Capri-Sun

TerraCycle takes an innovative spin on recycling and waste, taking things most people think are garbage -- like empty Capri-Sun juice bags, or Oreo cookie wrappers -- and fashioning them into cool products that kids can take to school as backpacks and more.

Auren Kaplan: Benevolent Capitalism is Changing The World Auren Kaplan 2010

TerraCycle takes an innovative spin on recycling and waste, taking things most people think are garbage -- like empty Capri-Sun juice bags, or Oreo cookie wrappers -- and fashioning them into cool products that kids can take to school as backpacks and more.

Auren Kaplan: Benevolent Capitalism is Changing The World Auren Kaplan 2010

Big brands, including Kraft Foods Inc. 's Capri-Sun, Kellogg Co. 's Bear Naked and Nabisco's Chips Ahoy signed up to sponsor "brigades" that collected drink pouches, yogurt cups and other garbage at schools.

Start-Up Seeks Profits in Mounds of Garbage 2010

TerraCycle takes an innovative spin on recycling and waste, taking things most people think are garbage -- like empty Capri-Sun juice bags, or Oreo cookie wrappers -- and fashioning them into cool products that kids can take to school as backpacks and more.

Auren Kaplan: Benevolent Capitalism is Changing The World Auren Kaplan 2010

TerraCycle takes an innovative spin on recycling and waste, taking things most people think are garbage -- like empty Capri-Sun juice bags, or Oreo cookie wrappers -- and fashioning them into cool products that kids can take to school as backpacks and more.

Auren Kaplan: Benevolent Capitalism is Changing The World Auren Kaplan 2010

In early April, Wal-Mart stores nationwide set up displays in an "EarthZone" section where racks of Capri-Sun-pouch backpacks sat next to new beverage-filled Capri-Sun pouches.

Start-Up Seeks Profits in Mounds of Garbage 2010

The seven-year-old collects Capri-Sun pouches for TerraCycle at schoo, l and he thought it would be cool to buy a lunch box made of them so he used his saved-up allowance and other funds for the $8 purchase.

Start-Up Seeks Profits in Mounds of Garbage 2010

TerraCycle takes an innovative spin on recycling and waste, taking things most people think are garbage -- like empty Capri-Sun juice bags, or Oreo cookie wrappers -- and fashioning them into cool products that kids can take to school as backpacks and more.

Auren Kaplan: Benevolent Capitalism is Changing The World Auren Kaplan 2010

But I was an underprivileged kid – I never got to order any of these thanks to my Chinese parents, who also never bought me the ‘good lunches’ consisting of Lunchables, Capri-Sun and Sunkist Fruit Snacks.

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But I was an underprivileged kid – I never got to order any of these thanks to my Chinese parents, who also never bought me the ‘good lunches’ consisting of Lunchables, Capri-Sun and Sunkist Fruit Snacks.

The Yuzu Tree by Shiro Sirversteinu - Yuzu-Citrus Fruit e d b m 2006