Ella’s Kitchen and TerraCycle Recycle Baby Food Pouches

Ella’s Kitchen is passionate about protecting our playground and helping little ones grow up in a healthy, happy world. In partnership with TerraCycle, the organisation that provides free waste collection programmes for hard to recycle materials, Ella’s Kitchen has successfully saved 100,000 used baby food pouches from UK landfill by recycling them into new products.

TerraCycle Launch School’s in Session Points Giveaway!

TerraCycle are proud to announce the School’s in Session Points Giveaway, a new competition to celebrate the start of the new school year by rewarding UK schools that send in waste packaging received by TerraCycle between 14th September and 14th October 2011.  This competition is a great way of tackling the growing issue concerning waste disposal in Britain. [...]

Guest Post: How to make a Tassimo Coffee Wrapper Gift Bow

How to: Tassimo coffee wrapper gift bow Transform coffee packaging into gift wrap sure to cause an upcycled buzz By Tiffany Threadgould www.terracycle.co.uk Add upcycled style to any gift with this easy do-it-yourself gift bow and gift wrap. You can make them from any kind of food wrapper, but the coffee style will be sure [...]

TerraCycle team up with Danone

TerraCycle have just joined forces with Danone to help reduce landfill.  What’s more you can raise money for charity or for a school by collecting Danone yoghurt pots. Terracycle will upcycle and recycle your collected waste materials into new products.  Take a look at the TerraCycle site to see the range of products you can [...]

DIY: T-Shirt Tote Bags

Here is another fab upcycling project from the fab Terracycle team. Recycled t-shirt tote bags are fun, easy DIY projects I tried my hand at the DIY t-shirt tote bag, using a slightly different method that calls for one t-shirt. T-shirts with logos or front designs are fun to use.

Recycle Old Pens to Fundraise for Schools

From September, schools will have a new environmentally friendly way of fundraising money for books and equipment.  A teacher or a parent can register their school online.  Then in September, the school will be sent a  collection box along with some posters and flyers, in time for the start of the new school year. Children [...]