February 5th, 2008 - TerraCycle Inc
Not sure when or how I found this place; it’s been sitting in my blog drafts list for a while. Finally doing a bit of housecleaning here. TerraCycle Inc “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.”
Apparently, you can sign up to recycle various garbage, such as yogurt containers, and get paid for each one you turn in. There are limited spots available each month (500 for the yogurt, 198 left at the moment I’m writing this) for each item.
They use the stuff they get to manufacture other stuff, such as turning pop bottles (aka soda bottles) into bird feeders and containers for their worm castings. The odd thing about their products is that there isn’t much uniformity in the packaging since they’ll accept all sorts of different brands of bottles. How cool is that?
There’s a store locater (upper right home page)–I can supposedly find their products at Target. I’m going to have to go check that out….