The Sandia Vista Elementary PTO Recycling Efforts

TerraCycle Efforts

The Sandia Vista PTO has formed a Collection Team through Terracycle for the following items:

• Juice Pouches - Capri Sun, Kool-aid Jammers, Honest Kids juice pouches are "upcycled" into products such as backpacks, pencil cases, and hats.
• Malt-o-Meal Cereal Bags - any used (empty) cereal bag is accepted. Terracycle turns these into lunch boxes, backpacks and more.
• Candy Wrapper - all Mars/Wrigley candy wrappers of any size are accepted. These products include M&Ms, skittles, snickers, twix, starburst, mars bars, dove chocolate bars, three musketeers, and other Mars products.
• Chip Bags - all empty Frito-Lay chip bags or any size are accepted and "upcycled" into cool new products such as speakers for audio equipment, clipboards, and bags.
• Lunchables Kits- sponsored byLunchables , eligible kits include Basics, Fun Packs, Completes, and Value Twin packs. Clean packaging, including the cover and cardboard nutritional information tag on back are recycled into products such as lunchboxes, coolers, and many more.
• Elmer's Glue Crew - empty Elmer's glue bottles and all brands of glue sticks are collected. The plastic in the containers is recycled into cool new products

Other Recycling & Fund RaisingEfforts

 

The PTO also collects Box Tops for Education coupons. There are hundreds of products that feature these coupons, including Huggies diapers and wipes, Betty Crocker mixes, Bisquick, Juicy Juice, 82 different types of cereal, Hefty products, ziploc bags, Green giant frozen veggies, Pilsbury rolls, hamburger helper, old el paso meals, cottonelle, viva and scott paper products, Avery office products, Marks-a-lot markers, Fruit Roll-ups, Betty Crocker fruit snacks, Nature Valley granola bars, and many more. For a complete list of products please visit the Box Tops website
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For each Box Tops coupon collected the PTO earns $0.10. We have been successful in collecting over $1000 worth of coupons each year for the past two years!

Through the www.boxtops4education.com portal you can link to hundreds of popular online shopping sites and the PTO will receive a percentage of your purchase amount. Participating stores are as diverse as Barnes and Nobles and 1-800-Flowers, Best Buy and Ann Taylor, Crate and Barrel, the Disney Store, and Home Depot! For a complete list see http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/marketplace/BrowseStores.aspx. Finally, there are a revolving series of bonus boxtops offers through the website.
Our earnings place us as #11 out of 1011 schools collecting Box Tops in the entire state of NM!

Campbell's Labels for Education coupons found on Campbell's® soups, SpaghettiOs® pasta, Pepperidge Farm® products (including Goldfish® crackers), Swanson® broths, V-8® beverages and Prego® pasta saucesoup cans. In order to count, we need the coupon that indicates the number of points or the UPC code on older packaging that does not have the coupon. For V-8 juice we collect the plastic caps. In this program we earn points that can be redeemed for items in a Labels for Education catalog including school supplies, playground equipment, musical instruments, and much more.

Our members also coordinate the collection of aluminum can pop-tops to support the Ronald McDonald House.

 

For our students and staff:

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  School carnival
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  Financial support for student field trips
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  Teacher and classroom resources
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  Family and educational activities

We are looking for volunteers to help out with planning and with various activities—even if you only have an hour or two to give, we have a job for you. Together we can make Sandia Vista a great place for our children!

You can contact the PTO via email: sandiavistaPTO@gmail.com