Well, obviously, Home Grown Families LOVES green! We love green products, green ideas, green caring, green based in the US, and new green innovative products! So, again, obviously, we LOVE TerraCycle! Have you heard of TerraCycle, yet? Chances are, you have seen their green products whether you realized it or not. I was at Wal-Mart a few months ago and noticed Capri Sun lunch boxes but I didn't know about TerraCycle, yet. I went back to check them out and sure enough it was a TerraCycle product.
So, TerraCycle works by taking waste that can't be easily recycled and re-purposes it. There is no waste of energy or product like there is in recycling. So, in a sense, it's not recycling- it's UPcycling!
Since Home Grown Families is so into babies and kids, we wanted to tell you about 2 of their brigades. The Huggies Brand Brigade and the Sprout Brigade. Even a cloth diapering mama like me, likes this sposie diaper brigade!
The Huggies Brand Brigade was established to keep the millions of pieces of plastic Huggies diaper wrappers out of the landfill. These wrappers will be used to make bibs as shown in the picture above, kites, tote bags and a number of other products. Now, if they can just think of something to make with all those dirty diapers...
The Sprout Brigade uses the empty baby food pouches for products like those mentioned above. Sprout is a GREAT organic baby food (in my personal opinion) but it's pouches can't be recycled like the glass jars most other baby foods come in. Now, you can feed your child organic and not feel guilty about the waste!
Joining or starting a brigade is as simple as signing up. There is currently 27 different brigades to choose from and TerraCycle even pays for the shipping! They pay $.02 to $.25 per piece depending on the brigade you're in. Twice a year they donate cash (the amount your team earned collecting trash) to the school or charity of your choice! How's that for green caring? According to their website, they have donated over $1.1 million dollars so far!
Head on over to TerraCycle and check out their products! While you're there, check out the brigades and see if you can help!
Stay tuned for our TerraCycle product review and giveaway.
So, TerraCycle works by taking waste that can't be easily recycled and re-purposes it. There is no waste of energy or product like there is in recycling. So, in a sense, it's not recycling- it's UPcycling!
Since Home Grown Families is so into babies and kids, we wanted to tell you about 2 of their brigades. The Huggies Brand Brigade and the Sprout Brigade. Even a cloth diapering mama like me, likes this sposie diaper brigade!
The Sprout Brigade uses the empty baby food pouches for products like those mentioned above. Sprout is a GREAT organic baby food (in my personal opinion) but it's pouches can't be recycled like the glass jars most other baby foods come in. Now, you can feed your child organic and not feel guilty about the waste!
Joining or starting a brigade is as simple as signing up. There is currently 27 different brigades to choose from and TerraCycle even pays for the shipping! They pay $.02 to $.25 per piece depending on the brigade you're in. Twice a year they donate cash (the amount your team earned collecting trash) to the school or charity of your choice! How's that for green caring? According to their website, they have donated over $1.1 million dollars so far!
Head on over to TerraCycle and check out their products! While you're there, check out the brigades and see if you can help!
Stay tuned for our TerraCycle product review and giveaway.
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3 comments:
Fantastic! Thanks for the intro to this green company!
Stopping by from Friday Follow. Was already following you on GFC so am now following on twitter, as well!
Enjoy the weekend,
Terri
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Following back! I love the blog... even though I don't have kids yet, I'm always trying to educate myself on everything green and I love to find out about green baby products!!
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It is fascinating to learn about these innovative upcycling initiatives.
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