Green Daily

When you're finished with your Oreos or Fig Newtons, you toss the packaging, right? So do hundreds of millions of other people.

Instead, why not sign up for the Wrapper Brigade? It's a partnership between TerraCycle and Nabisco that collects used food wrappers and in turn, donates from 1 to 5 cents (depending on the item) to the school or charity of your choosing. The process started out collecting plastic drink pouches, and then evolved into collecting everything from yogurt containers to wine corks.The process is simple: sign up on the site for the Brigade to which you'd like to contribute, and Terracycle will send you four prepaid "collection envelopes." Just load your used wrappers into the bags, and when you reached the designated amount, dump the bag at a UPS drop-off spot.

The only caveat is that you must only include the proper brand and type of packaging (you can check on the site to see if your products are kosher. For instance, they'll take Clif bar wrappers, but not Crunch bar wrappers). But it's cool to see the fruits of your labor: from the photo above, you can see that the wrappers are turned into cool totes, as well as plant food, flower pots, bulletin boards...