Do you wish you could recycle more, throw away less and help a good cause all at the same time? Your time has come.
The innovative partnership at Terracycle.Net has brought companies that produce difficult to recycle products and urged them to participate in a program where people would send back their used goods and with the help of engineers at TerraCycle, the parent companies would get help creating new products. To reward the recyclers picking the wasted products on the human end and sending those back to the manufacturers and TerraCycle, TerraCycle has worked out a redemption system where each piece of "garbage" is worth $.02 each.
"This sounds crazy or maybe I'm just not getting it yet?" So, what is collected and what gets made out of it? For example, Ziploc storage bags are ubiquitous in the recycling world. They can't really be recycled with your plastic grocery bags and once they rip, well, they're done. Throwing them away seem so terrible and now that every person going through airport security is using at least one, we're going through a lot of bags. What do you do with those bags? No problem says TerraCycle. If you send 100 bags to TerraCycle, they will send you $2.00 and you will be contributing to a new park bench or table, maybe a cutting board you can purchase at Target or even a section of fencing. Eager to see how you can participate? Go to www.terracycle.net for a list of items that can be recycled.
Do you have any garbage for Whitney Elementary? Every Friday there will be a container at the front of the school marked as TerraCycle, just place what you have in there and we will get it processed. For Whitney's program, we are wait listed on a few items but that is not stopping us! We will collect for every brigade until they let us on the brigade.
If you have any questions on what can or cannot be collected, please email the TerraCycle coordinator for the PTO, Nikki Rutledge
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