Illinois Recycling Association Bottle Brigade

Welcome to the TerraCycle / IRA 'Bottle Brigade' Headquarters! Please sign up using the form below. If you have any questions or problems, call us at 609-393-4252 ext. 29.

Earn 2.5 cents for your organization and 2.5 cents will also be made to IRA to advance recycling/reuse efforts statewide.

Visit the Illinois Recycling Association (IRA) here.

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Becoming a member of the TerraCycle / IRA 'Bottle Brigade' is easy! Just enter your information in the form below and you're on your way!

We will first send you four Bottle Brigade collection boxes after you confirm your email address. As soon as a box is filled with 75 20oz. soda bottles in good condition, ship it back to us using the UPS prepaid label (already affixed to the box). Use the remaining boxes to keep collecting. When our system shows that you have two boxes remaining at your location, we will automatically send you another four boxes so you'll never have to stop earning funds. The processing time is generally 1-2 weeks after we receive your boxes. For more information, refer to the FAQ.

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Program Statistics:

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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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