Bottle Brigade Program

This program is currently on hold pending sponsorship

The Bottle Brigade Needs Your Help to Survive!

The Bottle Brigade™ needs a sponsor and we need your help in finding one! The Bottle Brigade has been hugely successful. So successful, in fact, that our small start up company can barely support the costs and labor needs associated with running the program. Recently the Bottle Brigade reached an amazing 4,000 locations in a little less than a year and a half! We never imagined it would become so popular, so fast. We were doing really well until a change in shipping policies caused by rising gas prices and shipping companies switching to dimensional weight this year. The shipping of our boxes has tripled in cost and because of this we are forced to scale back.

The Bottle Brigade is designed to help teach children about the importance of saving the environment and conserving resources. More then half of our locations are primary schools and teaching these young kids to "reduce, reuse and rethink" is a vital mission of our program. However we simply cannot continue to grow this great program without financial support. With a sponsor we can continue to sign up locations. Sponsorship would help us clear out our waiting list of hundreds of locations. It could also help us to develop an entire recycling and reusing curriculum to send to participating schools!

So we need your help to save this program and allow it to reach its full potential! Here are just a few of the benefits of a sponsorship. The sponsor's name and logo will be on every one of the 10,000 plus boxes we send. The boxes are usually located in high traffic areas. In addition, the sponsor would be credited in every press release that it single-handedly helped save the Bottle Brigade program. This year to date TerraCycle has been mentioned in hundreds of articles (Audited Bureau of Circulation of over 66 million impressions). Most importantly a sponsor will know it's helping America's children save their future. If you are interested in the sponsorship or know someone who would be interested, please review our proposal and press release in the following links.

Word document detailing the sponsorship opportunity
(please be patient, this is a large file)

Sponsorship Press Release

ATTENTION!

Starting immediately, the Bottle Brigade™ program will only donate $0.06 per cleaned and de-labeled plastic 20 oz. soda bottles. Current Bottle Brigadiers will have until October 1st to turn in all bottles at the current donation rate of $0.05 for cleaned and labeled 20 oz. plastic soda bottles and $0.06 for cleaned and de-labeled 20 oz. plastic soda bottles.

Every day, millions of soda bottles end up in garbage cans and landfills across America. TerraCycle wants to change that. As an eco-friendly innovator, TerraCycle packages its all natural liquefied worm poop in bottles collected from schools and recycling centers nationwide. It's no wonder that Red Herring Magazine named TerraCycle as one of the Top 100 Most Innovative Companies in 2004, and Inc. Magazine featured TerraCycle on its July, 2006 cover as "The Coolest Little Start-up in America!"

Unfortunately, we cannot use water bottles (which tend to be a bit weaker even if they look the same) or other uniquely sized bottles such as the "wide mouth" Gatorade® bottles, etc.

Tons and tons of Bottles?

If the picture below looks like your workplace or maybe a nearby recycling center, we are here to help you out. TerraCycle would be happy to provide homes for 20 oz. soda bottles. The plants that our products feed would be grateful as well.

Program Statistics:

0 spots available

1,267,000 bottles collected so far

5,690 total participating locations

The New York Times

A Small Player Breaks Into Starbucks (July 1, 2009)

Daniel Lubetzky, a social entrepreneur who has started several food ventures, always hoped to sell his company’s KIND Fruit + Nut Bars in Starbucks Coffee stores — a chain whose values and consumers he felt meshed with his own. So in the five years since starting KIND, he took every opportunity to introduce himself to Starbucks executives, promoting his company’s success in e-mail messages to...

Mercury News

Cabrillo teacher wants wrappers to raise money for Second Harvest (June 29, 2009)

SANTA CRUZ -- A Cabrillo College teacher wants to raise money for the Second Harvest Food Bank and is asking you to bring him as many used foil-lined wrappers as possible on July 18.

Why would anyone want to collect used wrappers?

TerraCycle uses an assortment of materials that are non-recyclable like the wrappers to make products like kites, bags, office supplies and even cleaning...

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Cabrillo teacher wants wrappers to raise money for Second Harvest (June 29, 2009)

A Cabrillo College teacher wants to raise money for the Second Harvest Food Bank and is asking you to bring him as many used foil-lined wrappers as possible on July 18.

Why would anyone want to collect used wrappers?

TerraCycle uses an assortment of materials that are non-recyclable like the wrappers to make products like kites, bags, office supplies and even cleaning products....

The Daily News Online

Upcycling campaign initiated (June 29, 2009)

LE ROY -- Katie Rhoads needs help. She needs the residents of Le Roy to bring in used energy and granola bar wrappers (any foiled-lined wrapper will work) to help raise money for her daughter's pre-kindergarten class at Wolcott Street School. Rhoads is hoping the community will save all their used wrappers over the summer and give them to Wolcott Street School in the fall.

When Katie...

Green (Living) Review

Frito-Lay has partnered with TerraCycle to 'upcycle' used Chip Bags (June 29, 2009)

PepsiCo Food Service's Frito-Lay division has partnered with TerraCycle about six months ago to "upcycle" used chip bags. As part of its continued "Conserve & Preserve" efforts, Frito-Lay is partnering with TerraCycle with the goal of keeping 5 million used chips bags out of landfills this.

Frito, which on Earth Day of 2008 unveiled a solar thermal generation facility at their manufacturing...

LeRoy Pennysaver & News

Local Woman Calls On Her Community For Participation in Upcycling campaign (June 26, 2009)

Katie Rhoads needs help. She needs the residents of Le Roy to bring in using energy and granola bar wrappers (any foiled lined wrappers will work) to help raise money for her daughter's pre-kindergarten class at Wolcott Street School. Katie is hoping the community will save all their used wrappers over the summer and give them to Wolcott Street School in the fall.

When Katie Rhoads witnessed...

Making Cents Out of Life

A New Way to Recycle (June 26, 2009)

See this bag? It's a crumpled up Target bag. Go here. See what that Target back turned into, thanks to TerraCycle.

I've heard about TerraCycle before; their flagship product is TerraCycle plant food. It's an organic, all natural plant food made from waste (worm poop) and packaged in waste (reused soda bottles). Cool, right?

TerraCycle gets even cooler. They will donate money for...

Flagstaff Climbing

TerraCycle (June 26, 2009)

Hey all, I want to invite you to participate in a new program called Terra Cycle. This company is gathering all used energy bar wrappers to be used in their recycling process where they chop the wrappers down to make climbing ropes out of....or just cool fun toys like hand bags and containers, no ropes...sorry. So bring any wrappers you may have at home to the gym so we can send all this trash to them...

Be the Heart Of Your Home

Join TerraCycle And Earn Cash For Wrappers And Packages! (June 26, 2009)

Sign up for free and collect candy wrappers. We will pay $.02 for every candy wrapper you collect. You will receive free shipping collection bags delivered right to your door.

Sign up for free and collect juice pouches. We will pay $0.02 for all Honest Kids, Capri Sun and Kool Aid Drink Pouches and $0.01 for all other brand drink pouches you collect. You will receive free shipping boxes...

Hoosier Gardener

When plants get too much rain (June 25, 2009)

Glads are one of those old-fashioned plants that many modern gardeners shun, thinking the flowers worthy only of funeral arrangements.

However, these stalks of funnel-shaped flowers punctuate the summer garden with long-lasting vertical color, especially when planted in succession. ...

NJ BIZ

Tom Szaky (June 24, 2009)

Tom Szaky is building his tomorro wfrom yesterday's refuse. The chief executive of TerraCycle Inc., in Trenton, Szaky has gone from worm poop to primetime, with a television show, " Garbage Moguls," on the National Geographic Channel.

The reality show premiered in april, and followed the staff at TerraCycle as they turn trash into cash, producing new products from discarded materials.

Szaky,...

Justin Sachs

Interview with Tom Szaky (June 23, 2009)

I’d like to introduce Tom Szaky, author of Revolution in a Bottle and founder and CEO of TerraCycle, the company that’s working to eliminate the idea of waste. TerraCycle pays people to collect non-recyclable waste, which we then upcycle into some of the most environmentally responsible products available.

1.What do you do? TerraCycle pays schools, churches, really any non-profit, to...

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