In order to reduce local landfill sizes, a company called TerraCycle Partners is teaming up with Capri Sun and Honest Tea to reuse juice box drink containers as handbags, pencil cases, and other school supplies.
Participants will be paid 2 cents for each drink pouch they collect and schools are using this opportunity as a fund raiser. So far, 800 schools and other community groups have joined this program to help reduce landfill waste.
A staggering 4.6 billion fruit juice pouches end up in landfills every year because they are made of material that cannot be recycled. Target Stores will start carrying these handbags and other products made from the recycled containers in 2008.
To learn more about this program, go to TerraCycle.
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