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Every year BILLIONS of drink pouches, yogurt containers, candy wrappers and more end up in dumpsters and landfills across America. TerraCycle’s mission is to recycle these items into affordable, eco-friendly products. They’re making “upcycling” trendy with their adorable backpacks, binders, and lunch boxes!
Want to get paid for your trash? Join one of their FREE Brigades and TerraCycle will pay you per piece for sending them your non-recyclable waste materials.
One lucky Deal Seeking Mom reader will win a TerraCycle Prize Pack that includes the following:
- Capri Sun lunch box
- Billboard laptop case
- Honest Kids 3 ring binder
- Paper pens
- (2) Capri Sun pencil cases
- Capri Sun small tote
- Doritos backpack
- Circuit board coasters
- Circuit board picture frame
To enter, tell me how your family gets environmentally friendly. Do you recycle as much as possible? Have you given up paper towels and instead opted for good old-fashioned cloth?
Every reader has four methods available to enter this contest. Choose one each of any combination of method one, two, three, or four for up to a total of 4 entries!!!
If you are reading this in your email or feed reader, please CLICK HERE to visit the original blog post to enter. Email entries will not be counted.
Methods of entry:
1. Leave a comment. How does your family go green?
2. Join the TerraCycle community on Facebook. Come back and leave a separate comment letting me know you’ve done so!
3. Follow @DealSeekingMom and @TerraCycle on Twitter and tweet the following. Be sure to come back and leave a separate comment with the link to your tweet!
Enter to win a @TerraCycle Back-To-School Prize Pack worth $100 from @DealSeekingMom: https://bit.ly/bo8InM
4. Subscribe to my feed via RSS or email. You must confirm your email subscription for it to be a valid entry! Leave a separate comment letting me know you have done so. If you’re already a subscriber, simply leave a separate comment letting me know you’re already subscribed. Lovin’ my subscribers! You guys make this all possible.
Prize:
(1) TerraCycle Prize Pack (ARV $100), as described above
This giveaway ends at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 19th and is open to all U.S. residents 18 years or older. I’ll use Comment Contest to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email and listed on my Giveaway Winners page. Winners must respond within 48 hours of notification to claim their prize. Good luck!
While you’re in a contest entering mood, don’t forget to check out the Giveaway Gathering for a variety of contests being hosted on Deal Seeking Mom readers’ blogs!
Debbie F
We have recycle bins. We also try to use only washable dishes instead of paper plates & cups. We bring our steel water bottles wsith us instead of buying water.
Robin
We live in an apartment complex that does not offer recycling. What we do have is a little compost bin on our patio where we recycle our paper products and organic leftovers and use it for potting soil. Every little bit helps!
Debbie F
I follow terracycle on facebook
kim jenkins
I joined terracycle on facebook as well
Rochelle Wilkerson
we don’t use paper towels at all!
Scott P
Going green by using rechargeable batteries and doing our part to recycle. Thankfully our community has just expanded the items they receive via recycle so we are adjusting how we dispose of our items. It’s fun teaching a 4 year old how to recycle! And since it’s often a smaller box and lighter he helps me carry it to the curb and looks forward to that every week!
Debbie F
I subscribe to DSM
Pat
How does your family go green? We are good about recycling in our home and also have given up bottled water on a regular basis and now use water pitcher filtration instead.
kim jenkins
i subscribe to DSM emails
Angie W
We recycle a lot, including using store plastic bags are trash can liners. Composting is in the near future, too. And we always use cloths to clean up messes – no paper towels for us.
Madonna Cramer
I am following @TerraCycle and you on twitter I am @madonnacramer.
https://twitter.com/madonnacramer/status/21493833764 and tweeted.
Angie W
I subscribe via RSS to DSM.
Pat
Follow @DealSeekingMom and @TerraCycle on Twitter @pavanco
https://twitter.com/Pavanco/status/21493943397
Cheryl
Planting our own garden and reusing bags and many other things.
Inga
Thanks for bringing my attention to Terracycle. I’ve been wondering what to do with all the non recyclable yogurt containers we have. Our family has gone green by using rags instead of papertowels. It is super easy and we have a bag of rags handy at all times in the kitchen. We have a basket that we throw the used rags in and just wash them in the washing machine when we need more. Our rags are made from old clothes and stained tablecloths.
Rochelle Wilkerson
following everyone of fb
Angela
We use recycle bins for paper, glass, & plastic and recycle food scraps to our quail and compost pile.
Jennifer
We recycle everything that we can, and I always use my own bags for shopping.
Julie
We recycle as much as we can and turn off lights when not in a room
Liz
We recycle!
Kalley
We try to remember to turn off water while we are brushing our teeth, try to turn lights off when leaving rooms. We’ve switched to energy saving light bulbs . We use lunchboxes & containers instead of bags & baggies. I’m sure there are many more!! :)
Tori M.
Our family uses chemical free cloth cleaners by Norwex, we recycle and compost, we buy organic when able, we use recycled paper products, use natural care products, and my son wears eco-friendly diapers (by Seventh Generation and bumGenius). Our dog even eats organic food! We’ve been named a Columbus GreenSpot too :)
Andrea Dornan
my son recycles everything into a craft project!! Love his creativity
Tori M.
“Liked” Terracycle on FB to be part of the community! Thanks for hosting such a great contest!
Erin P
We recycle, don’t use paper napkins, and make a concerted effort to consume less processed/ package items.
Melissa
Our family recycles EVERYTHING! We purchased recycling bins to keep outside and carry them off once a week. We saved all the tests that the school sent home when the kids were in public school (typing paper and the back was blank) to reuse for art on the blank side. We use cloth napkins, even when guests are over and got rid of all disposable plates, cups and bowls. We use canisters, bowls, etc to store food in instead of baggies, plastic wrap, etc. We have our own grocery bags. We buy large bottles of juice, Gatorade, etc and put it into reusable bottles. The kids are really on board and love that they get to make money each time we go to the scrap yard with their cans!
Jill
We are very lucky because our trash service also picks up our recycbles – makes it very easy! We also use cloth napkins and we rarely use paper towels (but sometimes we still do). I take my own reusable sacks to the store – hate plastic bags. I know we can do more but we do what we can.
Andrea Dornan
just added terracycle to my facebook!!!
Melissa
I follow Deal Seeking Mom on Facebook (even though I can’t get the links to open correctly) ;-)
Kalley
I “liked” TerraCycle on fb also! I see some cool things I am going to check out in a minute! :)