Paradise Knoll competing in playground challenge

OAK RIDGE — Paradise Knoll Green Team is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the fourth annual Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive (“Colgate”), the global oral care leader; ShopRite, which has more than 260 stores in the Northeast; and recycling pioneer TerraCycle.
Paradise Knoll Green Team will earn one (1) ‘Playground Credit’ for each unit ("unit" defined as 0.02 lbs of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging) of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers, sent to TerraCycle for recycling. An additional credit is earned for every online vote cast for the school at www.terracycle.com/colgateshopriteplayground2017 before June 30. The grand prize playground will be made from recycled oral care waste collected through the Colgate Oral Care Recycling Program, a free, national program operated by Colgate and TerraCycle.
Full set of rules for the 2017 “Recycled Playground Challenge” can be viewed: www.terracycle.com/colgateshopriteplayground2017.
“The Green Team was developed at Paradise Knoll School, Oak Ridge to help our students develop awareness about recycling so they can become life-long environmentalists,” said Brian Leslie and Joyce Troast, club advisers for Paradise Knoll Green Team. “In doing our research for worthwhile projects for our students to highlight, we were drawn to the Colgate & Shop Rite Recycled Playground Challenge. We felt that this would not only encourage them to recycle products, but we could bring in our entire community to help us earn a recycled playground project or other prizes. This is a perfect way for them to not only be proud of their recycling efforts, but they can also learn to be environmental activists.”