Bottle Brigade Program

The Bottle Brigade Needs Your Help to Survive!

The Bottle Brigade™ needs a sponsor and we need your help in finding one! The Bottle Brigade has been hugely successful. So successful, in fact, that our small start up company can barely support the costs and labor needs associated with running the program. Recently the Bottle Brigade reached an amazing 4,000 locations in a little less than a year and a half! We never imagined it would become so popular, so fast. We were doing really well until a change in shipping policies caused by rising gas prices and shipping companies switching to dimensional weight this year. The shipping of our boxes has tripled in cost and because of this we are forced to scale back.

The Bottle Brigade is designed to help teach children about the importance of saving the environment and conserving resources. More then half of our locations are primary schools and teaching these young kids to "reduce, reuse and rethink" is a vital mission of our program. However we simply cannot continue to grow this great program without financial support. With a sponsor we can continue to sign up locations. Sponsorship would help us clear out our waiting list of hundreds of locations. It could also help us to develop an entire recycling and reusing curriculum to send to participating schools!

So we need your help to save this program and allow it to reach its full potential! Here are just a few of the benefits of a sponsorship. The sponsor's name and logo will be on every one of the 10,000 plus boxes we send. The boxes are usually located in high traffic areas. In addition, the sponsor would be credited in every press release that it single-handedly helped save the Bottle Brigade program. This year to date TerraCycle has been mentioned in hundreds of articles (Audited Bureau of Circulation of over 66 million impressions). Most importantly a sponsor will know it's helping America's children save their future. If you are interested in the sponsorship or know someone who would be interested, please review our proposal and press release in the following links.

Word document detailing the sponsorship opportunity
(please be patient, this is a large file)

Sponsorship Press Release

ATTENTION!

Starting immediately, the Bottle Brigade™ program will only donate $0.06 per cleaned and de-labeled plastic 20 oz. soda bottles. Current Bottle Brigadiers will have until October 1st to turn in all bottles at the current donation rate of $0.05 for cleaned and labeled 20 oz. plastic soda bottles and $0.06 for cleaned and de-labeled 20 oz. plastic soda bottles.

Every day, millions of soda bottles end up in garbage cans and landfills across America. TerraCycle wants to change that. As an eco-friendly innovator, TerraCycle packages its all natural liquefied worm poop in bottles collected from schools and recycling centers nationwide. It's no wonder that Red Herring Magazine named TerraCycle as one of the Top 100 Most Innovative Companies in 2004, and Inc. Magazine featured TerraCycle on its July, 2006 cover as "The Coolest Little Start-up in America!"

Earn $0.06 per bottle today! - Click Here to Sign Up!

To sign up, please click here. One to two weeks after you respond to your confirmation email, you will receive 4 boxes that each hold 70 bottles. Please refer to the FAQs before signing up. Once you've signed up, you can access your account here.

TerraCycle's Bottle Brigade program allows almost any organization to save 20 oz. plastic soda bottles from destruction. TerraCycle will donate $.06 per cleaned and de-labeled soda bottle you collect to the charity of your choice. If you don't have a charity currently in mind, you may choose from a list of existing charities, or save 10 square feet of the rain forest with every bottle! There are no signup fees whatsoever. To see if this program is right for you, click here for some FAQs.

Unfortunately, we cannot use water bottles (which tend to be a bit weaker even if they look the same) or other uniquely sized bottles such as the "wide mouth" Gatorade® bottles, etc.

Tons and tons of Bottles?

If the picture below looks like your workplace or maybe a nearby recycling center, we are here to help you out. TerraCycle would be happy to provide homes for 20 oz. soda bottles. The plants that our products feed would be grateful as well.

Program Statistics:

0 spots available

(Sign up for waiting list)

1,221,430 bottles collected so far

4,115 total participating locations

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