Here is what we are collecting:
· Drink Pouch Brigade®: Capri Sun, Minute Maid, Kool Aid all seem to be okay
Scott Brand Brigade®
Huggies Brand Brigade®
Scotch Tape Brigade®
Cereal Bag Brigade®
Elmer's Glue Crew Brigade®
NEOSPORIN Tube Brigade®
Lunch Kit Brigade®
Colgate Oral Care Brigade®: Any brand toothbrush or toothpaste seems to be acceptable; these items are made into non-brand specific items like engineered decking material so they don't seem to care about the brand.
Candy Wrapper Brigade®: ANY SIZE! Think about that Halloween stash when it's reduced to rubble.
Cookie Packaging Brigade®
Tortilla and Tostada Bag Brigade®
Inkjet Brigade®
Cheese Packaging Brigade®
Personal Care and Beauty Brigade®
Revolution Foods Brigade®
Sprout Baby Food Pouch Brigade®
Peanut Butter Brigade®
Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade®
Bear Naked Brigade®
CORE Wrapper Brigade®
Brigada de Empaques de Tortillas y Tostadas® / Tortillas and Tostadas Bags Brigade®
Bottle and Can Brigade: Brought to you by the Dream Machine Recycle Rally
Method® Refill Brigade®
Solo® Cup Brigade®
Keyboard and Mouse Brigade®
Laptop Brigade®
Digital Camera Brigade®
Cell Phone Brigade®
Dropps Laundry Packages
Pens and Sharpies
Corks Brigade
Chip Bag Brigade
Home Storage Brigade: They said they would stop accepting Ziploc bags at the end of the summer but it seems they still have the brigade active and because we have collected $98 from sending in Ziploc bags, keep sending them in! They accept any brand, any size.
Kashi Package Brigade®: they accept cereal bag liners so send in any brand cereal bag liner and we will send these here!
I know this will sound very insignificant but Terracycle and their partners give us $.02 for each item. That means $.02 for every Ziploc bag, every cheese wrapper, every pen and even every plastic cup. Computer accessories, laptops, digital cameras and cell phones are more. All of these items, things that cannot be placed in the big blue recycle bin, add up to actual money the school can use anything the PTO decides it needs. Terracycle gives us no restrictions or guidelines on how the money must be spent. Last year we brought in nearly $200 from the garbage that not only would have been thrown out, it would have gone to a landfill and not one bit to a recycling center!
All you have to do is remember to bring those items to the school and put them in the Terracycle bin in front of the school's front doors anytime between 8:40 and 3:15 Fridays.
Nikki Rutledge
-Whitney Parent and "School Garbage Mogul"
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