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Deer Crossing Elementary School students earned more than $700 for their school by reaching the second level in a recycling contest sponsored by TerraCycle and Capri Sun, according to an Aug. 11 news release. Students collected more than 18,000 drink pouches in the free Drink Pouch Brigade program, which rewards people for collecting and sending waste to TerraCycle for recycling or upcycling (taking something no longer needed or wanted and turning it into an item of higher value, like salvaged wood becoming a table).