of waste diapers (or nappies) into, for example, outdoor furniture by installing collection containers at day care centres and other ‘hot spots’. Terracycle intends … Continue reading
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Any Brand Can Be a Green Brand!
As with many consumer trends, the demand for eco-friendly products has been affected by the economy. According to a 2011 study by Grail Research, consumers who previously considered or purchased green products are doing so less, turning instead to more … Continue reading
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Method Expands Recycling Program To All Cleaner Packaging
After launching the Method Refill Brigade® in 2011, Method, the leading innovator in premium, environmentally-conscious household and personal care products, and upcycling/recycling pioneer TerraCycle, Inc. have now expanded the program to accept pumps, triggers, refill pouches and almost any cleaner … Continue reading
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Tom Szaky: Recycling the Impossible
Tom Szaky is the founder of TerraCycle, one of the fastest-growing green companies on the planet. What’s especially amazing about it is its mission: to recycle non-recyclable garbage, from gum to diapers. Find out about how you can help make … Continue reading
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Townwide Litter Cleanup
Groton Grange #7 will hold its 7th Annual TLC (Townwide Litter Clean-up) in honor of Earth Day on Saturday, April 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, April 22, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Stop by at the Grange … Continue reading
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Staples in Lake Stevens Makes it Easy to Recycle and Save on Binders!
Staples announces an exclusive, first-of-its-kind recycling program with TerraCycle® that creates an eco-friendly and money-saving solution for customers to trade-in their used binders. Spring is a perfect time to clean out the desk to get rid of older, worn binders … Continue reading
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Eco-bizman tells how to turn garbage into gold April 21
They’re psyched about trash in Horsham. Especially as it relates to the 10th birthday of the Jarrett Nature Center April 21, and a guest appearance by Tom Szaky a guy who turns garbage, literally, into gold. The Hatboro-Horsham Educational Foundation is … Continue reading
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Can Terracycle Convince American Parents to Recycle Dirty Diapers?
Terracycle is no stranger to challenges. The company actually seems to thrive on exploring new ways to upcycle and recycle traditionally non-recyclable waste into new products. Still, none of the items the company has saved from landfills thus far, including … Continue reading
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Residents can save money with new binder recycling program at Staples
This Earth Month, Staples on Redmond Way, is collecting three-ring binders in partnership with TerraCycle, Inc., a recycler and upcycler of traditionally non-recyclable goods. Customers can bring any binder into the store for recycling and receive $2 off the purchase … Continue reading
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The Garnier Beauty Brigade
April is Earth Month – a time to grow your green lifestyle, to celebrate the environment, and to keep the world healthy! So, did you know you can easily keep the world glowing with a Shampoo? Seriously – Lather. Rinse. … Continue reading
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New Favorites from TerraCycle
What’s even better than recycling your old, unused stuff and garbage? —Finding someone who will do it for you and will use it to make fun purses, duffle bags, and even wristlets. TerraCycle® is a waste fighting company who does just that, recycling and upcycling … Continue reading
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Adaptation Essential to Reaching Digitally Savvy Audiences
Digitally savvy audiences, who turn to Facebook and Twitter to catch up with friends or the latest headlines, are making it more challenging for communicators to cut through the clutter and get their messages heard. In the following Q&A, Albe … Continue reading
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Dirty disposable diapers
Dirty disposable diapers pose environmental dangers. Startup TerraCycle plans to build recycling centers to separate the plastic casing from the paper and waste material inside. After being sterilized, the absorbent material can be used for products like concrete additives. TerraCycle … Continue reading
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TerraCycling: Up-Cycling Nontraditional Trash
TerraCycling began as a process that turns worn waste products and packages into reused containers using fertilizer, worms, and compostation. In 2007, TerraCycle changed their business plan slightly. They began producing pouches, bags, and accessories made from up-cycled drink pouches … Continue reading
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TerraCycling: Up-Cycling Nontraditional Trash
Posted by Shorebread | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 TerraCycling began as a process that turns worn waste products and packages into reused containers using fertilizer, worms, and compostation. In 2007, TerraCycle changed their business plan slightly. They began producing pouches, bags, and … Continue reading
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Honest Tea Launches “The Great Recycle” In Effort to Boost Recycling Nationally
In a show of support for New York City’s pledge to double recycle efforts by 2017, Honest Tea and partners GrowNYC, Recyclebank, Coca-Cola Live Positively, Global Inheritance and Five-Boro Green Services will place a 30-foot tall recycling bin in Times … Continue reading
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Cause Marketing Lessons from the TerraCycle Experience: Albe Zakes to Present Lessons from ‘Turning Waste into Wonder’
Since 2001, TerraCycle has risen from a dorm-room start-up selling worm poop-based plant food into a internationally-known growth business. Its focus: providing consumer packaged goods companies and retailers with cause marketing programs and nonprofits with fundraising opportunities. TerraCycle has over … Continue reading
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What’s in your waste can?
Most of the things in your room right now will eventually become garbage. That’s the simple idea that in 2001 drove college freshman Tom Szaky to launch Terracycle, a company that collects waste and converts it into new products. For … Continue reading
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Cash for Trash: Innovative Companies Profitably Upcycle, Recycle and Reduce Waste
Turning worm poop into fertilizer was TerraCycle’s first big idea. Then they transformed discarded drink containers into consumer bling, which made them a world-recognized leader in this hot, new trend of “upcycling.” Upcycling is the conversion of waste destined for landfills … Continue reading
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Turning dirty diapers into park benches
“The diapers are very gross, horrible, but the shipping containers hold 100 percent of the smell,” assures Terracycle’s Albe Zakes. “We tested this by hiding them around the office and seeing if anyone noticed; they did not.” He may be joking, … Continue reading
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Compostable vs. recyclable: Which is better?
When I recently posted in a New York Times blog that biodegradability isn’t what it seems, and on Packaging Digest that we should be careful with biodegradable plastics and incineration habits, I got a few reminders that some compostable plastics … Continue reading
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Green Tech Finds: Childs Play Edition
Developing green technology isn’t child’s play, but children’s games can certainly inspire new ideas. Playground equipment made from old wind turbines, and a solar powered night light are just two of this week’s green tech finds.
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Staples Partners with TerraCycle for Binder Recycling Program
Staples Inc. is partnering with the Trenton, N.J.-based recycling firm TerraCycle Inc. to offer discounts to customers in Seattle who bring in old binders for recycling. The Framingham, Mass.-based office products retailer is offering to customers at participating Seattle stores … Continue reading
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St. Gregory is Going Green
Having an environmentally friendly culture isn’t just for big corporations. Churches that follow biblical Scripture to be good stewards of the environment also are working to lead by example when it comes to living green.
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Get Your garden On! Taryn Scher Shares the Must Haves for Anyone Wanting to Start a Garden
Get your garden on! Taryn Scher shares the must haves for anyone wanting to start a garden. All the links to the products you saw on our show are under Megan’s Notes at http://www.yourcarolina.tv.
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Local school wins recycling award
CROSSVILLE – A bag of chips is a popular addition to many kids’ school lunches, but at the end of lunch, most of those bags end up in the garbage. Students from Crossville Elementary School decided to keep their garbage … Continue reading
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Wine Wednesday: Boxed Wine
Yes I said it. Boxed Wine. Most people think ICK but it can actually be a great value and really good wine. Now let me just say that there is a big difference between brands of boxed wine.
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PUBLIC HEALTH: The terra-ble truth about trash
When our stuff is thrown away it ends up in a landfill. Now, that’s a really backward way to run a country and care for the planet. We are spending money to build lined and permitted landfills until the hole … Continue reading
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PUBLIC HEALTH: The terra-ble truth about trash
It’s time for spring cleaning, and the truth is in the trash. It’s springtime, alright. Down by the street there are bottles and packages tossed out of passing cars. I hate the looks of it, and I can’t understand how … Continue reading
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The Micro-Multinational: Our Experience With Bribery in Foreign Markets
The challenges of a waste-recycling business. As I mentioned in my last post, I am going to be writing a series of posts about our expansion into foreign markets. Ever since we began this expansion, I have been asked how … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Tuesday: Spotlight on Dairy Tub Brigade
The first TerraCycle Tuesday of April! Yesterday, the new Dairy Tub Brigade was launched. This new brigade is a mix of the former Yogurt Cup and Spreads Container brigades.
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Beautyscopes
Independent Gemini doesn’t like to be tied down by anything. Even a beauty routine with too many steps could send her running for the hills! Keeping life simple in every possible way is her main goal, so Garnier Fructis Pure Clean 2in1 … Continue reading
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TerraCycle To Turn Dirty Diapers Into Park Benches
The upcycling experts started their business peddling poop (as fertilizer). Now they’re paying to collect it so they can turn it into park benches “The diapers are very gross, horrible, but the shipping containers hold 100% of the smell,” assures Terracycle’s … Continue reading
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TerraCycle to Turn Dirty Diapers into Park Benches
The upcycling experts started their business peddling poop (as fertilizer). Now they’re paying to collect it so they can turn it into park benches “The diapers are very gross, horrible, but the shipping containers hold 100% of the smell,” assures Terracycle’s … Continue reading
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Organic Baby Foods Could End Child Obesity, Diabetes and Junk Food Cravings
Ginger chicken with bananas and brown rice, baked sweet potatoes with white beans, and for dessert roasted pears and apricots. Sound like an inspired meal? It’s baby food from Sprout, organic gourmet baby food cooked up by Chef Tyler Florence of … Continue reading
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Dropps Doesn’t Drop the Ball at All…
Hey you! That’s not how it’s spelled is it? What am I talking about? You wonder.. What are Dropps? You ask !… Well, they are pre-measured, compact (6x concentrated) laundry detergent in these convenient, easy to use, dissolvable detergent packets … Continue reading
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From Flip-Flops to Fun!
How can you use flip-flops in a new way? One company found the answer. It used about 20,000 old flip-flops to build playgrounds for kids! Those flip-flops would have otherwise ended up in the trash.
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Recycling Efforts Continue with TerraCycle
As a proactive way to help the environment and also raise money for charity, Saint Xavier University students are being highly encouraged to take part in the university’s terracycling efforts. Although the terracycling program has already had a strong presence at the university, one … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Brigade Member Recognized in Ladies’ Home Journal
TerraCycle Brigade member Wanda Harwell was featured as the Awesome Woman of the Month in April’s Ladies’ Home Journal
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How to Recycle Plastic – Facts & Reasons Why You Should Start
Some plastics are easier to recycle than others. Municipalities that accept plastic for recycling generally accept numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4. This is because recyclers have an easier time of finding buyers for these. And like most businesses, supply … Continue reading
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DIY Easter Basket Project From TerraCycle
Looking for a recycled craft to do this week during Spring Break? Malt-O-Meal cereals and TerraCycle have a fun – and environmentally-friendly – DIY project the kids will love. All you need are food wrappers, scissors, and a few other … Continue reading
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Recycling Exotic Materials-Turning the Exotic into Mainstream Is Part of the Journey to Zero Landfill
By Rick LeBlanc, About.com Guide One of the challenges in striving to reach zero landfill is what to do with materials that are not readily recyclable. With sufficient volume, there is usually a demand for scrap paper or plastic, or … Continue reading
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Roseland students recycling for Earth Day
ROSELAND – Wanted: used shampoo, bath and soap packaging. Lester C. Noecker School, the Roseland Environmental Commission, the Roseland Green Team and Sustainable Roseland are collecting these and other personal care items in celebration of April as “Earth Month,” as … Continue reading
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Girl Scout Wins Community Award Through Recycling with TerraCycle
Ishani rewattkemeet is the march community green award winner in Columbus, GA. Ishani is a seven year member of the girl scouts and started a project with TerraCycle by recycling products and packaging in her community.
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School Program Promotes The Use of Recycled Bags
Schools render plenty of waste products that’s carelessly gotten rid of when it can be recycled. An extraordinary recycling program known as TerraCycle has brought about a major change in the recycling routines of schools in the United States. This … Continue reading
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Terracycle Comes to Harvard Law School!
More than half of U.S. product packaging –37 million tons – is discarded in landfills or burned rather than recycled, and packaging comprises nearly one-third of all U.S. landfill waste (US EPA). Terracycle is an innovative waste reduction solution that encourages … Continue reading
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TerraCycle, ou comment éliminer la notion de déchet.
I discovered the site TerraCycle through information that was on my gourd organic fruit juice. It said that the packaging could be recycled and the TerraCycle website report stated. Curious as I am, so I went to make a turn and I … Continue reading
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Sustainable Westford Fundraiser At Chipotle Tonight
Don’t feel like cooking dinner tonight? No problem! Enjoy dinner at Chipotle between 5 and 8pm and 50% of your purchase will go toSustainable Westford. Chipotle’s “Food With Integrity” commitment, makes them a perfect match. Download your coupon here and print it or … Continue reading
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Emmorton Elementary School Students “Go Green” With School-Wide Composting and Recycling Projects; Recycling Program Earns Cash for School
“If you were to come to our school and watch during lunchtime, you would see a typical elementary school setting: students eating their lunches, talking about everything from sports to their favorite movies” says Emmorton Elementary Principal, Dr. Peter Carpenter. … Continue reading
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Game on! Final round to name Greatest Bar!
It is on people. Voting has just begun in the final round of our first-ever, annual Great Trentonian Bar Bracket Challenge to name the Greatest Bar of Greater Trenton for 2012. It’s First N’ Ten vs. Sportsmen’s Pub, two Hamilton … Continue reading
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Outdoor Upcycling
It’s a fact of life, when the weather warms up, people start heading outside. At TerraCycle, we usually focus on reusing inside the home, but now’s the time to look at outdoor reuse. What can we do to make our … Continue reading
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East Middle in top 100 in country for recycling wrappers
Since 2010, students and faculty at East Middle School in Westminster have been participating in an eco-friendly program through the recycling and up-cycling company, TerraCycle. Now, through their efforts, the school has become one of the top 100 collectors of … Continue reading
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TerraCycle returns to greenthumbed roots with new gardening products
TerraCycle, upcycled design powerhouse and purveyor of worm poop plant food, helps usher in spring with two new products: A watering can made from granola bags and a plant caddy made from juice pouches.
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Crowdfunding and Social Entrepreneurs
Last week, the Senate passed the Jobs Act, which contains equity crowd-funding legislation, an idea, as I wrote in a previous post, whose time I believe has come. Having led TerraCycle through its early days and subsequent rounds of funding, … Continue reading
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Celebrate a Green Eco-Easter
On Easter morning children will wake to find that the Easter Bunny has filled their Easter baskets with lots of sweet treats. TerraCycle is offering consumers an environmentally-conscious alternative to filling trashcans with all of those candy wrappers. In addition, … Continue reading
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Gym lovers give back to environment
A Fusion Fitness, it’s all about strengthening your heart, muscle and mind. But the workout studio at 12th and Sansom might want to add refueling the environment to the list. “Caring for your body, caring for your environment, I feel … Continue reading
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Breaking down biodegradability and incineration
Part of the problem with landfill waste is that it takes up so much space. Waste solutions such as biodegradable plastic and incineration that are seemingly safe for the environment and make our “trash” disappear appear to be a great … Continue reading
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TerraCycle: Drink Pouch Messenger Bag Review and Giveaway and DIY Project
I was searching for a green, reusable bag that will allow me to carry it like a purse. I love to take walks in the fresh air, and sometimes I find myself walking to a Department store a little less … Continue reading
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Bring on the ‘Brigades’
TerraCycle offers support for stores that sign up for snack bag, candy wrapper recycling. CSP Daily News | March 22, 2012 TRENTON, N.J. — In an effort to divert more waste from landfills and help businesses engage in their local … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Tips for Spring Cleaning and Recycling Clutter
Spring is here, and with it comes the task of spring cleaning. This can mean emptying closets, de-cluttering your home, or ridding the air of any germs. Whatever you choose, the objective is the same: to live clean. Traditional standard … Continue reading
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Recycled Cereal Bag Easter Basket
Do you buy bags of cereal instead of boxes? Our family does! This year, TerraCycle, the company that recycles product packaging and transforms it into cool new products, has provided a great idea for reusing your cereal bags. With a few … Continue reading
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Emmorton Elementary turns trash into cash
Emmorton Elementary is taking the old saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” to a whole new level. Since the beginning of the 2010 school year, the school on Tollgate Road has raised $8,000 by recycling everyday trash, such … Continue reading
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Glenwood Avenue students turn trash to treasure
WILDWOOD — Jason Fuscellaro’s classroom at Glenwood Avenue Elementary school is full of boxes of empty chip bags, juice containers, candy wrappers and empty tubes of toothpaste. It was trash that was headed for a landfill, but because of Fuscellaro’s … Continue reading
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Natural Odor Eliminators, Garden Kits for Children: In & Out
If sweet-smelling room deodorizers aren’t your thing, here’s something to consider: the Moso Bag, a natural air-purifying bag containing moso bamboo. What’s so great about that? Moso bamboo is said to absorb and filter odors, pollutants, allergens and bacteria while … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Tuesday: Solo Cup Brigade
What can be TerraCycled in this category? Answer: any brand and size of polystyrene #6 cups What CANNOT be TerraCycled in this category? Answer: foam cups, any # cup other can #6 What does this waste get used for? Our … Continue reading
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Create an Easter Project with TerraCycle
Celebrate the Pink, Yellow, and “Green” Hues of Easter TerraCycle®Provides Easter DIY Project and Free Collection Program for Candy Wrappers Spring is in the air, and the Easter bunny is just a hop, skip and a jump away. This year, … Continue reading
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LUNA Bar Bag from TerraCycle
Back in August, I featured TerraCycle on The Campsite in Your Trash Can Be Someone’s Treasure. This is a company that recycles your trash, including garbage from trail food you bring along on your outdoor excursions, into handy products, from … Continue reading
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How Sponsored Waste Creates Jobs and Builds Community
Despite having once famously complained that recycling is bullshit—nothing more than a sham to shift responsibility from producer to consumer—Lloyd was nevertheless impressed by Terracycle’s sponsored waste upcycling programs which encourage companies to take responsibility for the waste stream created … Continue reading
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It’s made of what?
The Terra Stone Plant Caddy and the Eco-Terra Watering Can will be on store shelves this spring. These are all great additions to the host of tools used by gardeners who want to do their part for the environment. Who … Continue reading
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Pageant Winner Feels Right at Home at Texas Tech
Environmental Platform Her platform theme for pageants has always focused on the environment, and Bojorquez said she loves the voice winning gives her for preserving nature and similar causes. Before competing for the title of World Miss Universe, Bojorquez won … Continue reading
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Recycling Heroine
Some people know how to turn lemons into lemonade. Telma Rangel has figured out how to convert trash into treasure. It all began when Mother’s Cookies, an Oakland-based company, went out of business in 2008 and Rangel lost her job … Continue reading
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Hamilton Public Library surpasses 10,000 wrapper mark
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St. Joseph School wins national TerraCycle award
St. Joseph School recently won second place in TerraCycle’s Winter Waste Wonderland competition, a national contest. As the second-highest collector of lunch kits in TerraCycle’s Lunch Kit Brigade, St. Joseph School will receive 10,000 bonus points, which it can redeem … Continue reading
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Keeping Good Businesses From Going to Waste
In a previous post I brought up the topic of how failed business transfers can have a negative impact on local economies. I was surprised to see that it ignited several comments containing the term “creative destruction” — the concept that … Continue reading
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JOIN (OR START) A BRIGADE
TerraCycle, the company that got its start selling compost in recycled drink bottles, recently launched a Keyboard and Mouse Brigade <http://www.terracycle.net/en-US/brigades/keyboard-and-mouse-brigade.html> that pays schools for things like old keyboards, mouse, and Web cams. As an additional incentive for participation, TerraCycle’s … Continue reading
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Gold in the Landfill
Terra Cycle’s Albe Zakes told the lunchtime audience about Finding Marketing Gold in Your Local Landfill. If you’re not familiar with the Terra Cycle story, do yourself a favor and learn more.
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From Drink Pouch to Plant Caddy
Are you a recycler? Most gardeners are, because their passion for tending the earth naturally includes a concern for keeping it healthy. And that often requires creative problem-solving, from composting to repurposing. That’s why we’re excited about the Terra Stone … Continue reading
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How to Make a Food Wrapper Easter Basket
Spring has sprung early here in the Milwaukee area, and with that comes the opportunities to “green” your Easter crafts! Recycler and up-cycler, TerraCycle has a new, do-it-yourself Easter basket project made from MOM Brands Malt-O-Meal cereal bags or other … Continue reading
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Buzzz Briefs
Beautiful recycling by the Girl Scouts The Girl Scouts’ Tioga Service Unit in Merced is teaming up with Terracycle and Garnier for a Personal Care and Beauty Brigade recycling event Saturday. Accepted waste includes lipstick cases, mascara tubes, eye shadow cases … Continue reading
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Reuse and Recycle, THE 3 R’s – Lazy Ways to Reduce
The 3 Rs (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) is no longer simply a mantra for environmental activists, it’s a ticket to saving you money while you consider the planet. The 3Rs ask you to buy less, reuse more, and recycle products … Continue reading
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Dropps Laundry Detergent Review
In my house the laundry never ends. There are only three people in my house yet somehow I always have a load in the washing machine. It is a never ending chore that according to my husband only I am … Continue reading
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Dairy Tub recycling at the Garwood Library
GARWOOD — Beginning April 2, in addition to clean, empty yogurt cups and lids, the following items may be dropped off at the Garwood Public Library for recycling with Terracyle: Cream Cheese tubs and lids, Ricotta Cheese tubs and lids, Sour … Continue reading
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How to Save on Plumbing Costs
“First things first: Call a plumber immediately if you have a leak, no matter how small. People often assume that little drips will stop on their own, but most get worse. And when water seeps into your walls or damages … Continue reading
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Galloway schools turn recycling into cash
Three years ago, while Tina Bauer was a classroom assistant at the Oceanville kindergarten in Galloway Township, she and a co-worker decided to improve the school’s recycling program. A quick web search turned up Princeton-based TerraCycle, and the simple, four-word … Continue reading
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Students at Miller Elementary recycle juice pouches to brighten day of ill kids
Every weekday at lunchtime, a curious scene plays out in elementary school cafeterias around the country. Students unpack their lunchboxes and hawk their dietary wares with a fervor that would make a Wall Street broker blush. A Fruit Roll-up for … Continue reading
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Loesche students learn to recycle
Judith Rubin at Loesche Elementary helped students complete their first recycle project for the year. Rubin taught her second-grade class about recycling and found that recycled drink pouches make great folders. Students now have the opportunity to earn a drink … Continue reading
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Helping Customers Throw Away Your Products Responsibly
Even if you sell the most eco-friendly products on earth, you can’t control how consumers eventually dispose of them. Do they end up in landfills? Get recycled? Donated or resold? Recyclable plastic, after all, does little good if consumers toss … Continue reading
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Worth the Squeeze
El Descanso Elementary School student Katelyn Kienitz’s campaign to raise money for her school began when she ran out of pages in her math journal. “I needed a new math journal for school and (my teacher) didn’t have any extra … Continue reading
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Sounds Like Reincarnation
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Students walk to green carpet at Sustainapolooza Students walk to green carpet at Sustainapolooza
A celebration took place yesterday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. But it was not athletics or academics that was being celebrated but the strides that Iowa State is taking in the field on sustainability. The event was … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Tuesday: Spotlight on Colgate Oral Care Brigade
What can be TerraCycled in this category? Answer: ANY BRAND toothpaste tubes, toothpaste caps, tooth brushes, floss containers, and plastic toothbrush packaging (what a toothbrush comes in when you buy it) What CANNOT be TerraCycled in this category? Answer: cardboard … Continue reading
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Recycled Garden Accessories from Terracycle
Who could imagine that a granola bag could be turned into a watering can? Or, a drink pouch into a plant caddy? TerraCycle®, Inc., the pioneering upcycling and recycling company, has three new products available for the eco-conscious gardener. The … Continue reading
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MiddCore explores upcycling
The College is taking steps to implement TerraCycle, a new waste management program, which will hopefully be introduced to the student body during Spring Term. MiddCORE suggested the program over Winter Term, and the group has since been working out … Continue reading
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Can Saving Trash Help Raise Money for Your Nonprofit?
“If you just leave your bag of garbage by your front door I’ll stop by and grab it on my way to work.” This probably isn’t something most people Facebook message their friends about at 10:00 at night. But, not … Continue reading
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Partnership Elementary Earns State Recycling Title
by Bill Poston Partnership Elementary earned first place at the county and state levels in the K-12 school recycling competition sponsored by Keep America Beautiful, Inc. and Nestlé Waters North America, The students and staff at Partnership Elementary collected 3,231 … Continue reading
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Mrs. Hatcher’s Hangout: Updates from Room 123
We have SO much going on right now in room 123! Check it out: *BRIGADES, BRIGADES, BRIGADES! I am sure you’ve heard of the 5th grade G21 project. We have been recycling 3 different types of brigades (glue sticks/bottles, empty … Continue reading
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Gold Buyback Site Sharing Proceeds with Charity
Trenton, N.J.–SellYourGold.com is teaming up with international recycling company TerraCycle Inc. to add a charitable aspect for consumers who are selling their precious metal jewelry for cash. Based in Trenton, N.J., TerraCycle is a recycling and “up-cycling” company that specializes … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Tuesday: Eco-Product Design Contest
I’m sharing something a little different for today’s TerraCycle Tuesday. Instead of highlighting a brigade, I’m spreading the word about TerraCycle’s annual Eco-Product Design Contest, which will soon be accepting entries for 2012. Here’s some info from TerraCycle: Elmer’s® Products, … Continue reading
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Six Strategies for Partnering with Big Brands
Tom Szaky didn’t even try to get his product–a worm excrement fertilizer packed in a recycled bottle–into small retailers when he started TerraCycle six years ago. Instead, he reached as high as he could: Wal-Mart. “If I want to be big … Continue reading
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Six strategies for partnering with big brands
A must-follow checklist for small businesses looking to connect with powerhouse companies like Wal-Mart. Tom Szaky didn’t even try to get his product–a worm excrement fertilizer packed in a recycled bottle–into small retailers when he started TerraCycle six years ago. … Continue reading
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Clark 7th Graders Take Part In Terracycle Recycling Project
Nicole Mailloux’s seventh grade writing students at Carl H. Kumpf Middle School in Clark are actively participating in a service learning project to utilize persuasive writing techniques in order to motivate other middle school students to take part in an … Continue reading
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It’s a Wrap – For Now
Beginning next week, the CCHS Environmental Field Studies Group has teamed up with Terracycle, a global program that aims to eliminate waste with recycling and upcycling. The EFSG is collecting the following items: all brands and sizes of candy wrappers, … Continue reading
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Spencer-Van Etten Town Talk: Be green and help schools get greenbacks
Both Chemung and Tioga counties recycle much material, including plastic grocery bags in Tioga. There are some things, however, neither county takes, such as plastic bowls or tubs for yogurt, margarine, Cool Whip, deli foods and the like. I always … Continue reading
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Growing from Worm Poop to Packaging Reuse
TerraCycle, the Newark, N.J. based brand has evolved into a $20 million-a-year operation, since it was founded in 2001 by Princeton University dropout Tom Szaky. In a few short years, the company has pivoted but not abandoned its original focus … Continue reading
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GHS CLASS OF 62 Party, Casino Bus Trip, Chip Bag Blitz Contest, GHS Class of 82 Reunion, All Class Rams Reunion, Just Mom & Me
Help score some extra points this playoff season for the Almost Home Animal Shelter by saving all those empty chip bags from your sports parties and get-togethers and send them in to Haddon Township’s Green Team. TerraCycle will upcycle these … Continue reading
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Girl Scouts celebrating group’s 100 birthday
The Girl Scouts of the USA will turn 100 years old on March 12, and are celebrating Green Forever. The Girl Scouts Tioga Service Unit has teamed with terracycle.com to minimize the waste stream to earn its Celebrating 100 Forever Green … Continue reading
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Three Sisters All-Natural Cereal: Very Tasty & Very Eco-Friendly
Two of the reasons for the superior taste in their cereal is they use all natural ingredients as well as packaging every cereal in a “freshness saver” bag. There are no artificial preservatives, colors or flavors and no hydrogenated oils … Continue reading
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Lunchtime lesson
Garfield Elementary School students learn about recycling CEDAR RAPIDS — A new “Star Wars” lunchbox is in 6-year-old John Maloy’s future, but the space enthusiast’s lunchtime excitement Monday centered around a closer-to-home initiative to benefit planet Earth. “Reduce, reuse, recycle,” … Continue reading
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Spencer-Van Etten Town Talk: Be green and help schools get greenbacks
Both Chemung and Tioga counties recycle much material, including plastic grocery bags in Tioga. There are some things, however, neither county takes, such as plastic bowls or tubs for yogurt, margarine, Cool Whip, deli foods and the like. I always … Continue reading
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Clark 7th Graders Take Part In Terracycle Recycling Project
CLARK — Nicole Mailloux’s seventh grade writing students at Carl H. Kumpf Middle School in Clark are actively participating in a service learning project to utilize persuasive writing techniques in order to motivate other middle school students to take part … Continue reading
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Tom Szaky at TCU State of Leadership Conference
The Keynote speaker was TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky. We were also asked to sit at his table. Long story short, we chatted the whole dinner, awesome dude. Extremely intelligent, insightful, and funny guy. If you aren’t familiar with TerraCycle, please … Continue reading
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The Greening Of Westford
As of February 15, 2012: 245,066 pieces equaling 2415 lbs of trash saved from the waste stream. $4975.96 raised for the Westford Schools.
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Will disposable diapers soon be recyclable?
Babies are cute. Their diapers are not, for several reasons, many of which involve the environment. Whenever I’m visiting my sister, who has a 2-year-old and a newborn, I’m struck with the sheer volume of dirty diapers in the trash … Continue reading
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North School News
Mars Area The first day of school for students will be Aug. 27 under a calendar adopted Tuesday by school directors. The last day depends on the number of snow days. If no snow days are used, school will end … Continue reading
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The maniacs attack! Recyclemania returns to Guilford
Bryan Dooley, Staff Writer February 16, 2012 Reduce, reuse, Recyclemania. Recyclemania is an annual contest which lasts from February through March. Over 400 colleges and universities nationwide — including Guilford — will compete to see which one recycles the most … Continue reading
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TerraCycle partnership cited as one of the reasons Mars wins Green Candy Company of the Year!
In Hackettstown, the company’s efforts to sustainability and green manufacturing are impressive. First, virtually all waste generated by the 200,000-sq.-ft facility winds up being reused, recycled or redistributed, asserts Brian Suwalski, plant director. Any confectionery waste that’s not possible of … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Tuesday: Spotlight on Drink Pouch Brigade
Happy Valentine’s Day and TerraCycle Tuesday! Today we’re looking at one of our most popular brigades, the Drink Pouch Brigade. What can be TerraCycled in this category? Answer: any brand aluminum drink pouches and plastic drink pouches What CANNOT be … Continue reading
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Use Huggies? Then TerraCycle is for you!
Let’s face it. We’re not all cloth-diapering mamas. For many of us disposable diapers are the practical choice. But just because you use disposables, doesn’t mean you don’t consider your impact on the environment and try to make greener changes … Continue reading
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Eco-Friednly Decorating: 5 Upcycle Projects to Try at Home
Nowadays, there are so many awesome ways to take ordinary items around your home and repurpose them into something brand new. As a society, we often waste so much adding to our ever increasing landfills. If you have been thinking … Continue reading
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Graffiti class in Trenton blends style and tradition of street art
What’s in a name? Shakespeare posed the question in “Romeo and Juliet” centuries ago. Yesterday, artist Mike Carey, an instructor teaching the art of graffiti, had a 21st century answer: If you’re looking for a good name to use as … Continue reading
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Capri Sun Recycling
The kindergarten classes continue to collect Capri Sun pouches to recycle through the TerraCycle program. Please send in empty Capri Sun pouches with straws removed. All money earned is used to support projects in our school.
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Albe Zakes, TerraCycle: Outsmart waste, raise millions for charities & have global impact
Albe was one of my very first guests when I started Mrs. Green. We’ve come a long way baby! The tagline on their website? Eliminate The Idea of Waste. Love it! You also know I love numbers so ponder these … Continue reading
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The virgin suicides
TerraCycle produces various funky recycled bags through partnerships with major consumer goods manufacturers. It’s easy to get carried away with all the things that aren’t happening in the environmental space – the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies, faster adoption … Continue reading
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Green gets its groove back
Ninety-seven percent of participants of the Green Your Home Challenge said it increased their knowledge of how to help the environment. The tale of one online game serves as a powerful example of how approaching old problems in new ways … Continue reading
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Terracycle: Beaded Necklace for Your Valentine
Looking for a fun, recycled craft for your Valentine? Based off a beaded necklace users create in Terracycle’s Trash Tycoon game on Facebook, this do-it-yourself project is made from Kraft Cheese wrappers. It teaches kids (and adults) about recycling while … Continue reading
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Naples Christian Academy Wraps Up Eco-Awards
The Naples Christian Academy received the Waste Reduction Awards Program, or WRAP, award from the Collier County Board of Commissioners in December. The WRAP award recognizes businesses, institutions and multi-family properties for enhanced and innovative recycling programs.
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Disposable Diaper Recycling May Soon Become a Real Possibility
OWATONNA — While changing diapers on a baby is a necessary duty, it is not fun. It is easy to understand why disposable diapers quickly topped reusable cloth diapers as the bottom-covering garment of choice for incontinent Americans once these … Continue reading
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DIY Upcycled Valentine’s Jewelry
Sometimes the neatest things just appear in my inbox that I just gotta share here. Jewelry is always a nice go-to gift for Valentine’s Day but how about putting a fun recycled twist to it? That’s where TerraCycle’s wrapper necklace craft … Continue reading
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Superintendent White visits North Live Oak Elementary today
Educators and students at North Live Oak Elementary are opening the doors of their school at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday (Feb. to put their daily learning environment on display for Louisiana’s newly appointed Superintendent of Education John White. White is visiting … Continue reading
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Orange Hunt Elementary TerraCycle Update: Cheese Brigade
So far we have collected 63 units and earned 326 points! With just our points from December we have earned enough to plant three trees, provide a goose to three families or we are half way to protecting an acre … Continue reading
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Collect some trash and help the Hamilton Library earn some cash
HAMILTON – You can help the Hamilton Public Library earn some money just by collecting your Keebler, Nabisco, Scott and Frito Lay product wrappers and bringing them to the library. Once collected, the materials are sent off to Terracycle, where … Continue reading
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DIY #Recycling: Celebrate with Eco Games and Gifts from Upcycling Pioneer TerraCycle
Love it or loathe it, Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching. Some are planning romantic dates with their longtime sweetheart. Some are planning to finally ask out their crush at recess. Regardless of your plans this Valentine’s Day, TerraCycle has sweet … Continue reading
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RecycleMania kicks off two-month-long recycling competition
The recycling mania at Penn has officially begun. From February 5 through March 31, Penn will compete in the 2012 RecycleMania Tournament, a recycling competition held annually between over 600 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Penn’s … Continue reading
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The Impact of Gamification
Gamification.org defines gamification as “the concept of applying game-design thinking to non-game applications to make them more fun and engaging.” In gamification study, regularly used game design techniques and mechanics are defined and introduced into atypical game scenarios. An example … Continue reading
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Super Bowl XLVI: Greening Efforts To Reduce Environmental Impact
A day dedicated to a leather ball being thrown around under bright lights in front of thousands of people munching snacks in oversized plastic containers, waving paraphernalia that may all ultimately end up in a landfill, is not a day … Continue reading
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How To Recycle | 2012 Market Facts
TerraCycle, an award-winning company that specializes in recycling hard-to-recycle waste, wants to help small businesses achieve their green initiatives while giving back to the community. If your company signs up to a TerraCycle “Brigade” and begins collecting specific items such … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Valentine’s Day Craft Idea
LOVE THE PLANET THIS VALENTINE’S DAY Celebrate with Eco Games and Gifts from Upcycling Pioneer TerraCycle Love it or loathe it, Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching. Some are planning romantic dates with their longtime sweetheart. Some are planning to finally … Continue reading
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Bagged cereal milks green beyond being box-less
Sally’s brand cereal, the first Malt-O-Meal brand available in Canada and now moving into the U.S. in early 2012, starts off being green by its box-less, resealable bagged format. But the sustainability doesn’t stop there: Malt-O-Meal also purchases wind energy … Continue reading
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Westford teachers win grant to plant trees
WESTFORD — Students at the Nabnasset School will be able to enjoy the beauty of flowering pear trees after Sustainable Westford awarded a $1,500 grant to two teachers at the school to plant the trees. Sustainable Westford, the organization behind … Continue reading
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In the news
TerraCycle offers a free recycling program called the Personal Care and Beauty Brigade that can help salons and spas move toward zero-waste. Sponsored by L’Oreal’s Garnier brand, the Brigade is free to join and all shipping costs are paid. Any … Continue reading
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TerraCycle’s Upcycling Valentine’s Day Program
Once again TerraCycle is at the forefront of upcycling and reusing products for a brighter future for all of us. They are ready for Valentine’s Day with a few DIY upcycling ideas. While cleaning up trash doesn’t seem like a … Continue reading
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Do-it-Yourself bracelets made of Kraft Cheese wrappers
The best Valentine gifts are not bought in stores but are the ones that are homemade and come straight from the heart and for the bracelet straight from the garbage. Whether you make a bracelet for that special Valentine or … Continue reading
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Be a Recycling Champ: Students Need to Actively Help the Environment
In this first issue of the spring semester, I’d like to challenge you to take that creativity to a unique end: recycling. “Creative recycling” may sound, to you, a bit like the combination of the words “synchronized” and “swimming,” which, … Continue reading
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A lot of your trash is TerraCycle’s treasure
TerraCycle, an award-winning company that specializes in recycling hard-to-recycle waste, wants to help small businesses achieve their green initiatives while giving back to the community. If your company signs up to a TerraCycle “Brigade” and begins collecting specific items such … Continue reading
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19 Things Your Company Should be Recycling
These days it seems like every company is trying to go green, and we’ll be the first to back those efforts up. To prove how supportive we are, we decided to bring back our “Green Office Tip of the Week” … Continue reading
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TerraCycle 101
Recently Mrs. Erickson and a group of 4th graders learned about Terracycle by looking at the food packaging items we collect at RES and thinking about what becomes of these items. They shared what they learned with other students. Terracycle … Continue reading
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Reducing Waste at Churchill Road Elementary School McLean School Sets Recycling Reusing Upcycling Example
MCLEAN, Va. (WUSA) – Trash has a new meaning at Churchill Road Elementary School. Some of it means money. Some of it means food for the hungry. And some of it means a bumper crop of vegetables this spring. The … Continue reading
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A Pleasant Surprise: Super Bowl XLVI Goes Green!
I’m not much of a sports guy myself. For me, sports seem to be a detraction from more serious issues. But, I noticed on our TerraCycle Facebook page that we’re running a cross-promotion with Frito Lay for Super Bowl XLVI … Continue reading
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Have an Actively Green Winter
January and February may be among the coldest months of the year, but doing fun activities with your families can alleviate some of that winter chill. This Valentine’s Day, think about what you love – children, family, friends and this … Continue reading
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Morgan County schools are ramping up recycling
For local students, collecting cans and bottles is more than a lesson about recycling, it’s about giving back to their school and community while helping the environment. Students at Poston Road and Paragon elementary schools have been hard at work … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Tuesday: Spotlight on Cell Phone Brigade
What can be TerraCycled in this category? Answer: any brand and type of cell phone (ex. flip phones, Tracfone/pay-as-you-go models, smartphones, iPhones) What CANNOT be TerraCycled in this category? Answer: house/portable phones, phone chargers, or loose batteries Depending on the … Continue reading
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Are Super Bowl Ads Worth The $3.5 Million?
The lede on an AP story in USA Today claims the Super Bowl is “still the hottest ticket in advertising.” But isn’t that kind of like saying that the $487.25 that “The Book of Mormon” commands for a prime orchestra seat less than … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Gives “Unrecyclables” New Life
Wondering how to responsibly dispose of cereal and chip bags, candy wrappers, make-up containers, and other single-use packaging items? Send them to TerraCycle! Founded in 2001, TerraCycle offers national mail-in recycling programs for all kinds of hard-to-recycle plastic waste. The company helps … Continue reading
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TerraCycle develops recycling for disposable diapers
TRENTON, N.J. (Jan. 24, 11 a.m. ET) — One of the dirtiest and most demonized portions of the municipal waste stream may soon be diverted from landfills. Developing a recycling solution for used disposable diapers, a biological amalgam of complexity, has … Continue reading
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Old Navy Playground in Harrisonburg, VA
Students at Luray Elementary in Harrisonburg, VA receive a playground made out of recycled Flip Flops from Old Navy and TerraCycle.
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Kimberly-Clark Professional and TerraCycle Partner to Help Customers Recycle Cleanroom Garments
Kimberly-Clark Professional and TerraCycle have joined forces to help pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities recycle cleanroom garments, including coveralls, hoods, boot covers, hair nets and masks. Through the collaboration, Kimberly-Clark Professional will become among the first to implement a large scale recycling … Continue reading
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Kimberly-Clark Professional and TerraCycle Partner to Help Customers Recycle Cleanroom Garments
Kimberly-Clark Professional and TerraCycle have joined forces to help pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities recycle cleanroom garments, including coveralls, hoods, boot covers, hair nets and masks. Through the collaboration, Kimberly-Clark Professional will become among the first to implement a large scale recycling … Continue reading
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Trash to Treasure Creative Reuse Center: TerraCycle 2012 Goal: 300,000
Broward College’s TerraCycle is one of nation’s best collection program. TerraCycle pays for material collected. Money from the program go towards the Michelle Lawless Scholarship Fund which supports female Environmental Science majors. Last year the program collected more than 200,000 … Continue reading
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Sustainability: It Will Change Your Business…If It Hasn’t Already
Do you have a sustainability officer yet? You might need one. It’s probably even more likely that your customers will have one, and you will have to pay attention to them if you want to continue to supply them with … Continue reading
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Giving Back Through TerraCycle
Terra Cycle is a pro-recycling/reuse organization that is awarding money or in-kind donations to non-profits that submit recyclable materials to them. For instance, Clif Bar will donate two cents to the nonprofit of your choice when you submit any wrapper … Continue reading
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Practical lessons, academic accomplishment for Ipswich student
Ipswich – Megan Frieberger is passionate about setting and achieving goals — whether it is earning top grades in school, generating community interest in environmental issues or competing in doubles tennis. Frieberger works with TerraCycle, a non-profit that uses up-cycling … Continue reading
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TerraCycle on WFSB (CBS)
In New London, St.Mary’s Star of the Sea School recycles with TerraCycle in the Drink Pouch Brigade.
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KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* PARTNERS WITH TERRACYCLE TO HELP CUSTOMERS RECYCLE CLEANROOM GARMENTS
Kimberly-Clark Professional*, a global leader in contamination control solutions for laboratories and cleanrooms, and TerraCycle, a leading “upcycling” company, have joined forces to help pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities recycle cleanroom garments, including coveralls, hoods, boot covers, hair nets and masks. Through … Continue reading
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How to Get a Job in Green Business
With the unemployment rate depressingly high, it’s hard to find a job these days. It can be even harder to find a job you’re really passionate about. But if the environment is your passion, you’ll be happy to hear there … Continue reading
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Trash raffle promotes recycling
A number of difficult-to-recycle and non-recyclable items, including more than 500 juice pouches, will get a new lease on life, thanks to Belle Aire School’s Trash 4 Cash program. The Belle Aire PTA decided in the fall of 2010 to … Continue reading
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TerraCycle To Launch Upcycling Program for Disposable Diapers
TerraCycle, the New Jersey-based company that specializes in upcycling waste packaging into durable consumer products, will soon launch a program for disposable diapers, according to Waste & Recycling News. Ernie Simpson, global vice president of research and development for Terracycle, … Continue reading
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TerraCycle tries to ‘revolutionize’ disposable diapers
One of the dirtiest and most demonized portions of the municipal waste stream may soon be diverted from its centuries-long decomposition site: landfills. Developing a recycling solution for used disposable diapers, a biological amalgam of complexity, has been a top … Continue reading
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TerraCycle tries to ‘revolutionize’ disposable diapers
One of the dirtiest and most demonized portions of the municipal waste stream may soon be diverted from its centuries-long decomposition site: landfills. Developing a recycling solution for used disposable diapers, a biological amalgam of complexity, has been a top … Continue reading
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EcoEagles: Saving the planet, making a difference
Looking to help save the planet, one piece of would-be trash at a time, and possibly earn a few dollars for their school and for special causes, a trio of Mercer sixth-graders made a pitch that’s caught on like wildfire. … Continue reading
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Initiative Recycles Used Beauty Products
Used beauty products, aka trash, can now be put to better use post application through a partnership established between L’Oréal-owned beauty brand Garnier and green companyTerraCycle, which makes consumer products from post-consumer materials. The companies are working together to collect used personal-care … Continue reading
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TerraCycle develops recycling for disposable diapers
One of the dirtiest and most demonized portions of the municipal waste stream may soon be diverted from landfills. Developing a recycling solution for used disposable diapers, a biological amalgam of complexity, has been a top priority of the global … Continue reading
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Albe Zakes- TerraCycle
Albe was one of my very first guests when I started Mrs. Green. We’ve come a long way baby! The tagline on their website? Eliminate The Idea of Waste. Love it! You also know I love numbers so ponder these … Continue reading
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Help Us Help the Courtyard: 5th Grade G21 Project
Dear Parents and Fellow Roadrunners, Have you heard of 5th grade’s G21 project that is underway? Here’s our plan: We are recycling three different brigades: 1. Empty glue sticks and glue bottles 2. Empty disposable tape dispenser rolls 3. Empty … Continue reading
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WCC and Chip Brigade Make ‘Upcycling’ Easy, Fun
In an effort to make recycling more practical, Recycling Operations Manager Barry Wilkins will be working with TerraCylce, a New Jersey-based waste collection company, to collect used chip bags for its Chip Bag Brigade “upcycling” program. TerraCycle, founded in 2001 … Continue reading
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Affordable Investments: Owned Media and Partnerships
Social media is popular for various reasons including the fact that it’s easy to reach people and that it’s free. Media such as advertising and marketing often is not free, so for many companies it is hard, if not impossible, … Continue reading
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Angie’s Kettle Corn Valentine’s Snack Pack: What’s Not to Love?
All-natural treat makes classroom parties sweet I hate to admit it, but I still have candies from last Valentine ’s Day. Having 3 children and 18 students, we were way overstocked after this especially sweet holiday. And then came Halloween … Continue reading
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Winton Woods Elementary Recycling Club “Upcycles” Juice Bags
Fourth grade students at Winton Woods Elementary School are helping the environment through the school’s Recycling Club. In addition to recycling cans and paper throughout the building, students recently took on the sticky job of bundling recycled juice bags to … Continue reading
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Resolutions for a packaging addict
As both packaging professionals and consumers, we live lives dominated by packaging and its science. When we pick up a product at the grocery store or order something new online, we think about what the item itself is packaged in, … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Inc: Garbage In, Products Out
Just because you can’t put something in the recycling bin doesn’t mean it can’t be recycled – send it to New Jersey’s TerraCycle Inc., which specializes in unconventional recycleables. For retailers, getting customers in the door is the goal. The more … Continue reading
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Update on TerraCycle Progress
Terracycle is a program that was started in the middle of the Fall 2011 semester here at SUNY New Paltz and has quickly gained recognition around campus. Terracycle is a company that sponsors the recycling of items that are not … Continue reading
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Good News and Bad News About Recycling Thermoforms
Thermoformed packaging such as blister packs and clamshells typically end up in landfills, even though many of them are made of PC PET, the material that is blow molded into soft drink and water bottles and highly recyclable. That’s a … Continue reading
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Kemptown Students Go Green with Recycling Club
Stuart Walker was so disgusted by the smell of recycling bins during his first day as a member of Kemptown Elementary School’s recycling club, he said he felt like putting a clothespin on his nose. Now the fifth-grader is signing … Continue reading
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Eco-conscious Princeton Entrepreneur has a Design for a Better World
Tim McNulty had a satisfying career in high tech sales in California’s Silicon Valley and he and his wife, Chi Park, had adventures living and working in Amsterdam and Germany. But after the birth of their two children, now six … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Tuesday: Spotlight on Cereal Bag Brigade
Happy TerraCycle Tuesday! Today we’re examining the Cereal Bag Brigade.
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Fundraising with TerraCycle
Community of Faith’s Stepping Stones ministry participates in TerraCycle, a fundraising through recycling program. The following list of items may be brought to church and droped off in the TerraCycle bin located next to the Stepping Stones registration desk. Last … Continue reading
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Upcycling
Upcycling is a term not many of us are familiar with, but nonetheless an important concept that differs from recycling. According to Wikipedia, “upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of … Continue reading
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THE 3 Rs – Reuse and Recycle, Lazy Ways to Reduce
The 3 Rs (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) is no longer simply a mantra for environmental activists, it’s a ticket to saving you money while you consider the planet. The 3Rs ask you to buy less, reuse more, and recycle products … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Winter Wonderland Contest
December 1st-February 23th 3 Top Schools Receive Bonus Points that are turned into Cash Bonus points Awarded to Top Schools Could get 2,500.00 extra! Please Continue to Send in TerraCycle Materials Complete List on East Amwell’s Website
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TerraCycle Offers Marketing Support to Dental Offices that Sign Up for Oral Care Brigade
TRENTON, N.J., January 5, 2012 – In an effort to divert more waste from landfills and help businesses engage local communities, recycling and upcycling pioneer TerraCycle is encouraging dental offices to sign up for the Oral Care Brigade, a free … Continue reading
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Tossing out the trash can: Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center becomes zero-waste facility
The ramen noodle wrapper sat inside a recycling drawer, but that wasn’t good enough. Joshua Potter grabbed the plastic, which had been mistakenly placed with candy wrappers, and removed it from the Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center kitchen. Outside the building, … Continue reading
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Get paid for your trash!
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
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Twelve Resolutions for the New Year
CONCORD, NC — The New Year always brings resolutions at my house. I’ve had the same resolutions year after year, generic goals like getting healthier, losing weight and exercising more. This year, I made a bucket list of things I … Continue reading
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Recycling Gets Easier with TerraCycle
TerraCycle takes recycling to a whole new level with their recycling brigades program. The company was originally founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, a then 20 year old Princeton University Freshman. TerraCycle started by producing organic fertilizer (worm poop) in … Continue reading
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Naples Christian Academy receives WRAP Award from the Collier County Board of Commissioners
On December 13, 2011, Naples Christian Academy was awarded a WRAP (Waste Reduction Awards Program) award by the Collier County Board of Commissioners. The WRAP award recognizes businesses, institutions and multi-family properties for their enhanced and innovative recycling programs. The … Continue reading
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Are Applesauce Pouches Recyclable?
I’m sad to say that I developed an unkeen, ungreen habit in 2011. Sometime after my son’s first birthday, he went from eating almost everything served to him to being the type of kid who would prefer to exist off … Continue reading
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Chip Bag Brigade!
Cassi “Twister” Reimer’s discovery of TerraCycle’s “how to make a fancy bow out of food wrappers” has inspired three things, to date. A lively craft session, full of Middleswarth and Utz and Toll House cookie wrappers, documented in a previous … Continue reading
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Green Cleaning & Your Kids: Things to Think About What’s Safe to Keep Around the House?
In choosing a standard cleaner versus a green cleaner, sometimes it seems as if you have to make a sacrifice. Choose a green cleaner, and it seems to not be quite as effective and often cost more off the shelf. … Continue reading
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De-connecting and eco-cycology in 2012
But other companies are catching this green fire. The outdoor-outfitting company Patagonia, for example, says any old item bought from Patagonia can be returned for recycling into new fiber or fabric; the company claims to have taken in 45 tons … Continue reading
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What’s On Your Holiday Wish List?
Our Board of Directors <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/huffpost-small-business-board-of-directors/> is about as hardworking a group as they come. So with the holiday season upon us, we decided to ask them for their wish lists this year. From solar-powered keyboards to spa days to a … Continue reading
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Sustainability: It Will Change Your Business…If It Hasn’t Already
Do you have a sustainability officer yet? You might need one. It’s probably even more likely that your customers will have one, and you will have to pay attention to them if you want to continue to supply them with … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Tuesday: Spotlight on Candy Wrapper Brigade
Happy 2012! Today’s the first TerraCycle Tuesday of the New Year. Today we’ll focus on the Candy Wrapper Brigade.
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Green Business Trend Giving Customers a Bigger Role
Much of this change is being fueled by the growing influence of social media, which allows a company to make its green efforts more transparent and creates a two-way conversation. Telling people you’re environmentally friendly isn’t good enough anymore; you … Continue reading
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West Hempfield students cut food waste with help of hungry pigs
Asmo and Charlotte look like your run-of-the-mill, quarter-ton pink pigs who spend their days snorting and eagerly awaiting their next meal. But they’re doing their part to help the environment by taking part in a campaign by students at West … Continue reading
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Cool | Outrageous Green Products
Recycled Stocking The kids will dig it if you change up your mantel with this repurposed Capri Sun wrapper stocking from TerraCycle. It’s 14? tall. dwellsmart.com, terracycle.com Don’t Blow a Circuit It won’t process your WORD document, but these coasters … Continue reading
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Bain Earns Money Through Recycling
Students and staff at Bain Elementary School raised more than $3,700 for the school through the TerraCycling program. The program allows schools to collect items like juice pouches, wrappers, empty glue sticks and writing instruments and submit them for recycling. … Continue reading
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Full Circle, Part 3: TerraCycle
This is the third entry in “Full Circle,” a series that will be profiling companies and organizations that offer biodegradable and recyclable products or services — both in the New York City area and beyond. Albe Zakes will admit it. … Continue reading
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Sustainability: It Will Change Your Business…If It Hasn’t Already
Do you have a sustainability officer yet? You might need one. It’s probably even more likely that your customers will have one, and you will have to pay attention to them if you want to continue to supply them with … Continue reading
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Recyclables Sent By Schools Used To Make Lots Of Useful Items
Schools create quite a lot of waste products that is thoughtlessly gotten rid of when it can be recycled. An exceptional recycling strategy labeled as TerraCycle has brought about a huge change in the recycling behavior of schools in the … Continue reading
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Students help TES go green
Students at Tharptown Elementary School have traded in Mother Goose for Mother Earth with their “Recycle Race” program that has had students thinking about the environment all year long. TES guidance counselor Brandi Gholston said the program, which was incorporated … Continue reading
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She’s Talking Trash
Lu-Ann Doyle doesn’t mind being called the “trash lady.”
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THE 3 Rs – Lazy Ways to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Recycle, the last of the 3R trio, is the most transformative of the Rs. When we recycle, we’re giving used products the chance to be reborn as something new. That’s especially the case thanks to companies like Preserve that has … Continue reading
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St. Stephen School raises thousands in reusing program
Great smiles are helping to bring big money to students and teachers at St. Stephen School in Warwick. The students and teachers are participating in TerraCycle’s Oral Care Brigade, in which the school earns two cents for every used toothpaste … Continue reading
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Guide to Greener Gift Wrapping
If you think gift wrap made from materials you have lying around the house or in the recycling bin look tacky and cheap, think again. Leave it to Martha Stewart to show us how elegant gifts wrapped in castoffs can … Continue reading
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Elementary PTO Receives Cash for Trash
Birch Street and Cherry Street Elementary schools’ Parent Teacher Organization discovered one man’s trash really could be another man’s treasure. A program collecting items ordinarily ending in the garbage has paid for a portion of the organization’s funding over the … Continue reading
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ESCONDIDO: Heritage Charter recognized for recycling efforts
TerraCycle has recognized Heritage K-8 Charter School in Escondido as one of the top 15 participants in one of its national recycling programs. The school is a top collector in Terracycle’s Oral Care Brigade, which collects non-recyclable waste such as … Continue reading
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Elementary PTO Gets Cash for Trash
Birch Street and Cherry Street elementary schools’ Parent Teacher Organization discovered one man’s trash could really be another man’s treasure. A program collecting items ordinarily ending in the garbage has paid for a portion of the organization’s funding over the … Continue reading
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How Tom Szaky Made Millions Out Of Worm Poop
In just 29 years, Tom Szaky has lived quite a life. Born in Hungary in the 80s, he lived with his family under the Iron Curtain where the idea of entrepreneurship did not exist. It wasn’t until the Chernobyl disaster … Continue reading
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Excellent Home Gardening Resource
The National Home Gardening Club is a membership organization dedicated to sharing a love for gardening. Members receive six issues of Gardening How-To Magazine and gain special privileges to enter contests, receive gardening advice, post in forums, trade seeds, test … Continue reading
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Excellent Home Gardening Resource
The National Home Gardening Club is a membership organization dedicated to sharing a love for gardening. Members receive six issues of Gardening How-To Magazine and gain special privileges to enter contests, receive gardening advice, post in forums, trade seeds, test … Continue reading
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Dutton Christian School Students Recycle Toothbrushes to Raise Money
GAINES TOWNSHIP — Fifth-grader Kyle Dronkers kept a straight face while talking about recycling used toothbrushes to help the planet and raise money for Dutton Christian School. “Well, I wouldn’t recommend using them,” deadpanned Kyle, 10, as he flashed a … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Tuesday: Spotlight on Scotch Tape Brigade
Happy TerraCycle Tuesday! Today the spotlight is on the Scotch Tape Brigade. If you’re anything like my mom and I, you go through rolls and rolls (and rolls) of tape this time of year. While you’re wrapping all those gifts, … Continue reading
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4 Big Trends for the Future of Sustainable Tech
Saving the planet and cutting down on emissions is a good thing, but who says you can’t have a little fun while doing so? “Sustainable” and “green” tech can seem boring, but the next generation of technology isn’t just good … Continue reading
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Pima waiting for city OK on new courts complex
The Pima County Board of Supervisors has agreed to go ahead with interim financing for the planned Joint Justice/Municipal Courts Complex – but only if the City Council agrees next week to pay for its share. In other action, the … Continue reading
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Frustrating yearly tally, cheered up by Solar
As with our previous tally (which Sunset took away in October last year), the jar obviously does not include the “active discards” of the few things that I have sent back to manufacturers with a suggestion letter, or the occasional … Continue reading
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Alex M & M’s Candy Wrapper Jewelry
Make your child’s craft time with Alex M&M’s Candy Wrapper Jewelry. Alex has partnered with Terracycle to create this fun jewelry activity, which repurposes unused M&M’s candy wrappers that would otherwise end up in landfills. Make bracelets, headbands, and belts … Continue reading
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CHIP In During the Holidays
With even less coercing, Rutabaga was talked into yet another creative holiday craft! With slight patience, we created beautiful fancy bows out of non-recyclable chip bags and you can too! Terracycle is a national recycling system for previously non-recyclable or … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Refresher Week: What NOT to TerraCycle
Yesterday I blogged about what we TerraCycle here at Blue Ridge. Today I’m going to write about something equally important: what we DON’T TerraCycle. Here is a list of items that I often see in our TerraCycle collection bins and … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Refresher Week: What Can Be TerraCycled?
For today’s post during this TerraCycle Refresher week on our blog, I’m sharing a list and description of what items we collect for TerraCycle here at Blue Ridge. Glue Bottles/Sticks Any size Elmer’s brand glue sticks and plastic glue bottles … Continue reading
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Eliminate the Idea of Waste
Eco-friendly cleaners have become more popular as people try to stay away from harsh chemicals, and now there’s more good news: not only are the eco-friendly cleaners available, but the bottles are being made from recycled plastics and are also … Continue reading
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PRINCETON: Nominations sought for sustainability awards
Princeton Environmental Film Festival – The festival has introduced an incredibly rich selection of films about critical environmental issues to our community. The films are often followed by a panel discussion featuring local businesses or causes that relate to the … Continue reading
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‘Turning trash into cash’
Youngsters in Jayme Denis’ second-grade class at the Benton Harbor Charter School show off some of the items they are recycling for a profit. John Madill / H-P staff Students learning to keep more waste out of landfills BENTON HARBOR … Continue reading
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COLUMN: Recycling becomes habit when learned in youth
I can’t help it; protecting our natural resources is something I am passionate about, which is why I am so excited about some things going on at Moore Intermediate School. Students, faculty and staff are participating in South Carolina Green … Continue reading
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The Rise of Social Entrepreneurs
What’s the Latest Development? A growing number of individuals are using their companies to directly benefit society while also making a profit. Many are innovating low-cost solutions to social and economic problems in the third world. For example, Sam Goldman … Continue reading
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Countryside school in Mount Laurel celebrating 40 years Friday
MOUNT LAUREL — The Countryside Elementary School on Schoolhouse Lane will be open from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday to celebrate four decades of education. The event will be the culmination of daylong classroom activities. Visitors will be greeted in … Continue reading
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TerraCycle
TerraCycle began out of a business plan contest. Tom Szaky wanted to establish a company that would convert waste into fertilizer by feeding it to worms and then utilizing their poop. Apparently he had some success with it previously and … Continue reading
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Simple Steps To Help The Environment
Below are some simple things that your family can do together at home to be earth-friendly: * Use one cup a day. Have each family member use only one cup for the whole day. This helps your household cut down … Continue reading
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The Secret to Making Recycling Fun
Children’s chores often include taking out the trash, (hopefully) taking out the recycling, and washing the dishes. After their chores, they usually get rewarded with free time to play. Given these habits, it’s not surprising children often view recycling as … Continue reading
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE
Here’s a ugly stat: Containers and packaging created roughly 71.6 million tons of waste in the United States in 2009, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. That’s why Garnier is sponsoring the Personal Care and Beauty Brigade with recycling … Continue reading
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New Jersey DEP recognizes recycling leaders
Recyclebank, TerraCycle and Sharp Electronics Corp. were among the 10 winners of awards presented by New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Students from across the state were also honored for writing poems about recycling. Students wrote about ways their … Continue reading
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Forbes Impact 30
Tom Szaky Terracycle At a Glance * Age: 29 * Headquarters: Trenton, N.J. * 2010 revenues: $13 million * www.terracycle.net Profile When Tom Szaky was a freshman at Princeton he hit upon the idea of using worm poop as an … Continue reading
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St. Elizabeth Area Catholic School’s recycling program doubles as a fundraiser
Mark Fritzler, 8th grade, left, and Zack Parman, 7th grade, right, count the recycled Capri Sun juice concentrate drink during her lunch hour at St. Elizabeth School in Reese. Students are encouraged to recycle their Capri Sun drink containers after … Continue reading
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Sandburg Elementary Turns Trash into Treasure
In the famous story Rumpelstiltskin, the king’s daughter spun straw into gold. Today, the TerraCycle company helps schools turn trash into treasure! TerraCycle was founded in 2006, and their goal is to divert trash from landfills, and turn it into … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Company Makes Products Out of Trash
Are you looking for a great earth-friendly gift for your friends and family? Well a backpack made out of juice pouches, or a wallet made out of candy wrappers would be perfect for this holiday season. Lucky for you, TerraCycle … Continue reading
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Ellen Degeneres Puts on Her Tech Pajama Jeans
The game is part of Sojo Studio’s mission to effect positive change in the real world using gaming, according to the statement released. The idea of using gaming for positive change isn’t a new one. Zynga has donated millions of … Continue reading
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Chad Rea – Chief Catalyst/Curator at ecopop
What is one business idea that you’re willing to give away to our readers? I’m fascinated by waste. TerraCycle is one of those innovative companies that has figured out a way to reuse waste and turn it into a profitable … Continue reading
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Gifts for the Student
Backpack and Notebook by TerraCycle (SEE LINK FOR PHOTO) This smile-inspiring bag and matching notebook are perfect for the student who is young or young-at-heart. Made with wrappers from common lunchroom snacks, like Capri Sun pouches and potato chip bags, … Continue reading
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Gifts for the Traveler
“Chip Tote” by TerraCycle [SEE LINK FOR PHOTO] Add a little whimsey to all your journeys with this tote made from recycled Lays potato chip bags. This funky tote will bring a smile to any traveler’s face, and it’s perfect … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Offers Spas Free Recycling Program
A busy day at a salon can result in bags of non-recyclable garbage from a full day of haircuts, coloring, nail services and spa procedures. Becoming more environmentally-friendly is on the minds of many spa and salon owners as they … Continue reading
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TerraCycle. Outsmart waste.
TerraCycle, based in Trenton, NJ, is a for-profit company that upcycles and recycles traditionally non-recyclable waste – into creative consumer products. Even in a city like Cambridge that has a very progressive recycling program (yay for recycling coffee cups and … Continue reading
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SN Whole Health: Green Laundry Products Gain Share
Green laundry products are tough on stains and gaining share against the competition FRESH LOOKS What consumers are most excited about, it turns out, is ditching the bottle entirely. Maria Brous, spokeswoman for Lakeland, Florida-based Publix Super Markets, said the … Continue reading
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Local School Trades Trash for Cash
Ohlone Elementary School’s recycling program is raising funds for school needs. Bags of chips, candy wrappers, tubs of butter…there’s very little that won’t earn a buck at Ohlone Elementary School these days. The school’s growing TerraCycle program allows these items … Continue reading
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From trash to cash
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Schools Increase Recycling Efforts With TerraCycle
Schools generate plenty of waste that is thoughtlessly disposed of when it should be recycled. An extraordinary recycling program called TerraCycle has brought about a huge change in the recycling behavior of schools in the country. This program takes the … Continue reading
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16 Sustainable Gifts for the Eco-Minded Techie
2. Terracycle Upcycled Boombox Bring the boombox back! Terracycle’s boomboxes are made with up to 80% recycled materials, like the wrappers of your favorite snacks and candy — Cheetos, Skittles, Starburst and Peanut M&Ms are all available. The boombox has … Continue reading
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Student Recycles with TerraCycle on Queens College
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Student Recycles with TerraCycle on Queens College
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Schools Increase Recycling Efforts With TerraCycle
Schools generate loads of waste matter that is thoughtlessly gotten rid of when it should be recycled. An exclusive recycling technique named TerraCycle has brought about an important difference in the recycling patterns of schools in the U.S.. The system … Continue reading
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New TerraCycle Program
GoGreen! The Mills PTA GoGreen committee has teamed up with TerraCycle to turn waste money for your school. TerraCycle has many different waste collection programs called Brigades. Mills GoGreen has signed up for two: Energy Bar Wrappers and Candy Bar … Continue reading
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Schools Increase Recycling Efforts with TerraCycle
Schools produce plenty of garbage which is carelessly disposed when it could very well be recycled. A unique recycling technique known as TerraCycle has brought about a huge change in the recycling behavior of schools in the US. The program … Continue reading
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Recyclables Sent By Schools Used To Make Lots Of Useful Items
Schools process plenty of trash that is carelessly gotten rid of when it could very well be recycled. An extraordinary recycling application named TerraCycle has brought about a significant difference in the recycling behavior of schools in the United States. … Continue reading
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Honest Kids Drinks Giveaway and Review
Honest Tea’s newest line, Honest Kids, are juice pouches which are organic, low in sugar, and a great alternative to sugar filled beverages. They come in five great flavors, Appley Ever After, Goodness Grapeness, Berry Berry Good Lemonade, Tropical Tango … Continue reading
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TerraCycle: Garbage in Eco-Friendly Products out
TerraCycle, Inc. is an international upcycling and recycling company that takes difficult to recycle packaging and turns it into affordable, eco-friendly products. Founded in 2001, TerraCycle is the world’s leader in the collection and reuse of non-recyclable post-consumer waste. TerraCycle … Continue reading
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Reusable Bags Can Replace Harmful Plastic Ones
Schools create a considerable amount of waste materials that’s thoughtlessly disposed when it may very well be recycled. A special recycling application referred to as TerraCycle has brought about an important difference in the recycling patterns of schools in the … Continue reading
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School Program Promotes The Use Of Recycled Bags
Schools produce a good deal of waste that’s carelessly gotten rid of when it may very well be recycled. A wonderful recycling application known as TerraCycle has brought about a significant difference in the recycling patterns of schools in the … Continue reading
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Schools Increase Recycling Efforts with TerraCycle
Schools process a lot of rubbish that’s carelessly gotten rid of when it could be recycled. A wonderful recycling program known as TerraCycle has brought about a huge improvement in the recycling habits of schools in the country. This method … Continue reading
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Schools Increase Recycling Efforts With TerraCycle
Schools generate plenty of debris that is thoughtlessly gotten rid of when it can certainly be recycled. A unique recycling strategy named TerraCycle has brought about a major difference in the recycling practices of schools in this country. This program … Continue reading
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School Program Promotes The Use Of Recycled Bags
Schools render a considerable amount of waste products that is carelessly disposed when it can be recycled. A unique recycling application named TerraCycle has brought about an enormous difference in the recycling routines of schools in the United States. This … Continue reading
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School Program Promotes The Use Of Recycled Bags
Schools generate lots of waste that’s thoughtlessly disposed of when it could very well be recycled. A unique recycling technique named TerraCycle has brought about an enormous difference in the recycling patterns of schools in the country. This program takes … Continue reading
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High School Program Collects Trash, Gets Cash
Hillsborough High School Industrial Technology teacher Tim Zavacki is exchanging the school’s trash for cash. Zavacki’s partnered with Terracycle, the retailer focused on creating products from hard-to-recycle or non-recyclable items, to collect with chip packages, cereal boxes, empty glue bottles … Continue reading
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First Person: 5 Easy Ways for My Kids to Make Money
Terra Cycle We go through A LOT of juice pouch drinks during the summer and during sports seasons. I have a box sitting on the counter that the empty juice pouches go into; when we have filled the box, we … Continue reading
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Garfield students educate on going Green
Every year, billions of drink pouches end up in dumpsters and landfills across America. TerraCycle, an eco-friendly recycler, converts the drink pouch material into innovative products from tote bags and pencil cases to plastic lumber and pavers. TerraCycle awards points … Continue reading
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TerraCycle on CNN’s American Morning
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The Green Team at Point Road School in Little Silver Outsmarts Waste
Jim Brown, the Assistant Recycling Coordinator of Monmouth County brought along Bill Kerwood from Magical Results to help the kids at PRS learn more about recycling, while having fun. The kids had fun while learning, and got to show off … Continue reading
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Tips for recycling sports gear
Turn your old sports gear into running tracks, tote bags, rugs and more. You may know you can recycle running shoes after you’ve trained hard and run a race in them, but did you know you can recycle the race … Continue reading
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It’s America Recycles Day—Don’t Forget Your Beauty Products Too
To bring awareness to this issue on America Recycles Day, Garnier (yup, the beauty brand) and upcycling/recycling pioneer TerraCycle are sponsoring the Personal Care and Beauty Brigade. All your hair care, skin care and cosmetic packaging, regardless of brand, can … Continue reading
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Leave no trace by recycling your wrappers
Step away from the trashcan! Leaving no trace just got easier — and cooler. Take your non-recycleable wrappers from products such as Kashi, Bear Naked and CLIF Bar and put them to good use through TerraCycle Brigade programs. Ship your … Continue reading
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TODAY IS AMERICA RECYCLES DAY! SOME TIPS ON HOW TO GET INVOLVED
Research Your Municipal Recycling Just like checking the smoke detector batteries on the day the clocks change for daylight savings time, America Recycles Day is a great day to reacquaint yourself with your municipal recycling regulations. Most people can recycle … Continue reading
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Outstanding Community Service – Terracycle
Congratulations McNeil! Thank you for donating juice pouches and candy wrappers as part of the Terracycle program. YOU have already provided 1,666 people with clean water! Your efforts are making a difference in our community. Keep up the great work … Continue reading
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When the stars align… III.
Meet-up #3 with Tom Szaky, the founder of TerraCycle This meet-up was organized by the U.S. Embassy for its Alumni and for some reason I managed to make it this time. There are always a lot of interesting people there … Continue reading
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Is This a Business or an Art Project?
Robert Fogarty started Dear World to bring attention to the world’s most tragic causes. But can he turn it into a scalable business? The Experts Weigh In Tom Szaky, Founder TerraCycle Trenton, NJ They are beautiful photos, but this kind … Continue reading
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Need to Recycle Cleanser Packaging?
I was contacted by Stephanie of TerraCycle who thought my readers would be interested in this program and I have to agree. Below is the text of a press release that provides all the information: Green AND Clean: TerraCycle and … Continue reading
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16 upcycled and green gifts you can feel good about giving
(6 of 16) 6. Snack Wrapper Eco-Boombox This is a desktop toy your coworkers will salivate for. Frito Lay joined forces with TerraCycle to give their snack packaging a second life, and the Eco-Boombox was born. It’s made with 80% … Continue reading
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Teachers engage students with new program
The school partnered with TerraCycle to collect electronics, beauty products and even candy wrappers, and four green drop-off totes have been set up in the school’s lobby for those items. Old tech gadgets have become a hot recycling item as … Continue reading
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Staley begins recycling program
The company TerraCycle even pays the school for every pound of difficult-to-recycle items, such as markers, glue sticks and drink pouches. “This program looks to reinforce the idea of recycling on the children,” said Tuttle. “When I was in school, … Continue reading
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BA students participate in national recycling program, earn money for schools
Every Friday, Linda Roberts’ fifth graders look forward to helping the environment and giving back to their community. Roberts, a special education teacher at Arrowhead Elementary School, said her students look forward every week to cleaning and sorting empty Capri … Continue reading
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Recycling Challenge: Pens
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TerraCycle Leap Into Fall Points Giveaway: We Won!
Here in the elementary school we participate in the TerraCycle waste collection program. By participating in the program, we earn money for our school, which we put towards recycling and other green initiatives.Today I got exciting news that we were … Continue reading
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Meld Charity, Creativity
• Share the vision. Trenton, N.J.-based TerraCycle makes new products out of discarded chip bags, drink boxes, pens or anything else that can’t usually be recycled. The company doesn’t use guilt to push consumers into giving. Inspiration goes further. Fun … Continue reading
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Halloween Hangover: What to do with a Sack Full of Candy Wrappers
Recycle Them Wait, didn’t you just say that candy wrappers are tough to recycle?Yes. Yes, I did. No, I’m not messing with your head. Not purposely at least. Most recycling companies won’t appreciate your little Halloween gift, but Terracycle will. … Continue reading
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How Little Brands Land Big Bang for Their Buck Method, Terracycle, Others Get Outsize Returns, but the Model Won’t Work for Most Giant Marketers — Here’s Why
Terracycle has both a great story and a social movement at its core, founded as it was by a Princeton University dropout who launched a business selling worm-poop compost in refurbished Coke bottles. It has built an eight-figure brand largely … Continue reading
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Malibu elementary school opens zero-waste campus
The students at Muse School CA in Malibu canyon will no longer throw their spent glue sticks and granola bar wrappers in the trash. On Monday, the nonprofit private school for children age 2 through 12 unveiled a new zero-waste sorting unit that not only recycles valuable commodities … Continue reading
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It’s a wrap for Halloween
Forget, for a moment, the concerns about all the candy most kids carted home from trick-or-treating. Push aside, if you will, the worries about tooth decay, childhood obesity and those extended sugar highs. What about all those wrappers? TerraCycle – … Continue reading
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It’s a wrap for Halloween
Forget, for a moment, the concerns about all the candy most kids carted home from trick-or-treating. Push aside, if you will, the worries about tooth decay, childhood obesity and those extended sugar highs. What about all those wrappers? TerraCycle – … Continue reading
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It’s a wrap for Halloween
Forget, for a moment, the concerns about all the candy most kids carted home from trick-or-treating. Push aside, if you will, the worries about tooth decay, childhood obesity and those extended sugar highs. What about all those wrappers? TerraCycle – … Continue reading
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It’s a wrap for Halloween
Forget, for a moment, the concerns about all the candy most kids carted home from trick-or-treating. Push aside, if you will, the worries about tooth decay, childhood obesity and those extended sugar highs. What about all those wrappers? TerraCycle – … Continue reading
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It’s a wrap for Halloween
Forget, for a moment, the concerns about all the candy most kids carted home from trick-or-treating. Push aside, if you will, the worries about tooth decay, childhood obesity and those extended sugar highs. What about all those wrappers? TerraCycle – … Continue reading
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It’s a wrap for Halloween
Forget, for a moment, the concerns about all the candy most kids carted home from trick-or-treating. Push aside, if you will, the worries about tooth decay, childhood obesity and those extended sugar highs. What about all those wrappers? TerraCycle – … Continue reading
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It’s a wrap for Halloween
Forget, for a moment, the concerns about all the candy most kids carted home from trick-or-treating. Push aside, if you will, the worries about tooth decay, childhood obesity and those extended sugar highs. What about all those wrappers? TerraCycle – … Continue reading
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It’s a wrap for Halloween
Forget, for a moment, the concerns about all the candy most kids carted home from trick-or-treating. Push aside, if you will, the worries about tooth decay, childhood obesity and those extended sugar highs. What about all those wrappers? TerraCycle – … Continue reading
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Look good, do good: Recycle beauty and personal care products with TerraCycle
No matter what kinds of beauty and personal care products you like to use, there’s a good chance you could also use some of those same products to do something good for the environment. TerraCycle is a company that specializes … Continue reading
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Recycle Your Candy Wrappers!
Wilson Recycling has partnered with Habitat for Humanity to recycle candy wrappers. Wilson is working with a national organization, TerraCycle, to recycle candy wrappers with donation and all proceeds will go Habitat locally. For more information, contact Wilson Recycling (462-4444 … Continue reading
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Upcycling Candy Wrappers
- This is WAY beyond my skill level, but here are directions on how to make an awesome purse out of candy wrappers! - Martha Stewart has an easy way to make light-switch plate covers using candy wrappers. Fun for … Continue reading
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Zero Waste Czars mandate no trash at THIS festival!
The Green Team here at Shaver’s Creek is dedicated to finding ways to conserve resources and divert garbage that goes to landfills. This year, we got rid of our trash dumpster in favor of sorting ALL of our commodities so … Continue reading
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What To Do With Your Leftover Candy Wrappers
For the everyday sweet-eater, Terracycle is your best bet. Founder Tom Szaky made the once-kitschy term “upcycling” into a legitimate process, and since its humble beginnings in 2001, Terracycle has become one of the No. 1 upcycling companies in the … Continue reading
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TerraCycle Gives “Unrecyclables” a New Life
Wondering how to responsibly dispose of cereal and chip bags, candy wrappers, make-up containers, and other single-use packaging items? Send them to TerraCycle http://www.terracycle.http://www.terracycle.net/! Founded in 2001, TerraCycle http://www.terracycle.net/ offers national mail-in recycling programs for all kinds of hard-to-recycle plastic … Continue reading
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Gloss How-To: Recycling Halloween Candy Wrappers
Now that you and your kids have a bag (or more) full of candy from last night’s trick or treating, how about giving some thought to what will happen to all the wrappers after your belly is full of sugary … Continue reading
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Recycle Your Halloween Candy Wrappers!
Each year millions of candy wrappers are needlessly discarded and end up in landfills. TerraCycle® is proud to partner with Mars®, Wrigley®, and Cadbury® to create a second life for candy wrappers. Every time you enjoy a candy product, we … Continue reading
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PR News Q&A with TerraCycle’s Albe Zakes: The Low-Cost Power of Strategic Facebook Questions
We’ve all seen case studies showing how the world’s top consumer brands are forging new and deeper relationships with their customers on Facebook. Yet there are many more start-up companies than there are colossal consumer brands, and their stories can … Continue reading
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HALLOWEEN: THE SCARIEST DAY OF THE YEAR
Let’s face it, trick-or-treaters don’t want anything but the really sugary, bad-for-you candy, so don’t bother wracking your brain for some kind of healthy alternative. And don’t trick the poor kids, it’s just mean. Except for Hershey Kiss wrappers, most … Continue reading
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Now It’s Even Easier to Recycle Your Beauty Products
Ever been confused as to how some of your multimaterial beauty products, such as lipstick and mirrored compacts, should be recycled? Fret no more. With TerraCycle, a company that specializes in recycling harder-to-recycle goods, the guesswork is taken out for … Continue reading
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Gaming for Good, Gaming for Green
Green games such as LogiCity, The Climate Change Game, CEO2- Climate Business, and Plan It Green are all examples of video gaming for good. These games teach players how to manage the environment and business to effectively take care of … Continue reading
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Scare up some good for Halloween
More schools are collecting candy wrappers to send to TerraCycle, a recycling company that gives donors money for charitable use. It has received 1.2 million candy wrappers so far this year, more than double its 2010 total.
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Halloween promoted as do-good moment for kids
•More schools are collecting candy wrappers to send to TerraCycle, a recycling company that gives donors money for charitable use. It has received 1.2 million candy wrappers so far this year, more than double its 2010 total. “At first, kids … Continue reading
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How to Make a Recycled Robot Costume
Recycled Robot Costume Follow these instructions, provided by TerraCycle, and discover how easy it is to make a robot costume using stuff you would probably throw away.
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Recycling options for candy wrappers
After a night of Halloween trick-or-treating, there is a lot of candy-wrapper trash, and the wrappers usually end up in a landfill. TerraCycle is offering a recycling solution: kids and adults can collect Halloween candy wrappers and send them to … Continue reading
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It’s a wrap for Halloween
Forget, for a moment, the concerns about all the candy most kids will be carting home from trick-or-treat tonight. Push aside, if you will, the worries about tooth decay, childhood obesity and those extended sugar highs. What about all those … Continue reading
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Happy (EGOlogical) Halloween
Costume: Try searching thrift stores to put together a costume using used clothing or props. This will reduce the amount of resources extracted and pollution created during the production and consumption of the product. Also, use recycled products such as … Continue reading
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Halloween gets philanthropic makeover
Halloween isn’t only for collecting M&M’s and wearing Glee Cheerios costumes. More groups are promoting it as a teachable moment for kids to do good. — More schools are collecting candy wrappers to send to TerraCycle, a recycling company that … Continue reading
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Halloween promoted as do-good moment for kids
Halloween isn’t only for collecting M&M’s and wearing Glee Cheerios costumes. More groups are promoting it as a teachable moment for kids to do good. – •More schools are collecting candy wrappers to send to TerraCycle, a recycling company that … Continue reading
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Asheville-area schools build reducing and reusing into culture
In addition to the typical paper, aluminum, plastic, and electronics recycling, Evergreen collects hard-to-recycle items such as pens, markers, scotch tape dispensers, glue sticks, and granola bar wrappers and sells them to TerraCycle, a company specializing in upcycling. “They take … Continue reading
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Halloween Green Treats
How can we enjoy treating the little ghosts, goblins and gremlins with a minimum negative environmental impact? There are two important areas to look at; the ingredients and how the candy is produced, as well as what to do with … Continue reading
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Terracycle Monster Trash Contest
Are you making your Halloween clown costume from candy wrappers? Your dragon mask from drink pouches? If so, we want to see it! Enter your upcycled costume into our Monster Mash your Trash costume contest by November 4th and you … Continue reading
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Recycling for $$$
Kindergarten teacher Marla Fuxa coordinates the recycling effort at the school. She said she was inspired to sign up for the program when she read the back of a Capri Sun box. “I saw a notice on the back of … Continue reading
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Terracycle builds an empire on a foundation of compost
PHOENIX (Oct. 27, 2:30 p.m. ET) — Backyard composters know red worms are masters of turning banana peels and coffee grounds efficiently into fertilizer. Increasingly, brands are turning to Terracycle as the “red worm” of the marketing ecosystem — converting … Continue reading
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Terracycle builds an empire on a foundation of compost
PHOENIX (Oct. 27, 2:30 p.m. ET) — Backyard composters know red worms are masters of turning banana peels and coffee grounds efficiently into fertilizer. Increasingly, brands are turning to Terracycle as the “red worm” of the marketing ecosystem — converting … Continue reading
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Technology for Change: Trash Tycoon
RT: TerraCycle is a strategic sponsor of Trash Tycoon. They not only market the game to the over 21 million users of TerraCycle, but they also pitch the game to their partners, some of the top consumer packaged goods companies. … Continue reading
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Noble awarded playground built from recycled flip-flops
Noble Elementary School is one of four schools nationwide to receive a donated playground from Old Navy and TerraCycle Inc., an upcyling and recycling company. The playground was installed Sept. 10. “Playgrounds provide the ideal place for children to master … Continue reading
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Turn in candy wrappers, other items to benefit W-SR
After Halloween is over, bring your empty candy wrappers to the Waverly Recycling Center or the Waverly Chamber of Commerce Office and place them in TerraCycle bins. Wrappers and other items are being collected to benefit Waverly-Shell Rock schools.
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Upcycling and Worms: An Interview with a TerraCycler
One Simple Ask is dedicated to exploring the theory and practice of ethical consumerism. Over the past few months, our team has come across some outstanding companies that are truly walking the “green” marketing talk that permeates our consumer culture. … Continue reading
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Madison Ave. Elementary 1st runnerup in recycling contest
Madison Avenue Elementary won first runnerup in a recycling contest. Rex and Rita, the “dinosaurs” used as recycling bins for chip bags and drink pouches at the school, won $500 for the PTO in TerraCycle’s Box that Rocks Contest. An … Continue reading
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At ANA Master of Marketing – Carrots and Garbage Stole the Show
Which brings us to garbage. Albe Zakes – VP at Terracycle, told us how they have grown from a 2-man dorm room operation to a global phenomenon that collects and repurposes waste in 15 countries on 4 continents. Repurposing brand … Continue reading
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At ANA Master of Marketing – Carrots and Garbage Stole the Show
Which brings us to garbage. Albe Zakes – VP at Terracycle, told us how they have grown from a 2-man dorm room operation to a global phenomenon that collects and repurposes waste in 15 countries on 4 continents. Repurposing brand … Continue reading
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Get Cash and Go Green This Halloween!
Costumes are where you can get creative! Use your imagination and make costumes from what you already have, borrow from a friend, or go to a thrift store. This time of year second hand stores have all their Halloween merchandise … Continue reading
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Terracycle: Finding Marketing Magic in Your Local Landfill
More and more, successful marketing means reaching your consumer and delivering your message through multiple channels and platforms. TerraCycle, a multiple-time Inc. 500 winner, has grown from a 2-man dorm room operation to a global phenomenon that collects and repurposes … Continue reading
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At ANA Master of Marketing – Carrots and Garbage Stole the Show
Which brings us to garbage. Albe Zakes – VP at Terracycle, told us how they have grown from a 2-man dorm room operation to a global phenomenon that collects and repurposes waste in 15 countries on 4 continents. Repurposing brand … Continue reading
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It’s Spooky…
“Too often environmental education is guilt-driven, globally minded and makes resource conservation and recycling a chore. Through our programs, contests and DIY projects, TerraCycle strives to make environmental responsibility more fun and engaging!” -Albe Zakes, Global VP, Media Relations, Terracycle
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Guide to Greening Your Halloween
3. DIY your costume Handy with a thread and needle or a set of power tools? Show off your DIY skills – and conserve resources – by making your own Halloween costume this year. Instructables.com’s special Halloween section features a … Continue reading
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Tipi Colley Miller: Community exhibits spirit of recycling
At Opelika Middle School, permanent recycling containers have been purchased through the generosity of Opelika City Council President Eddie Smith. Again, one key component to recycling is making the collection point accessible to everyone. These divided containers are located in … Continue reading
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Candy Wrappers for a Cause
Klein is very creative when it comes to sources of support for SCRAP-DC and saw TerraCycle’s national Brigade program as an opportunity to raise money and awareness about creative reuse. TerraCycle, an upcycling and recycling company, has a nationwide Brigade … Continue reading
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TCoast schools: Bessey Creek El’s Team Green was named a finalist in the Florida Green School Awards
BCE Team Green was named a finalist in the Florida Green School Awards sponsored by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The team has implemented recycling initiatives at the school, which have reduced trash consumption one-third. Members have raised more … Continue reading
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Ad Event Features Stars, Sponsors and Much Swag
The clutter drew the attention of a speaker, Albe Zakes, vice president for media relations at TerraCycle, a company that seeks useful purposes for waste that cannot be recycled.
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Making trash too valuable to toss: TerraCycle creates new consumer products from nonrecyclable packaging waste
In addition to “upcycling,” or directly reusing materials to create new ones, TerraCycle also grinds and reprocesses items like pens and glue bottles into plastic lumber, trash cans, watering cans and planting pots. “Take a walk around your local supermarket,” … Continue reading
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Ad Event Features Stars, Sponsors and Much Loot
The keys to the rooms at the conference hotel bore ads for the AMC cable channel. And ad fliers were regularly slipped under hotel room doors to promote drawings for iPads, iPad2s and even a trip to a French chateau. … Continue reading
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Some college students ditching traditional route for early jump at job market
Tom Szaky, founder of the pioneering recycling firm Terracycle, said he had felt similarly compelled. In his sophomore year he was trying to develop a business based on fertilizer made of worm poop and his classes became too much, he … Continue reading
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Walking on Thin Ice: Halloween candy not as sweet to the environment as taste buds
However, if your heart is truly begging and pleading for you to own a mountain of candy, The Wilderness Society suggests buying candy in bulk and buying sweets that comes in cardboard packaging rather than plastic. This shockingly small change … Continue reading
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Woman’s World Coupon
20% off Upcycled creations! Bags, totes, backpacks and more- TerraCycle turns trash into gift-giving treasures. Save 20% at TerraCycleShop.com with code WWMAG.
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Phenix PreK-8 planting seeds for butterfly garden
Phenix PreK-8 has expanded its recycling program as it works to raise $1,000 for butterfly gardens in two of its courtyards. The school recently joined the TerraCycle program, which converts empty juice pouches from brands including Capri Sun and Kool-Aid … Continue reading
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School Turns Trash Into Cash
A school in Flint, Mich., gathered tens of thousands of potato chip bags, juice boxes and other lunchtime trash, then sold it all to Terracycle, a company that turns the packaging into bags and placemats. The school made almost $500 … Continue reading
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ANA Conference: Final Recap
Then came Albe Zakes, VP of Media Relations for TerraCycle. TerraCycle began on the Princeton college campus as a way to ecologically and cheaply bottle fertilizer (worm poop) the founders were selling. Instead of creating new bottles, they simply re-used … Continue reading
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Is your purse about to explode? Recycle those things you don’t need
Have old make up containers? Don’t trash them! Origins will actually take back and recycle any make up container. M.A.C. cosmetics will give you a free lipstick when you return six of their primary containers. Who doesn’t have old pens … Continue reading
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Solar-Powered Cheetos
And since 2009, Frito-Lay has been part of a partnership with TerraCycle to promote TerraCycle’s snack bag recycling program, the Chip Bag Brigade , which encourages schools and non-profit organizations to collect used Frito Lay snack bags and send them … Continue reading
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Athens Today–October 22
4. St. Gregory the Great Episcopal Church needs you…or at least, your online vote . Turns out the parishioners of the church have been mailing in their trash to Terracycle , a recycling company focused on zero waste. Organizer Andrew … Continue reading
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Turning Garbage Into Gold
Last month my fascination with how values and purpose can drive corporate culture, products and brand took me to Trenton, New Jersey to visit a company called Terracycle [www.terracycle.net ]. Terracycle, it turns out, is an incredible example of how … Continue reading
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Terracycle: Building a Small Empire on a Foundation of Compost: How Recycler Became the Useful Red Worm of the Marketing Ecosystem
Backyard composters know red worms are masters of turning banana peels and coffee grounds efficiently into fertilizer. Increasingly, brands are turning to Terracycle as the “red worm” of the marketing ecosystem — converting the effluvia of such heavy hitters as … Continue reading
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Go Green With TerraCycle! (Trick Or Treat Hop Sponsor)
TerraCycle is a pioneering upcycling and recycling company which collects non-recyclable trash and repurposes it into new, practical, eco-friendly products. Their line of products includes backpacks, pencil cases, notebooks, messenger bags, lunchboxes, binders, and homework folders as well as items … Continue reading
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Students see their hard work paying off after recycling over 100,000 items
And there was more: Neosporin tubes, tortilla bags and all types of pen and markers. In all, parents collected and sorted into 37 bins items from both home and school, and sent them to TerraCycle, a not-for-profit New Jersey company … Continue reading
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DIY Halloween Costumes & Accessories from TerraCycle
Making DIY costumes and bags for Halloween can help save money during the expensive holiday season. One great way to do this is by making costumes with upcycled or recycled materials – this eliminates the expenses involved with buying new … Continue reading
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Spooks, Ghouls and Recyclables
For the socially conscious parents who still want to take their cute little tyke out into the beautiful October evening in their adorable cowboy or octopus costume, we’ve got a few ideas. Two great tips come from the Utne Reader … Continue reading
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Spooks, Ghouls, and Recyclables
For the socially conscious parents who still want to take their cute little tyke out into the beautiful October evening in their adorable cowboy or octopus costume, we’ve got a few ideas. Two great tips come from the Utne Reader … Continue reading
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Save a Pumpkin, Save the Planet? Halloween Waste & Where to Start
While it’s probably less likely to think of the candy itself actually getting “wasted,” the wrappers and candy bags do pile up as massive waste. Consider the fact that, according to Nielsen.com, we Americans buy approximately 598 million pounds of … Continue reading
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Raise Money with Your Halloween Candy Wrappers
It’s October which means I better get my daughter focused on her Halloween costume. Then, there’s the big debate over which candy to hand out. I’m a nougat fan! My husband will take anything with coconut. And, my daughter is … Continue reading
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Noble elementary recycling pays off
Almost fairytale-like, Noble Elementary School this year converted trash into treasure. But it took a lot more than a fervent wish and a wave of a wand for the Berryessa school to win a $50,000 play structure for the school’s … Continue reading
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Noble Elementary recycling pays off
Almost fairytale-like, Noble Elementary School this year converted trash into treasure. But it took a lot more than a fervent wish and a wave of a wand for the Berryessa school to win a $50,000 play structure for the school’s … Continue reading
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Noble Elementary recycling pays off
Almost fairytale-like, Noble Elementary School this year converted trash into treasure. But it took a lot more than a fervent wish and a wave of a wand for the Berryessa school to win a $50,000 play structure for the school’s … Continue reading
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Noble elementary recycling pays off
Almost fairytale-like, Noble Elementary School this year converted trash into treasure. But it took a lot more than a fervent wish and a wave of a wand for the Berryessa school to win a $50,000 play structure for the school’s … Continue reading
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Noble elementary recycling pays off
Almost fairytale-like, Noble Elementary School this year converted trash into treasure. But it took a lot more than a fervent wish and a wave of a wand for the Berryessa school to win a $50,000 play structure for the school’s … Continue reading
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Noble elementary recycling pays off
Almost fairytale-like, Noble Elementary School this year converted trash into treasure. But it took a lot more than a fervent wish and a wave of a wand for the Berryessa school to win a $50,000 play structure for the school’s … Continue reading
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Noble elementary recycling pays off
Almost fairytale-like, Noble Elementary School this year converted trash into treasure. But it took a lot more than a fervent wish and a wave of a wand for the Berryessa school to win a $50,000 play structure for the school’s … Continue reading
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Cub Scouts collecting candy wrappers
Cub Scout Pack 140 and Elizabeth Lane Elementary School are teaming up to raise money for the school with discarded candy wrappers. Mars, Wrigley and Cadbury candy companies have launched TerraCycle, a recycling project that gives schools 2 cents for … Continue reading
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Michigan Students “Upcycle” to Raise Money for School, Learn About Reducing Waste
Students at a Michigan elementary school are raising money for their school, while keeping hard-to-recycle materials out of the waste stream. It’s called “upcycling” and at West Ottawa’s Pine Creek Elementary School, it’s becoming part of the school’s culture. “One … Continue reading
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Make a Halloween costume and candy bag from recycled products
Making costumes and treat bags can help save money and the environment during the Halloween season. A great way to make costumes with upcycled or recycled materials eliminates the expense of purchasing new items and the chance or running into … Continue reading
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Dropps Laundry Detergent
Who doesn’t dream of receiving a product they use regularly for free? You and your readers can enter to receive a year’s worth of detergent for free, and save their cash for other items on their shopping lists. TerraCycle, Inc., … Continue reading
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Recycling Stuff You Didn’t Think Could be Recycled
This explains, for example, why I save packing peanuts and every so often take a big bagful of them out to Tait Farm, which re-uses them in their mail-order business. Or why I once spent money to ship a box … Continue reading
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Recycle Day At PES October 27
“The monthly drop off on Recycle Day is new, both in having a once/month date and also by opening it up to miscellaneous products (per website). Items range found on our list include old toothbrushes and toothpaste, old make-up containers, … Continue reading
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Trash to cash
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Learning to be green
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Search For The Largest Laundry Pile Photo Contest
Dropps is teaming up with TerraCycle to search for the largest laundry pile. All you have to do is submit a photo by October 25th, 2011 of that huge pile of laundry that been that just seems to keep growing. … Continue reading
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Candy wrapper recycling effort under way at CPA
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State is participating in a new “green” initiative by collecting candy wrappers that are recycled and converted into various products. Through a TerraCycle program called the Candy Wrapper … Continue reading
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Faith Middle School earns money for PTO, charities by recycling
Candy wrappers, old toothbrushes, empty chip bags — at Faith Middle School it’s not just trash; it’s cash. The school can take everything from cream cheese tubs to plastic tape dispensers and recycle it to earn money. And it adds … Continue reading
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Pine Creek Elementary benefits from TerraCycle recycling program
Students at Pine Creek Elementary sort through boxes of wrappers and other recyclables for a program called TerraCycle in which students earn points that are redeemable for cash for the school, or they can choose o donate the money to … Continue reading
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Otsego students participating in TerraCycle
Otsego Baptist Academy is one of nine area elementary schools bringing green into the fall and winter by participating in programs from TerraCycle, a recycling and upcycling company. TerraCycle offers eco-friendly, upcycled and recycled lunchboxes as well as a way … Continue reading
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Used Writing Instruments
Today, I have some exciting news to share with you. Have you heard of Terracycle? Well, they are a company devoted to upcycling, so in other words, they find “trash” and turn it onto new products. Perhaps you’ve seen kites … Continue reading
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TerraCycle
TerraCycle is an inspired company that began with the simple concept of eliminating everyday waste. Ten years ago, emboldened by this idea of “outsmarting waste,” Princeton student Tom Szaky started selling cartons of worm casting in plastic bottles. Now, a … Continue reading
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Waveland PTO collecting candy wrappers, bags
Mandee Newgent, PTO president, said collection of the wrappers is vital to help buy items for the school. This year the PTO has begun collecting candy wrappers and packages that are sent to TerraCycle, where they are recycled into items … Continue reading
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School in recycling competition finals
Dinosaurs Rex and Rita get their fill of recycled bags at Madison Avenue Elementary. Now they’re looking for their fill of votes to win a recycling contest. The school’s bins used to accept chip and drink pouches during lunch period … Continue reading
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From waste to re-use
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Oakwood Elementary participates in national recycling program
In order to teach students a fun way to protect the Earth and earn money for their school, Oakwood Elementary is participating in a national recycling program. TerraCycle Inc. has partnered with brands including Kraft, Nabisco and Frito-Lay to recycle … Continue reading
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12 organic Halloween treats
Check out these picks for organic Halloween goodies from Corey Colwell-Lipson, founder of Green Halloween. “My favorites meet at least one, and ideally all three, of our “3-G” criteria: good for people, good for planet, good for communities. There’s also … Continue reading
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Our hat’s off to…
• Bad Axe Elementary, Owendale-Gagetown Area Schools and Our Lady of Lake Huron Catholic School for taking part in the TerraCycle Brigade program, which recycles many different food packaging items used by students and helps keep trash out of landfills.
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TerraCycle
Dear Parents, Our TerraCycle brigade has been going well! Instead of going into the landfill, these hard-to-recycle items are being turned them into affordable green products! For more information about the TerraCycle program and products, visit www.TerraCycle.net. Thank you, everyone, … Continue reading
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Greetings from the New Recycling Coordinator!
Hello Green Thinking Blog readers! I am Kelly Drummond and I am the new president of Recycling Club and the recycling coordinator for the campus. I have been a member of the club for a year now and have an … Continue reading
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Turning Garbage Into Gold
Last month my fascination with how values and purpose can drive corporate culture, products and brand took me to Trenton, New Jersey to visit a company called Terracycle [www.terracycle.net ]. Terracycle, it turns out, is an incredible example of how … Continue reading
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Monster Mash your Trash Costume Contest by TerraCycle 11/4
The Monster Mash your Trash Costume Contest is a way for TerraCycle Brigade participants to learn how every day waste can be reused into unique products. The Monster Mash your Trash Costume Contest is open to all TerraCycle Brigade participants. … Continue reading
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Turning Garbage into Gold
Last month my fascination with how values and purpose can drive corporate culture, products and brand took me to Trenton, New Jersey to visit a company called Terracycle [www.terracycle.net ]. Terracycle, it turns out, is an incredible example of how … Continue reading
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St. Joe, Purdy participate in recycling program
Battle Creek’s St. Joseph Middle School and Purdy Elementary are participating in the TerraCycle Brigade recycling program, according to a news release from the Trenton, New Jersey-based company. Through the program, schools can recycle lunch wrappers from chips and crackers … Continue reading
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Area schools participating in TerraCycle recycling program
With the wide variety of individual-size packaging for food products, creating a portable lunch that will please youngsters’ tastebuds is easier than ever. However, it also causes more waste, which leads to fuller wastebaskets, and eventually, fuller landfills. That’s where … Continue reading
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Halloween Candy Wrappers Provide Creative Costumes and Cash for Charity
TerraCycle and Partners Provide Upcycled Costume Ideas and Free Collection Programs for Halloween Trash Halloween is one of the best times of the year for creative people as they set out to make their own eye-catching costumes and bags. Halloween … Continue reading
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Halloween Candy Wrappers Provide Creative Costumes and Cash for Charity
TerraCycle and Partners Provide Upcycled Costume Ideas and Free Collection Programs for Halloween Trash Halloween is one of the best times of the year for creative people as they set out to make their own eye-catching costumes and bags. Halloween … Continue reading
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Monster Mash and Terracycle
Are you making your Halloween clown costume from candy wrappers? Your dragon mask from drink pouches? If so, we want to see it! Enter your upcycled costume into our Monster Mash your Trash costume contest by November 4th and you … Continue reading
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Briefly Brook Park
If you’d like to donate some of your pouches, there are boxes in the office and cafeteria to place empties. What happens to them? The firm Terracycle turns them into cool bags and pencil cases for kids.
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Upcycled School Supplies
We are thrilled to partner with TerraCycle to give away six exclusive, upcycled school supply items. Up for grabs is a large tote bag made from a large potato chip bag, spiral notebook created from smaller chip bags, pencil case … Continue reading
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Trash to cash: Genesee County schools putting garbage to good use
GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan — Some schools are finding cash in an unlikely place: Students’ lunch boxes. A handful of Genesee County schools have supplemented in-school recycling efforts by teaming up with TerraCycle, a New Jersey company that pays them for … Continue reading
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Jefferson Innovation Summit: Business Leaders Brainstorm A New Era Of American Creativity
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — No one knows where good ideas come from. In some cases, the answer may simply be to throw a bunch of brains together in a room and see what happens. That was the approach favored by the … Continue reading
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Top Gainers This Week – Games
5. Sin City Holdem 680,000 +120,519 +24% 6. TrashTycoon 360,000 +92,586 +64% 7. Castle Age: Heart of Darkness 820,000 +89,532 +15% 8. ????? 990,000 +87,074 +10% 9. Fruit Ninja Frenzy 850,000 +84,084 +11% 10. City Wars 900,000 +75,916 +9%
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Terracycle’s Monster Mash Your Costume Contest
Are you making your Halloween costume out of recycled materials this year? Well if you are, why not enter it in Terracycle’s costume contest ! You could win a fabulous gift card to DwellSmart.com!
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TerraCycle’s Monster Mash Your Costume Contest
Are you making your Halloween costume out of recycled materials this year? Well if you are, why not enter it in Terracycle’s costume contest ! You could win a fabulous gift card to DwellSmart.com!
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Monster Mash Your Trash!
Monster Mash Your Trash Costume Contest Are you making your Halloween clown costume from candy wrappers? Your dragon mask from drink pouches? If so, Terracycle wants to see it! Enter your upcycled costume into the Monster Mash your Trash costume … Continue reading
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Beyond recycling
The Bluffton Middle School is accepting certain trash for its upcycle program, a recycling-like initiative and fundraiser that earned the school more than $1,750 last year and about $700 so far this year. Unlike traditional recycling, upcycling, a term first … Continue reading
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MR. SCHAFER’S 5TH GRADE CLASS SELECTED AS FINALIST IN NATIONAL “TERRACYCLE BOX THAT ROCKS” DESIGN COMPETITION – PUBLIC VOTING UNDERWAY NOW!
Congratulations to Mr. Schafer’s 5th grade class on being selected as a finalist in the nationwide Box that Rocks Design Contest sponsored by TerraCycle! The students designed their innovative entry to replicate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and … Continue reading
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Project management class takes on ‘outdoor learning center’
This semester, the class is tasked with helping the Children’s Center create an outdoor learning center. With the help of the Children’s Center Director Holly McFaul, the groups will turn what is currently an empty playground into an engaging, educational … Continue reading
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Students embrace recycling
As students headed back to class this fall in dozens of area schools, they were reminded to think twice before dumping the remains of their school lunch in the trash. The schools — more than 50 of them in Hampden, … Continue reading
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Recycling Content? Upcycle for Added Value
Upcycling takes recycling to a whole new level. A product or material, like a CapriSun juice pouch or Skittles candy wrapper, products made famous by TerraCycle, is made into something of higher value. The purse or wristlet made with the … Continue reading
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How can up-cycling trash lead to a greener earth and millions of dollars in revenue?
I had the chance to interview Albe Zakes, the VP of Media for Terracycle, and a founding member. This is such a great interview as Albe tells how Terracycle was started, how they overcame their obstacles and most importantly, how … Continue reading
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Four New Playgrounds Result From Hingham Old Navy’s Flip Flop Collection
The Old Navy’s Earth Day collection is helping kids across America. Four new playgrounds will be created with the help of recycled materials collected by the Hingham Old Navy last April. Last April, Old Navy kicked off the “Flip Flop … Continue reading
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Parkwood Hill students serious about recycling
“I like nature and stuff,” said sixth-grader Cody Weisensale. “I want to make the world a better place.” Classmate Delanie Dennis said, “If no one recycled, the world wouldn’t be very pretty.” Earthkeepers collect and sort recyclables from all over … Continue reading
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My Internship at TerraCycle
I posted in my first blog about some of the cool jobs and internships I have been fortunate to have. I wanted to take the time and talk about my most previous internship in the business development department at TerraCycle … Continue reading
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K-C Pro to Recycle Cleanroom Garments With TerraCycle
ROSWELL, GA — Kimberly-Clark Professional, a provider of contamination control solutions for laboratories and cleanrooms, has joined TerraCycle to help pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities recycle cleanroom garments, including coveralls, hoods, boot covers, hair nets and masks. Through the collaboration, Kimberly-Clark Professional … Continue reading
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RePlayGround Creates a Cozy, Sustainable Office Space
I’ve witnessed many a newly designed space, and often times they feel very–well–”new.” It’s hard to create a new space that feels lived-in and cozy without looking dated. However, Brooklyn design firm and “eco-friendly lifestyle experts” RePlayGround have managed to … Continue reading
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Design Junkies Upcycle
The designers at TerraCycle refer to themselves as “junkies.” The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders may not recognize job addiction, but after speaking with the company’s resident design junkies, it is not hard to imagine withdrawal symptoms on … Continue reading
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A Recycling Company’s New Office Reflects Its Ethic
We recently moved into our newly redesigned offices and in the process managed to strike an interesting balance. Our goal was to embrace our growth from a basement start-up to a proper business with real revenue and an employee manual … Continue reading
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Recycling the world’s trash into cash
Atlanta (CNN) — They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and for Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle, that couldn’t be more true. His New Jersey-based company is helping millions of people wise-up to waste recycling. But … Continue reading
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Vote for Broward College’s TerraCycle Bin
Broward College was recently selected as one of four finalists in a nationwide contest sponsored by TerraCycle. The contest challenged TerraCycle participants to design a TerraCycle waste collection station using discarded "upcycled" waste. Broward College students came up with the … Continue reading
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School gets in on ‘upcycling’
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A closer look at how green schools boost school districts and inspire kids
Bethel Middle School in the Bryant (AK) School District outside of Little Rock takes soaring celings to the max, and keeps the building cool and airy. (Jackson Brown King Architects) The Bryant School District west of Little Rock, Arkansas, planted … Continue reading
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Terracycle: Combining Recycling and Technology for Kids
When TerraCycle first launched its products in major stores across the nation, the upcycled backpacks, lunchboxes and pencil cases were welcomed by parents and students alike as the perfect “Go green!” options for school year necessities. The fact that these … Continue reading
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Old Navy & TerraCycle Want To Turn Your Old Flip-Flops Into Playgrounds
Help save the earth a little at a time. Here’s a really easy and fun way to do just that. Old Navy stores are taking your old flip-flops and giving them to TerraCycle, who in turn recycles them into Playground … Continue reading
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Get an on-the-go clean with Colgate Wisp
Not only are Wisps incredibly convenient to carry around, they’re also pleasant to use. The brush is gentle, but helps to make your teeth feel cleaner. The pick won’t hurt when you use it, but it will get bits of … Continue reading
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First Person: 5 Easy Ways for My Kids to Make Money
We go through A LOT of juice pouch drinks during the summer and during sports seasons. I have a box sitting on the counter that the empty juice pouches go into; when we have filled the box, we will send … Continue reading
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Olmsted Dates and Data
VOTES NEEDED — The Olmsted Falls Middle School is a finalist in a nationwide contest in designing a TerraCycle waste collection station. Teacher Mike Schafer’s Green Team designed one resembling the Cleveland Rock ‘n Roll Museum and Hall of Fame … Continue reading
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Turning trash into cash
TerraCycle turns non-recyclable plastic waste into recyclable products. Natalie Allen reports.
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TerraCycle on CBS Salt Lake City
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Terracycling
It seems like all we hear about these days is the “go green” movement. We are all told to drive hybrid cars, recycle and use paper — not plastic. In addition to this movement, the Virginia Tech Equestrian Team has … Continue reading
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Go Green Giveaway Event
It’s time for the Go Green Giveaway Event! I am really excited to be taking part in this green event! There are over 50 blogs participating, all bringing you natural/organic products or family friendly items from eco-friendly companies!! For my … Continue reading
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Teacher Helps Cut Waste At Yeshiva
Drink pouches, candy wrappers, and packaging for crackers, chips and other snacks—until last year, they all ended up in the dumpster at Yeshivat Noam. Now, they are being recycled, thanks to the efforts of teacher Alysa Cohen and Trenton-based company … Continue reading
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Academy celebrates new playground
The Tabernacle Christian Academy recently celebrated their new playground with a neighborhood party. The playground was a gift from Old Navy and Terracycle and was awarded through a competitive grant process. The celebration included food, games, prizes and entertainment.
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How is Terra Cycle making its packaging more eco-friendly??
TerraCycle offers a national program called, Brigades to collect previously non-recyclable or hard to recycle waste. While some programs have a cost, most of TerraCycle’s Brigades offer free shipping as well as a donation for each piece of garbage that … Continue reading
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Recycling Glue and Sticky Tape, Oh My!
One of my most recent recycling dilemmas involved glue and tape. I have two little girls who love to create what they call “masterpieces,” which usually involves paper, paint, markers, crayons, colored pencils, glue and/or tape. Unfortunately, my local recycling … Continue reading
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Woodward Academy is Terracycling
Terracycle is a company that collects and “upcycles” different kinds of waste packaging and turns that waste into new consumer products. Repurposed products include pencil cases made from Oreo cookie wrappers, kites from Skittles packages, backpacks from Capri Sun drinks … Continue reading
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