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.
I love the company, Terracycle! They collect old food packaging and plastic bottles and transform them into all kinds of fantastically useful items that you can buy on their website. Here’s the kicker: You can sign up to become part of a “brigade” where you or your school/church/community, can collect old wrappers, bottles, juice boxes etc and send them back to Terracycle in a pre-paid envelope...
There is more than one road to success. Here is one formula: Dropping out of Princeton + Growing Pot = Potentially the world’s greenest consumer products company. Here’s another formula: Imagination + Things People Don’t Want = $3.5 million company. Yes, we’re talking about Tom Szaky and TerraCycle, a company that develops products made of and packaged from waste and sold at large retail chains.
While a student at Princeton University, Tom had a vision. What if you took waste such as plastic soda bottles, saved them from landfills and reused them? He answered his own question when he left Princeton in 2002 to follow his dream and TerraCycle, affectionately referred to as the “worm poop company,” was born.
Tom Szaky, Founder of TerraCycle, is our featured guest in this Episode...
NORTHFIELD, IL (July 1, 2008)- Kraft Foods, the number one food and beverage company in North America, today announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upstart upcycling company that takes packages and materials that are challenging to recycle and turns them into affordable, high quality goods. The partnership will greatly expand the number of collection sites TerraCycle has available across the...
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....
