Terracycle, Get Involved and Save the Planet One Piece of Garbage at a Time!

In this day and age of one-time-use, disposable convenience products, we need to explore green ways to keep these items from ending up in our landfill sites and waterways.

TerraCycle provides free waste collection programs for hard to recycle materials, so we can begin to outsmart our growing waste! TerraCycle then turns the returned waste into affordable green products. 


How does it work?


TerraCycle offers national programs, called Brigades to collect previously non-recyclable or hard to recycle waste. While some programs may have a cost, most of the Brigade programs offer free shipping as well as a donation for each piece of garbage that you collect.

How do you get started?

Sign up to collect one or more of the waste streams listed, or find out more about how the Brigade programs work. They accept items such as chocolate bar wrapper, yogurt cups, cereal bags, beauty product containers and more.

What do they make?

Tote bags, jewellery, garden pavers, benches, coolers, watering cans, waste receptacles, chairs, bags and more. They have some pretty interesting tote bag designs made from upcycled candy wrappers.


Here's some statistics from the TerraCycle program:

• People collecting trash: 670,525
• Waste units collected: 1,626,827
• Products from waste: 46
• Money for charity: $32,793.98

Thank you TerraCycle and partners for offering such a great environmentally friendly project for people worldwide to participate in!

Click here to learn more about TerraCycle