TerraCycle and Walmart team up for Earth Month

As Earth Month begins TerraCycle and Walmart are hoping to boost consumers’ interest in the environment by displaying before and after products on Walmart shelves.

Wed, Mar 31 2010 at 2:00 PM

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Earth Month 2010 begins tomorrow and upcycling gurus TerraCycle and retail giant Walmart are joining forces to help boost consumers’ interest in the environment by displaying before and after products, side-by-side, on Walmart shelves nationwide. TerraCycle takes items that typically end up in a landfill and then upcycles these products into new consumer goods.

TerraCycle can take a used Skittles candy wrapper and turn it into several different items including a lunch tote, a spiral-bound notebook, and even a kite. When customers visit their local Walmart in April, they’ll see the Skittles kite and other TerraCycle goods on the shelf next to the bags of Skittles.

Typically a Skittles wrapper would end up in a landfill. If consumers participate in a TerraCycle brigade they are helping TerraCycle turn these wrappers into a new product while helping raise funds for charity. TerraCycle doesn’t just take in waste products to upcycle into new consumer goods through their brigades; the entire process also raises money for charity, schools, and other nonprofit organizations.

The partnership between TerraCycle and Walmart is sure to get the products out in front of millions of Americans. Beginning April 5, every single Walmart store in the nation will have these custom Earth Month displays. Placing the before and after products side-by-side on the shelf will help customers see that what they may consider waste can actually be reused. TerraCycle’s outside of the box thinking has led to a very creative product line, which is sure to draw customers’ eyes as they do their typical shopping.

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ExchangeBase.com Jul 23 2010 at 11:22 AM

Another brilliant move by two innovative green companies, Wal – Mart and TerraCycle. Collecting unrecyclable waste and turning it into a completely new product to be sold at a giant chain like Wal – Mart is good business all around. Wal – Mart and TerraCycle could both benefit from using ExchangeBase.com to channel Wal – Mart’s waste streams directly to TerraCycle for upcycling. If Wal-Mart supplied waste for TerraCycle to use in their upcycled products, wouldn’t both companies experience

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financial benefit? They would definitely turn heads when it comes to innovative practices of sustainability.

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Lexy Apr 14 2010 at 9:32 AM

Melissa: This is a great article and I'm glad to see that your colleague Matt is also writing about this really exciting company. I recently posted a review of Tom Szaky's , Founder and CEO of TerraCycle, book - Revolution in a Botttle on our blog site KissMyCountry (http://www.kissmycountry.com/review-of-revolution-in-a-bottle-by-tom-sza...).

Please keep writing about this company - there is certainly more to come!

Best, Lexy