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=** Welcome to the Virgil Green Team Wiki **= = = =** How TerraCycle Helps The Environment **= All the waste that we collect will either be upcycled or recycled into new products.
 * On the left side bar you will see pages for each of the items we could potential recycle. **
 * Click on the page to find out more about each product and what you can do to help. **


 * 1) [[image:http://assets3.terracycle.net/images/new-site-images/homepage/wow-box3.jpg?1314468317 width="258" height="258" caption="Image of upcycled and recycled products"]]
 * TerraCycle's purpose is to eliminate the idea of waste. They do this by creating national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste.
 * TerraCycle then converts the collected waste into a wide variety of products and materials. With more than 20 million people collecting waste in 14 countries TerraCycle has diverted billions of units of waste and used them to create over 1,500 different products available at major retailers ranging fromWalmart to Whole Foods Market.
 * The goal is to eliminate the idea of waste by creating collection and solution systems for anything that today must be sent to a landfill.

TerraCycle diverts billions of pieces of garbage from our landfills and incinerators (both of these options produce added carbon and other greenhouse gases) and either upcycles or recycles the waste into new products, which reduces the need for new materials to be extracted from our planet.

Click the Terracycle link to find out more. [|Terracycle]
 * Virgil School can make a difference, each product we send in adds up! **

Helpful pages for the refrigerator door, classroom, and cafeteria. [|resource download]