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Got 2 Be Green
Plastics and Packaging Recycling (November 20, 2008)
TerraCycle - this company creates shower curtains, totes, and funky fashion accesssories out of old energy bar wrappers, drink pouches, and other packaging. It recycles wine corks too. In some cases, you need to mail in large quantities so look for a drop-off location or send in your neighbors’ stuff too....
Frugal Living Mom
TerraCycle (November 19, 2008)
I'm pretty excited... TerraCycle posted a link to my tip about the Target Retote promotion on their website! I know it is just one of many, but I thought it was pretty cool. For those of you unfamiliar with TerraCycle, you really should check out their website. The work that they are doing really is amazing and so ingenious. There are many different areas that they are working to help the environment, but the ones you may have already seen involve items you probably have in your home right now.
Juice pouches, snack wrappers, corks and more are collected, sent to TerraCycle and then made into some pretty cool things like tote bags, pencil pouches, backpacks, corkboards and more....
Fast Company
Green Entrepreneurs Show the Way at Opportunity Green 2008 Conference (November 17, 2008)
The Opportunity Green 2008 conference held at UCLA November 8-9 lived up to its name. The green leaders there had many backgrounds and perspectives, but one message they shared in common was that going green is more than just a challenge for business. It is an opportunity as well, and a big one at that.
Where is the opportunity? For Tom Szaky, founder of Terracycle, the opportunity is in our garbage. Garbage is one of the few things we pay people to take from us, making it a low cost source of materials. Szaky founded Terracycle in 2002 putting worm poop fertilizer into old plastic soda bottles. Today, he is working with a variety of brands to take back their products and make something new out of them. Capri Sun juice pouches are being reborn as pencil cases and lunch boxes. Target...
Frugal Living Mom
Target Retote Offer (November 17, 2008)
Target has teamed up with TerraCycle to help recycle, with an added benefit for you. Using the cover of the October 27 People magazine as an envelope (or any 8 1/2 x 11" or larger envelope), send 5 clean, used Target shopping bags to TerraCycle by November 30, 2008. In exchange, they will mail you a coupon good for a free Target Retote Bag in early January 2009. You can find more information and instructions for mailing preparations at Target: Retote Offer. ...
MR,Cheap Stuff
Free Target Retote Sample (November 12, 2008)
Get a free tote bag from Target. Ever wonder what to do with all those plastic shopping bags? Do you want to recycle and receive a free gift for your efforts. If you shop at Target and mail 5 Target bags to TerraCycle, the company that makes their fantastic recycled, reusable, plastic signature totes. You can get a tote bag at your nearest Target in January....
Coupon Divas!
Target Free Retote Bag Offer (November 4, 2008)
Collect at least 5 Target bags and you can send them in for a printable coupon good for one Target Retote. This offer was in People Magazine, but you do not need the cover of the magazine in order to send your bags. Envelopes must be postmarked by 11/30/08 and your coupon will arrive in January 2009! For more information see the Target Website....
Keyboard Culture
Review of Retote Recycled Shopping Bag from Target and TerraCycle (November 4, 2008)
In May of this year, I shared with you the very exciting story of the Retote recycled shopping bag from Target and TerraCycle. The vision underlying this innovative product and cultural catalyst inspired me for many reasons. Now, as I’ve been in possession of the bag for some time and had a chance to use it, I’d like to report to you from the perspective of a consumer.
The nifty, red Retote bag is the fifth in my collection of alternative sacks for groceries. I continue my practice of refusing bags altogether during better than 90% of my visits to the supermarket and other retail establishments but find myself in need of a secure carrying environment from time to time. I like the Retote the best and not just because it is made from recycled bags. The Retote is very sturdy and...
Cursing Mama
I like Bags! (October 31, 2008)
Do you know the feeling, when you stumble upon something or someone introduces you to something and it is good and you can't believe you are just NOW finding out about it.
And I don't mean the Oprah kind of thing - where she gets all freakin' excited to share her newest thing that everyone MUST HAVE- which is often something most of the world is already aware of but haven't run out to buy because we do not have her disposable income. The recent Kindle show comes to mind; and of course I die inside because the show the very next day is about living within our means....hello Make Up Your Damned MIND!...
Organic Grocery Deals
Free Target tote when you mail in 5 Target bags! (October 28, 2008)
Design for All.
Renew, reinvent, recycle!
Send up your used plastic Target bags, and you'll get a coupon for a free Retote bag in January.
It's easy:
1. Remove the cover from the October 27 issue of People magazine.
2. Fold cover inside out, then tape the sides to create an envelope.
3. Fill the pouch with five plastic Target bags.
4. Seal all sides and drop in any U.S. Postal Mail Box by 11/30/08.
Target*:*Retote Offer...
Squishy Cute Stuff
Reduce, Reuse, Re-Tote! (October 27, 2008)
Happy Saturday, evening! The girls are at my parents tonight, so I have been working on switching the summer/winter clothes out, and I made part of Brianna's Toodee costume (more on that later).
Last week on Inside Edition, there was a segment on free samples, coupons, etc. They interviewed a woman named Heather from http://www.freebies4mom.com/ . You have got to check out this site! She compiles links to great coupons, freebies, etc. that are legit. I printed out $1 coupons for cereal (Honey Nut Cheerios and Kelloggs), and was able to use them, along with my local sales, to get $28 worth of cereal for $3.50!! ...
Northern Cheapskate
Free Reusable Tote from Target (October 27, 2008)
You see, earlier this year, I was able to score a FREE Target Retote reusable shopping bag by taking the cover off my Newsweek, turning it into a pre-paid envelope, filling it with five clean Target plastic shopping bags, and dropping it in the mailbox. The Retote bag by TerraCycle is incredibly durable and roomy! Perfect for Target trips!
So I was pretty excited to see at Ginger's blog that TerraCycle and Target were doing the promotion again, only this time, with People magazine. ...
Sweet Tea And Coffee
People Magazine + Terra Cyle + Target = Free Tote (October 24, 2008)
Basically, you use the cover as an envelope, send in five plastic Target bags, and get a coupon for a free Target tote. I love that you don’t even have to pay for the stamp ~ Target and TerraCycle (company that made the “Retote” bag back in April with Newsweek) already paid the postage.
If you don't read People magazine, you are still able to get your free tote by mailing 5 plastic Target bags in an 8 ½” x 11” envelope to: (You fit the postage bill, if you choose this option)...
The Chil-koffs
Free Reuseable Tote Bag, from Target! (October 23, 2008)
Thanks Thrifty and Chic Mom for telling me about this great offer:
Target has an ad inside People magazine that you fold up, stuff with 5 target shopping bags and mail in for a free reusable tote( you will receive a coupon).
If you don't have the magazine that's ok too just stuff your 5 bags into an envelope and mail to:
...
Coupon Craving
Target: Free Reusable Tote Bag (October 22, 2008)
Target has launched an innovative promotion with People magazine to give away reusable tote bags. Just remove the cover of the October 27 issue of People. Fold it inside out and tape the sides to create a postage paid envelope. Fill the envelope with five plastic Target bags. Seal all sides and mail by November 30, 2008. You’ll receive a coupon in the mail for a free reusable tote bag in early January.
If you don’t have the October 27 issue of People, simply put five plastic Target bags in an 8 ½” x 11” envelope. Affix postage and mail to:
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Visit the Porch
how fantastic is this?!?! (October 8, 2008)
we just signed our family up for the terracycle inc drink pouch brigade! Every year BILLIONS of drink pouches end up in dumpsters and landfills across America. TerraCycle, Capri Sun and Honest Kids are working together to put an end to this awful loss of resources. As an eco-friendly innovator, TerraCycle is going to convert the used drink pouches into unique fashion bags, tote bags, and pencil cases for kids and adults!
TerraCycle will mail out 4 prepaid collection bags to your address. Once a collection bag is filled at least 100 drink pouches you just seal and drop off the filled bag at a UPS drop off location near you. The Capri Sun & Honest Kids Drink Pouch Brigade™ program allows almost any organization or individual to save drink pouches from taking up space in our landfills....
Allie's Answers
Tell Me About Your Reusable Shopping Bag & Win One (October 7, 2008)
I have several reusable shopping bags. I have a few from my local chain of grocery stores, a couple of EarthWise bags, and a jute shopping bag from Simple.
Not only are reusable bags eco-friendly, but I love that my groceries don’t get packed in 18 gazillion separate bags, I have good handles to hang on to, and the flat bag bottoms keep my groceries from shifting in the car. I also love going to the grocery story and seeing other people’s grocery bags, hemp, recycled plastic, organic cotton, lightweight bags that scrunch up to fit in a purse....
Triple Pundit
The Plastic Bag: To Re-Use or Not to Re-Use (October 7, 2008)
The Wall Street Journal ran a fascinating piece a couple of weeks ago on the emergence of the reusable bag as the go-to green choice of retailers nationwide – and the eco-disaster these bags represent.
A lot of leading retailers offer reusable bags – they’re the hip new green thing to be doing… and some municipalities (San Francisco) and retailers (Ikea) have taken the initiative to forbid the use of the ubiquitous "disposable" plastic bag....
Sustainable Life Media
TerraCycle's Tom Szaky on Green Entrepreneurship (October 2, 2008)
Since 2001, TerraCycle products have received a host of green awards for products ranging from plant fertilizer to school supplies to food packaging - all made using trash. In this interview with Green Business Innovators blogger Amie Vaccaro, CEO and founder Tom Szaky discusses how it all began, what has been most challenging, what he loves about his job, and his views on greenwashing.
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Off The Rack
Chic Trash (September 29, 2008)
Check out this piece that ran this week in The New York Times. It touches on the concept of taking trash and turning it trendy — something that I learned a bit about when talking last week to one of the owners of Green Goods in Southern Pines. (That store, which sells items like this umbrella made of recycled trash, was mentioned in the Off the Rack column on Saturday.)
Anyway, The New York Times piece is about Tom Szaky, one of the founders of a company called TerraCycle, which The Times said “is aiming to make billions by collecting used plastic bags, juice pouches, cookie wrappers and other items that cannot be recycled and fusing them into everyday items like tote bags, pencil cases and messenger bags to be sold at some of the country’s biggest retailers.”
“The...
Spokesman Review
You can go green for school supplies (September 18, 2008)
Various supplies: TerraCycle, Inc., Various prices.
Target: Pencil cases, backpacks, folders and lunch boxes that are 100 percent from used drink pouches. Plus, two cents is donated to a local charity for every donated juice box....
EcoPreneurist
How to Recycle the Unrecyclable - Terracycle shows the way (August 22, 2008)
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, high volume items, like aluminum, paper, and a select few types of plastic. You can forget about candy and snack wrappers. Too many comingled materials, too difficult to create a consistent, usable result on the other end....
The Alternative Consumer
Great Green Giveaway - terracycle’s tote bags (August 22, 2008)
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....
Sustainable Day
Terracycle | eco-capitalism (August 21, 2008)
I have mentioned Terracycle before on this blog where I recognized their truly innovative business model for making high quality organic lawn and garden products out of waste. From it’s inception in 2001, the company has done an amazing job with it’s brand, and has expanded it’s product line beyond fertilizers to cleaning products and others including the Firelog made from a very problematic bio-diesel byproduct, glycerin. Now they have partnered up with one of the worlds largest food and beverage companies in their first effort to up cycle Kraft products packaging into a new category of eco-friendly consumer products....
The Market, Banks.com
Interesting Company: TerraCycle (August 18, 2008)
One of the more interesting companies to emerge in the green movement is TerraCycle. The idea is to take trash, and turn it into practical, usable products.
Right now TerraCycle is growing its business, expecting $15 million in sales for 2008, and partnering with some big names (like Kraft). Here is what Fast Company reports from an interview with Tom Szaky, the founder of TerraCycle:...
Purposeful Yet Often Random thoughts from Anne
My new favorite tote (August 17, 2008)
I have quite a few resuable bags that I'm supposed to use when grocery shopping. My problem is that I always forget the bags either at home or in my car. I often end up buying new bags or just using what the store offers. My favorite bag, until I received my Retote, was from Horrocks. It was just the right size, could handle an insane amount of weight and didn't show dirt. I had a small one from work but it got gross the first day at the farmer's market because it was white.
A while back, Newsweek had a promo in an issue. Use the page to make an envelope and send us your used Target bag. I had no idea if it was a joke but figured why not. My tote arrived last week and got good use this weekend. It has surpassed the Horrock's bag in that the handles are very sturdy and don't cut...
SmartBrief
From trash to treasure (August 14, 2008)
Tom Szaky's company, TerraCycle, makes products from garbage and expects to bring in $15 million this year. He's not aiming for the Whole Foods crowd. His stuff -- reusable totes made from plastic bags, pencil cases from juice boxes, fertilizer from worm poop -- is on the shelves at Home Depot, Target and Wal-Mart. "The most important innovation is looking at things people don't value as a fundamental building block. It's not just physical garbage -- it could be people, ideas or objects....
Hugg
Interview with Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle (August 14, 2008)
You asked Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle, all your trashy questions (ha ha ha, I'm so funny). And he answered them!
In a nutshell, TerraCycle takes what others call trash, upcycles those materials, and turn them into brand-spanking new products. Who thought you could make a hot little tote bag from KoolAid containers or a sweet homework folder from Capri Sun juice packs?...
Current
Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, lets you in on the secret of eco-capitalism (August 13, 2008)
TerraCycle is a brilliant little company (although they're not so little anymore). They started out by selling "plant food" made from waste products -- worm poop bottled in old soda bottles. Today, they make everything from tote bags made from Capri Sun packages to rain barrels made from old wine barrels.
In this interview, the founder and CEO Tom Szaky talks about how they got where they are, how they come up with product design, how they make money, and how they started working with big players like Kraft and Wal-Mart....
Fast Company
How TerraCycle Plans to Take Over the Garbage Industry (August 11, 2008)
Garbage in, garbage out? This old cliché may become obsolete as trash becomes the raw material of innovation and green business. Upcycling, or turning disposable items into new products, is becoming big business. The leading player in this growing industry is TerraCycle, which makes a variety of products from recycled material: fertilizers from worm poop, backpacks from juice pouches and reusable tote bags from plastic bags. Based in Trenton, New Jersey, the 60-person company had $8 million in sales last year and expects $15 million this year....
Montgomery
Graffiti festival emphasizes community, ecology (August 6, 2008)
College student Dana Jackel, of Maple Glen, is helping to organize a New Jersey recycling-based company's annual graffiti and urban arts festival this weekend in Trenton.
Jackel, an intern for TerraCycle and a senior at Cornell University, is helping plan the event. Jackel said through holding the event TerraCycle is promoting a constructive and positive image of urban art in an effort to bring the company and local community together. ...
Green Home
Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, gets trashy (August 6, 2008)
You asked Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle, all your trashy questions (ha ha ha, I'm so funny). And he answered them!
In a nutshell, TerraCycle takes what others call trash, upcycles those materials, and turn them into brand-spanking new products. Who thought you could make a hot little tote bag from KoolAid containers or a sweet homework folder from Capri Sun juice packs?...
Triple Pundit
Kraft Foods Offers Money To Customers Depositing Foodwraps At Recycling Centers (July 31, 2008)
A brilliant idea does not necessarily have to be a successful one. In the recycling world this logic is as cut throat as competition is on the high streets; a lot of brilliant ideas and materials still go to waste when they're not backed by the same people who actually gave birth of the landfill problem in the first place.
Kraft Foods, the food company, appears to have understood this problem and has become serious about tackling recycling by taking a refreshingly new approach; finding a niche in the recycling world. Focusing on upcycling, Kraft Foods is going to recycle its own packaging and materials that are known as hard to recycle. Kraft signed an agreement with TerraCycle.net, an upcycling specialist, which creates high quality but affordable items such as umbrellas, backpacks...
Packaging News
'Upcycling' Food Packaging an In-Demand Specialty for N.J. Firm (July 30, 2008)
July 30, 2008 - Is a tote bag forged from old CapriSun pouches fashionable? What about an umbrella constructed of used Chips Ahoy! wrappers?
Each year, billions of food and drink wrappers encasing popular brands end up in landfills because their multilayered materials--which keep products fresh--are tricky and expensive to break down and recycle. This waste has presented a challenge for manufacturers eager to reduce their environmental impact and buff reputations among eco-conscious consumers. ...
New Green Basics
TerraCycle: Leaders in Plasticity (July 29, 2008)
I’ve always thought the typical process of plastic recycling was more labor and resource intensive than it needs to be. Apparently, some brilliant students at Princeton thought the same thing and in 2001 launched a poster-child for zero-carbon eco-businesses, known as TerraCycle.
Essentially, they pay consumers and school groups for used bottles or other containers, repurposing the containers without breaking them down. They fill plastic soda bottles, for instance, with natural worm-enhanced fertilizer, stick a colorful sleeve over the bottle as a label, and sell the products online and at stores as diverse as Home Depot, Gardener’s Supply and Whole Foods. ...
Frugally Green
Terracycle: Recycled Gifts and Products (July 27, 2008)
I came across a website the other day, TerraCycle. They collect wrappers from energy bars, yogurt cups and drink pouches and recycle them into many products. You can shop or you can contribute to their collection.
The company started when 2 students from Princeton University had a vision to "change the way people do business". Now, you can find their products on-line or in select stores....
Sustainable Business
Kraft Foods Sponsors Packaging Recycling (July 25, 2008)
Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) has partnered with TerraCycle, an upstart company that takes packages and materials that are challenging to recycle and turns them into handbags, umbrellas and other products.
The partnership will expand the number of collection sites TerraCycle has available across the country and create incentive programs for schools, community groups and other non-profits to collect packaging wast. ...
Palo Alto Daily
From wrappers to tote bags (July 20, 2008)
This spring, two employees at Whole Travel, a Palo Alto sustainable travel agency, could not come to a consensus over whether the wrappers to energy bars, like Clif and Balance bars, could be recycled.
"He kept putting the wrappers in the recycling bin, and I kept taking them out," said Pam McLeod, Whole Travel's sustainability specialist. "He couldn't believe you couldn't recycle them."
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Green la Girl
Friday Freebies: ReTote from TerraCycle (July 18, 2008)
Today’s giveaway is a reusable totebag dubbed ReTote.
Made by eco-friendly company TerraCycle in conjunction with Target, this bag’s made primarily of old Target plastic bags....
www.azstarnet.com
TerraCycle to rebrand waste into neat items (July 17, 2008)
Is a tote bag forged from old Capri Sun pouches fashionable? What about an umbrella constructed of used Chips Ahoy wrappers?
Each year, billions of food and drink wrappers encasing popular brands end up in landfills because their multilayered materials — which keep products fresh — are tricky and expensive to break down and recycle. This waste has presented a challenge for manufacturers eager to reduce their environmental impact and buff reputations among eco-conscious consumers. ...
Green Chemicals
Recycling in Fashion (July 17, 2008)
Here's one tip on how food/beverage and consumer product companies can have the best giveaways in trade shows and conventions. Best of all they're eco-friendly!
Trenton, New Jersey-based startup firm TerraCycle is upcycling used food wrappers, drink pouches, empty yogurt containers, corks and soda bottles into pencil cases, umbrellas, pouches, bags, garbage cans and shower curtains....
Cleantech Blog
He’s The Village Upcycle! Everyone Gets A… (July 17, 2008)
What is it?
You might think a tote bag is a tote bag. Not so! This tote is made out of 100% used drink pouches (think CapriSun and Kool-Aid) – and word on the street is 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.”
Why is it better?
Let me start by explaining the title of this post. Sure, sure, you know the saying about the village bicycle. But what about upcycling? “To upcycle” is basically to take a waste product and turn it into something useful. Non-recyclable drink pouches are a perfect example. Once your little kiddo drinks the juice…what do you do with the package? Well, mostly those go to the landfill....
kippreport.com
'Eco-preneur' steps in to recycle wrappers as accessories (July 16, 2008)
TerraCycle is a US company that achieved a spot on the shelves of Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Target with its eco-fertilizer based on organic waste and worm castings. It has found yet another way to create gold out of garbage, says trend spotting experts Springwise, by turning discarded wrappers and juice pouches into bags, pencil boxes and other accessories.
As part of its ongoing mission to "eliminate the idea of waste," as its website puts it, TerraCycle has struck deals with large food and beverage manufacturers to collect the wrappers from their products and "upcycle" them into new, unique accessories. ...
Springwise
Garbage into gold, now via discarded wrappers (July 14, 2008)
We've already written about TerraCycle, the company that achieved a spot on the shelves of Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Target with its eco-fertilizer based on organic waste and worm castings. Now TerraCycle has found yet another way to create gold out of garbage by turning discarded wrappers and juice pouches into bags, pencil boxes and other accessories.
As part of its ongoing mission to "eliminate the idea of waste," as its website puts it, TerraCycle has struck deals with large food and beverage manufacturers to collect the wrappers from their products and "upcycle" them into new, unique accessories. Through a partnership with Kraft's Capri Sun and Honest Kids juice makers, for example, TerraCycle collects juice pouches from individuals and organizations that have signed up to participate...
GreenBiz.com
A Second Life for Cookie Wrappers (July 3, 2008)
NORTHFIELD, Ill. -- TerraCycle Inc. has joined forces with Kraft Foods to "upcycle" used wrappers from cookies, energy bars and drink pouches into purses, backpacks and umbrellas.
The partnership stands to divert millions of pounds of waste from landfills and provide a major coup for upstart TerraCycle, which made its name by transforming worm poop into fertilizer.
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GreenerDesign
A Second Life for Cookie Wrappers (July 3, 2008)
TerraCycle Inc. has joined forces with Kraft Foods to "upcycle" used wrappers from cookies, energy bars and drink pouches into purses, backpacks and umbrellas.
The partnership stands to divert millions of pounds of waste from landfills and provide a major coup for upstart TerraCycle, which made its name by transforming worm poop into fertilizer. ...
Live Science
Where to Mail Your Garbage (July 2, 2008)
Who says dropping out of Princeton is a foolhardy move? Not Tom Szaky, who in 2001, along with co-founder Jon Beyer, had a vision for a new kind of product created completely from waste. In fact, their moment of inspiration came while visiting friends who were successfully using vermacompost (worm poop) to grow thriving plants.
Szaky and Beyer founded TerraCycle in 2002, and the company has grown exponentially since its humble beginnings in a Princeton dorm room. Szaky recently discussed TerraCycle's successful eco-capitalistic business model, which is based on the idea that there really is no such thing as garbage. ...
Parks and Rec Business
CLIF BAR Launches Collection Program (July 2, 2008)
Berkeley, Calif. -- CLIF BAR, an all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation's first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our land fills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials....
Earth 911
Company Profile: TerraCycle (June 30, 2008)
Who says dropping out of Princeton is a foolhardy move? Not Tom Szaky, who in 2001, along with co-founder Jon Beyer, had a vision for a new kind of product created completely from waste. In fact, their moment of inspiration came while visiting friends who were successfully using vermacompost (worm poop) to grow thriving plants.
Szaky and Beyer founded TerraCycle in 2002, and the company has grown exponentially since its humble beginnings in a Princeton dorm room. Szaky recently discussed TerraCycle’s successful eco-capitalistic business model, which is based on the idea that there really is no such thing as garbage....
Epromos
Unique Recycled Bag Promotion (June 30, 2008)
Tom Szaky from TerraCycle reports on a unique promotion done by Newsweek, Target & Terracycle. Basically, the cover of a Newsweek issue was designed to convert into a postage-paid mailer and readers could fill it with plastic bags and send them to TerraCycle, who made them into reusable bags (plastic bag bags, to be precise). With more and more retailers and governments doing something about the volume of plastic bags we use, it's nice to get a reusable shopping bag which is also a recycled tote bag....
Soaring Mountains Academy
Office Max & TerraCycle (June 11, 2008)
I forgot to mention that when we were at Office Max yesterday getting file folders, that we found some TerraCycle products. You can read more about the company at their website: http://www.terracycle.net/ We have joined the Drink Pouch Brigade. We are getting Tyler Honest Kids juice. It tastes good, it’s organic and it’s from the makers of Honest Tea (their website is here http://www.honest-kids.com/). So now we are recycling the drink pouches instead of just throwing them away....
The Green Ninja
Upcycling?? (June 11, 2008)
So you’ve got your local recycling system down pat — but what about all the other stuff your city won’t accept? If the growing piles of plastic wine corks or Clif Bar wrappers are getting you down, check out these fun recycling programs. They’re custom made for the environmentalist who likes to sweat the small stuff!...
EnviroHumanImpact
A Huge Worm Dump! Awesome! (June 10, 2008)
You know that feeling after a worm takes a huge dump? Awesome!
Actually, let’s talk about many many worms pooping lots of little bits to make a product called, “Worm Poop.” Disgusting? Look for it at your Home Depot!
TerraCycle is a young company started by two Princeton dropouts, Co-founders Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer, one of whom, while visiting a friend, found his collection of worms making compost in a plastic container in his kitchen (after a night of drinking). Fascinated at his friend’s method of getting soil for some “plants in his basement,” (watch the video!), he began thinking of a way to make a company that could make and market composted organic waste for gardening....
Grand Haven Tribune
New Jersey company turning wrappers into school supplies (June 5, 2008)
An innovative startup company is partnering with big brand names like Nabisco and Capri Sun to recycle wrappers and containers that would likely otherwise land in a dump.
New Jersey-based Terracycle then transforms the trash into make products like backpacks, pencil boxes and change purses. ...
Life Made Easier
TerraCycle Expands.... (June 4, 2008)
Last year, I purchased a bottle of TerraCycle All Natural Liquid Fertilizer made from worm poop for the summer garden. Created from recycled material, Terracycle's products are beyond eco-friendly. They are down right genius in my opinion. Warning: I also think silly putty and the Magic Eight Ball are genius so you might not want to put too much stock in the next few lines.
Seriously though, as an individual I have made a personal commitment in recent years to reduce the amount of waste I produce. I heart nature: hiking, gardening, picnicking, swimming, fishing etc. I have never been one to take such things for granted and have no plans to start doing so anytime soon which is why I love companies like TerraCycle....
Brand Packaging
Spinning Garbage into Gold (June 1, 2008)
Green companies think they can charge premium prices,” says TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky. And though he could probably have an easier time of it if his own eco-conscious company followed suit, Szaky says the tendency for competitors to keep green products at the high end of the price range is, in fact, helping him. “Since we’re not doing it,” he says, “we’re gaining a lot.”
Szaky launched TerraCycle as a college student in 2002, when he came up with the idea of commercializing liquid plant food made from biological waste—what he described as “worm poop”—and then poured in used soda bottles because he couldn’t afford conventional packaging. ...
Gabbing about Green
TerraCycle & Office Max Team Up! (May 21, 2008)
Well, now you can find their goods inside Office Max. They are starting with a pencil case made from drink pouches. They'll also have a 3-ring eco-binder made from 90% recycled steel and 100% recycled paper. When you have squeezed the life from it again, simply send it back to TerraCycle. What a deal!...
Sustainable is Good
Target's Terracycle Retote (May 20, 2008)
Target has teamed up with Terracycle to produce a new type of reusable bag called Retote. The new bag is made from an entirely different process and is truly unique in the reusable bag arena. ...
In Store Marketing Magazine
Target Suits Up with Rowley for Summer (May 14, 2008)
In other activity last month, Target introduced a "Retote" reusable shopping bag through a special promotion. Shoppers were encouraged to mail their plastic Target shopping bags to Trenton, NJ-based TerraCycle using the retailer's ad on Newsweek's April 14 cover -- which converted into a prepaid envelope. TerraCycle mailed back a coupon for a free "Retote" bag, which is made by "fusing" the plastic bags together. The bags (which retail for $6) were merchandised on endcaps along with the Newsweek issue....
Greener Computing
TerraCycle: Worm Poop and So Much More (May 14, 2008)
What we do is we go in and work with companies like Honest Tea, Capri Sun, Kool-Aid -- these all became our sponsors -- and enabled them to help us run a nationwide collection program. So, today, if you have kids, and they're drinking Capri Sun or Honest Tea juice pouches, and you'd like to get paid to reuse them, you go to our website, you sign up, and for free, we send you collection boxes. You send them back, and then we donate $0.02 per pouch to any organization you want. Typically, it's like your school or something. And that's where it begins. ...
Climate Biz
TerraCycle: Worm Poop and So Much More (May 14, 2008)
Although it seems an unlikely success story, TerraCycle -- the company famous for turning worm poop into a household name -- points the way to success in how we address many of our environmental issues....
Green Updater
Target’s Retote Reusable Shopping Bags (May 7, 2008)
Target has teamed up with Newsweek and Terracycle to make Retotes, an interesting reusable bag program. Basically, the Retote is made of used, recycled Target bags that have been returned to the store then Terracycle turns them into reusable shopping bags. If you pick up Newsweeks April 15, 2008 issue, “Environment & Leadership: Who’s the Greenest of Them All?”, you will find that the cover doubles as an envelope that you can use to send in and get a coupon for a free Retote (which retail for $6). Kind of a production to get one reusable bag, but the target label adorned bags are popular and we have to give them credit for the creative promotion. Also, head on over to Terracycle and read about their story, they have some interesting ideas about eco-capitalism....
NOTCOT
Target + Newsweek + Terracycle = Bags! (May 5, 2008)
I think this is the most interesting Reusable Bag story yet… Target teams up with Newsweek and Terracycle to create reusable totes out of fused target plastic bags! Finally - a recycled reusable bag that looks like the bags it came from and is replacing! And that’s not all… the Newsweek aspect is fascinating as well - you rip off the cover of the latest “green” issue, and are taught how to tape up the cover into a prepaid envelope that you can put Target plastic bags in, and mail them in for a coupon to get one of the Terracycle $6 ReTotes for free in a Target Store. Basically the bags end up feeling much like those blue/yellow IKEA bags ~ a bit on the crunchy side, and probably waterproof (with the exception of the seam perhaps. See the press release here....
Keyboard Magazine
Retote Recycled Plastic Shopping Bag Earth Day Promotion a Compelling Collaboration between Target Corporation, TerraCycle Inc. and Newsweek Magazine (May 4, 2008)
While much of the mainstream press in the United States and around the world does at least a competent job reporting on environmental issues, especially global warming, Newsweek magazine set the bar very high in its special April 14, 2008 issue, Environment & Leadership: Who’s the Greenest of Them All? How? Newsweek magazine collaborated with Target Corporation and TerraCycle Inc. to help promote Target Corporation’s Retote recycled plastic shopping bag in a unique way....
MSNBC
The plastic bag (April 25, 2008)
TerraCycle, Target, Newsweek and the story of the plastic bag...
(re)definition
Newsweek, Target, and TerraCycle (April 23, 2008)
I bring all this up because last week's issue of Newsweek had an interesting ad campaign from Target. Inside the front cover of the magazine were instructions of how you could transform your Newsweek magazine into an envelope. Inside the envelope you were to place used Target bags. In exchange, you would receive a certificate for a free reusable Target tote....
Reactions
Calling All Target Plastic Bags (April 21, 2008)
Target used Newsweek’s green issue last week to offer a solution to some of the plastic bag waste they’re responsible for producing. Teaming up with Terracycle, they’re asking users to mail in all their plastic Target bags in return for a reusable tote – the Retote. The best part about the call to action is the way plastic bags are mailed in. The cover of the magazine becomes the pouch for your plastic bags. Tear off the cover, use a little tape to seal the edges and stuff all your target bags into the pouch. The postage is prepaid and the address is listed on the front of the pouch making it simple to drop into the mail....
Environmental Leader
Target Launches First-Class Recycling Campaign (April 14, 2008)
In case you missed this, the April 8 issue of Newsweek, on sale April 8, has a cover that converts into a prepaid envelope for sending Target’s plastic shopping bags to Terracycle where they are manufactured into reTotes, the reusable shopping bags sold by the retailer....
Earth is not trash
Newsweek Asks: Who’s the Greenest of Them All? (April 9, 2008)
Then, you open to this unique Target ad. I’ve never seen Target advertise in Newsweek. Target is promoting its reuseable Retote (trademark) bag. According to the ad, tear off the Newsweek cover. Fold as instructed, stuff with Target plastic bags and fill out the return address. Seal and mail. Then you’ll receive your Retote (trademark) bag in the mail....
Calluna
Target Retote (April 9, 2008)
buy Newsweek magazine, take the cover off and make it into a mailing pouch (directions are included), stuff your used Target bags inside, and mail them (postage paid) to TerraCycle, a recycling company that has partnered with Target to turn the bags into totes. In return, you get a coupon in the mail for a free retote!! I can’t wait to make my Target mailer and fold up all my little Target bags to recycle. Sounds like fun, it will help the environment by not having the bags end up in the trash, and I get the tote for free. It’s a win-win....
Target Shoppers
NEWSWEEK, Target and TerraCycle Team Up for Innovative Program (April 8, 2008)
Newsweek, Target and TerraCycle, an eco-capitalism company, have teamed up in an innovative project using the magazine cover as an envelope to mail in plastic Target shopping bags which will then be turned into the store's unique Retote bag. After the bags are mailed in, readers will receive a coupon in the mail to
receive a free Retote....
Sun Herald News
Target and TerraCycle Team Up for Innovative Program (April 7, 2008)
"We're very excited to be responsible for helping Newsweek reinvent the idea of magazine advertising as well as Target reinvent how we use plastic bags," said Tom Skazy founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a company that produces eco-friendly affordable products from waste....
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