Summer Break Collection Guide

Collecting During Summer Break Summer break doesn’t mean your TerraCycle collections have to stop. Your school can easily set up TerraCycle collection drop-off points to keep those collections, and those TerraCycle points, coming in. Follow the steps in the timeline below to get started! May:

1. Identify a location for students and parents to drop off their collections over the summer. This could be your school, local library, or community center. Make sure you discuss your plans for installing a collection location with the staff at each potential location. 2. Identify Collection Leaders to maintain each collection location. These collection leaders will be responsible for storing and shipping the waste at their assigned locations throughout the summer. Approach school administration, parents, teachers, or older students as possible collection leaders.

June:

1. Complete and distribute the “TerraCycle Summer Collection Guide” (attached here) to students before they leave for summer break. TerraCycle Tip: Upload information about your summer collection drop-off locations to your school’s website! 2. Visit each classroom and spend 5 – 10 minutes explaining what you are collecting and where they can drop off their collections throughout the summer. 3. Meet with your Collection Leaders and distribute the “Collect, Store, and Ship Guide” to help them manage your summer collections.

June, July, 1. Maintain contact with your Collection Leaders to ensure that collections are coming in at a steady pace. and August:

TerraCycle’s Collect, Store and Ship Guide 2012

2. Remind parents to collect throughout the summer. Either mail out the materials, or choose the eco-friendly option and email parents.

September: 1. When your students arrive back at school, inform them of

total waste and/or total TerraCycle points that they collected.

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TerraCycle Summer Collection Guide We are collecting for TerraCycle during the summer! At every family gathering or family trip, save your waste to earn TerraCycle points for our school! We will be collecting from _________________ until ________________. (Date)

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Our organization currently collects the waste indicated below.  Drink Pouches  Candy Wrappers  Cookie Packaging  MARS Drinks Fresh Packs  Chip Bags  Energy Bar Wrappers  Bear Naked Packaging  Cell Phones  Huggies Brand Packaging  Scotch Tape Dispensers  Corks  Cereal Bags

 Writing Instruments  Glue Sticks and Bottles  GoGo squeeZ Pouches  Laptops  Digital Cameras  MP3 Players  Lunch Kits  Sprout Baby Food Packaging  Dairy Tubs and Lids  #6 Rigid Plastic Cups  Inkjet and Toner Cartridges  Dropps Laundry Pouches

Thank you for helping us eliminate the idea of waste and earn rewards for our school!

 Keyboards  Mice  Webcams  Jewelry  Cleaner Packaging  Graphing Calculator  Tortilla & Tostada Packaging  Cheese Packaging  Personal Care & Beauty Packaging  Toothbrushes & Toothpaste Tubes  Other__________________  Other__________________  Other__________________

You can drop off your TerraCycle collections at the following locations: _________________________________

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We have designated Collection Leaders who will handle the collecting, storing, and shipping of our TerraCycle collections over the summer.