Comments on: Become Part of Terracycle's Chip Bag Brigade and Earn Money for Your School http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/05/13/become-part-of-terracycles-chip-bag-brigade-and-earn-money-for-your-school/ Green and Natural Parenting for Eco-Friendly Families Thu, 24 May 2012 17:04:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anne http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/05/13/become-part-of-terracycles-chip-bag-brigade-and-earn-money-for-your-school/#comment-11989 Anne Fri, 07 May 2010 22:04:03 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3737#comment-11989 If any chip brigade members would like me to send our bags in for their charity, I have a box stuff (and bursting) but need your label to send in our bags. I am on the waiting list but don't want to break it to my students that we are not yet in the brigade. They are so cute gathering all the bags every day. I am going to pay the school the 2cents so the kids know they are doing a fundraiser but I am not willing to also pay for shipping. If you can send me an attachment of your chip bag label, you can have our wrapper money. Thank yoU! Anne If any chip brigade members would like me to send our bags in for their charity, I have a box stuff (and bursting) but need your label to send in our bags. I am on the waiting list but don’t want to break it to my students that we are not yet in the brigade. They are so cute gathering all the bags every day. I am going to pay the school the 2cents so the kids know they are doing a fundraiser but I am not willing to also pay for shipping. If you can send me an attachment of your chip bag label, you can have our wrapper money. Thank yoU! Anne

]]> By: Green Craft: Fun With Plastic Bottles! : Eco Child’s Play http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/05/13/become-part-of-terracycles-chip-bag-brigade-and-earn-money-for-your-school/#comment-11987 Green Craft: Fun With Plastic Bottles! : Eco Child’s Play Sat, 30 May 2009 00:55:01 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3737#comment-11987 [...] an easy way to craft at home without spending a lot of money. Do you remember saving the salad dressing bottle when you were a kid so you could take it to class [...] [...] an easy way to craft at home without spending a lot of money. Do you remember saving the salad dressing bottle when you were a kid so you could take it to class [...]

]]> By: Wenona Napolitano http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/05/13/become-part-of-terracycles-chip-bag-brigade-and-earn-money-for-your-school/#comment-11986 Wenona Napolitano Thu, 14 May 2009 17:58:40 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3737#comment-11986 Possible anti-consumerism cynic I think. I have three kids, three kids that no matter how many vegetables you stick in front of them at some point they still want junk food. It is part of life. Junk food isn't going to go away so we might as well do soemthing good with the wrappings. Sure Frito Lay gets to look like a hero but TerraCycle, a company founded on eco-principles is taking junk and upcycling it into good things instead of letting it rot in landfills. To me it's a step in the right direction. We can't expect green perfection all at once. Possible anti-consumerism cynic I think.

I have three kids, three kids that no matter how many vegetables you stick in front of them at some point they still want junk food. It is part of life. Junk food isn’t going to go away so we might as well do soemthing good with the wrappings.

Sure Frito Lay gets to look like a hero but TerraCycle, a company founded on eco-principles is taking junk and upcycling it into good things instead of letting it rot in landfills. To me it’s a step in the right direction.

We can’t expect green perfection all at once.

]]> By: Become Part of Terracycle’s Chip Bag Brigade and Earn Money for Your School | The Global Warming Statistics http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/05/13/become-part-of-terracycles-chip-bag-brigade-and-earn-money-for-your-school/#comment-11985 Become Part of Terracycle’s Chip Bag Brigade and Earn Money for Your School | The Global Warming Statistics Thu, 14 May 2009 09:03:25 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3737#comment-11985 [...] Read more of this story » [...] [...] Read more of this story » [...]

]]> By: cowboy_k http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/05/13/become-part-of-terracycles-chip-bag-brigade-and-earn-money-for-your-school/#comment-11984 cowboy_k Thu, 14 May 2009 05:37:24 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3737#comment-11984 Am I the only one who thinks that this is just... wrong? It's promoting the consumption of junk food that people (especially kids!) don't need, and turning the waste into junk products that people don't need, which in turn promotes the aforementioned junk food through the branding on the junk products? I could see how it might make some money for a school when done on a large enough scale, but to call this environmentally friendly is a bit of a greenwash. Sure, it might keep the bags out of the landfill, but I can see the "upcycled" products ending up in the landfill in fairly short order, plus now there's been the additional energy expenditures in creating the upcycled products (not to mention shipping of the bags and products). The only winner here is Frito-Lay, who gets to look like they're doing something good while improving their brand exposure and probably increasing consumption of their products in the areas where the programs are in effect - you can't tell me that in theses schools there won't be increased pressure (conscious or unconscious) on the students to buy more Frito-Lay products to "help support the school and save the environment". Or am I just an anti-consumerism cynic? Am I the only one who thinks that this is just… wrong? It’s promoting the consumption of junk food that people (especially kids!) don’t need, and turning the waste into junk products that people don’t need, which in turn promotes the aforementioned junk food through the branding on the junk products?

I could see how it might make some money for a school when done on a large enough scale, but to call this environmentally friendly is a bit of a greenwash. Sure, it might keep the bags out of the landfill, but I can see the “upcycled” products ending up in the landfill in fairly short order, plus now there’s been the additional energy expenditures in creating the upcycled products (not to mention shipping of the bags and products).

The only winner here is Frito-Lay, who gets to look like they’re doing something good while improving their brand exposure and probably increasing consumption of their products in the areas where the programs are in effect – you can’t tell me that in theses schools there won’t be increased pressure (conscious or unconscious) on the students to buy more Frito-Lay products to “help support the school and save the environment”.

Or am I just an anti-consumerism cynic?

]]> By: Corey~livingandloving http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/05/13/become-part-of-terracycles-chip-bag-brigade-and-earn-money-for-your-school/#comment-11983 Corey~livingandloving Wed, 13 May 2009 18:05:53 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/?p=3737#comment-11983 i love this idea. I see it would be hard to make much money at it, but what a great idea for a school project. i love this idea. I see it would be hard to make much money at it, but what a great idea for a school project.

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