100% used Drink pouches collected in the drink pouch brigade sponsored by Honest Tea and CapriSun.
Donation:
$0.02 was donated per drink pouch used to a local charity.
What Are Drink Pouches Made From?:
Most Drink Pouches are made from polyester-reverse side printed to aluminum then laminated to polyethylene (a plastic polymer). Unfortunately, this packaging is not recyclable.
Terracycle, a New Jersey based company, is starting to develop something different from their normal cleaning products. They are creating tote bags, pouches, binders and more out of wrappers from candy, energy bars, juice packs, etc.
It’s really cool stuff. i just wanted to make you aware of it as a teaser to the Terracycle review which, I’ll have for you guys shortly....
Tom Szaky was a freshman at Princeton when he and some friends stumbled upon a killer fertilizer: worm poop. “We were trying to grow better pot and it turned out worm poop did the trick” Tom told me matter-of-factly at the start of our conversation. At the time they were just trying to improve their homegrown plants, but Tom knew this find had broader implications. And furthermore, he was inspired...
Moms and dads can buy eco-friendly school supplies for their kids, but they'll have to pay a little more for them.
Representatives of Shopko, which is carrying eco-friendly school supplies for the first time, said they hope to supply more "green" options as consumer demand grows.
"We recognize that a consumer is more frequently now looking for options that are Earth-friendly,"...
About a month ago or so, the people from Terracycle sent me a box full of their products to try out. I have written about Terracycle before when talking about the lack of plastic recycling here in town, and I have always been envious that I had not thought of their idea - upcycling plastic soda/water bottles and milk jugs into 2-liter bird feeders and new packaging for worm poop compost or household...
Tom Szaky was a freshman at Princeton when he and some friends stumbled upon a killer fertilizer: worm poop. “We were trying to grow better pot and it turned out worm poop did the trick” Tom told me matter-of-factly at the start of our conversation. At the time they were just trying to improve their homegrown plants, but Tom knew this find had broader implications. And furthermore, he was inspired...
The ShopKo Store in Fort Madison is carrying
a new line of eco-friendly back to
school items in response to the growing
demand for more affordable, sustainable
products. The products, manufactured by
TerraCycle, Inc., are made entirely from
waste: used kid’s drink pouches. Schools
and charities can earn money by helping
collect used drink pouches and earn two
cents for every one they collect....
It’s encouraging to see the increasingly wide assortment and availability of products made from recycled materials, but there’s a problem on the other end: A lot of things aren’t accepted for recycling by curbside collection services, at least not in the US.
As this recent article in Fast Company details, it’s not currently profitable for recyclers to take much beyond the most common,...
Ever noticed how many things are "unrecyclable" ? Thanks to Terracycle and companies like mega food producer Kraft Foods teaming up, that's changing, on a potentially huge scale....
The Yak's favorite back-to-school color this year is green. Not as in Spartan green football jerseys and lime green T-shirts -- although both of those options sound perfectly fashionable.
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Today, the Yak is thinking about green, Earth-friendly school supplies....
This week’s Great Green Giveaway is sponsored by hip upcycler, terracycle.net. They keep waste from winding up in landfills, and make useful stuff out of it instead. 3 lucky people will each receive an eye-catching tote bag fashioned from recycled Capri Sun drink pouches....
One of the humbling things about straddling the line between the Baby Boomers and Generation X isn’t getting older. After all as far as we’ve understood that’s the only option unless you have a real hankering to become worm food. No the humbling part is coming to realize that so many of those things your mother told you over and over and over again were true.
It’s encouraging to see the increasingly wide assortment and availability of products made from recycled materials, but there’s a problem on the other end: A lot of things aren’t accepted for recycling by curbside collection services, at least not in the US.
As this recent article in Fast Company details, it’s not currently profitable for recyclers to take much beyond the most common,...
