Past contests

The Lavazza International Coffee Day Giveaway

  • Recycling Programme:  The Lavazza Eco Caps Free Composting Programme
  • Timeline:  1 October - 15 November
  • Prize:  Be the lucky winner of a Lavazza A Modo Mio machine worth £169! You’ll also get 500 bonus TerraCycle points for charity when signing up and for every shipment between 1st of october and 15th of November !
  • How to win:  Join the participating programme and send us your Lavazza Eco Cap for composting.
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Beat Your Best Contest

  • Recycling Programme:  various
  • Timeline:  1 July-30 September
  • Prize:  Earn triple TerraCycle points every time you beat your previous best number of monthly shipments.
  • How to win:  Active charities automatically get updates. Inactive charities must fill out a form and ship to qualify. Non-registered organizations should update their account type.
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🌞 Summer Recycling!

  • Recycling Programme:  Various
  • Timeline:  13 May – 15 July 2025
  • Prize:  🎉 Each parcel will receive £10 worth of TerraCycle points, and all accepted shipments count as entries into a draw to win one of three £200 prizes!
  • How to win:  Send us your rubbish for any of the participating programmes listed - earn points, support charity, and you could win big!
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The Taylors of Harrogate and Yorkshire Tea contest

  • Recycling Programme:  The Taylors Coffee and Yorkshire Tea Free Recycling Programme
  • Timeline:  05 June - 08 July 2025
  • Prize:  Win a year’s worth of tea!
  • How to win:  For every parcel you send, you will be entered into a sweepstake for a chance to win.
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Shipment Rewards

  • Recycling Programme:  TerraCycle Featured Recycling Programs
  • Prize:  TerraCycle Recycling Reward points and a chance to win a Zero Waste Box™
  • How to win:  Send a shipment of 1 of this month’s featured recycling programs
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Sign-Up Rewards

  • Recycling Programme:  TerraCycle Featured Recycling Programs
  • Timeline:  October 1, 2024 - October 30, 2024
  • Prize:  TerraCycle Recycling Reward points and a chance to win a Zero Waste Box™
  • How to win:  Join one of this month’s featured recycling programs
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Win a coffee machine with the Lavazza Caps ‘Sip and Win’ Giveaway!

  • Recycling Programme:  Lavazza Eco Caps Free Composting Programme
  • Timeline:  1st October - 31st October 2024
  • Prize:  Lavazza A Modo Mio Jolie&Milk coffee machine
  • How to win:  Send us your Lavazza industrially compostable capsules accepted in the Lavazza Eco Caps Free Composting Programme!
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Earth Month Contest 2024

  • Recycling Programme:  Various
  • Timeline:  22nd April 2024 - 22nd May 2024
  • Prize:  The first 250 parcels will get £5 worth of TerraCycle points to donate to a good cause!
  • How to win:  Send us your parcels of packaging for the participating programmes of your choice.
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Schools’ Triple Points Promotion

  • Timeline:  12th February - 5th April
  • Prize:  We’ll triple the TerraCycle points you earned during the promotion!
  • How to win:  Send us your parcels of used packaging for the participating programmes of your choice.
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Recycle Into The New Year Contest

  • Recycling Programme:  Various
  • Timeline:  7th December 2023 - 17th January 2024
  • Prize:  The TerraCycle points you earned during the contest will be doubled!
  • How to win:  Send us your parcels of packaging for the participating programmes of your choice.
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Don’t Ghost Recycling Contest

  • Recycling Programme:  Various
  • Timeline:  2nd October - 3rd November 2023
  • Prize:  The first 250 parcels will get £5 worth of TerraCycle points to donate to a good cause!
  • How to win:  Send us your parcels of packaging for the participating programmes of your choice.
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Recycle write away!

  • Recycling Programme:  The Writing Instruments Free Recycling Programme
  • Timeline:  3rd October - 2nd December 2022
  • Prize:  Sign up to the contest and encourage your students and staff to collect as many of their used writing instruments as possible and send them on to us.
  • How to win:  The school that collects and sends in the highest number will win £1,000. The second runner-up £600, and the third £300!
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DO GOOD, ‘tis the season!

  • Recycling Programme:  Various
  • Timeline:  15th November 2022 - 16th January 2023
  • Prize:  Earn up to £58 worth of TerraCycle points on top of the points you’d earn anyway!
  • How to win:  Send us as many parcels as possible for the participating programmes of your choice.
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Rewind Recharge Recycle!

  • Recycling Programme:  Various
  • Timeline:  30th August - 7th October 2022
  • Prize:  1000 bonus TerraCycle points for the first 250 parcels
  • How to win:  Join as many participating programmes as you like and send us your parcels of product packaging!
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Recycle for our Planet

  • Recycling Programme:  Various
  • Timeline:  20th April - 31st May 2022
  • Prize:  500 bonus TerraCycle points for the first 250 parcels
  • How to win:  Join as many participating programmes as you like and send us your parcels of product packaging!
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The Race to Recycle

  • Timeline:  3rd November - 31st December 2021
  • Prize:  500 bonus TerraCycle points, plus a zero waste cooking class in the sweepstake.
  • How to win:  Join as many participating programmes as you like and send us your parcels of product packaging!
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The Marigold® Clean up and Ship Bonus Contest

  • Recycling Programme:  The Marigold® Gloves Recycling Programme
  • Timeline:  13th September - 12th November 2021
  • Prize:  500 bonus TerraCycle points for the 1st 100 collectors, plus one 5,000 TerraCycle points sweepstake prize (worth £50).
  • How to win:  Join the programme and send us a parcel of Marigold® durable and disposable household gloves and their plastic packaging for recycling!
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The Cheesy Shipment Contest

  • Recycling Programme:  The Cheese Packaging Recycling Programme
  • Timeline:  26th April 2021 - 2nd July 2021
  • Prize:  500 bonus TerraCycle® points + chance to win a £10 Cathedral City voucher
  • How to win:  Sign up and send us a parcel of any brand of flexible plastic cheese packaging and nets
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Pack It For Recycling!

  • Timeline:  19th May - 31st July 2020
  • Prize:  £80 worth of TerraCycle® points + £5 bonus points for every parcel of ring carriers
  • How to win:  Download a shipping label to enter our daily draw and send us your parcel for a chance to win £80 worth of TerraCycle® points!
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The Icing on the Cake!

  • Recycling Programme:  The pladis Biscuits and Snacks Recycling Programme
  • Timeline:  Between the 29th of October 2018 and the 1st of February 2019
  • Prize:  £850 worth of TerraCycle points + 10 pladis cake bundles
  • How to win:  Send us as many biscuit, cracker and cake wrappers as possible
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Express Biscuit Wrapper Roundup

  • Recycling Programme:  McVitie’s® Biscuit Wrapper Recycling Programme
  • Timeline:  Between 1st December 2017 and 15th January 2018
  • Prize:  The top 20 collectors shared a total of £500 in prizes
  • How to win:  Send in as many shipments of biscuit wrappers as possible
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