Beginning this week, we will launch our TerraCycle collection program here at Wee Friends! Miss Annastecia and a friend have teamed up to coordinate this program in an effort to become more environmentally conscious as a community.

What is TerraCycle? TerraCycle is a program that collects, sorts, researches, and processes products that would typically head to a landfill. The items they process are usually made of multiple materials and therefore can’t be recycled at a normal facility, or have been long thought of as “unrecyclable”. Together, we can team up to stop commonly tossed items from overloading landfills and become part of the solution to reducing our carbon footprint.

You simply need to collect any of the qualifying items from your home and drop them in the collection bin outside of Wee Friends (next to the trash can), or hand them over to Miss Annastecia and let her take care of it for you. The items currently approved for us to collect and send in are:

· Skin care, hair care, and cosmetic packaging

· Squeezable food pouches and caps (IMPORTANT: these need to be rinsed of food residue and dried before being collected)

· Brita filters, pitchers, dispensers, bottles, and faucet systems (Brita brand only)

· All brands of writing utensils, glue sticks, watercolor dispensers, and paint sets

· All brands of used or empty oral care products and packaging

· All brands of blades and razors

· All pop socket products and packaging, and phone cases of any brand

Please feel free to head to www.terracycle.com for more information, and also check out our Wee@Home page on Facebook (make sure to join this group for parents if you haven’t already!) for more details on acceptable collections, and to discuss and direct your questions to Miss Annastecia. As always, thank you for your cooperation and we look forward to making a meaningful impact together!