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TerraCycle & Stonyfield Farm Yogurt Brigade

Every year millions of yogurt containers end up in garbage and landfills. Stonyfield Farm, the organic food leader and environmental pioneer, is partnering with TerraCycle in a pilot program aimed at collecting used yogurt containers and reusing them as planting pots. TerraCycle will then sell planting pots to large retailers who currently use black plastic planting pots, millions of which are discarded by consumers every year. 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!"

After you have signed up for the Yogurt Brigade, TerraCycle will mail out 4 prepaid boxes to the non-residential address that you have provided. Once the boxes are filled with 400 6 ounce yogurt cups, please seal and drop off the filled box at an UPS drop off location near you.

TerraCycle's pilot Yogurt Brigade will include schools, community groups and others collecting 6 and 32 oz yogurt containers. For every container collected, Stonyfield will donate 2 cents or 5 cents, respectively, to a charitable organization or school of the collector's choice. If you don't have a charity currently in mind, you may choose from a list of existing charities! There are no signup fees whatsoever. To see if this program is right for you, click here for some FAQs.

To sign up, please click here. One to two weeks after you respond to your confirmation email, you will receive 4 boxes that hold 400 6 ounce yogurt cups or 50 32 ounce yogurt cups each. Please refer to the FAQs before signing up. For any questions, send an email to info@terracycle.net or call 609-393-4252 x 36.

You must respond to the confirmation email to be officially signed up.

A few reminders:
  - You will receive 4 collection boxes at first and then receive 4 additional boxes when you return boxes and are down to 2 boxes
  - 6 ounce yogurt cups = $0.02
  - 32 ounce yogurt cups = $0.05
  - 400 6 ounce yogurt cups or 50 32 ounce yogurt cups fit in each box
  - It takes 1-2 weeks to receive boxes again after you sign up or return your boxes
  - Checks are written twice a year (June and December)

The story... as it evolves

March 25, 2008: The Yogurt brigade has broken above 500 locations! Here is a quick video overview of the program:

September 28, 2007: Trenton-area graffiti artist Leon Rainbow demonstrates how yogurt containers collected through the Stonyfield Farms/TerraCycle Yogurt Brigade will be transformed into hand-painted planting pots.

September 10, 2007: Tom and Pierre meet with Stonyfield Farms CEYo Gary Hirshberg to discuss development of the Stonyfield Farms/TerraCycle Yogurt Brigade. The program will prevent millions of yogurt containers from entering landfills each year.

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