Our PTF and other volunteers help raise money for Immanuel by collecting and packing your sorted Terracycle submissions and shipping them to Terracycle for cash. You can help fund our school's efforts by saving, sorting, and turning in any of the items in the following list. Materials for Terracycle can be left in the appropriately marked bins across the hall from the bookkeeping window and under preschool sign-in table.
TERRACYCLE FOR ILS
Drink Pouch Brigade - any brand foil juice pouch, including the straw! Please drink all your juice or squeeze them flat. Put these in the separate bins for juice pouches to keep the wet sticky stuff out of the dry stuff.
Chip/Snack Bag Brigade – any size, any brand, any condition empty chip, pretzel, or snack bag, including 100 calorie wrappers. This includes the larger plastic bag that held smaller snack sized bags of chips, bags of cracker jack, and any other chip, pretzel, or cracker bags.
Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade – any brand, any condition foil bar wrapper. Even Rice Krispie Treat and Pop Tart wrappers.
Dairy Tub Brigade - wash, dry and turn in any size, any brand dairy product container and lid. This includes grated/shredded cheese, yogurt, margarine/butter spreads, cream cheese, sour cream, cottage cheese, cheese spreads, etc.
Cheese Packaging Brigade – any size, any brand cheese bag or wrapper.
Malt-O-Meal® Cereal Bag Brigade – any size, any brand cereal bag from cereals that come only in a bag. NO cereal bags that come inside a cereal box.
Hot Cereal Brigade – any brand hot cereal pouch.
Tortilla and Tostada Bag Brigade – any size, any brand tortilla or tostada bag.
Bear Naked Brigade - any Bear Naked brand packaging.
Athenos Packaging Brigade – only Athenos brand packaging, clean and dry, please!
Sprout Baby Food Pouch Brigade – only Sprout brand at this time.
GoGo squeeZ Brigade – GoGo squeeZ snack pouches and any brand healthy snack pouch plastic packaging, flattened and sealed with the caps please!
Scotch Tape Brigade – any size, any brand plastic tape dispensers and cores.
Elmer's Glue Crew Brigade - RINSE and dry, then turn in only Elmer’s brand glue bottles and glue sticks.
Writing Instruments Brigade – any brand pens, regular pencils, mechanical pencils, markers, & highlighters, and even Crayola twistable crayons. Terracycle does not accept regular waxy crayons, but if you do not upcycle them at home, please turn them in for use at school.
Personal Care and Beauty Brigade - any brand, any type of personal care/beauty packaging. Examples include lotions, sun tan lotion, face wash, body wash, lipstick, mascara, makeup cases, shampoo and conditioner bottles and tubes, etc. Please clean them out as best you can and seal them to not leak! NO hair spray or sunscreen spray cans, no nail polish bottles, or nail polish remover bottles.
Colgate Oral Care Brigade – any brand of oral care products, including any kind of toothbrush, empty toothpaste tubes, empty denture cleaners / adhesive tubes (such as Fixodent) and the plastic packaging that toothbrushes come in. We will not accept: the cardboard packaging most toothpaste tubes are sold in (these are typically recyclable) and Crest White Strips foil packets.
Huggies® Brand Brigade - plastic outer packaging from any brand diapers, pull-ups, wipes, or other diaper/personal products.
Cleaner Packaging Brigade – any brand cleaning products packaging including pump/trigger top/lids/caps, wipes containers, wipes pouches, and other flexible packaging from cleaning products. No bottles.
Various Electronics Brigades – cell phones, MP3 players, keyboard, mice, laptops, GPS units, and digital cameras can be recycled for $0.02 to $5.00, depending on the item. You can also teracycle plastic electronic packaging!
No Longer Accepted
Scott Paper Product Packaging, Cookie Packaging, Coffee Bag, and Kashi Packaging Brigades. (Many Kashi items are still accepted with other brigades, but not cardboard).
PLEASE SORT!
Any sorting you do with what you collect at home is a big help to our parent volunteers. For example, stuff all the chip/snack bags inside one chip bag, all the bar wrappers in a clean/dry repurposed Ziploc or shopping bag, all the candy wrappers in another bag, all the tortilla bags in one tortilla bag, and so on.
More information on brigades and accepted packaging is available at www.terracycle.net.