Our PTF and other volunteers help raise money for Immanuel by collecting a variety of recyclable materials and turning them into Terracycle for cash. You can help fund our school's efforts by saving and turning in any of the items in the following list. Donations can be left in the appropriately marked bins across the hall from the scrip office and under the tables in the preschool hallway.

TERRACYCLE FOR ILS

Kashi Package Brigade  - any Kashi packaging, including liner bags, cookie trays, oatmeal envelopes.

Drink Pouch Brigade  - any brand foil juice pouch, including the straw! Please drink all your juice or squeeze them out. Please bag these separately from other Terracycle packaging and put them in the separate bins for juice pouches to keep the wet sticky stuff out of the dry stuff.

Chip/Snack Bag Brigade – any size, any brand, any condition empty chip, pretzel, or snack bag, including 100 calorie wrappers. This includes the larger plastic bag that held smaller snack sized bags of chips, bags of cracker jack, and any other chip, pretzel, or cracker bags.

Cookie Packaging Brigade  - any size, any brand, any condition cookie wrapper, e.g., Oreo, Chips Ahoy, etc., including 100 calorie wrappers and Oreo fun stix wrappers AND the plastic cookie trays inside.

Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade – any brand, any condition foil bar wrapper. Even Rice Krispie Treat and Pop Tart wrappers.

Candy Wrapper Brigade – any size, any brand, any condition candy wrappers and candy bags. This includes: Lindt truffle wrappers (but NOT the foil wrappers), chocolate chip bags, Starburst wrappers (even the individual waxy type wrappers), tootsie roll, tootsie pop, dum dum, and any lollipop wrappers. NOT ACCEPTED: any tin foil type of wrappers, including Hershey kisses, any fruit snack or fruit roll-up type wrappers, including Welch’s fruit snacks, marshmallow bags.

Spreads Brigade - wash, dry and turn in any size, any brand spread tub and lid. Must be a spreads type product – margarine, butter, cream cheese.

Stonyfield® Yogurt Brigade - wash, dry and turn in any size, any brand yogurt container that can "nest" or stack neatly (i.e. the top must be wider than the bottom) and its lid. Examples include Stonyfield farms and Dannon cups. Examples of yogurt cups we do not accept are Activia and Yoplait style cups.

Cheese Packaging Brigade – any size, any brand cheese bag or wrapper

Malt-O-Meal® Cereal Bag Brigade – any size, any brand, any condition of cereal bag from cereals that come only in a bag. NO cereal bags that come inside a cereal box.

Tortilla Brigade –  any size, any brand tortilla or tostada bag.

Bear Naked Brigade - any Bear Naked brand packaging.

GoGo squeeZ Brigade - any brand healthy snack pouch plastic packaging, sealed with the caps, please!

Gum Package Brigade - any size, any brand, any condition gum wrapper, multipack bags, foil packs, clear cellophane and exterior wrappers. The Gum Wrapper Brigade accepts all types of gum wrappers - from blister packs and individual wrappers, to family size bags and cellophane exterior packaging.

Scotch Tape Brigade – any size, any brand plastic tape dispensers and cores.

Elmer's Glue Crew Brigade - RINSE and dry, then turn in only Elmer’s brand glue bottles and glue sticks.

Writing Instruments Brigade – any brand pens, regular pencils, mechanical pencils, markers, & highlighters, and even Crayola twistable crayons. Terracycle does not accept regular waxy crayons, but if you do not upcycle them at home, please turn them in for use at school.

Personal Care and Beauty Brigade  - any brand, any type of personal care/beauty packaging. Examples include lotions, sun tan lotion, face wash, body wash, lipstick, mascara, makeup cases, shampoo and conditioner bottles and tubes, hair spray cans, etc. Please clean them out as best you can and seal them to not leak!

NEOSPORIN® Tube Brigade – any size, any brand antibiotic ointment tube.

Colgate Oral Care Brigade – any brand of oral care products, including any kind of toothbrush, empty toothpaste tubes, empty denture cleaners / adhesive tubes (such as Fixodent) and the plastic packaging that toothbrushes come in. We will not accept: the cardboard packaging most toothpaste tubes are sold in (these are typically recyclable) and Crest White Strips foil packets.

Method Refill Brigade –  any size, any brand refill bag like a Method brand soap refill bag. Cleaned out as best you can and sealed to not leak!

Scott® Brand Brigade - any brand, any size, any condition outer plastic wrapping from paper products that are similar to the Scott brand of paper products. This includes: paper towels, napkins, and toilet paper.  NOT ACCEPTED: wrapping from paper plates or plastic cups

Huggies® Brand Brigade - plastic outer packaging from any brand diapers, pull-ups, wipes, or other diaper/personal products.

Various Electronics - cell phones, MP3 players, keyboard, mice, laptops, and digital cameras can be recycled for $0.02 to $5.00, depending on the item. 

Another recycling effort at Immanuel is to:

Recycle Caps with Aveda

Currently caps are not acceptable recycling in most local recycle bins (visit the Garbage Garage at the Larimer County Landfill for more information). The Recycle Caps with Aveda program accepts caps that are rigid polypropylene plastic, sometimes noted with a 5 in the chasing arrows recycling symbol.  This includes caps that twist on with a threaded neck such as caps on, water, soda, milk and other beverage bottles, flip top caps on tubes and food product bottles (such as ketchup and mayonnaise), laundry detergents and some jar lids such as peanut butter. Excluded from collection are pharmaceutical lids and non rigid lids such as yogurt lids, tub lids (margarine, cottage cheese), and screw on lids that are not rigid. Please do not include any metal lids or plastic pumps or sprayers. See http://www.aveda.com/aboutaveda/caps.tmpl?ngextredir=1 for more information.

Turn in clean accepted caps with your Terracycling in the burgundy collection bins. At lunch and sporting events, caps from drinks can also be deposited in the white juice pouch collection bin.  

Please note:  Morning Fresh Dairy Caps are a separate fundraiser. These must be counted out to be turned in for $0.05 each. Please turn in Morning Fresh Dairy Caps in the marked cubbies by the PTF table and near the preschool sign in table. Your help keeping Morning Fresh Dairy caps separate from other caps turned in to Aveda is greatly appreciated!

Any sorting you do with what you collect at home is a big help to our parent and 1st grade volunteers. For example, stuff all the chip/snack bags inside one chip bag, all the bar wrappers in a shopping bag, all the candy wrappers in another bag, all the tortilla bags in one tortilla bag, and so on.

For more information about and to find out how you can help with easy fundraising projects at ILS, please email easyfundraising@immanuelloveland.org.

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING IMMANUEL!