Don't take this for anything other than was is stated. The world goes around every day using convenience items. The things that Terracycle has made a brand about. By adding glamour and a use for materials that have no place even being manufactured is truly a scam! If companies like Sun Chips can create a package that is completely compost-able then why should companies like Capri-Sun be given any limelight for being turned into backpacks, folders and the like?

Over 2 years ago Terracycle started working with these packages creating a Brand. Genius! Absolutely But call a spade a spade. Work with companies to CHANGE packaging. Reduce what we leave around, because after the end of the school year when that Capri Sun folder is not needed anymore, where will it be? A landfill I'm sure.

Anastasia Harrison

It's surely more beneficial to use waste rather than virgin materials to create products. But Terracycle is promoting unnecessary consumptiom--the purchase of non-compostable juice pouches-- so that kids feel like they are contributing to green solutions. In fact any purchase of any juice pouch -- regardless of whether it's later turned into a bag--is contributing to the problem. The pouches still end up in the landfill.

As a stop gap measure for short term diminution of waste its ok; but it has quickly turned into a driver of environmental waste, where people will mistakenly think it's ok to buy juice pouches because terracycle will take them back. And thinking so, they will change their consumption habits to buy MORE not fewer pouches.

I too have issues with your cooperation with unsustainable plastic packaging usage. You will receive a lot of the waste items but a lot will also be landfilled/EfW Incinerated. Are you happy with that latter outcome?

There seems to a lack of uses for such material in reality, despite its promotion by Kraft. I think it is just plain wrong when we could easily use glass jars with reusable metal lids (for Kenco coffee).

My choice, panned in one promotion video!, is to purchase unpackaged coffee beans/grounds for home container. That is Zero Waste! There is value in your ideas just watch that you don't become a dupe for unsustainable practice.