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...
View ArticleOakmont 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...
View ArticleTerraCycle 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleStudents 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...
View ArticleNEW 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...
View ArticleTerraCycle Collection List
TerraCycle is going to turn your trash into KME’s cash! These are all the items we are collecting.
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleWaverly 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...
View ArticleTry 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...
View ArticleE-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...
View ArticleColvin 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...
View ArticleECO 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...
View ArticleKids 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...
View ArticleTerraCycle 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...
View ArticleHighland 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...
View ArticleGrasse 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleAnnouncing the TerraCycle Trash Triathlon in Athens competing for a cash...
TerraCycle Triathlon of Trash Winner Gets Free UGA Semester Dedicated to the Late Jim McGown of Athens who passed away March 7 of this year. A Veteran of the U.S. Navy, and a tireless worker for the...
View Article2013 Halo Award Best Business Model Integration
GOLD: TerraCycle TerraCycle’s business model is to eliminate waste by offering free recycling fundraisers to any school, non-profit, corporation or individual/family for any type of man-made waste. The...
View ArticleTom Szaky, Founder & CEO, TerraCycle
Tom Szaky, Founder & CEO, Terracycle, spoke with us about the company’s purpose to eliminate the idea of waste by making things that are non-recyclable, recyclable. Terracycle works with brands to...
View ArticleTerracycle – Review and Capri Sun Lunch Box Giveaway
A great place to look for fun and unique products is Terracycle.com. At Terracylce they take old products like juice, chips, and candy bar wrappers, and upcycle them into fun new products.
View ArticleOn the Money with Maria Bartiromo
Tom was interviewed live with Maria Bartiromo for her nationally syndicated CNBC show, On the Money, from the steps of the NYSE. Maria is widely considered one of the top financial journalists in the...
View ArticleChippin Away like Frito-Lay – Environmental Factors
For instance, Frito-Lay has a‘zero landfill’ initiative where the company partners with TerraCycle for recycling purposes. Customers are encouraged to collect, and send, used bags of Frito-Lay chips to...
View ArticleForestville service dog group wins recycling prize
For their efforts, they will receive a two-cent per cup refund and a $60 prize from the contest sponsor, New Jersey-based Terracycle Inc.
View ArticleStopping deforestation, one pair of chopsticks at a time
It was at my lowest point that I attended a lecture given by Tom Szaky, the founder of an environmental startup called TerraCycle — and gained a new perspective on how to change the world. He too...
View ArticleOlmsted Falls Green Team students invite community to join recycling efforts:...
One of the group’s major projects, in which the community may participate, is collecting juice pouches and chip/snack bags. Rather than dropping them into the trash, they are gathering them to earn...
View ArticleCool Way to Recycle Pens, Toothbrushes, and Wrappers: Give them to Terra Cycle
What is interesting about Terra Cycle is that it has created several waste collection programs, each called a Brigade, where someone or an organization can help collect items and send them in to Terra...
View ArticleBiodegradable Backlash: The Snack Bag That Was Too Noisy
“Since their U.S. launch in September 2009, our Frito-Lay sponsored TerraCycle bag brigades have diverted over 23 million of our post-consumer snack bags from landfill. The program expanded into...
View ArticlePepsi’s biodegradable backlash: The snack bag that was too noisy
“Since their U.S. launch in September 2009, our Frito-Lay sponsored TerraCycle bag brigades have diverted over 23 million of our post-consumer snack bags from landfill. The program expanded into...
View Article7 Creative Ways to Fundraise for Your Student Organization
Ashley Offenback, a senior and a member of an honors club at Penn State Berks, fund raises for her club through TerraCycle. This website lets you send your waste through different “brigades,” one for...
View ArticleTrash Into Treasure
If anyone knows about scaling a green business, it’s Tom Szaky, founder of TerraCycle in Trenton, New Jersay. Szaky launched the company in 2001, with a plant fertilizer made entirely from waste.
View ArticleONE PERSON’S TRASH IS ANOTHER PERSON’S PURSE
TerraCycle, an international company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging is turning our snack bags into eye-catching purses and tote bags that are then sold to the public. TerraCycle...
View ArticleCircle Of Stuff: 7 Retail Items Repurposed From Other Products
Shiny new products are coveted by consumers, but they quickly wear out, become obsolete or outlive their usefulness. Disposed goods are then donated to charity, stashed in some storage unit, or tossed...
View ArticleHow To Achieve Better Results With Sustainable Packaging
The Global Food & Beverage Summit returns to Chicago on July 15-17, 2014 where it will be held at the Chicago Hyatt Regency. This year the event is rolling out two dynamic learning tracks that...
View ArticleBack to School with TerraCycle
Summer is still officially here, but for our children back to school is closing in on the horizon! Soon they will be back with their friends, teachers, and school books; lockers will be slamming and...
View ArticleTerraCycle’s New Show “Human Resources” featured on the Weather Channel
Albe Zakes Global VP of Media, and Dan Harris – Director of Zero Waste Box Sales were featured on The Weather Channel segment “AMHQ” regarding the new TerraCycle Show “Human Resources”
View ArticleBack to School LookBook: Terracycle
It’s almost time for school in our neck of the woods and my kids are getting ready for back to school. We’ve been getting all our school supplies and everything for school and making adjustments so...
View ArticleBack to School TerraCycle Style
Back-to-school cool this year is all about the earth, recycling, and upcycling and wait till you see what TerraCycle offers for kids! Lavishly live back-to-school organization out loud, and love up on...
View ArticleBack to Cool with These Back To School Products
TerraCycle, a upcycling and recycling company, makes eco-friendly products from trash items that are normally non-recyclable, including Capri Sun juice pouches, Frito-Lay chip bags, and Mars candy...
View ArticleEco-friendly back to school products from TerraCycle
Have you seen the store aisle for back to school? There is so much there and hundreds of little and big sized crayons, papers, notebooks, backpacks, totes, etc… How do you decide what to buy? Do you...
View ArticleTerraCycle Review and Giveaway
Have your kids shown an interest in the recycling movement? We recently had the opportunity to check out these neat bags from TerraCycle and while I was surprised at first (didn’t expect it to be...
View ArticleSt. Margaret students have this recycling job in the bag
Not one Frito Lay bag, big or small, goes to waste after lunch, when students deposit their empty bags to be counted and packaged in packs of 25. The school turns that trash into cash, participating in...
View ArticleTerry Dickson: Brunswick anti-litter agency wants to clean up, no ifs, ands...
All those butts she collects don’t go to a landfill. As she said, you can recycle anything. Keep Brunswick-Golden Isles Beautiful … Continue reading →
View ArticleBack to School with TerraCycle
School is just around the corner and it’s time to load up on all those back to school supplies. I used to love getting new supplies, my mom would have everything laid out in the living room and we...
View ArticleMust Have Items for Back to School
Whether it is a large notebook for writing assignments in or little notebooks to write notes to friends, keep track of assignments or little reminders, having a note book is important. These cute note...
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