Cookie Wrapper Brigade Media Coverage

Pretty Tough

Wrapper Brigade! (April 24, 2008)

April 24, 2008 - Do you snack on cookies? Drink juice pouches? Eat energy bars? Did you know that every year BILLIONS of drink pouches and food wrappers end up in dumpsters and landfills across America? Well, TerraCycle has teamed up with Clif Bar, Oreos, Capri Sun and others to reduce the amount of packaging going into our landfills. They will donate two cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. The collected waste will be fused and woven into a strong material, which will then be used to make backpacks, gym totes and other products....

NJ My Way

Here’s the Poop (March 25, 2008)

We predict in a few months you or your kids will want a handbag made out of Capri Sun juice bags. How do we know this? Because we saw hundreds of them being assembled at TerraCycle (www.terracycle.net), the upstart Trenton company that finds creative uses for the things we know as garbage. ...

Number of beverage bottles and cans that have been landfilled, littered or incinerated this year in the United States alone:

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As a society, we need to rethink how we handle our waste. You can help, by signing up as a TerraCycle Bottle Brigade location.