It's a wrap for Halloween

Forget, for a moment, the concerns about all the candy most kids will be carting home from trick-or-treat tonight.  Push aside, if you will, the worries about tooth decay, childhood obesity and those extended sugar highs.

What about all those wrappers?

Terracycle -- a company that hates waste and that has made dealing with it a quirky, funky mission -- will gladly take them off your kids' sticky little hands. The New Jersey company is known for its "brigades" in schools and at other nonprofits. These teams collect juice pouches, potato chip bags and more -- dozens of otherwise "trash" items -- and then send them to Terracycle, which pays two cents per item.

As of today, 24,769,899 people are collecting items for Terracycle. So far, they've sent in 2,119,218,929 items and netted $3,094,608.48 for their schools or charities.

Terracycle can't take all candy wrappers, but they want a lot of the popular ones -- from M&Ms, Snickers, Milky Way, Starburt Skittles and more. Check their website for the full list.

The company upcycles the wrappers into into backpacks, notebooks, tote bags, and speakers. The rest of the packaging is recycled into plastics products including park benches, bike racks, trash cans, and flower pots.