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The Alternative Consumer
Creating an Upcycle Generation (May 12, 2008)
Gotta love a company who’s reaching out to kids and teaching them how to upcycle. TerraCycle, the makers of that fine organic fertilizer, Worm Poop, has hooked up with both Capri Sun and Honest Tea in an effort to encourage kids to participate in recycling their drink pouches and help transform the otherwise landfill-bound material into handbags, pencil cases and totes. At the end of their use, these purchased items can be sent back to Terracycle to continue the process....
Ecoesty
Eco Tip Of The Week: Save That Trash! (May 4, 2008)
TerraCycle is trying to eliminate the idea of waste. To do so, we must find great uses for objects that used to be considered waste. And best of all, you can raise funds for your favorite charity by helping us collect waste. It's easy and shipping is free. TerraCycle will pay...
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....
The Philly Burbs
What can I do for earth day? (April 22, 2008)
Help spread the idea of “Eco-capitialism,” and raise money for your favorite charity at the same time by giving Trenton’s TerraCycle your unwanted soda bottles, yougurt containers, cookie wrappers and more. Learn more about this company - if your daily commute includes crossing the river on Rt. 1, you drive right past their funky, grafitti-strewn HQ every day - here....
Petoskey News Review
Area schools teach students how to be environmental stewards (April 19, 2008)
In addition to area recycling facilities, TerraCycle Inc. runs four nationwide upcycling programs for schools, community groups and nonprofits. The programs collect four materials: 20 ounce soda bottles, kid's drink pouches, yogurt containers and energy and granola bar wrappers (regardless of brand). In return, they donate several cents per piece to a school or nonprofit that the location chooses....
Frugal Village
Give yogurt containers a second life (April 19, 2008)
COLLECT: TerraCycle has partnered with Stonyfield Farm to collect yogurt containers and reuse them as planting pots to sell to retailers. According to TerraCycle’s Web site, the program will donate two to five cents per container to a charitable organization of the collector’s choice. Visit www.terracycle.net/yb/yb.htm or call (609) 393-4252 for details....
Taunton Daily Gazette
One person’s trash is another’s recycled treasure (April 19, 2008)
A local environmentalist takes the mantra “reduce, reuse, recycle” to the next level and turns trash into treasure by joining a national movement called the TerraCycle Brigades. “It’s all about taking what we have and using it efficiently,” said LeeAnn Tavares, recycling coordinator for the town of Seekonk and secretary for the Conservation Commission in Wrentham....
Smithsonian Magazine
Expand Your Eco-Influence (April 18, 2008)
Another idea revolves around the concept of “sponsored waste” as created by TerraCycle, those folks who came up with organic fertilizer made from worm poop and sold in reclaimed containers (yes, it’s real, and it’s spectacular!) TerraCycle now pays schools, non-profits and community groups to collect packaging from partner companies like Capri Sun, Stonyfield Farm and Clif Bar. TerraCycle then upcycles the drink pouches into tote bags and pencil cases, and the yogurt containers into planters. Clif Bar wrappers are molded into a new material to be used to make backpacks and gym totes. Schools can earn from 2 to 5 cents for each container sent in. What a great way to “close the loop”, and get paid doing it!...
Low Impact Living
Expand Your Eco-Influence (April 17, 2008)
Another idea revolves around the concept of “sponsored waste” as created by TerraCycle, those folks who came up with organic fertilizer made from worm poop and sold in reclaimed containers (yes, it’s real, and it’s spectacular!) TerraCycle now pays schools, non-profits and community groups to collect packaging from partner companies like Capri Sun, Stonyfield Farm and Clif Bar. TerraCycle then upcycles the drink pouches into tote bags and pencil cases, and the yogurt containers into planters. Clif Bar wrappers are molded into a new material to be used to make backpacks and gym totes. Schools can earn from 2 to 5 cents for each container sent in. What a great way to “close the loop”, and get paid doing it!...
Capital City News
TerraCycle products hit Alaska shelves (April 16, 2008)
TerraCycle is leading the way for companies trying to take eco-friendly and organic products and make them more affordable and accessible so that the average consumer may become a green consumer....
The Township Times
National Program aims to acquire schools' waste (April 16, 2008)
Countless businesses have jumped on the "green" bandwagon. Now schools can do the same....
Planet Green
Send Your Yogurt Cups, Energy-Bar Wrappers, Bottles to TerraCycle (April 15, 2008)
Don't throw out your yogurt cups, energy-bar wrappers, drink pouches, or soda bottles just yet, TerraCycle is willing to pay a charity of your choice good money (up to six cents per item), in a bid to eliminate the idea of waste....
Daily Local
frugal living (April 15, 2008)
TerraCycle has partnered with Stonyfield Farm to collect yogurt containers and reuse them as planting pots to sell to retailers. According to TerraCycle’s Web site, the program will donate two to five cents per container to a charitable organization of the collector’s choice. Visit www.terracycle.net/yb/yb.htm or call (609) 393-4252 for details....
The News Times
Sherman plans cleanup (April 14, 2008)
Plastic yogurt cups No. 5 may be dropped off on the Green. Cups will be sent to TerraCycle and Stoneyfield Farm Yogurt, which are sponsoring this pilot program that will donate 2 cents per cup to Sherman School....
Rutland Herald
TerraCycle's recycling brigades raise money and eco awareness (April 13, 2008)
Reduce, reuse, recycle. It's a mantra of the 21st century. Separating our newspapers and cardboard, junk mail and office paper, magazines and catalogs, bottles and cans, and plastic bottles from the rest of our garbage has become part of our daily routines....
News Times
Sherman plans cleanup (April 10, 2008)
Plastic yogurt cups No. 5 may be dropped off on the Green. Cups will be sent to TerraCycle and Stoneyfield Farm Yogurt, which are sponsoring this pilot program that will donate 2 cents per cup to Sherman School....
Herald Tribune
Cash for your trash (April 8, 2008)
Your used (clean!) yogurt cups, energy-bar wrappers, drink pouches or soda bottles can earn your favorite charity some cash thanks to TerraCycle, a maker of all-natural home and garden products.
Yogurt cups will turn into planting pots, drink pouches and energy-bar wrappers will become accessories such as tote bags and soda bottles will become packaging for a variety of TerraCycle products, according to the company’s Web site.
In cooperation with Capri Sun, Honest Tea, Stonyfield Farm and Clif Bar, TerraCycle will give your charity anywhere between 1 cent and 5 cents for each empty item.
Just sign up online and pack up your empty containers in the free shipping boxes delivered to your door.
www.terracycle.net...
The Wichita Eagle
Reuse yogurt containers to save money, planet (April 8, 2008)
TerraCycle has joined with Stonyfield Farm to collect yogurt containers and reuse them as planting pots to sell to retailers. The program will donate two to five cents per container to a charitable organization of the collector's choice. Visit www.terracycle.net/yb/yb.htm or call 609-393-4252 for details....
Common Ground
Catch and Release (April 3, 2008)
Much media ado has been made over TerraCycle — the ingeniously eco-forward company that uses worms to turn organic trash into potent fertilizer sold in reclaimed (hey! Even better than recycled!) pop bottles on superstore shelves. Now TerraCycle is partnering with Stonyfield Farms, Clif Bar and Honest Tea to close the loop on food packaging — a concept they’re calling “ Sponsored Waste.” The plan is to enlist schools, nonprofits and community groups to set up neighborhood packaging collection drives. Participating locations will earn two cents for every pouch, small yogurt container or energy bar wrapper and five cents for each large yogurt container or 20 oz. bottle they send back, with donations made to the nonprofit of the location’s choice. TerraCycle will then “ upcycle ”...
The Green Parent
Raise Money For Your Favorite School or Charity with this Eco-Friendly Fundraiser (April 3, 2008)
With a motto of "Turning Garbage Into Gold," New Jersey-based TerraCycle is making it their mission to "eliminate the idea of waste" by creating products that are made from and packaged in garbage. To date they've kept over one million plastic soda bottles out of the landfill by using the bottles to package their cleaning agents and organic garden supplies. It's a unique concept, and one that can really help to change the way products are currently made and used....
The Reformer
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ... (April 2, 2008)
Working with TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company that makes products from reused materials, KidsPLAYce officials hope to raise funding by collecting the containers and shipping them to the company for a five cents refund for larger containers and two cents for smaller ones....
Schools, community groups challenged to join recycling fundraisers nationwide
The Hillsboro Argus (April 1, 2008)
Schools and other groups are being challenged to start collecting used soda bottles, yogurt containers, energy bar wrappers and used drink pouches as part of a nationwide program. The programs allow schools to fundraise while teaching their students about recycling and the environment. Anyone can sign up for this free and easy program and start earning donations for a school or local nonprofit. TerraCycle has teamed with Honest Tea and Stonyfield Farm to create two programs called the Drink Pouch Brigade and the Yogurt Brigade. These programs allow schools, houses of worship and other community groups to collect previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle items in return for cash. ...
OutFit
Join the Yogurt Brigade! (April 1, 2008)
I just signed up to collect Stonyfield yogurt cups as part of the Yogurt Brigade, a pilot program run through a hip new eco-friendly company called Terracycle. As explained on the website, Terracycle aims to recycle the yogurt cups into planting pots: ...
Container Recycling Institute
Schools, community groups challenged to join recycling fundraisers nationwide (April 1, 2008)
Schools and other groups are being challenged to start collecting used soda bottles, yogurt containers, energy bar wrappers and used drink pouches as part of a nationwide program. The programs allow schools to fundraise while teaching their students about recycling and the environment. Anyone can sign up for this free and easy program and start earning donations for a school or local nonprofit.
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Portland Today
Portland to join nation wide recycling program (March 31, 2008)
Portland — Stonyfield Farm, the organic food leader and environmental pioneer, is partnering with TerraCycle in a national program aimed at collecting used yogurt containers and reusing them as YoGro!™ planting pots....
Brigton Blues
TerraCycle Brigades (March 31, 2008)
TerraCycle is trying to eliminate the idea of waste. To do so, we must find great uses for objects that used to be considered waste. We manufacture affordable, potent, organic products that are not only made from waste, but are also packaged entirely in waste!Best of all, you can help raise funds for a local charity, Caring for Christ's Creatures Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary, by helping us collect waste. The sanctuary is collecting the following empty (rinsed) containers:
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The Green Blog
Saving energy while speading the news (March 28, 2008)
Reducing and reusing around their office, by furnishing it with freecycled furniture (check out Freecycle.org), recycling waste paper with Earthworm, Inc., drinking coffee from reusable mugs, commuting via public transportation, on foot, and by bike, and contributing old yogurt containers to TerraCycle & Stonyfield Farm’s Yogurt Brigade, to become pots for plants....
Vitamin Retailer
Waste Not: Stonyfield Farms, Honest Tea, Clif Bar and TerraCycle Unite and Reuse (March 25, 2008)
Four environmentally responsible companies have created an innovative way to collect and reuse product packaging. Three organic food companies—Stonyfield Farm, Honest Tea and Clif Bar—joined forces with TerraCycle to operate four collection efforts to prevent millions of drink pouches, yogurt containers, energy bar wrappers and soda bottles from clogging our nation’s landfills. TerraCycle is then turning this ‘waste’ into eco-friendly, affordable TerraCycle products.
By making or packaging eco-friendly products from used containers, TerraCycle, with the help of Honest Tea, Stonyfield Farm and Clif Bar, hopes to eliminate the idea of waste. This is the first time industry leaders have set up collection programs reclaiming their used packages so it can be upcycled into a new product....
Natural Resources Council of Maine
TerraCycle: Yogurt Cups, and More, Help Schools Raise Funds (March 16, 2008)
Schools and other community groups might want to check out an eco-friendly company that makes products out of reused materials. Called TerraCycle Inc., the company was started in 2001 by Princeton students Tom Szaky and John Bayer....
Maine Today
Yogurt cups, and more, help schools raise funds (March 16, 2008)
School kids and other participants can raise money for their favorite charity or other projects by collecting designated items for TerraCycle, which in turn pays roughly 2 to 5 cents per recycled item collected. Patty Crawford of Montville, a teacher at Islesboro Central School in Islesboro, recently enlisted her 11 fifth graders in three of TerraCycle's collection "Brigades": The "Yogurt Brigade," sponsored by Stonyfield Farm, the "Drink Pouch Brigade" sponsored by Capri SunTM and Honest KidsTM, and the "Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade," sponsored by Clif Bar."...
INC magazine
A Solution for "Sponsored" Waste (March 12, 2008)
The amazing thing about eco-capitalism is that you can create business
models where everyone truly wins: the environment, the consumer, the big business, the retailer and your business. In other words, all stakeholders (even the environment) can benefit. What's amazing about this kind of solution is that it creates the opposite of a death spiral -- a growth spiral. That is exactly what happened when we launched what we call "sponsored waste."...
The Mom Squad
Teach Your Kids About Recycling, and Help the Playhouse! (March 6, 2008)
Mom Squad reader, Anna sent me this information about recycling your yogurt containers, from the director of the Children's Playhouse. Anna has 2 children, ages 1-3, and is very environmentally conscious. This is a great lesson to teach our children about reducing trash.
You could also show them what will be done with them, by planting something in one of the containers. It will almost be time to plant lettuce and leafy greens, and start tomatoes and herbs indoors before moving them to outdoor pots or gardens. Chives do well in small containers, and can be used rather quickly after sprouting.
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The York Independent
Local schools and companies invited to be a part of TerraCycle YoGro! program (February 22, 2008)
YORK COUNTY - Organic food company Stonyfield Farm is partnering with TerraCycle in a pilot recycling program aimed at collecting used yogurt containers and reusing them as YoGro!TM planting pots. 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 the school of the collector's choice. ...
The Concord Insider
Recycle something. Or something. (February 19, 2008)
Stonyfield Farm is partnering with TerraCycle in a pilot program aimed at collecting used yogurt containers and reusing them as YoGro!(tm) planting pots.
TerraCycle will then sell YoGro! to large retailers who currently use black plastic planting pots, millions of which are discarded by consumers every year. ...
Telegraph Neighbors
Nashua to be part of nation wide recycling project (February 13, 2008)
Four environmentally responsible companies created an innovative way to collect and reuse product packaging. Three organic food companies, Stonyfield Farm, Honest Tea, and Clif Bar joined forces with TerraCycle to operate four collection efforts to prevent millions of yogurt containers, drink pouches, energy bar wrappers and soda bottles from overflowing our nation’s landfills. TerraCycle is then turning this ‘waste’ into eco-friendly, affordable TerraCycle products.
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Treehugger.com
Terracycle and Sponsored Waste (February 13, 2008)
When it comes right down to it, recycling is a shifting of responsibility from the producer who made a product to the consumers and their governments that use tax money to collect it and deal with it; rarely does it pay for itself. We didn't have a litter or recycling problem when the bottlers had to pay a deposit; that's why they founded Keep America Beautiful- to shift the burden from them to you. That's why we think that there should be producer responsibility, with a deposit on everything from coffee cups to cars....
Telegraph Neighbors
Nashua to be part of nation wide recycling project (February 12, 2008)
Four environmentally responsible companies created an innovative way to collect and reuse product packaging. Three organic food companies, Stonyfield Farm, Honest Tea, and Clif Bar joined forces with TerraCycle to operate four collection efforts to prevent millions of yogurt containers, drink pouches, energy bar wrappers and soda bottles from overflowing our nation’s landfills. TerraCycle is then turning this ‘waste’ into eco-friendly, affordable TerraCycle products.
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The Times Record
New recycling programs open to participants (February 4, 2008)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities across Maine schools and other community groups are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches as part of a statewide program that allows schools to fundraise while teaching their students about recycling and the environment....
Maine News
Belfast students join nationwide recycling project (February 4, 2008)
Fourth- and fifth-grade students at the Captain Albert Stevens School are working with organic yogurt company Stonyfield Farm on a nationwide recycling project.
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The Star Herald
New Recycling Efforts under way in Maine (January 23, 2008)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities across Maine. Schools and other community groups are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches...
The Trentonian
Clif Bar, TerraCycle launch eco-friendship (January 16, 2008)
TRENTON — Energy bar wrappers may be the next wave of fashion must-haves, as Clif Bar and Trenton-based TerraCycle have formed a partnership to create the Wrapper Brigade.
The Wrapper Brigade is the first program created to collect used energy bar wrappers, thus reducing the amount of wrappers going into America’s landfills. Collected wrappers will be fused into a strong material, which will be used to make gym totes, backpacks and other products....
Chapel Hill News
Program gives food containers new life (January 1, 2008)
Don't throw out your used yogurt containers just yet. A new program in some local schools and preschools is accepting the containers along with drink pouches, neither of which is included in the county's local recycling program. A private company, TerraCycle of New Jersey, is paying the schools 2 cents for each small yogurt container and a nickel for large containers, along with 2 cents for each drink pouch. The company plans to turn the cups into plant containers and the drink pouches into handbags that it hopes will be sold by retailers across the country starting next year....
Courier News
Local schools to recycle yogurt cups, drink pouches (December 31, 2007)
Those crusty, empty yogurt cups and drink pouches, when finished and cleaned, could soon yield cash for local schools and nonprofit organizations.
TerraCycle, a Trenton-based company that got its start selling organic fertilizer in recycled soda bottles, has begun two new incentive programs for schools and community groups to collect yogurt containers and used drink pouches -- items often trashed instead of recycled -- for cash, said Albe Zakes, a TerraCycle spokesman.
Hunterdon Central Regional High School and First Baptist Preschool in Somerville already have registered, he said.
The Drink Pouch Brigade and the Yogurt Brigade are free programs. Groups can earn 2 cents per used drink pouch collected. In the Yogurt Brigade, schools will earn 2 cents for 6-ounce yogurt containers and...
Northcountry News
Stonyfield Farm Partners with TerraCycle on Yogurt Cup Reuse Program (December 28, 2007)
Organic yogurt makers cups will be turned into Yo Plater Planting Containers. Stonyfield Farm, the organic food leader and environmental pioneer...
The Independent Weekly
Finally, a way to dispose of yogurt containers (December 26, 2007)
The bane of local recycling: There's no place to take your leaning tower of yogurt containers or sacks of plastic drink pouches. But a new statewide reuse program is encouraging schools and community groups to collect those items for fundraising. After signing up at www.terracycle.net/brigades, organizations can earn 1 cent for every drink pouch or 2 cents for Honest Kids drink pouches. Yogurt containers fetch 2 cents for six-ounce cups, and 5 cents for 32-ounce versions. All yogurt containers must be cleaned....
Plastics News
Reusing seldom-recycled containers (December 20, 2007)
Is this for real? A Trenton, N.J.-based company called TerraCycle Inc. is reusing plastic containers to package worm poop (which it sells as a plant food), as well as products like bird feeders. The company even takes rarely recycled plastic containers like yogurt tubs and drink pouches....
Thompson Villager
Recycling program aims to help children do their part (December 13, 2007)
Recycling is a habit that all Americans should get into, especially with all the environmental changes that have been taking place over the last several years due to pollution and other factors...
The Times
TerraCycle gets a little help from its friends (December 13, 2007)
Worm poop today - planters and pencil cases tomorrow.
Trenton-based TerraCycle is famous for inspiring young people to collect empty soda bottles the company then washes and reuses as containers for its liquid organic plant fertilizer, which is made from worm excrement....
Haywood County News
Waynesville groups can raise money recycling (December 11, 2007)
WAYNESVILLE — Schools and other community groups in Waynesville can raise money by collecting used items for recycling through two programs offered across the state. The Drink Pouch Brigade and the Yogurt Brigade allow groups to ship out used drink pouches and yogurt containers free of charge to be recycled in exchange for cash. The New Jersey-based recycling company TerraCycle is sponsoring the program, in partnership with Stonyfield Farms and Honest Tea, companies that produce yogurt and drink containers. ...
Community Paper
Local schools challenged to take part in recycling program (December 9, 2007)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities in Virginia, including Pearsiburg. Schools are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches as part of a nationwide program...
In The Village
TerraCycle Recycling (December 7, 2007)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities across North Carolina, including Hatteras Schools and other community groups which are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches...
The Star Ledger
TerraCycel gets a little help from its friends (December 3, 2007)
Worm poop today - planters and pencil cases tomorrow. Trenton-based TerraCycle is famous for inspiring young people to collect empty soda bottles the company then washes and reuses as containers for its liquid organic plant fertilizer, which is made from worm excrement. It's a business model straight out of summer camp. Now, TerraCycle is diversifying into a variation of recycling known as "sponsored waste"...
Parenting Magazine
A Site We Love (December 3, 2007)
TerraCycle makes recycling easy and lets kids actually see the fruit of their labor. Go to terracycle.net/brigades and sign up to collect soda bottles, yogurt containers, or drink pouches...
The Monterey Herald
Entrepreneur uses compost-producing red wigglers to break down garbage — and his idea has caught fire (December 1, 2007)
Has a brilliant idea ever had such a birth? It was 2001. Tom Szaky took some freshman buddies from Princeton University to visit a friend in Montreal. While there, he discovered his pal's gonzo marijuana plants.
How'd you do that? Szaky asked. Easy. Worms eating table scraps in a makeshift compost bin were producing mineral- and nutrient-rich feces, which in turn became cheap fertilizer for the pot plants. ...
Bangor Daily News
Shopping for the gardener on your list (November 24, 2007)
Because nothing says love like a bottle of liquefied worm castings. TerraCycle Plant Food is about as Earth-friendly as gardening gets. First, a gazillion worms are fed "premium organic waste," according to the bottle label. And then the worms do what worms do: They "create worm poop." That is turned into liquid fertilizer and packaged in a reused soda bottle, which the company collects by running community and school fundraisers.
I found my 20-ounce bottle — with its little bottle-cap ring still around its neck — last weekend at Tillson True Value in Dexter where I was shopping for LED Christmas lights — also an excellent way to be kind to the world and your electric bill. The all-purpose fertilizer was $6.99 and comes with a spray nozzle....
The Phillidephia Inquirer
A business built on worm power (November 23, 2007)
Has a brilliant idea ever had such a birth? It was 2001. Tom Szaky took some freshman buddies from Princeton University to visit a friend in Montreal. While there, he discovered his pal's gonzo marijuana plants.
How'd you do that? Szaky asked. Easy. Worms eating table scraps in a makeshift compost bin were producing mineral- and nutrient-rich feces, which in turn became cheap fertilizer for the pot plants.
"I'd never thought of garbage before," says Szaky, who instantly saw dollar signs. In 2002, he dropped out of Princeton to turn liquefied "worm poop" into the centerpiece of a new organic-fertilizer business....
Supermarket News
Earth-Friendly Waste (November 21, 2007)
General Merchandise company TerraCycle here has teamed with Honest Tea, Bethesda Ma., and Stonyfield Farm. Londonderry, NH. to launch two promotional recycling programs called the...
Free Press
Recycling can be used as fundraiser (November 21, 2007)
Schools and other community groups are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches...
Rolling Thunder Express
TERRACYCLE LOCAL RECYCLING PROGRAM (November 20, 2007)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities across
Maine, including Newport. Schools and other community groups are being
challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink
pouches as part of a statewide program that allows schools to raise
funds while teaching their students about recycling and the environment.
Schools and other community groups can sign up for free, pay no
shipping costs, and will earn 1 cent for every drink pouch or 2 cents
for Honest Kids Drink Pouches. In the Yogurt Brigade, schools will
earn 2 cents for 6-ounce yogurt containers, and 5 cents for 32-ounce
yogurt containers. All yogurt containers must be cleaned. To sign up
visit www.terracycle.net/brigades.
The programs are open for any organization or charity to sign up...
Packaging World Magazine
TerraCycle: Packaging with a repurpose (November 19, 2007)
The procurement of retail packaging based on discarded containers won뭪 work well for most products, but it works perfectly for 뱇iquid worm poop�and related plant-food products from TerraCycle, Trenton, NJ. The company뭩 certified organic products are packaged in discarded 1- and 2-L, and 20-oz soda bottles that have been collected and shipped at TerraCycle뭩 expense from around the country...in reused boxes, of course. It also uses 1-gal HDPE containers the company procures from local recyclers for other products. The company sorts, cleans, delabels bottles if needed, then shrink-sleeves, fills, and seals them using discarded sprayers or caps....
Village Soup
Reduce, reuse, raise money (November 11, 2007)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities across Maine, including Belfast. Schools and other community groups are being challenged to collect used yogurt containers and used drink pouches as part of a statewide program that allows schools to raise funds while teaching students about recycling and the environment. Schools and other community groups may sign up for free, pay no shipping costs, and earn 1 cent for every drink pouch or 2 cents for Honest Kids Drink Pouches.
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Town Talk
Earth Friendly Fundraising Idea for Area Schools (November 10, 2007)
Tow new recycling efforts are taking place in local communities. Schools and other community groups are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches...
The Lawrence Ledger
School turning trash into treasure (October 25, 2007)
Over the last 150 years, through the modern industrial revolution to the technological revolution going on today, humanity has made great leaps in how it lives, works and plays. Something as simple as driving from one end of the state to the other once took a whole day. Computers the size of a fist once took up an entire room and only computed simple math equations.
However, progress has a price, and all the coal needed to power those trains in the 1850s, and all the toxic chemicals needed to make those microchips today, have hit the planet hard. But there’s an even more ubiquitous presence in our lives that has had its own negative impact: plastic....
Straus Newspaper
New recycling effort (October 25, 2007)
Sussex County - Schools around New Jersey have a chance to earn money for recycling items not usually associated with recycling programs. Yogurt containers and used drink pouches are recyclable as part of a statewide program that allows schools to raise funds while teaching their students about recycling and the environment.
The initiatives are Yogurt Brigade and Honest Kids Drink Pouches. Schools and other community groups can sign up for free, pay no shipping costs, and will earn a 1 cent for every drink pouch or 2 cents for Honest Kids Drink Pouches. In the Yogurt Brigade schools will earn 2 cents for 6 oz yogurt containers, and 5 cents for 32 ounce yogurt containers. All yogurt containers must be cleaned. To sign up visit: www.terracycle.net/brigades
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Hippo Press
Yogurt cups = flower pots (October 25, 2007)
Do you have a bunch of empty yogurt containers lying around that you don’t know what to do with? Seek a Yogurt Brigade near you.
The Yogurt Brigade, a new program by TerraCycle, helps to solve the issue of what to do with those pesky yogurt containers. They’ll take, clean and paint them to create small flower pots they plan to sell to nurseries.
Stonyfield Farm of Londonderry is paying to have the containers shipped to TerraCycle in New Jersey from participating locations — mostly schools and organizations — along the East Coast. Stonyfield will provide the boxes and postage, but those participating in the program have to save about 400 containers before they ship them out....
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
Children, firm can team for more green (October 22, 2007)
School children like Payton Marshall could learn about recycling while helping their schools raise money.
Two weeks ago, TerraCycle Inc. of Trenton, N.J., teamed up with two companies that will pay schools, organizations, churches and other groups on the East Coast for sending them juice pouches and yogurt containers.
Payton, 7, is a juice pouch drinker. ...
Green Talk
TerraCycle, Teaching Our Young through Worm Poop (October 22, 2007)
What does fundraising, soda bottles, yogurt cups, drinking pouches, and worm poop have in common? Give up? I know that is a tough set of words to figure out the correlation. Just ask the innovative folks over at TerraCycle, maker of worm poop fertilizer and other assorted eco-friendly gardening products. They will tell you that it’s their mission to rid the world of waste through creating innovative uses of products that you would ordinarily throw away. Their worm poop product is bottled in recycled soda bottles.
How does this involve our young? What better way to teach this lesson than to create fundraisers involving children to collect items that can be reused? If our young can be taught at an early age to respect the Earth, then when they grow up as adults this thought process...
West Windsor & Plainsboro News
TerraCycle Brigades (October 19, 2007)
Terracycle offers donations to schools and non-profit organizations in exchange for empty yogurt containers and used drink pouches. www.teracycle.net/brigades....
Bennington Banner
Recycling company looks toward Vermont (October 8, 2007)
An eco-friendly company based in New Jersey is looking to partner with Vermont schools and community organizations on two new recycling programs. TerraCycle, a company based out of Trenton, N.J., uses products sent to them by schools, religious organizations and other community groups to make and package eco-friendly and socially responsible products. In return, the schools get paid to recycle. ...
Maine Coast Now
Businesses join forces to encourage recycling (October 8, 2007)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities across Maine. Schools and other community groups are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches as part of a statewide program that allows schools to raise funds while teaching their students about recycling and the environment. Schools and other community groups can sign up for free, pay no shipping costs and will earn 1 cent for every drink pouch or 2 cents for Honest Kids drink pouches. In the Yogurt Brigade schools will earn 2 cents for 6-ounce yogurt containers, and 5 cents for 32-ounce yogurt containers. All yogurt containers must be cleaned. To sign up visit www.terracycle.net/brigades.
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Pike County Courier
School needed for promotion (October 4, 2007)
TerraCycle Inc. is looking for a Milford area school interested in receiving free Bird Feeders and an entire Ornithology curriculum to help teach their students about nature and the importance of protecting wildlife.
In early October a representative from TerraCycle will be presenting the company’s newest eco-friendly product, an entry Bird Feeder packaged in a reused 2-liter soda bottle, at Milford Wal*Mart, For every three Bird Feeders that are purchased at $4.88 each on that day, TerraCycle will donate one Feeder to the school along with the Pennsylvania State Ornithology curriculum to the school....
Ecotality
TerraCycle Makes Money by Going Green & Kids Can Too (September 27, 2007)
Yogurt, drink pouches and worm poop? And yes, actually, I am kind of hungry as I write this…well, not THAT hungry.
I came upon a neat story that gives me the opportunity to stay within my “Green Money” realm and throw ”poop” into one of my posts. Maybe I’ll be able to now entice one of my nephews who are at “that stage” to read something I’ve written. As bright as they (hey, Con-Con and Gav!) are, I just don’t see them being engaged by solar stocks or the latest in cellulosic ethanol. Where have my siblings gone wrong?
The green gadget folks here usually have the cool, fun and entertaining items come within their realm. Sigh. But they can eat their hearts out on this one — while hopefully also eating their yogurt out (of the cups)! Once empty, those cups can be collected,...
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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.
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