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Media Coverage
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Below is a sample of our media coverage. If you know of a story that we have missed, please e-mail it to dan@terracycle.net.
39 Online
Spec's ''Up-Cycling'' Liquor Store Doing its Part to Go Green (July 2, 2009)
The Spec's in Midtown is busy. They sell a whole lot of wine, but they also want to sell you on helping out the environment. They're asking customers to bring in all of their used corks. Lisa Key is the Director of Sales and Marketing and she says,
"We are recycling corks and we do two things: we keep things out of the landfill and off so Terra Cycle is going to donate $.02 per cork and that money will go to young Texans against Cancer to aid for Cancer research."
The corks are taken to a place called Terra Cycle where this item will be "up-cycled" into eco-friendly products like this cork board then resold back at the store....
Triple Pundit
When Do Partnerships Make Sense? (July 2, 2009)
Have you heard of a company called FAB? I'm guessing not, and at the same time, it's a safe bet you've seen their products. And depending on how old you are, you have been running towards or running away from them for years. And fast.
FAB has licenses for a huge variety of today's biggest pop culture brands: Paul Frank, Hello Kitty, Hannah Montana, Nickelodeon, Hello Kitty, Disney, Marvel, and on. From backpacks to snow globes to "novelty clocks," their collective licensing and manufacturing might create an enormous amount of trinkets that will likely end up in the trash months after purchase.
And we're now partnered with them. ...
The New York Times
A Small Player Breaks Into Starbucks (July 1, 2009)
Daniel Lubetzky, a social entrepreneur who has started several food ventures, always hoped to sell his company’s KIND Fruit + Nut Bars in Starbucks Coffee stores — a chain whose values and consumers he felt meshed with his own. So in the five years since starting KIND, he took every opportunity to introduce himself to Starbucks executives, promoting his company’s success in e-mail messages to them and sending them samples of his bars.
The executives, he says, “were always very polite,” but they never bought the bars. Until now.
On Tuesday, Starbucks began selling three flavors of KIND bars at its registers as part of a campaign to revamp its menu with more healthful fare. The bars, with flavors like Mango Macadamia, are combinations of dried fruits and nuts bound...
Green Biz
TerraCycle Teams Up With Yak Pak to Make Bags From Billboards (July 1, 2009)
Waste upcycler TerraCycle and bag-maker Yak Pak have teamed up to create a line of backpacks and other items made from reused vinyl billboards.
The co-branded items are based on Yak Pak's product designs, but are instead made with pieces of billboards, making each item unique, durable and waterproof.
“The only way one of these bags will ever end up in a landfill is if someone chooses to throw it away,” said Stephen Holt, Yak Pak's founder. “These bags are designed and constructed so well that when a consumer is done using them they can be donated or handed down again and again.”
The partnership represents a new direction for TerraCycle, which has mostly focused on partnering with companies to use their waste, and make the resulting products themselves....
Triple Pundit
Sustainable Brands 09: Triple Pundit’s Ryan Mickle Offers Top Brand Stories (June 30, 2009)
By some estimates the average American encounters up to 3000 brand and advertising messages per day, not to mention the stack of emails, text messages, phone calls, Facebook pokes, and Tweets. With this daily barrage of data, how do we filter out and choose the relevant bits, the ones we care to interact with? More and more this filter is about trust, relationship and authenticity, according to Triple Pundit’s Ryan Mickle, in his presentation at the recent Sustainable Brands 09 conference.
What does this mean for brand building and telling great brand stories? Relationship-powered filters mean companies must connect with their customers through honest and authentic communication in order to stand out from the data overload, and this should be the basis for the stories that businesses...
True Slant
Social enterprises’ competitive edge: Storytelling and customer participation (June 30, 2009)
There’s a tornado of information coming from blogs, Twitter, Facebook and all. So, how does a company make itself heard? One way is by having a good story to tell. Another is an ability to engage customers and, best, allow them to participate in a larger cause.
This is good news for not only for profits, because, by the nature of their products and missions, they tend to have a good story to tell and to be able to tie their customers to a more important goal.
TerraCycle is a great example of this:
First, they score high on the coolness factor. What a great story, addressing this awful loss of resources, diverting waste from the landfill and converting it into useful products!
TerraCycle also empowers their customers to participate in their...
Green (Living) Review
TerraCycle Juice Pouch Messenger Bag – Product Review (June 29, 2009)
Great product that takes a number of juice pouches out of the waste stream.
The sample of the messenger bag that I was sent, which uses Kool-Aid Jammers juice pouches in the flap and the back, though it was an “Oreo Messenger Bag” I had in fact wanted to use for review. Not that that matters, though, I am sure.
It must be said, however, that I do like the green color – it goes with the magazine and what we are trying to convey– and therefore this bag is most welcome.
The strap could be a little longer – in my opinion –...
Green (Living) Review
TerraCycle Recycled Newspaper Pencils – Product Review (June 29, 2009)
The TerraCycle Newspaper Pencils are made from used newspaper by rolling whole newspaper sheets around a high quality No. 2 lead. No mulching or mixing with toxic chemical is required. A special adhesive formula is used to bind the newsprint together into a cohesive trunk, which then makes it as hard as wood.
Approximately four pencils can be made from one broadsheet of recycled newsprint.
After drying, the pencils are smoothed to a consistent round barrel. Newsprint images are still visible on the pencil surface....
Mercury News
Cabrillo teacher wants wrappers to raise money for Second Harvest (June 29, 2009)
SANTA CRUZ -- A Cabrillo College teacher wants to raise money for the Second Harvest Food Bank and is asking you to bring him as many used foil-lined wrappers as possible on July 18.
Why would anyone want to collect used wrappers?
TerraCycle uses an assortment of materials that are non-recyclable like the wrappers to make products like kites, bags, office supplies and even cleaning products. Their sponsors, which include Clif Bar and Balance Bar, pay 2 cents for every wrapper sent in. That 2 cents is then given to a nonprofit organization.
Physical education teacher Phil Kaplan makes volunteer work mandatory for his students. He said he has been successful in getting many students and community members to bring in wrappers to send to TerraCycle in New Jersey....
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Cabrillo teacher wants wrappers to raise money for Second Harvest (June 29, 2009)
A Cabrillo College teacher wants to raise money for the Second Harvest Food Bank and is asking you to bring him as many used foil-lined wrappers as possible on July 18.
Why would anyone want to collect used wrappers?
TerraCycle uses an assortment of materials that are non-recyclable like the wrappers to make products like kites, bags, office supplies and even cleaning products. Their sponsors, which include Clif Bar and Balance Bar, pay 2 cents for every wrapper sent in. That 2 cents is then given to a nonprofit organization.
Physical education teacher Phil Kaplan makes volunteer work mandatory for his students. He said he has been successful in getting many students and community members to bring in wrappers to send to TerraCycle in New Jersey....
The Daily News Online
Upcycling campaign initiated (June 29, 2009)
LE ROY -- Katie Rhoads needs help.
She needs the residents of Le Roy to bring in used energy and granola bar wrappers (any foiled-lined wrapper will work) to help raise money for her daughter's pre-kindergarten class at Wolcott Street School. Rhoads is hoping the community will save all their used wrappers over the summer and give them to Wolcott Street School in the fall.
When Katie Rhoads witnessed how much waste 4- and 5-year-olds make on a daily basis, she felt obligated to act. Rhoads soon learned of a viable solution to this huge waste problem at her daughter's pre-school. This solution, she discovered, was both environmentally friendly and economically helpful: get paid to collect used wrappers.
But who would pay to get old, dirty wrappers? A company called TerraCycle...
Green (Living) Review
Frito-Lay has partnered with TerraCycle to 'upcycle' used Chip Bags (June 29, 2009)
PepsiCo Food Service's Frito-Lay division has partnered with TerraCycle about six months ago to "upcycle" used chip bags. As part of its continued "Conserve & Preserve" efforts, Frito-Lay is partnering with TerraCycle with the goal of keeping 5 million used chips bags out of landfills this.
Frito, which on Earth Day of 2008 unveiled a solar thermal generation facility at their manufacturing plant in Modesto, CA, with the capacity to power that entire plant, is making public its desire to reduce the environmental footprint of their packaging. By partnering with TerraCycle, they are making a significant stride toward that end with an innovative program wherein they provide incentives for people to upcycle their chip bags (people will actually ship them directly to TerraCycle, but Frito...
Union Leader
Students Wrap up recycling program (June 29, 2009)
Students at the Milfor Middle School took a bite out of their carbon footprint this year while providing money for the homeless, simply by recycling cookie wrappers.
The students of Diane Varney-Parker's art class have always tried to find different ways to reuse their trash. When she heard about a young company, called TerraCycle, that was also reusing garbage to make eco-friendly products, Varney-Parker wanted to know more. TerraCycle, founded by a pair of students in a dorm room at Princeton university in 2001, takes common everyday waste and transforms it into useful everyday goods. At TerraCycle, Capri Sun juice packets become backpacks and pencil cases, newspapers are transformed into pencils and Oreo wrappers become messenger bags....
LeRoy Pennysaver & News
Local Woman Calls On Her Community For Participation in Upcycling campaign (June 26, 2009)
Katie Rhoads needs help. She needs the residents of Le Roy to bring in using energy and granola bar wrappers (any foiled lined wrappers will work) to help raise money for her daughter's pre-kindergarten class at Wolcott Street School. Katie is hoping the community will save all their used wrappers over the summer and give them to Wolcott Street School in the fall.
When Katie Rhoads witnessed how much waste four and five year olds make on a daily basis, she felt obligated to act. Katie soon learned of a viable solution to this huge waste problem at her daughter's pre-school. This solution, she discovered, was both environmentally friendly and economically helpful; get paid to collect used wrappers! ...
Green (Living) Review
TerraCycle Corkboard – Product Review (June 26, 2009)
The TerraCycle Corkboard is made entirely of corks that would normally end up in a landfill with a wooden frame. Price US$19.99.
This very useful corkboard made by TerraCycle, which is an ideal message center for home and office, may have originated as an idea from a DIY project with wine corks that has been making the rounds for a number of years.
The TerraCycle corkboard is made in the USA, it now comes fully assembled, in a stylish black frame of 16 x 16 inches, thus being small enough to fit almost anywhere while still big enough to be useful. Just the right size, in fact, I would say, for sure.
...
Making Cents Out of Life
A New Way to Recycle (June 26, 2009)
See this bag? It's a crumpled up Target bag. Go here. See what that Target back turned into, thanks to TerraCycle.
I've heard about TerraCycle before; their flagship product is TerraCycle plant food. It's an organic, all natural plant food made from waste (worm poop) and packaged in waste (reused soda bottles). Cool, right?
TerraCycle gets even cooler. They will donate money for each piece of garbage you send them, provided it's one of their specified products. Depending on the product, they donate $0.02 per candy wrapper, Kashi box, or energy bar wrapper. Details about the program here....
Flagstaff Climbing
TerraCycle (June 26, 2009)
Hey all, I want to invite you to participate in a new program called Terra Cycle. This company is gathering all used energy bar wrappers to be used in their recycling process where they chop the wrappers down to make climbing ropes out of....or just cool fun toys like hand bags and containers, no ropes...sorry. So bring any wrappers you may have at home to the gym so we can send all this trash to them so they can put it to good use.
For every wrapper we submit, Terra Cycle will be donating 2 cents to the Access Fund so start saving all of your wrappers (I mean all of them, they sent us these huge prepaid bags to send them back in so the more the merrier) at home and bring them all down to the gym so you can be a part of this process today. I know 2 cents doesn't sound like much but...
Carrabba's World
Cookie wrappers bringing in the dough (June 26, 2009)
It is not easy to recycle
in Henderson. With no
recycling pick up, those
who wish to recycle their
waste have to drive their
cans and plastic all the way
out to the recycling center.
Unfortunately, because of
the inconvenience, a lot of
trash in Henderson ends
up in the landfill.
Teacher, Colette
Carrabba, wanted to
change the way people
think about recycling
while also teaching her
students how important it
is to protect the environment
and conserve our
resources....
Be the Heart Of Your Home
Join TerraCycle And Earn Cash For Wrappers And Packages! (June 26, 2009)
Sign up for free and collect candy wrappers. We will pay $.02 for every candy wrapper you collect. You will receive free shipping collection bags delivered right to your door.
Sign up for free and collect juice pouches. We will pay $0.02 for all Honest Kids, Capri Sun and Kool Aid Drink Pouches and $0.01 for all other brand drink pouches you collect. You will receive free shipping boxes delivered right to your door.
Sign up for free and collect cookie wrappers. We will pay $0.02 for all cookie wrappers you collect. You will receive free shipping collection bags delivered right to your door....
Earth 911
Worried About Waste From Single-Use Coffees? (June 25, 2009)
Coffee makers are a standard fixture in any office setup. Recently, the growing popularity of single-use coffee systems, where drinkers brew their own cups of coffee rather than pouring from a community pot, have given rise to questions about the increase in waste this trend creates. In fact, a recent article estimated the 150 million coffee drinkers in the U.S. consume 3.1 cups per day, with single-use brewing systems on the rise.
To help with the impact of our love for coffee, Mars Drinks (which makes Flavia coffee) is working to recycle “all elements of the coffee-making process” with TerraCycle. Part of a larger initiative with the candy giant to help recycle its packaging, Mars is hoping to establish “Flavia Fresh Pack Brigades” to collect the coffee packs for recycling...
Hoosier Gardener
When plants get too much rain (June 25, 2009)
Glads are one of those old-fashioned plants that many modern gardeners shun, thinking the flowers worthy only of funeral arrangements.
However, these stalks of funnel-shaped flowers punctuate the summer garden with long-lasting vertical color, especially when planted in succession. ...
Global License!
F.A.B. Starpoint, leading accessories licensee, and TerraCycle, an upcycling company, have partnered to produce cutting-edge and stylish accessories using various waste (June 24, 2009)
What do you get when you bring together the best in class philosophy from two very different companies?
A unique and cutting-edge approach that takes waste materials and turns them into a product of higher value has the potential to become one of the hottest and most innovative multicategory collections of eco-friendly licensed merchandise.
F.A.B. Starpoint, one of the leading accessories licensees, and TerraCycle, an upcycling company, have joined forces to produce creative accessory products using waste materials such as juice and candy wrappers, cookie packages and various other products, including pens, pencils CDs, DVDs, tape rolls, furnace filters and even saw blades....
Sun Herald
Kashi Joins TerraCycle, Inc. in National Upcycling Program to Reduce Landfill Waste (June 24, 2009)
TerraCycle to Repurpose Kashi Natural Foods Packaging Into Eco-Friendly, Affordable Accessories LA JOLLA, Calif., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Kashi Company, the premier natural food company, announced that it has partnered with TerraCycle(TM), the eco-friendly pioneer, to create the Kashi Brigade(TM) a program in which Kashi fans in any city nationwide can join together to collect and mail in their used Kashi boxes and wrappers to TerraCycle, which together with other Kashi packaging will be repurposed into eco-friendly, affordable products. As part of the program, which is of no cost to consumers, fans sign up to create local Brigades. For each Kashi package returned to TerraCycle, the company will donate $.02 cents to the Brigade's charity of choice. Kashi is the largest natural food company...
News Citizen
Recycle cork (June 24, 2009)
Dear Editor,
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I just read your piece on Waller County’s postponement of their recycling center. I agree that a recycling center is completely necessary, but while residents wait for it, I thought you might be interested in another initiative they can participate in right now.
I think it’s worth considering the notion that manufacturers should take responsibility for their packaging, especially in the case of non-recyclable materials that traditional recycling cannot process.
TerraCycle runs free nationwide programs that collect non-recyclable materials, and in most cases, raise funds for local non-profits. Of particular local interest, TerraCycle’s “Cork Brigade” is growing in a big way around Houston. This program is like our other brigades, in that it engages people...
Care2
Clean and Green Summer (June 24, 2009)
Hello, friends! It has been awhile, but as you'll shortly see, we've been super busy. We wanted to share a giveaway that we are hosting on our blog.
We have a lot to celebrate here at 24Paws. Our guys just turned 14 and 15 years old, Grandbury’s anniversary adoption date is just around the corner, and we are preparing to launch a new store. We want to help get your summer off right by sharing our TerraCycle bounty with you. Yep, you can test out some of the new TerraCycle Pet Products we were sent by participating in our Clean & Green Summer Giveaway!...
Element
Terracycle Inc Products, (June 24, 2009)
I thought this one was pretty cool. it's a notebook!! made out of oreos!! :D
and these are pencil cases, pretty sweet, it's caprisun!!
Ok so there is this awesome thing happen'n with recylcing these days. These two guys wanted to figure out better ways to recycle things and it ended up in this crazybusiness that seems to be doing well these days. So if you wanna join in and recylce there are programs set up where your school, business, etc. can join! Just go to www.terracycle.net to read all about it. Peace.
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Earth Times
Kashi Joins TerraCycle, Inc. in National Upcycling Program to Reduce Landfill Waste (June 24, 2009)
LA JOLLA, Calif., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Kashi Company, the premier natural food company, announced that it has partnered with TerraCycle(TM), the eco-friendly pioneer, to create the Kashi Brigade(TM) a program in which Kashi fans in any city nationwide can join together to collect and mail in their used Kashi boxes and wrappers to TerraCycle, which together with other Kashi packaging will be repurposed into eco-friendly, affordable products. As part of the program, which is of no cost to consumers, fans sign up to create local Brigades. For each Kashi package returned to TerraCycle, the company will donate $.02 cents to the Brigade's charity of choice. Kashi is the largest natural food company committed to this program.
"At Kashi, we believe a healthy lifestyle isn't only about...
Fox Business
Kashi Joins TerraCycle, Inc. in National Upcycling Program to Reduce Landfill Waste (June 24, 2009)
LA JOLLA, Calif., June 23, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ----Kashi Company, the premier natural food company, announced that it has partnered with TerraCycle(TM), the eco-friendly pioneer, to create the Kashi Brigade(TM) a program in which Kashi fans in any city nationwide can join together to collect and mail in their used Kashi boxes and wrappers to TerraCycle, which together with other Kashi packaging will be repurposed into eco-friendly, affordable products. As part of the program, which is of no cost to consumers, fans sign up to create local Brigades. For each Kashi package returned to TerraCycle, the company will donate $.02 cents to the Brigade's charity of choice. Kashi is the largest natural food company committed to this program.
"At Kashi, we believe a healthy lifestyle...
NJ BIZ
Tom Szaky (June 24, 2009)
Tom Szaky is building his tomorro wfrom yesterday's refuse. The chief executive of TerraCycle Inc., in Trenton, Szaky has gone from worm poop to primetime, with a television show, " Garbage Moguls," on the National Geographic Channel.
The reality show premiered in april, and followed the staff at TerraCycle as they turn trash into cash, producing new products from discarded materials.
Szaky, 27 who left Princeton University before graduating launched his company in 2001 and now has a staff of 50. His memoir, " Revolution in a Bottle," published in February, describes the company's formation from garbage cleaned from Princeton....
Triple Pundit
TerraCycle and Yak-Pak Join the Billboard Bag Bandwagon (June 23, 2009)
Bags, backpacks and accessories made out of used billboards, tarps, and other inspired detritus are a classic example of "upcycling." That is, re-using something that's met the end of its "first life" as something at least as durable and long-lasting in its "second life." Not only that, but entrepreneurs have managed to do well taking advantage of practically free raw materials while earning a little "eco street cred" on the side.
One of the pioneers in the trend has been Freitag. The Swiss bag manufacturer has been making stylish and durable goods out of European "Truck Tarpaulins" since 1993 to great acclaim - building an 80+ person company and winning design awards left and right....
TerraCycle Samples (June 23, 2009)
Epsom, England, June 20, 2009: Yesterday a package arrived here at the GREEN (LIVING) REVIEW from TerraCycle in Trenton, NJ, via UPS, with some sample which shall be subject to a review by yours truly soon.
The samples received are:
Messenger Bag (from Kool-Aid Jammer pouches) – this bag is made in Mexico – and pouches are incorporated with fabric in the back and the flap of the bag, rendering it thus shower-proof in that area.
Cork Board (from waste wine corks) – made in the USA
Set of 6 Coasters (made from waste circuit boards) – made in China
and
a couple of pencils upcycled from waste newspaper – country of manufacture unknown...
Justin Sachs
Interview with Tom Szaky (June 23, 2009)
I’d like to introduce Tom Szaky, author of Revolution in a Bottle and founder and CEO of TerraCycle, the company that’s working to eliminate the idea of waste. TerraCycle pays people to collect non-recyclable waste, which we then upcycle into some of the most environmentally responsible products available.
1.What do you do?
TerraCycle pays schools, churches, really any non-profit, to save non-recyclable materials from going to landfill. A great benefit is that these programs get people across the country, children and young adults in particular, to think about the small changes we can all make to live more sustainably.
2.Tell us about your new book.
Revolution in a Bottle tells TerraCycle’s story, from coming up with an original idea, through bottling worm poop...
Krnv
Kashi Joins TerraCycle, Inc. in National Upcycling Program to Reduce Landfill Waste (June 23, 2009)
TerraCycle to Repurpose Kashi Natural Foods Packaging Into Eco-Friendly, Affordable Accessories
LA JOLLA, Calif., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Kashi Company, the premier natural food company, announced that it has partnered with TerraCycle(TM), the eco-friendly pioneer, to create the Kashi Brigade(TM) a program in which Kashi fans in any city nationwide can join together to collect and mail in their used Kashi boxes and wrappers to TerraCycle, which together with other Kashi packaging will be repurposed into eco-friendly, affordable products. As part of the program, which is of no cost to consumers, fans sign up to create local Brigades. For each Kashi package returned to TerraCycle, the company will donate $.02 cents to the Brigade's charity of choice. Kashi is the largest natural food...
WDBJ 7
Snack wrappers get upcycled (June 23, 2009)
Feeling guilty about that bag of potato chips or candy bar you just had for lunch? We're not talking about calories here, but the waste made by non-recyclable packaging regularly generated while snacking.
To start making a dent in this waste stream, Frito-Lay (think Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos and Cheetos) and Mars (Snickers, Winterfresh, Altoids and Pedigree) are teaming up with TerraCycle to create new, "upcycled" products from their wrappers.
Chips N' Dip
With Frito-Lay, TerraCycle will start a new recycling brigade set to collect used chip bags. These bags will become a host of products, from notebooks and folders to purses and backpacks. TerraCycle is also launching a new building product made from shredding the bags, which should launch in 2010...
Penguin
Secrets Of Great Small Businesses (June 19, 2009)
Tom Szaky, 27-year-old founder and CEO of TerraCycle on how the company is redefining green business.
Revolution in a Bottle
Tom Szaky
Paul Hawken
Paperback
Portfolio...
Janet's Green Planet
TerraCycle, Inc. and Yak Pak’s New Billboard Bag Line is the Ultimate Upcycling Solution (June 19, 2009)
TRENTON, NJ – June 8, 2009 – Every year in the United States, the vinyl from over 3 million billboards is sent to landfills. That’s almost 10,000 tons of vinyl, roughly the weight of 2,500 full-grown elephants worth of material that does not biodegrade and will spend an eternity in our landfills. To address this environmental issue, TerraCycleÔ and Yak PakÓ have partnered to construct durable, affordable bags and accessories by upcycling this difficult to recycle material.
Upcycling is the practice of transforming disposable materials into something of greater use and value, giving that material new life. The new TerraCycle-Yak Pak billboard product line represents the ultimate achievement in upcycling. By combining the durability of the billboard vinyl with Yak Pak’s expertise...
CW Kansas
Snack wrappers get upcycled (June 19, 2009)
Feeling guilty about that bag of potato chips or candy bar you just had for lunch? We're not talking about calories here, but the waste made by non-recyclable packaging regularly generated while snacking.
To start making a dent in this waste stream, Frito-Lay (think Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos and Cheetos) and Mars (Snickers, Winterfresh, Altoids and Pedigree) are teaming up with TerraCycle to create new, "upcycled" products from their wrappers....
KLFY Eyewitness News 10
Snack wrappers get upcycled (June 19, 2009)
Feeling guilty about that bag of potato chips or candy bar you just had for lunch? We're not talking about calories here, but the waste made by non-recyclable packaging regularly generated while snacking.
To start making a dent in this waste stream, Frito-Lay (think Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos and Cheetos) and Mars (Snickers, Winterfresh, Altoids and Pedigree) are teaming up with TerraCycle to create new, "upcycled" products from their wrappers....
Embalagem Sustentavel
Terracycle no Brasil (June 19, 2009)
TerraCycle chega ao Brasil no início de sua expansão global. Os próximos países serão o Canadá, México e Reino Unido ainda este ano.
Eles entraram em acordo com a PepsiCo (dona das marcas Elma Chips, Ruffles e Fandangos) e com a Wal-Mart Brasil....
Market Watch Vending
VendingMarketWatch News (June 19, 2009)
Mars, Inc.'s five business segments – Chocolate, Petcare, Wrigley, Food, and Drinks -- and upcycling company TerraCycle today announced TerraCycle's largest-ever corporate partnership. TerraCycle will produce affordable, high-quality consumer goods by repurposing surplus and used packaging from more than 20 Mars brands, including: leading confectionary brands such as M&M'S®, SNICKERS®, MILKY WAY®, TWIX®, STARBURST®, SKITTLES®, 3 MUSKETEERS®, JUICY FRUIT®, DOUBLEMINT®, WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT®, ORBIT®, EXTRA®, FREEDENT®, ECLIPSE®, 5®, WINTERFRESH®, BIG RED®, LIFE SAVERS®, and ALTOIDS®; dog and cat food brands PEDIGREE®, NUTRO® and THE GOODLIFE RECIPE®; and food and drink brands UNCLE BEN'S®, SEEDS OF CHANGE®, and FLAVIA®.
TerraCycle will repurpose waste packaging...
Environmental Leader
Mars, TerraCycle Turn Office Coffee Waste Into New Products (June 19, 2009)
Millions of offices make coffee every day. Mars Drinks, which makes Flavia coffee, is partnering with TerraCycle to recycle all elements of the coffee-making process.
Through the partnership, Mars will encourage companies to establish “Flavia Fresh Pack Brigades” to collect spent coffee packs. After collection, the coffee grounds will be composted and sold, the pack’s plastic nozzle will be recycled and the film on the exterior of the pack will be turned into pencil cases or notebooks, according to a press release....
CMD Media
Hehnly Students Go Green (June 18, 2009)
Students at F.K. Hehnly Elementary School are helping the environment, one juice pouch at a time.
A group of students from the Student Council volunteer their time to aid in the school’s recycling efforts to become more environmentally-friendly.
Known as the “Hehnly Recycling Crusaders”, they have been collecting Capri Sun drink pouches and sending them to TerraCycle, an innovative recycling company....
CPG Matters
Eco-Savings Are in the Bag At Frito-Lay North America (June 18, 2009)
Along with many other CPG companies nowadays, Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo, is reducing the environmental footprint of its product packaging. The snack maker is taking this goal very seriously by exploring two ways to make the world a greener place: use of renewable materials to make chip bags, and turning the chip bags into other products.
As for the former, the company it saw some problems with its product packaging: bags were made from non-renewable materials, and they sometimes end up as litter.
“We didn’t like that,” said Tony Knoerzer, Frito-Lay’s Director of Sustainable Packaging. “There’s enormous opportunity to reduce our use of non-renewable resources by using plant-based materials.” ...
Philly Eco City
Terracycle or How to Turn your Trash into Gold (June 18, 2009)
The first thing that jumped at me when I arrived at Terracycle was the walls. Terracycle walls are covered with incredible murals and graffiti. Yes, why keep this typical post World War II set of warehouse buildings in West Trenton NJ in its standard industrial dread style?
I think that the daring beauty of the murals that transform Terracycle concrete walls into a kind of surrealist garden are a manifestation of the bubbling creativity and ingenuity that characterize Terracycle. Terracycle continuously finds new ways to repurpose and recycle materials that would otherwise be burnt or disposed off in garbage dumps....
Examiner
Houstonians Making a Difference (June 18, 2009)
Locally owned and operated since 1962, Specs Wines, Spirits and Fine Foods will be joining forces with Nomacorc wine closures and Terracycle in a program to collect post-consumer-use Nomacorc wine closures. Not only will these corks escape their landfill destiny, they will be re-invented into useful consumer products.
Specs' commitment to the environment doesn't stop there, they are supporting our community as well by donating 2 cents for every cork collected to the Young Texans Against Cancer organization which benefits the generation of 22-45 year olds who have battled cancer or have been by the side of family and friends who have.
Join Specs and the "cork brigade" by recycling your corks at any of the 50 locations across town. ...
The Examiner
The Cork Brigade is coming! (June 17, 2009)
Actually, the CORK BRIGADE is here already!
Now you can feel even better about finishing off those bottles of wine with a new cork recycling program from TerraCycle.
TerraCycle is saving millions of corks from going into landfills, and they are actively recruiting wine enthusiasts, restaurants, bars, tasting rooms and wineries to keep used corks out of the waste stream. As an eco-friendly innovator, TerraCycle "upcycles" used corks - both natural and synthetic - into cool products are available nationally at major retailers.
If you normally put corks in the trash, this program gives you a planet friendlier option....
The Examiner
Honest Beverages & the Drink Pouch Brigade (June 17, 2009)
I switched to Honest Tea from Tazo bottled teas a couple of years ago when I started gaining weight and finally figured out why. One bottle of Tazo contained nearly 40 grams of sugar!
I'm now in love with Honest Tea (Peach Oo-la-long and Mango Acai White Tea are amazing!) and appreciate half of the sugar content. Honest is also an organic product and they offer juice pouches for kids - and have created a unique recycling and fundraising opportunity:...
The Examiner
Got Corks? (June 17, 2009)
This month across Houston, Specs Wines, Spirits and Fine Foods will be joining forces with Nomacorc wine closures and Terracycle in a program that will collect post-consumer-use Nomacorc wine closures which will be collected and re-invented into unique consumer products.
One of those products is a wine cork board that is made entirely of wood and corks that would normally end up in a landfill, selling for a little under $20 at shoponlygreen.com. ...
Tonic!
You Eat the Chips, Worms Eat the Bag (June 17, 2009)
Maybe you missed it, but this April the snack giant Frito-Lay announced that by Earth Day 2010 SunChips will be packaged in bags made of 100 percent compostable vegetable material.
While some might suspect a big bag of corporate green-washing by Frito-Lay and parent company PepsiCo, a conversation with Aurora Gonzalez, communications director of PepsiCo North America, revealed that the company is doing more than just greening up the packaging of one of its chip brands. The snack-food giant has been exploring and implementing eco-friendly practices since 1991. And the compostable SunChips bag is just one aspect of an admirable green track record.
Gonzalez shared some of the company's eco-developments at Frito-Lay including a new partnership with upcycling company TerraCycle....
Green Crier
TerraCycle (June 17, 2009)
Co-founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer, TerraCycle is arguably the first-ever Eco-Capitalist corporation. Their flagship product, TerraCycle Plant Food is created by feeding organic waste to worms, liquefying their poop and packaging the liquid in reused soda bottles. As a result, TerraCycle Plant Food is the first mass-produced consumer product to have a negative environmental footprint.
"At TerraCycle, we not only limit our consumption of natural capital and minimize our waste, we actually reverse the entire process," Szaky told Green Crier. "TerraCycle consumes waste as a raw material in creating a finished product that renews natural capital. We not only limit our consumption of natural capital and minimize our waste; we actually reverse the entire process. TerraCycle...
Take Part
All That and a Green Bag of Chips (June 17, 2009)
A few months ago Gina wrote about how SunChips plans to make a fully compostable chip bag by Earth Day 2010. I just read that the Frito Lay Company plans to do even more to make their products eco-friendly like collaborating with up-cycling company, TerraCycle to develop products using the packaging from all their snack brands (like Lay’s, Doritos, Tostitos, and Cheetos). TerraCycle is known for its creative recycling of everyday trash and they are doing some really cool stuff, check out the video:...
GTAA
Frito-Lay to turn waste snack bags into new products (June 17, 2009)
Frito-Lay to turn waste snack bags into new products
TerraCycle has entered a partnership with Frito-Lay to turn snack bags into pencil cases and other products, eventually planning to create building materials made out of trashed bags.
TerraCycle hopes to collect 5 million Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos, Cheetos and Fritos snack bags over the next year, and will turn them into tote bags, purses and pencil cases for sale later this year at retailers like Walmart.
Frito-Lay is funding the collection and reuse of its bags, donating 2 cents per bag to charities chosen by the snack bag collection brigades....
House Hunting
Giving new life to old things (June 17, 2009)
We can all recite the three-Rs mantra in our sleep: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. But there's now a new movement in the eco-world aimed at curtailing the amount of trash we dump in the landfill.
Flea markets, garage sales and thrift shops are upcycling gold mines.
The buzzword these days is upcycling, which means taking something old and giving it a new purpose.
Wikipedia defines it as "the practice of taking something that is disposable and transforming it into something of greater use and value." A term coined by environmentalists William McDonough and Michael Braungart, authors of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, upcycling is "the conversion of items that have outlived their commercial usefulness into new things that are functional or beautiful...
Bressler Green
TerraCycle (June 16, 2009)
By now everyone has probably heard of TerraCycle, the NJ based company that was established in 2001 by two Princeton University Students who were inspired by a box of worms. They convert waste into home & garden products. Their goal was to be successful, ecologically & socially responsible. Their success story has been covered by every major news channel since last spring such as CNN and written up in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and a ton of other major sources. This news video tells the impressive story.
Revinabottle The latest news for Tom Szaky,CEO is the release of his book, Revolution in a Bottle (Amazon $10.20), a keynote at the Greener by Design conference in San Francisco May 09 as well as guest blogger on Treehugger. All of which are quite noteworthy accomplishments...
Ladies Home Journal
A New Way to Recycle (June 16, 2009)
To keep items that can't be recycled out of landfills, TerraCycle reuses them to craft all sorts of eye-catching new products. These include kites made out of Oreo cookie bags and backpacks sewn from Clif Bar wrappers as well as tote bags and lunchboxes made from stuff you throw away every day. To buy products or participate in the effort, go to terracycle.net for the brands the company accepts and the minimum donation. Then round up chip bags, cookie wrappers, or juice pouches from your family, friends, and coworkers. TerraCycle will provide prepaid mailers; for each wrapper or container you send, the company will donate money to the charity of your choice.
Shown here: This strong, colorful carryall is crafted from juice pouches....
Packaging World
TerraCycle (June 16, 2009)
Packaging World: Did you have eco-revolutionary tendencies before you started working at TerraCycle?
Albe Zakes: I have always been aware of how my actions affect the environment and the world around me. I also love all things outdoors, from snowboarding to backpacking to rock climbing. I was involved with the Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPRIG) for three years in college. I started as a volunteer and eventually ran an on-campus awareness group called Environment Alert. Since working for TerraCycle in 2006, I have realized that I probably couldn't work for a company that was not environmentally responsible or striving to do so.
What are some things you've learned about packaging?
I never knew the variety of material types and design types there...
Food Engineering
Yesterday’s chip bags become today’s reusable tote (June 15, 2009)
Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo, established a partnership with TerraCycle (Trenton, NJ), an upcycling company that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quality goods such as tote bags, purses and pencil cases. Through this joint program, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting used packaging, instead of sending it to landfills.
Frito-Lay is asking consumers to form “chip bag brigades;” for every bag a brigade sends to TerraCycle, Frito-Lay will donate two cents to its favorite charity. Initially, 1,000 collection sites are planned and more will be added during the year. The goal of the program is to engage at least 150,000 people and divert more than 5 million bags from landfills. Consumers...
Fast Company
Terracycle's Global Expansion, First Stop Brazil (June 15, 2009)
Ultra-popular upcycling company TerraCycle is introducing its reclaimed products to the global market with a new program in Brazil. 59 Wal-Mart stores in São Paulo, Curitiba and Recife are putting up collection points for Frito-Lay chip bags, which will be shredded and turned into clipboards and bags.
In the U.S., consumers are paid by TerraCycle for their trash by the unit (2 cents per unit of waste plus shipping), but in the Brazil program, consumers will be paid by the ton. That's because there are over 500,000 people in the country who make a living by digging through landfills and sidewalk waste to find garbage to sell. ...
24 Paws
24Paws Giveaway: Clean and Green Summer (June 15, 2009)
We have a lot to celebrate here at 24Paws. Our guys just turned 14 and 15 years old, Grandbury’s anniversary adoption date is just around the corner, and we are preparing to launch a new store. We want to help get your summer off right by sharing our TerraCycle bounty with you. Yep, you can test out some of the new TerraCycle Pet Products we were sent by participating in our Clean & Green Summer Giveaway!
(1) TerraCycle All Natural Dig Stop 32 oz. - Helps to train dogs not to dig!
(1) TerraCycle All Natural Yard & Odor Remover 32 oz. - Stool & Urine Deodorizer
To enter: Tell us about a either a cleaning challenge you’ve had with your pets or the details about your pooch who likes, no make that loves, to dig. So don’t just leave a blank or unrelated comment....
April Capil's Blog
Green@Google: Tom Szaky (June 15, 2009)
Tom Szaky visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book “Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle is Redefining Green Business.” This event took place on May 21, 2009, as part of the Green@Google series.
Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton in 2002 to lead TerraCycle, a company he founded to make useful stuff out of garbage. TerraCycle is now at the forefront of the eco-capitalist movement, producing what are arguably the most environmentally friendly products in mass distribution. Through partnerships with major companies and retailers, they create products using materials that most people throw away, from worm poop fertilizer and gardening supplies to juice pouch tote bags and pencil cases. TerraCycles growth has been rapid but perilous, filled with seemingly...
Green (Living) Review
MARS, Inc & TERRACYCLE PARTNER (June 15, 2009)
On April 20, 2009 Mars, Incorporated’s five business segments – Chocolate, Petcare, Wrigley, Food, and Drinks -- and upcycling company TerraCycle announced TerraCycle’s largest-ever corporate partnership.
TerraCycle will produce affordable, high-quality consumer goods by repurposing surplus and used packaging from more than 20 Mars brands, including: leading confectionary brands such as M&M’S®, SNICKERS®, MILKY WAY®, TWIX®, STARBURST®, SKITTLES®, 3 MUSKETEERS®, JUICY FRUIT®, DOUBLEMINT®, WRIGLEY’S SPEARMINT®, ORBIT®, EXTRA®, FREEDENT®, ECLIPSE®, 5®, WINTERFRESH®, BIG RED®, LIFE SAVERS®, and ALTOIDS®; dog and cat food brands PEDIGREE®, NUTRO® and THE GOODLIFE RECIPE®; and food and drink brands UNCLE BEN’S®, SEEDS OF CHANGE®, and FLAVIA®....
New Energista
Embracing Big Business (June 15, 2009)
TerraCycle started out as a small comany in New Jersey making liquid plant food but has since evolved into a company that collects and re‘upcycles’ products - from yogurt cups to your energy bar wrappers.
This week, TerraCycle has moved to Brazil and plans on covering Mexico, Canada and the UK this year.
6 months ago, TerraCycle and Frito-Lay joined forces to pursue the recycling of Frito Lay packaging as the company looks at better ways of packaging their products....
The Clothing Line
New Uses For Wine Corks (June 12, 2009)
It’s commonplace to recycle glass, aluminum cans and certain plastics. But that still leaves a lot of other materials that end up in the trash. Thankfully, there are companies like Trenton, NJ-based Terracycle Inc. that find a new life for materials that would otherwise end up in landfills. It has partnered with Zebulon, N.C.-based Normacorc, a manufacturer of plastic wine corks, to create products out of the company’s used corks. Normacorc, in turn, has signed on Spec's Wines, Spirits and Finer Foods, a leading independent liquor retailer in South Texas, to be the first retail participant in the TerraCycle program to collect post-consumer-use wine corks that will be used to make wine cork boards. The 18x18-inch cork boards will be sold by OfficeMax stores nationwide, as well as Spec's...
Topic Earth
Reuse and Recycle, THE 3 Rs - Lazy Ways to Reduce (June 12, 2009)
The 3 Rs (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) is no longer simply a mantra for environmental activists, it’s a ticket to saving you money while you consider the planet. The 3Rs ask you to buy less, reuse more, and recycle products at the end of their useful life-wonderful guiding principles for reducing our environmental footprint and bringing our lifestyles into balance with nature. But in practice, how many of us are really willing to cut back on the stuff we want to own, to reuse what we’d like to throw out, and to recycle when doing so is often incredibly inconvenient? Fortunately for budget-conscious Lazy Environmentalists, the 3Rs are receiving a twenty-first-century facelift, making them easy to implement and even easier on the wallet.
Reduce, the first of the 3Rs, releases you...
Potato Business
New Recycling Opportunities From Potato Chip Packaging (June 12, 2009)
New versatile uses of packaging waste materials from potato chip packets may potentially help companies reduce their environmental impacts according to US-based recycling group Terracycle.
Terracycle, recycler and supplier of food and beverage packaging since 2003, claims a new partnership with Frito Lay highlights ongoing projects with some of most prominent global consumer goods groups to more provide mutually beneficial sustainability drives. Terracycle's Albe Zakes says chip packet waste materials have the potential to be used for various end-of-life applications like bags, pencil cases and even building products.
The new partnership comes at a time when snack groups are under growing pressure to reduce the environmental impacts of their operations in areas like landfill waste. Increasingly...
Green and Gorgeous
Interview with George W. Chevalier of Terracycle (June 12, 2009)
We've talked before about Terracycle's innovative recycling programs
and their products made of recycled materials in their raw state. George Chevalier will join us to talk about the new partnerships Terracycle has made and what drove the founders to create a company built on trash -- literally....
Waste News
TerraCycle Partners with Frito Lay, Mars (June 12, 2009)
The up-cycling company is moving on up.
TerraCycle Inc. has formed partnerships with two snack-food industry powerhouses, Frito-Lay North America and Mars Inc., to convert used and surplus packaging into eco-friendly products such as cell phone holders, laptop sleeves, purses and tote bags, to be sold in retail stores. It's a long way to come for an outfit that started out selling worm-processed plant food, which is a nice way to say worm poop, packaged in reused soda bottles.
"The growth of the company is now being driven by this whole waste packaging thing," said Albe Zakes, spokesman for the Trenton, NJ based company....
Examiner
Eco-capitalism for the green mommy (June 12, 2009)
May be it was moving to California. Or may be it was the last election in which the environment - for what seemed like the first time - got a lot of play. Or may be it was becoming a mom and wondering about my daughter's future from time to time.
Whatever it was, we - my husband and I - have become so much more aware of the impact of the choices we make upon the environment.
Sometimes though it seems like you can't win. Every time you feel like you made a choice that helps the Earth, someone else explains to you why that was the wrong choice. The environment, like everything else, appears to be highly politicized. ...
Canada.Com
Go beyond recycling: Upcycling may be even better for the environment (June 12, 2009)
We can all recite the three-Rs mantra in our sleep: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. But there's now a new movement in the eco-world aimed at curtailing the amount of trash we dump in the landfill. The buzzword these days is upcycling, which means taking something old and giving it a new purpose.
Wikipedia defines it as "the practice of taking something that is disposable and transforming it into something of greater use and value."
A term coined by environmentalists William McDonough and Michael Braungart, authors of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, upcycling is "the conversion of items that have outlived their commercial usefulness into new things that are functional or beautiful or both," according to Up cycle Canada (upcycle.ca)....
The Vancouver Sun
Everything old is new again -- only it's better the second time (June 12, 2009)
We can all recite the three-Rs mantra in our sleep: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. But there's now a new movement in the eco-world aimed at curtailing the amount of trash we dump in the landfill.
The buzzword these days is upcycling, which means taking something old and giving it a new purpose.
Wikipedia defines it as "the practice of taking something that is disposable and transforming it into something of greater use and value."
A term coined by environmentalists William McDonough and Michael Braungart, authors of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, upcycling is "the conversion of items that have outlived their commercial usefulness into new things that are functional or beautiful or both," according to Up cycle Canada (upcycle.ca)....
Ottawa Citizen
Everything old is new again -- only better (June 12, 2009)
Even the business world is jumping on the upcycling bandwagon. TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company specializing in all-natural plant food packaged in reused pop bottles, has launched a project to turn old chip bags, chocolate bar wrappers and drink pouches into funky backpacks, lunch boxes, pencil cases and laptop cases.
Co-founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer, TerraCycle (terracycle.net) has teamed up with Kraft Foods, Frito-Lay North America and Mars, the makers of Snickers, Skittles and Wrigley's Gum, to turn their used packaging into affordable, quality goods....
Ladies Home Journal
A New Way to Recycle (June 12, 2009)
To keep items that can't be recycled out of landfills, TerraCycle reuses them to crat all sorts of eye catching new products. These include kites made out of Oreo cookie bags and backpacks sewn from Clif Bar wrappers as well as tote bags and lunch boxes made from stuff you throw away every day. To buy products or participate in the effort, go to terracycle.net for the brands the company accepts and the minimum donation. Then round up chip bags, cookie wrappers or juice pouches from your family friends and coworkers. TerraCycle will provide prepaid mailers; for each wrapper or container you send, the company will donate money to the charity of your choice....
Live 5 News
Snack wrappers get upcycled (June 12, 2009)
Feeling guilty about that bag of potato chips or candy bar you just had for lunch? We're not talking about calories here, but the waste made by non-recyclable packaging regularly generated while snacking.
To start making a dent in this waste stream, Frito-Lay (think Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos and Cheetos) and Mars (Snickers, Winterfresh, Altoids and Pedigree) are teaming up with TerraCycle to create new, "upcycled" products from their wrappers....
TreeHugger
TerraCycle Goes Global, Rides the Big Business Wave to Brazil (June 12, 2009)
This week, TerraCycle officially launched in Brazil! The new global launch comes just six months after launching with Frito-Lay in the US, and now the expansion into Brazil - with other countries to follow - makes an important point: Big business isn't always a bad guy. In fact, it can help small business grow via sustainability.
The news came to me from an e-mail from Carlos, a representative of Pepsico Brazil:
"Breaking news.... the PepsiCo / TerraCycle Brazil project is up and running. The displays are in 59 WalMart stores in São Paulo, Curitiba and Recife. Above a photo of the store we visited yesterday. In this particular store we have a TV screen with a 45-sec video with the story. I’ll post it on YouTube in a few minutes. Thank you for sharing the passion...
Eyewitness News
Snack wrappers get upcycled (June 12, 2009)
Feeling guilty about that bag of potato chips or candy bar you just had for lunch? We're not talking about calories here, but the waste made by non-recyclable packaging regularly generated while snacking.
To start making a dent in this waste stream, Frito-Lay (think Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos and Cheetos) and Mars (Snickers, Winterfresh, Altoids and Pedigree) are teaming up with TerraCycle to create new, "upcycled" products from their wrappers....
Inc.
Go Big or Go Home? (June 11, 2009)
As entrepreneurs, we all know the value and necessity of forming partnerships. Little would get done in the business world without a solid network to help grow our companies. Form an alliance with the right organization and your impact is amplified exponentially. But that begs a tough entrepreneurial question: Should a younger, cutting-edge company join forces with an established, more conventional company? It can be a slippery slope. Will the former company's values be in line with those of the latter? Whose mission and ideals will win out?
TerraCycle has recently wrestled with that problem, and because of our dedication to our to eliminating the idea of waste, we've decided to partner with a company that makes whole grain snacks and uses innovative new compostable packaging. They've...
Duke's Ford Library
Book Review: Revolution in a bottle … (June 10, 2009)
Once I carried some bags of semi-composted leaf litter from our neighbor’s curb to mulch a new garden bed in front of our house. The neighbor was furious. “I paid good money for those bags,” he shouted.
So when I read in Tom Szaky’s Revolution in a Bottle, that his neighbors called the police because he took plastic bottles out of their recycling bins on the curb, I was totally sympathetic. But I was already hooked on this account of the first product in the world that was made entirely from and packaged entirely in waste.
Author Szaky dropped out of Princeton in 2002 and founded a company that makes products from waste. Szaky’s company TerraCycle uses worms to recycle garbage into fertilizer, which is bottled into used plastic liters found in the trash. This is the story...
Fresh Plaza
US: New recycling opportunities from potato chip packaging (June 10, 2009)
New versatile uses of packaging waste materials from potato chip packets may potentially help companies reduce their environmental impacts according to US-based recycling group Terracycle.
Terracycle, recycler and supplier of food and beverage packaging since 2003, claims a new partnership with Frito Lay highlights ongoing projects with some of most prominent global consumer goods groups to more provide mutually beneficial sustainability drives. Terracycle's Albe Zakes says chip packet waste materials have the potential to be used for various end-of-life applications like bags, pencil cases and even building products.
The new partnership comes at a time when snack groups are under growing pressure to reduce the environmental impacts of their operations in areas like landfill...
Bark N Blog
Terracycle Natural Household Products (June 10, 2009)
Recently MOI got asked to check out the products from a company that uses ALL recycled materials. When they say ALL they meant it, WOOF! I’ve not used the products bepaws after all I am a dog, hehe, but my humans have used ALL of the ones they sent and they rrrreally like them. So let me bark a little about what they are and why you ought to want to go a la naturel with your home cleaning products, your yard and garden supplies, and well EVERYTHING, WOOF!
First of all, we came from nature humans. The only reason that people no longer use natural substances to clean with is bepaws of big corporations advertising dollars spent to convince you to use their chemical laden products. And it has worked, but not on your health or ours. In fact, the inside of most homes is the most toxic...
Mommy has to Work
TerraCycle (June 10, 2009)
Another thing I'm doing to help the environment is collecting these items for Terracycle. Terracycle is a company that makes totes, lunch boxes, purse and more, from recycled materials. I saw them on Planet Green ( a new channel on Directv) and went to their website to see what it was about. I signed up to be a collector. In return for the wrappers and juice pouches Terracycle will donate $.02 per wrapper/pouch to my son's school. They want me to send in 50-100 at a time, so I've been asking friends and family to help collect. I want to buy one their products- maybe I'll ask for one for Christmas. :)
Any way, check it out, maybe you can sign up too. They limit their collectors so act fast!!...
Squidoo
TerraCycle Products (June 10, 2009)
You should have heard the name already. TerraCycle Products is becoming known for leading the way in making useful things from trash and packing it in trash. Tom Szaky, Princeton College drop out took a vision and turned it into a reality when he got the idea to make worm poop, liquified it, pack it in used soda bottles and calling it plant food. And you know what? It worked! TerraCycle did not stop there......
Geneva Green Market
TerraCycle: A fun new way to recycle (June 10, 2009)
Terracycle is a company that purchases empty packaging and turns it into new products. Of course it is best to avoid buying products that come in packaging as much as possible, but completely abstaining from products that come in packaging is impossible. Terracycle provides a solution that is halfway between recycling and reusing. Ordinarily, recycling material means breaking down the former product. Terracycle keeps the former product intact, in most cases, so that less energy is used to convert the material into something else.
Another benefit of Terracycle is that it reuses products that cannot be recycled. Drink pouches and cookie wrappers, which would end up in landfills, are converted into bags and purses. Additionally, Terracycle will pay $0.02 per wrapper. Other items are...
Mother Nature Network
Lazy Environmentalist Clean the house, preserve the planet (June 10, 2009)
TerraCycle — maker of all things natural, reclaimed and recycled — also entered into the natural cleaning products category in 2008. The company’s cleaners — including all-purpose, window, and bathroom, as well a natural degreaser and drain maintainer and cleaner — derive their cleaning power from the concentrated oils of plants, shrubs, fruits, herbs and grasses. TerraCycle packages its cleaners in reused soda bottles, helping make it one of the most affordable and eco-responsible cleaning lines available. Find them nationwide at OfficeMax and Home Depot....
Finacial times
Tea and synergy (June 10, 2009)
Seth Goldman, chief executive and co-founder of Honest Beverages, knows what happened to Planet Java. He has studied the fate of Mad River, too. Both were small soft-drink brands that were acquired by Coca-Cola in 2001. Two years later, the brands were dead, pulled off the shelves by the world’s largest soft drinks company after they failed to excite Coke’s US distributors.
“They have probably killed more brands than they have built,” says Seth Goldman, somewhat wryly, of Coke’s record with small independent brands.
But Mr. Goldman, 43, whose company produces bottled iced teas and low-sugar fruit drinks, is now in business with Coke, which last year acquired a 40 per cent stake in his company.
...
24 Paws
Review: TerraCycle Pet Stain & Odor Remover (June 8, 2009)
TerraCycle has a soft spot in many people’s hearts, ours included. The company has made a name for itself as a leader in green business practices by creating new consumer products packaged in discarded trash. When they sent over some of their new pet products for us to try out, we jumped at the chance to put the cleansers to the test.
I had just finished reading the ingredients on the TerraCycle Pet Stain and Odor Remover bottle when Winni decided to supply me with her first test sample–a hairball. For those who don’t share their life with a cat, when I say hairball, note that it should read, “lump of wet hair covered /accompanied by bile/vomit rarely displaced in one location.” Cats will occasionally rid their bodies of these compacted hairballs. Some pet parents clean...
DBusiness News Portland
Twenty-seven-year-old CEO Tom Szaky of Terracycle Inc. to headline Greenlight Greater Portland economic summit, June 11 (June 8, 2009)
Tom Szaky, one of the youngest Inc. 500 CEOs and the founder of a company that “turns garbage into gold,” will address 550 business and community leaders on Thursday, June 11, at the Portland Art Museum.
Recently named the number one CEO under 30 by Inc. magazine, Szaky dropped out of Princeton to start Terracyle, which gained fame for its natural fertilizer made of worm poop and sold in used plastic one-liter soda bottles. The company now produces and sells on a mass scale many products, all of them made from consumer waste.
Terracycle has been recognized as one of the 100 most innovative companies by Red Herring magazine and honored with Home Depot’s Environmental Stewardship Award. ...
Design NJ
Syllabus Certified (June 8, 2009)
Treasured Trash
A memo board made from wine corks, clocks from old black vinyl records, and coasters of recycled circuit boards make good use of items normally destines for landfills. New from Trenton- based TerraCycle, the products are available at Target and Office Max (corkboard). For other sources and products, 609-393-4252 or TerraCycle.Net...
Fredrick News Post
Composting becomes a way of life (June 8, 2009)
There's another box in the cafeteria to collect foil juice boxes. They're worth 2 cents apiece through the TerraCycle program, and the Green Team is collecting these to raise money for supplies.
"We're trying to put back into the Earth what we take out of it," said custodian Larry Johnson.
"You can see it's working pretty good," he said, as he opened the composter, which sits outside the cafeteria....
WTop
Composting becomes a way of life (June 8, 2009)
New Market -- New Market Elementary School has found a way to turn some garbage into gold -- black gold, that is.
The school has its own food composting tumbler. It's the only school in Frederick County so far to undertake composting.
Since January, all cooked and uncooked vegetable scraps from lunches have been loaded into the composter, mixed with some grass clippings and mineral supplement, and turned into dark, crumbly compost.
The school's Green Team, which includes fourth- and fifth-graders, teachers and custodians, spreads that compost on its newly dug gardens. Leftover compost will be bagged up and sold to people in the community as a fundraiser....
Europe Press Social
La compañía Mars producirá nuevos productos a partir de artículos reciclados con la ayuda de TerraCycle (June 8, 2009)
La compañía Mars y la empresa de reciclado TerraCycle han llegado a un acuerdo de colaboración para producir productos de consumo de alta calidad mediante la reutilización de los envases y excedentes utilizados por más de una veintena de marcas de la empresa de alimentación.
Por ello, TerraCycle reutilizará los envases empleados en las operaciones de producción de Mars, Incorporated de Estados Unidos, con los que fabricará diversos productos como soportes de teléfonos móviles, piezas para portátiles o bolsas de mensajería, lo que contribuirá a reducir la cantidad de residuos.
Por su parte, la compañía patrocinará los 'Programas de Brigadas' de TerraCycle, una serie de jornadas donde las empresas reciclan sus envases usados y los hacen llegar a TerraCycle....
Surfrider Foundation
Look Out Terracycle! (June 5, 2009)
What is it? It is a bracelet made out of aluminum can pull tabs (with an elastic thingy in the middle). It gets better. Kids from the Carl Sandburg Middle School in Old Bridge, NJ Environmental Club sold these bracelets and raised a lot of money. It gets better. They gave they money away including a rather sizable check - several hundred dollars - to the local Surfrider Foundation Chapter!
So not only did they reuse something before it was trashed or recycled, they made something beautiful out of it, made money, and did something good with the money.
Me? I just showed up and played Sea to Summit and a few PSA's on DVD. But it gets better. I went to Carl Sandburg Middle School back in the day. Way to go kids! And if you don't get the Terracycle reference...
Raise a Green Dog
A b-e-a-u-tiful and safe lawn for you and your green dog! (June 4, 2009)
Then just last week, the great folks at Terracycle sent us some of their amazing concentrated, liquefied worm poop — nature's premier fertilizer — packaged in a used 1-liter recycled soda bottle. So we couldn't wait to try it out. That's me with the Worm Poo in the pic!
The other day Mum got busy spraying. I have to say that in just a few days we've seen a difference. An area of the lawn that is filled with rock and clay, and suffered a lot last year, is looking oh so much better. We can't wait to see what the next week brings. And we have a little left over that we'll be spraying again in a couple of weeks....
Wachusett Region Recycling Resource
Cookie Package Wrappers (June 4, 2009)
Terracycle is partnering with Nabisco to recycle any Nabisco brand of cookie wrapper (Oreos, NutterButters, etc.). Gather 50 wrappers, put them in a box, sign up at Terracycle, print the prepaid mailer, and send your wrappers to be recycled into one-of-a-kind fashion accessories....
Now Toronto Magazine
Dangerous downspout? (June 4, 2009)
If you’re feeling cautious but willing, you could just water your fruit-?bearing veggies like tomatoes/cukes/peppers with the stuff (instead of your root or leafy veggies), since they absorb fewer contaminants like lead.
By the way, you can get yourself a rain barrel from any hardware store these days. (President’s Choice even makes one.) Some are designed to look like planters, others are collapsible, and most are just plastic vessels made in the pattern of old-?fashioned wooden barrels. The city will sell you one for $85. TerraCycle even makes some out of old wine barrels. Look for them soon in select Home Depots....
CBS KTVQ
Snack wrappers get upcycled (June 3, 2009)
Feeling guilty about that bag of potato chips or candy bar you just had for lunch? We're not talking about calories here, but the waste made by non-recyclable packaging regularly generated while snacking.
To start making a dent in this waste stream, Frito-Lay (think Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos and Cheetos) and Mars (Snickers, Winterfresh, Altoids and Pedigree) are teaming up with TerraCycle to create new, "upcycled" products from their wrappers.
Chips N' Dip
With Frito-Lay, TerraCycle will start a new recycling brigade set to collect used chip bags. These bags will become a host of products, from notebooks and folders to purses and backpacks. TerraCycle is also launching a new building product made from shredding the bags, which should launch in 2010. ...
Kiwi Magazine
Give Snack Wrappers a Second Life With Terracycle (June 3, 2009)
While you might not be able to control every snack your little ones eat, you can control the snack’s environmental impact, thanks to TerraCycle. The company keeps non-recyclable packaging like cookie wrappers and drink pouches out of landfills by turning them into cool, re-purposed items like kites or backpacks, and has recently partnered with snack giants Frito-Lay and Mars.
The program works when consumers form Chip Bag Brigades to collect used chip bags. They hope to keep more than 5 million bags out of landfills, and what’s more, for each one TerraCycle receives, Frito-Lay will donate two cents to charity. There are currently 1,000 chip bag collection sites, with more in the works. To learn more about the program, as well as how to start your own Chip Bag Brigade, click...
Today's Facility Manager
Pushback On Packaging (June 3, 2009)
In 2001, Tom Szaky, then a freshman at Princeton University, founded TerraCycle in hopes of building an eco-capitalist company built on waste. The company’s first product was an organic fertilizer (Worm Poop), made from composted ingredients and packaged in a reused one-gallon milk jug. The lawn and garden care line has expanded, and, several years ago, Szaky set his sights on expanding the reuse concept to grow his business.
Today, the company is working with an increasing number of manufacturers (a majority food companies) to collect defective or surplus product packaging from their plants; these are then transformed into items such tote bags and pencil cases. Retailers such as Home Depot, Office Max, and Walgreens are selling the products in their stores. Companies that TerraCycle...
Barkzilla
Eco-Capitalism Goes Pet Friendly! (June 2, 2009)
Princeton University students Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer drew inspiration for their company from a box of worms. They started small -- first demonstrating the feasibility of their idea by reprocessing solid waste from dining halls at Princeton University -- before tackling bigger challenges. Today, TerraCycle is a case study of eco-capitalism success and demonstrates that "a company [can] be financially successful while being ecologically and socially responsible."
While their flagship product is TerraCycle Plant Food, they have recently expanded their line to include pet products which include: Yard Odor Remover, Stain & Odor Remover, Trash Can Protector Spray, Stool Destroyer, Hard Floor & Surface Cleaner, All-Natural Dig Stop & Bird Feeder. Natural and non-toxic (a big plus for...
Interior Design
Pratt and TerraCycle Team-Up For Green Design Competition (June 2, 2009)
Partnering with worm waste repurposer TerraCycle, famed New York design school Pratt Institute's Center for Sustainable Design recently launched Upcycle, a competition that challenged the school's industrial design students with creating consumer products from materials heading to the landfill.
The competition resulted in two grand-prize winners—including undergrad Morgan Street's plastic bag vases made from sandwich bags—and two runner-ups for designs in the categories of manufacturability and material transformation. Undergrad Naima Frankel took home the other top prize, for manufacturability, for her jewelry designs crafted from melted soda caps, vinyl records, toothbrushes, Target gift cards, wine corks, and more of those ubiquitous plastic sandwich bags.
The...
Mike’s Candy Wrappers Blog
Upcycling with Mars (June 2, 2009)
I try to do my part to help the world….I drive a Prius, I use those squiggly light bulbs, I recycle my plastics. Now eating candy bars can help too. Well, sorta. Mars is teaming up with TerraCycle to create new “upcycled” products from their wrappers. TerraCycle will be taking Mars’ end-run, misprinted and damaged wrappers, and turning them into products like laptop sleeves, cell phone holders and tote bags. Mars has five business segments…Chocolate, Petcare, Wrigley, Food and Drinks…and they all will participate. So, OK, me buying a Mars product won’t actually help, but that won’t stop me from buying their products.
But this next phase will let me recycle my wrappers through TerraCycle’s recycling brigade. With that, organizations can raise money for charities...
Seal Beach Daily
SB Surfrider group collecting bottle corks (June 2, 2009)
Surfrider’s Huntington Beach/Seal Beach chapter has launched a wine cork collection drive and invites locals to join in. The chapter’s website notes:
(Corks) are not recyclable and are going into our landfills at an exponential rate. So please create a zip lock or jar and start saving them. Then bring them with you next time you’re at River’s End Cafe. You know, the place at the end of First Street, down there right on the sand.
Mike Balchin, the owner of River’s End, is the local Surfrider chair. The group is recycling the corks through www.terracycle.net. ...
Ready Made
Garbage Mogul (June 2, 2009)
Garbage collection isn't the typical go to career for a young intellectual. Meet the exception: tom Szaky, 27, who dropped out of Princeton to turn mounds of trash into piles of cash. He is the cofounder of TerraCycle a company that turns waste into products for the home and garden.
While Szaky cares deeply about the environment , he happily admits that he also loves to make money. His company gives equal weight to saving the planet and making giant profits- a rare combination in the business world....
Birds and Blooms
JUNE (June 2, 2009)
50 people will win a bird feeder from TerraCycle (left). These bird feeders are made from recycled plastic bottles and filled with a wild bird mix. Hang it from a tree branch, hook or railing, wherever you want to watch birds!
Who is TerraCycle? TerraCycle is an eco-friendly company that sells items that are made of recycled materials. Their garden items include their trademarked worm poop as well as all-natural, all-organic fertilizers. To learn more about TerraCycle, visit their Web site. Check out their products at www.shopONLYgreen.com.
flexit planter
JULY
10 people will win a FLEXIT planter from Garden-Aire (right). These planters are a unique new concept that allows gardeners to put flowers just about anywhere. Simply attach the planter with SmartStrap, fill it...
Vegetarian Times
e-Waste, Deleted (June 2, 2009)
Crafted from 100 percent e-waste, TerraCycle Urban Art Pots give new life to old computers and fax machines. “E-waste is a huge issue with stuff becoming obsolete so quickly,” says TerraCycle spokesman George Chevalier.
“We address that problem with these pots, while giving local [graffiti] artists a legal place to do their art.” Each hand-painted 8-inch pot is unique. $10; terracycle.net. —GABRIELLE...
All About A Dog
TERRACYCLE (June 1, 2009)
Sorry i have been on vacation put i'am back. I was sent a new product from a company called Terracycle and to let you all know they are an ECO FREINDLY BRAND!!
A few of the products they sent me to test was
1. STAIN AND ODOR REMOVER - Of course an all natural product that is safe on carpets, clothing, bedding, etc. . removes dirt to blood.
2. YARD ODOR REMOVER - I really loved this one just because i have lava rocks in the yard. try getting the smell off those. worked fantastic.... a must have!!...
The Columbus Dispatch
Wineries uncork recycling effort (June 1, 2009)
Something fresh is popping up in wine country: a save-the-cork effort with a new twist on recycling.
"All of a sudden, we found that we had a product that had another life in it," said Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program -- which has signed up almost 200 wineries, restaurants and retailers on the West Coast.
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine.
Corks, after all, might be ground and turned into other products, including floors and wallcoverings....
Green Muze
Interview With Tom Szaky (June 1, 2009)
Tom Szaky is rapidly turning into the eco-rock star of the sustainable business movement and it all started with compost. This 27 year old Hungarian native was attending Princeton University when he started rethinking the waste paradigm.
He started by selling compost (Worm Gin) as a high-grade plant fertilizer (rumor has it the compost epiphany came after trying to find a better way to grow pot) and after compost sales took off, he quit school, invested his savings in TerraCycle and the rest is green history.
We caught up with Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle to ask him a few questions about his expanding sustainable empire....
Food Production Daily
Mars aims to turn chocolate bar wrappers into new products (June 1, 2009)
A partnership with a leading upcycling company will enable the reuse of both surplus and used packaging from food, drink, gum and confectionery products, claims confectionery giant, Mars
The manufacturer said it has teamed up with TerraCycle in a move to meet its target on packaging waste reduction of three per cent annually, and it added that it will sponsor wrapper collection bridages as part of the initiative.
The packaging from brands like Snickers, Twix and Starburst will be upcycled into products like mobile phone holders, laptop sleeves and messenger bags, claims Mars. ...
Reducing Waste Suite 101
Compostable and Reusable Snack Bags, Finally! (June 1, 2009)
TerraCycle was founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, a gutsy 25-year old entrepreneur and Princeton University dropout. TerraCycle Plant Food™ was the first consumer product to earn the right to carry the Zerofootprint™ seal. The seal signifies that the materials and manufacturing process used to produce its products have virtually no negative environmental repercussions. The plant food is brilliantly packaged in recycled soda and water bottles.
Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo, recently announced a new partnership with this eco-friendly company. Through this joint program, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging, and at the same time redirect packaging from landfills. The packaging from all the company’s popular brands, such...
Your Green Quest
Terracycle - How Juice Pouches are Turned into Totes and Backpacks (June 1, 2009)
Watch this video to see how terracycle re purposed used Capri sun juice pouches and turns them from waste into totes and other products ... for sale at Target.com
The finished products can be found on-line at Target.com LINK
Terracycle has programs to help groups collect and return juice pouches ... "Sign up for free and collect juice pouches. We will pay $0.02 for all Honest Kids, Capri Sun and Kool Aid Drink Pouches and $0.01 for all other brand drink pouches you collect. You will receive free shipping boxes delivered right to your door."
...
ABC 31
Snack wrappers get upcycled (June 1, 2009)
Feeling guilty about that bag of potato chips or candy bar you just had for lunch? We're not talking about calories here, but the waste made by non-recyclable packaging regularly generated while snacking.
To start making a dent in this waste stream, Frito-Lay (think Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos and Cheetos) and Mars (Snickers, Winterfresh, Altoids and Pedigree) are teaming up with TerraCycle to create new, "upcycled" products from their wrappers....
Green And Gorgeous
Recycling 101 (June 1, 2009)
We got so much great information about eco-friendly weddings
that we decided to push Part 2 of the "Here Comes the Eco Bride" series back a week. This week, we'll be talking about the basics of recycling, including what to do if your county doesn't have a recycling program, where you can send some of the items you never knew you could recycle, and what "upcycling" really means....
Ideal Bite
Wanna up the ante over school bake sales and gift-wrap drives? (June 1, 2009)
TerraCycle Brigades - collect waste packaging such as drink pouches, cookie wrappers, and chip bags; includes free shipping bags; earn $0.02-$0.05/piece....
Bakery & Snacks
Frito-Lay cooperation targets cost value from crisp packet waste (June 1, 2009)
Packaging waste derived from snack goods like potato chip packets may provide manufacturers with versatile new ways to cut their environmental impacts by using the materials in bags, pencil cases and even building products, says one US-based group.
TerraCycle, a US-based supplier of products derived from packaging waste, claims a new partnership with snack group Frito Lay reflects ongoing work with some of the world’s leading consumer goods groups to more provide mutually beneficial sustainability drives.
With snack groups coming under growing pressure to reduce the environmental impacts of their operations in areas like landfill waste, TerraCycle’s Albe Zakes suggests crisp packets have major potential for numerous end-of-life applications. ...
Social Venture Network
TerraCycle (June 1, 2009)
Tom Szaky, 27, is the Founder and CEO of TerraCycle, Inc., producer of the world's first product made from waste (worm poop) and packaged in waste (used plastic bottles.) TerraCycle has twice won the Home Depot Environmental Stewardship Award for being the most eco-friendly product sold at Home Depot. In 2006, Inc. Magazine named TerraCycle, "The Coolest Little Start-Up in America!" That same year Tom was named the "#1 CEO in America Under 30", in 2007 Tom was named a Top Innovator by the Social Venture Network and in 2008 he was named top Brand Innovator by Brandpackaging Magazine.
Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1982, Tom emigrated with his family as political refugees from Hungary to Holland. In 1989 he and his family again emigrated from Holland to Canada. At age 14 he started...
The Unplastic Life
Find it! Episode 1 (May 29, 2009)
I'm going to post some pictures, each of which has plastic in it somewhere. These are all photos from Spetses, one of the beautiful places I visited in Greece. Your job is to find that plastic. To enter the contest, copy the photo into Painter or whatever program you like and put a big red circle around the plastic item in the picture. Then, email it to me at theunplasticlife@gmail.com. The first correct email will win a gift card to Target, where you can purchase one of these adorable Terracycle CapriSun bags (or some other UNPLASTIC item for your family). See my post on Terracycle for more....
Green Muze
Frito-Lay Bags Upcycled (May 26, 2009)
Frito-Lay, one of America’s largest producers of potato and taco chips and snacks, has teamed up with TerraCycle, to upcycle their snack food packaging into purses, pencil cases and tote bags.
The two companies have organized ‘Chip Bag Brigades’ where consumers and community groups earn money by collecting used Frito-Lay packaging.
TerraCycle has engaged more than 150,000 people with a goal to divert more than 5 million bags from landfills. Initially, 1,000 collection sites were created and more are expected to be added during the year. For every bag a brigade collects and sends to TerraCycle, Frito-Lay will donate two cents to their charity of choice. Currently, TerraCycle is accepting applicants for their Chip Bag Brigades’ waiting list....
CAS Science Explorations
TerraCycling at CAS Update (May 26, 2009)
It’s been a week since CAS signed up as a TerraCycle Brigade partner where we collect CapriSun drink pouches, Frito-Lay Chip bags and Oreo cookie wrappers and send them to TerraCycle in exchange for $.02 per bag/pouch. I’m happy to report that in just a week, we collected close to 400 bags/pouches! That’s about 400 less bags going to the landfills this week!
Thank you for making our first week of TerraCycling a success!
Thanks also to all the student volunteers who made the bag and pouch- drop boxes, the students who sorted and counted the bags for shipment, and all the students who brought in bags for TerraCycling....
Over Coffee
Our strawberries love TerraCycle's worm poop! (May 26, 2009)
Our strawberries love TerraCycle's worm poop!
Recently the kind folks at TerraCycle sent me a variety of their products to try including their infamous Worm Poop in a spray bottle. I immediately feed all my plants, inside and out, with Mother Nature's Purest Sustained-Release Plant Food and they loved it!
Worm castings (i.e. worm poop) are a potent, all-natural, eco-friendly plant food. Worms consume dead plant matter, and in doing so, they excrete a natural fertilizer known as castings which is rich in nitrate nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium that is an ideal food for the plants....
Rense
Reinventing Major Snack 'Food' Packaging PepsiCo's Frito-Lay and TerraCycle Partner to Start Chip Bag Brigades to Upcycle Used Packaging (May 26, 2009)
Plano, TX Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo, today announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upcycling company that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quality goods. Through this joint program, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging, and at the same time redirect packaging from landfills.
Over the past few years, the company's packaging initiatives have made some significant strides. This includes reducing the amount of plastic in packaging by 10% and over the last five years eliminating 12 million pounds of materials used to make the snack bags. This month, the company announced that in 2010 its SunChips brand will be introducing a fully compostable bag made from...
Good Green Work
TerraCycle Wants Frito-Lay's Trash (May 26, 2009)
TerraCycle Wants Frito-Lay's Trash E-mail
By Jonathan Bardelline, May 12, 2009
Is there any trash TerraCycle won't take?
The New Jersey-based upcycling company has entered a partnership with Frito-Lay to turn snack bags into pencil cases and other products, eventually planning to create building materials made out of trashed bags.
TerraCycle hopes to collect 5 million Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos, Cheetos and Fritos snack bags over the next year, and will turn them into tote bags, purses and pencil cases for sale later this year at retailers like Walmart....
Health
America’s Healthiest Home Buys 2009 (May 26, 2009)
You want the very best stuff, with the most health benefits, at the very best prices—so do we! That’s why we had a team of top health experts test the latest home products to bring you the absolute healthiest best buys. From a tough all-natural cleaner to kitchen tools that help you cut the fat, these products make it easier to live healthy.
Glass cleaner: Terracycle Natural Window Cleaner ($2.99) Terracycle’s biodegradable, nontoxic formula cut through grimy residue on mirrors and windows to leave them squeaky clean. “I’d known of this company only for its garden products, so I was pleased at how well it worked. It didn’t leave streaks behind,” Loux says. She also appreciated the recycled packaging....
Go Green Blog
Super Recycling with Terracycle! (May 26, 2009)
Fourth graders at Kramer Lane Elementary School in Bethpage have joined up with www.terracycle.net to start a recycling program which goes above and beyond just recycling paper and plastic. We have been collecting empty wrappers and containers from Capri Sun drink boxes, Oreo and Chips Ahoy cookies, Kashi products, and Frito Lay chip bags over the past three weeks. In return, Terracycle will donate anywhere from $0.02 to $0.05 per wrapper/package to our school! Terracycle provides shipping envelopes so that we can send the wrappers back to them for recycling. What's even more incredible is that Terracycle takes these wrappers and creates various products that can be purchased, such as backpacks, binders, pencil cases, and lunchboxes! What a great way to reduce, reuse, and recycle! Our...
Natural Health News
Something Exciting This Way Comes (May 22, 2009)
Over the past few years I've developed a great relationship with TerraCycle. The Garbage Moguls were so kind to donate some of their worm poop fertilizer for one of the prizes at my non-toxic home and garden talk at last Friday at GreenFair.
Now they've got something new going on and it's going to be big.
My friends at TerraCycle will be meeting with Pepsi next week about this exciting new project. This collaboration means a great expansion for their projects, room for more people to recycle the bags and earn some money for their favorite organization. (We'd be happy to receive donations for CHI.)...
Bracebridge Examiner
Bottle collecting by BMLSS team helps African children (May 22, 2009)
A local exercise in collecting discarded bottles has gone a long way toward helping some deserving children in Africa.
Much has been said about the environmental impact plastic bottles have on filling up landfill sites and littering area streets.
To help combat this, an eco-team from Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School (BMLSS) has been collecting bottles to help support a scout troop in Kenya.
The team is part of TerraCycle’s bottle brigade, which works to collect bottles that are put to new use as containers for TerraCycle’s Worm Poop Fertilizer, an eco-friendly natural product for plants....
Care2
The Benefits of Pets for Children: Win All-Natural Pet Products! (May 22, 2009)
The good folks at TerraCycle are committed to our planet and the safety of our pets and have donated THREE PRIZE PACKS full of all-natural pet products. The combination of reused packaging (old soda bottles!) and non–toxic products makes the TerraCycle line, made from essential oils, probiotics and earth–friendly microbes, one of the most reliable and responsible ways to care for pets at home. Each prize will contain:
• Natural Stain and Odor Remover
• Natural Dig Stop
• Skunk Odor Remover
• Natural Stool Destroyer
• Trash Can Protector...
The Good Human
And The Winner Of The Terracycle Tote-Bag Is… (May 22, 2009)
Earlier this week I ran a giveaway for a tote-bag from one of my favorite eco-friendly companies, TerraCycle. This bag is made from Frito-Lay chip bags, and The Good Human is the first site to give one away…and they aren’t even going to be available to the public until Fall/Winter 2009! So without further ado, and with a big thank you to TerraCycle, the winner chosen by a random number generator is…
Christina H.!
Christina, I will be sending you an email for your mailing address, so I can pass it along to my contact at TerraCycle. They will ship it directly to you!
For those of you who didn’t win, don’t worry - I have some cool giveaways coming up VERY soon on the site that you won’t want to miss. So stay tuned and be sure you are subscribed by RSS...
Seattle Pi
Happy as a Worm (May 22, 2009)
IT'S IN THE BAG: PACKAGING FROM MAJOR SNACK BRANDS GETS A NEW PURPOSE
PepsiCo's Frito-Lay and TerraCycle Partner to Start Chip Bag Brigades to Upcycle Used Packaging
Plano, TX, April 29, 2009 � Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo, today announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upcycling company that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quality goods. Through this joint program, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging, and at the same time redirect packaging from landfills.
Over the past few years, the company's packaging initiatives have made some significant strides. This includes reducing the amount of plastic in packaging by 10% and over the last five years...
Environmental Protector Online
Mars Drinks Finds Ways to Reduce Coffee Waste (May 21, 2009)
Mars Drinks, along with the other four Mars, Inc. business segments, have formed a partnership with TerraCycle that is expected to decrease the amount of packaging waste the company sends to landfills.
The coffee provider will work with "Flavia Fresh Pack Brigades" to collect the used fresh packs from offices across the country. Once collected, the coffee grinds will be composted and sold as compost material, the fresh pack's plastic nozzle will be recycled, and the film that makes up the exterior of the fresh pack will be upcycled into a wide range of products such as pencil cases and notebooks. The used fresh packs can be recycled into energy through a waste-to-energy process.
Mars Drinks has been dedicated to finding ways to help its customers and the farmers who grow...
Food Business News
Mars, TerraCycle partner to reduce waste (May 21, 2009)
Mars, Inc. and TerraCycle have announced a corporate sponsorship through which TerraCycle will produce consumer goods by repurposing surplus and used packaging from more than 20 Mars brands.
"We at Mars take very seriously our responsibility to uphold our efficiency principle and cut waste," said Richard Ware, vice-president of supply chain R.&D. and sustainability at Mars. "This partnership with TerraCycle demonstrates Mars’ ongoing commitment to making a difference by reducing the impact of our manufacturing plants on the plant each year."
TerraCycle will repurpose waste packing into materials ranging from cell phone holders and laptop sleeves to messenger bags. Mars will also sponsor TerraCycle ‘Brigade programs,’ which allows organizations to raise money by collecting...
The Star Press
Fundraising project to benefit Yorktown Elementary (May 21, 2009)
Third-grader Garrett Clausen is raising money to expand art and music offerings at Yorktown Elementary School two cents at a time.
Advertisement
Two cents is what TerraCycle will pay for emptied drink pouches. Princeton University students founded TerraCycle -- an eco-friendly business that markets products made from recycled waste -- in 2001. Offerings include plant food (made from waste) packaged in waste soda bottles, and backpacks and tote bags made from emptied, collapsible cookie packages and drink pouches (think Capri Sun).
"I want to help the school buy back more art and music days, because it is important to have the classes more often," said Garrett, son of Jon and Stephanie Clausen. "And it will help clean up the place."...
Greener Package
Talking trash with an eco-revolutionary (May 21, 2009)
A Q&A with Albe Zakes, eco-revolutionary and vp media relations for TerraCycle, which turns old packaging into new products.
Packaging World: Did you have eco-revolutionary tendencies before you started working at TerraCycle?
Zakes: I have always been very aware of how my actions affect the environment and the world around me. I also love all things outdoors, from snowboarding to backpacking to rock climbing. I was involved with the Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG) for three years in college. I started as a volunteer and eventually ran an on-campus awareness group called Environment Alert. Since working for TerraCycle in 2006, I have realized that I probably couldn’t work for a company that was not environmentally responsible or striving to do so....
Reuters
Greener by Design: Terracycle's Ultimate Solution (May 21, 2009)
No one could accuse Terracycle's Tom Szaky of thinking small.
"Our goal is to become the ultimate solution to all waste globally," he told attendees at Greener by Design 2009 this morning. "We want to become recycling 2.0."
Despite being possibly the most ambitious goal there is, Szaky has made a significant case for it also being practical.
In the last month, Terracycle has announced partnerships with Frito-Lay and Mars to take wrappers and make new products from them, but those are just the tip of the mountain of waste that Terracycle has tackled in the past six year...
TreeHugger
Greener By Design 2009: Terracycle's Take on Trash and Sneak Peek at Next Year's Product (Video) (May 21, 2009)
Terracycle's Tom Szaky was here to talk trash to designers and inspire them to rethink the idea of waste. He brought up two very interesting points that are sure to make anyone, especially designers, pause to think about how we use our resources...and indeed what our resources actually are.
Terracycle is a regular here on TreeHugger, with Szaky as a guest poster. So you're likely familiar with the company and the cool way they think about waste. However, two points Szaky made in his keynote at Greener by Design really stood out and are worth posting.
Why "garbage" is a completely unnatural concept:...
Pet Product News
TerraCycle (May 21, 2009)
The company introduces a line of seven environmentally responsible pet products made with different combinations of probiotics, essential oils and earth-friendly microbes, the company reports. Included in the line are the Skunk Odor Remover, a probiotic solution formulated to eliminate skunk odor by digesting the microbiotic matter in skunk spray; and the Trash Can Protector, a product designed to keep pets and other animals out of garbage cans. The items come packaged in repurposed plastic bottles....
Pet Product News
TerraCycle (May 21, 2009)
The company introduces a line of seven environmentally responsible pet products made with different combinations of probiotics, essential oils and earth-friendly microbes, the company reports. Included in the line are the Skunk Odor Remover, a probiotic solution formulated to eliminate skunk odor by digesting the microbiotic matter in skunk spray; and the Trash Can Protector, a product designed to keep pets and other animals out of garbage cans. The items come packaged in repurposed plastic bottles....
Packaging Digest
FRITO-LAY NORTH AMERICA; It's In the Bag: Packaging From Major Snack Brands Gets a New Purpose (May 21, 2009)
Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo, announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upcycling company that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quality goods. Through this joint program, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging, and at the same time redirect packaging from landfills.
Over the past few years, the company's packaging initiatives have made some significant strides. This includes reducing the amount of plastic in packaging by 10% and over the last five years eliminating 12 million pounds of materials used to make the snack bags. This month, the company announced that in 2010 its SunChips brand will be introducing a fully compostable bag made from plant-based renewable...
Riding With No Hands
Good for your pets & the planet- TerraCycle (May 21, 2009)
We don’t have any pets, so this giveaway is a first for me, but I thought it to be appropriate for Earth Day. And you know how much I love TerraCycle!
Sold exclusively at PETCO stores nationwide, TerraCycle’s first line of environmentally responsible pet products features seven different natural, non-toxic products that are packaged in repurposed 1-liter soda bottles. Made from different combinations of essential oils, probiotics and earth-friendly microbes, the line includes:...
Win Some Pet-Friendly Products! (May 21, 2009)
Pets and people are teaming up for a win-win situation. And now, maybe you'll get a piece of the environmentally-friendly action too!
TerraCycle, the company that practically invented zero footprint (pawprint?), and PETCO have introduced a new line of natural and nontoxic pet products – the world's first line of pet products packaged in repurposed plastic bottles.
Now you can have a clean home, a healthy pet, and help the environment. In fact, you may get it all for free!
Green Daily is giving away a grouping of TerraCycle products, including:...
Finally Green
Terracycle Green Pet Products - GreenDaily Giveaway Winner! (May 21, 2009)
We have a winner of the Terracycle natural and nontoxic pet products kit. Winner Matt will have a fresh and clean home, a healthy and happy pet, and be environmentally responsible with this great basket of cleaning products:
* Yard Odor Remover
* Stain & Odor Remover
* Trash Can Protector Spray
* Skunk Odor Remover -- the pet equivalent of a fire extinguisher - hopefully you never have to use it!
* Bird Feeder...
The Find Buzz
Terracycle Green Pet Products - GreenDaily Giveaway Reminder! (May 21, 2009)
http://www.greendaily.com/ -- Filed under: Plants and Wildlife (Photo by TerraCycle) Do you have a pet? A love of natural cleaning products? If so, you'll be crazy about the new TerraCycle line of pet cleaning products. TerraCycle partnered with PETCO to create a...
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TerraCycle All Natural Dig Stop - from PETCO.com TerraCycle All Natural Dig Stop uses all natural scents to discourage your dog from improper digging. Unique eco-friendly packaging makes this product an even smarter choice! TerraCycle All Natural Dig Stop is packaged in an upcycled (saved from the landfill and re-purposed) bottle, so you can feel good about making a positive impact on our earth while safely and naturally halting unwanted digging. ...
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PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay and TerraCycle Partner to Start Chip Bag Brigades to Upcycle Used Packaging (May 20, 2009)
Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo, announced on April 29, 2009 a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upcycling company that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quality goods. Through this joint program, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging, and at the same time redirect packaging from landfills.
Over the past few years, the company’s packaging initiatives have made some significant strides. This includes reducing the amount of plastic in packaging by 10% and over the last five years eliminating 12 million pounds of materials used to make the snack bags. This month, the company announced that in 2010 its SunChips brand will be introducing a fully compostable bag made from...
The Army Wife
Recycable Capri Sun Tote Bags (May 20, 2009)
To be honest with you, I never recycled until I move onto a military base. It is mandatory to recycle. If you do not recycle, and they find out, they take pictures of your garbage, send it to the general, and you get kicked off post. It is that serious. The military is all about recycling. Therefore, when I became an army wife, I had to buy two trash cans, one for normal garage, one for recyclables. The recyclable trashcan is always full, while the garbage one is just full of left over food products. I have became a recycling queen. Did you know that almost any material can be reused and made into something of value? I did a write- up Pajama Mommy about the Capri Sun Drink Pouch Brigade.
The Carpi Sun Drink Pouch Brigade is a free collection program, which allows kids, parents, and...
Green Talk
TerraCycle turns your Frito-Lay Wrappers into Chic Tote Bags (May 20, 2009)
When I was a kid, I used to love putting Fritos in my peanut butter sandwich. I was so addicted to Fritos that I ate them through college. My usual college lunch was a tuna sandwich, Fritos, and a diet coke. Real healthy, right? Heck, I was young so who cared, right? I must have thrown away hundreds of Frito-Lay packages over my (um) years. Let’s just say lots of years.
Then as I finished college, my sister and I thought Doritos were amazing. Fritos took a backseat to the new cool kid on the block. After law school, I cleaned up my act and stopped eating chips. It was either that or I might as well as stapled them to my hips because that is where they were going to land anyways. You can’t just eat one…...
Green Biz
Greener by Design: Terracycle's Ultimate Solution (May 20, 2009)
No one could accuse Terracycle's Tom Szaky of thinking small.
"Our goal is to become the ultimate solution to all waste globally," he told attendees at Greener by Design 2009 this morning. "We want to become recycling 2.0."
Despite being possibly the most ambitious goal there is, Szaky has made a significant case for it also being practical.
...
Mixed Greens Village
Check out TerraCycle (May 19, 2009)
Everyday across the globe, we are creating waste...from the wrappers on the foods we eat...to the leftover scraps we do not eat...our garbage piles up! This waste then needs to be taken away at a cost to our wallets and our environment. The common argument is, "We have to live somehow."
A company by the name of TerraCycle is in business to change this. What started out as a "worm poop" (vermicomposting) company has grown to a re-creation company--they make bags out of juice pouches, eco-friendly cleaning products sold in recycled bottles, and so much more. Visit their website and read their story...you will not only be amazed by what they have discovered, but you will be inspired to become part of the effort to create zero waste on our planet. Look for their products and join the...
New York Daily
Events for Tuesday May 19, 2009 in New York (May 19, 2009)
See the winning designs from the Pratt / Terracycle Upcycle Design Competition, where recycling company Terracycle partners with Sustainable NYC to challenge Pratt's industrial design students to create consumer products from objects heading to a landfill. Designs on display include vases made of plastic sandwich bags and jewlery made from toothbrushes, Target gift cards and melted soda caps among other items. 9 a.m.-11 p.m.; free admission. 139 Ave. A. (212-254-5400).
...
Goal For The Green
A “Garbage Mogul” Turns Trash Into Gold! (May 19, 2009)
Well, here it is Saturday again. I don’t know if you agree but, most Saturday evenings, there is just nothing on TV. At least, that is what I thought last weekend, when I convinced my husband to watch “The Garbage Moguls,” on the science channel. So, here I was watching this program, mouth hanging open in utter amazement, thinking UNBELIEVABLE!
If you didn’t know, this week has been National Compost week. Most people that are into gardening, know that worm castings (vermicompost) is like black gold for your garden. I know this to be true, by working at a local worm farm, where developmentally disabled adults maintain the worm bins. They chop after market fruits and vegetables, feed the worms, and then dry, sift and bag the castings. You then, can make your own worm...
Food Processing
Mars Inc. Partners with Upcycling Firm for Waste Reduction (May 19, 2009)
Mars Inc.'s five business segments – Chocolate, Petcare, Wrigley, Food, and Drinks - and upcycling company TerraCycle announced TerraCycle's largest-ever corporate partnership. TerraCycle will produce affordable, high-quality consumer goods by repurposing surplus and used packaging from more than 20 Mars brands, including M&M'S®, SNICKERS®, MILKY WAY®, TWIX®, STARBURST® and SKITTLES®.
TerraCycle will repurpose waste packaging from Mars's U.S. operations into products ranging from cell phone holders and laptop sleeves to messenger bags, significantly reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills. Mars will also sponsor TerraCycle "Brigade Programs," in which organizations can raise money by collecting used packaging from participating brands and sending it to TerraCycle....
The Good Human
TerraCycle To Recycle Chip Packaging Into Bags - And You Can Win One! (May 19, 2009)
I have written about TerraCycle a few times in the past because I truly believe in what these guys are doing - taking our trash and making them into usable products that are affordable for everyone. At the same time, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging for TerraCycle, while keeping packaging from landfills. It’s truly a win-win for everyone involved, and their next project will just reinforce this fact.
TerraCycle and Frito-Lay have formed a partnership that will take used packaging and turn them into affordable goods. The company is asking buyers to form “Chip Bag Brigades”, and for every bag a brigade collects and sends to TerraCycle, Frito-Lay will donate two cents to their charity of choice. Initially, there will be 1,000...
Recycling Post
TerraCycle To Recycle Chip Packaging Into Bags - And You Can Win One! (May 19, 2009)
I have written about TerraCycle a few times in the past because I truly believe in what these guys are doing - taking our trash and making them into usable products that are affordable for everyone. At the same time, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging for TerraCycle, while keeping packaging from landfills. It’s truly a win-win for everyone involved, and their next project will just reinforce this fact.
TerraCycle and Frito-Lay have formed a partnership that will take used packaging and turn them into affordable goods. The company is asking buyers to form “Chip Bag Brigades”, and for every bag a brigade collects and sends to TerraCycle, Frito-Lay will donate two cents to their charity of choice. Initially, there will be 1,000...
Matter Network
Frito Lay Chips in By Turning Snack Bags Into Tote Bags (May 19, 2009)
From Frito Lay comes upcycling. Upcycling is the collection and reuse of potato chip and other snack product packaging. Frito Lay, with the help of TerraCycle, will collect used packaging at the initial 1,000 collection sites and then turn that packaging into new goods for future use. TerraCycle takes waste products like the Frito Lay packaging and creates other products like a tote bag.
To encourage consumers to drop their bags off at Frito Lay collection sites, the company is rewarding consumers with money for anyone who begins a Chip Bag Brigade, a group dedicated to preventing chip bags from ending up in the trash can. They are hoping 150,000 people will take part in the brigade efforts by collecting bags from their friends and family and then sending them to TerraCycle for reuse....
Packaging World
Talking at length with an eco-revolutionary (May 19, 2009)
A Q&A with Albe Zakes, eco-revolutionary and vp media relations for TerraCycle, which turns old packaging into new products.
Packaging World: Did you have eco-revolutionary tendencies before you started working at TerraCycle?
Zakes: I have always been very aware of how my actions affect the environment and the world around me. I also love all things outdoors, from snowboarding to backpacking to rock climbing. I was involved with the Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG) for three years in college. I started as a volunteer and eventually ran an on-campus awareness group called Environment Alert. Since working for TerraCycle in 2006, I have realized that I probably couldn’t work for a company that was not environmentally responsible or striving to do so....
Natural & Sustainable
Collect money for your school through recycling (May 18, 2009)
With a TerraCycle Brigade you can help the planet and even better, gain money for your school in the process. TerraCycle Brigade can help you earn money for your child’s school or other organization just by having people donate used wrappers from cookies, crackers, and drink pouches like Capri Sun.
The TerraCycyle’s program help to bring the emphasis of lack of school funding with the social and environmental impact to the earth and worldwide. Capri Sun juice pouches have been made into everything lately from purses to wallets to even backpacks made from the complete packaging of the drink pouch.
TerraCycles is hoping to make the industry of products from waste and other materials otherwise thrown away. They are hoping to also revolutionize the industry in making affordable...
Earth 911
Recycling Mysteries: Candy Wrappers (May 18, 2009)
You’ve got a sweet tooth you need to satisfy, but did you know that most of our favorite candies are wrapped in what has somehow become the unwanted stepchildren of waste management? Tossed in the trash or in a recycle bin, all candy wrappers make their way to the landfill. But why is this small, colorful package so seemingly difficult to recycle?
Although candy wrappers are made from plastic, they're hard to recycled because of their weight. Photo: Investorazzi.com
Although candy wrappers are made from plastic, they're hard to recycled because of the difficulty to recover valuable materials. Photo: Investorazzi.com
“PET plastic, the plastic used for most water and soft drinks, is made from one material, and that material can be broken down into materials that can...
Timeout New York
Pratt/TerraCycle Upcycle Design Competition (May 18, 2009)
139 Ave A (at 9th St)
East Village | Map
212-254-5400
Subway: L to First Ave, 6 to Astor Pl | Directions
Prices
Tickets: Free
Description
Recycling company TerraCycle partnered with Sustainable NYC to challenge design students to turn trash (including wine corks and gift cards) into cool, eco-friendly home goods. The most inventive designs will be on view.
When
Today, Tomorrow
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Core 77
Pratt/TerraCycle Upcycle Design Competition (May 18, 2009)
May 16-19
Reception: May 18th, 7-10p
139 Avenue A, Sustainable NYC (map)
The TerraCycle "UPCYCLE!" Design Competition challenged Pratt Institute art and design students to take materials headed for the landfill and transform them into new products for the home. The top entries from the competition will be on display at Sustainable NYC.
www.sustainable-nyc.com...
Interior Design
Pratt and TerraCycle Team-Up For Green Design Competition (May 18, 2009)
The four winning designs and 12 runner-ups will be on view at Sustainable NYC in the East Village of Manhattan during ICFF through May 19.
Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 5/18/2009
Partnering with worm waste repurposer TerraCycle, famed New York design school Pratt Institute's Center for Sustainable Design recently launched Upcycle, a competition that challenged the school's industrial design students with creating consumer products from materials heading to the landfill.
The competition resulted in two grand-prize winners—including undergrad Morgan Street's plastic bag vases made from sandwich bags—and two runner-ups for designs in the categories of manufacturability and material transformation. Undergrad Naima Frankel took home the other top prize, for manufacturability,...
Natural Home
NATURAL HOME LIVING (May 18, 2009)
I have kids. And every once in a while, I have to let go of my desire to feed them only locally grown, organic, good-for-you snacks. Letting them eat Fritos is just one more thing I said I’d never do—before I had kids—but found next to impossible in reality.
Now I don’t have to feel quite so guilty about the environmental impacts of my kids’ snacking. TerraCycle is partnering with Frito-Lay North America to collect used chip bags and turn them into a variety of consumer products and green building materials. TerraCycle is an upcycling company, meaning that it uses waste in its existing form to create new products. Recycling, by contrast, breaks down the materials before new products are created.
TerraCycle’s goal is to collect 5 million chip bags this year....
Food Processing
Packaging from Major Snack Brands Gets a New Purpose (May 16, 2009)
Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo, announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upcycling company that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quality goods. Through this joint program, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging, and at the same time redirect packaging from landfills.
Over the past few years, the company’s packaging initiatives have made some significant strides. This includes reducing the amount of plastic in packaging by 10% and over the last five years eliminating 12 million pounds of materials used to make the snack bags. This month, the company announced that in 2010 its SunChips brand will be introducing a fully compostable bag made from plant-based renewable...
The Blorge
How schools can make money – TerraCycle (May 15, 2009)
One way to feel righteous about eating junk food is to know that your wrapper or container will be recycled. TerraCycle recycles a wide variety of things including chips wrappers from Frito Lay and Nabisco toasted chips.
TerraCycle has entered into new agreements with Frito Lay and Nabisco to recycle the wrappers from chips. They also recycle Nabisco cookie wrappers, juice pouches, Kashi products boxes, Bare Naked products wrappers, wine corks, other products wrappers and cell phones....
Fast Company
Don't Throw That Chip Bag Away! Give It Back to Frito-Lay, and Let Terracycle Turn It Into a Fashion Accessory (May 15, 2009)
Instead of tossing that bag of Doritos in the trash, consider sending it back to Frito-Lay. It might just get turned into a tote bag.
Frito-Lay has announced that it's opening 1,000 collection sites in the U.S. for used snack product packaging. For every bag donated, the company will give two cents to your charity of choice. The packaging itself will be upcycled by Terracycle into pencil cases, tote bags, and purses that will be sold in chain retailers like Wal-Mart. Eventually, the bags could be used to make green building materials.
Terracycle and Frito Lay hope that their program will divert over five million bags from landfills by the end of 2009. It's an ambitious goal considering the difficulty that electronics companies have getting consumers to send back their...
Green Muze
TerraCycle Upcycles E-Waste (May 15, 2009)
Those crazy American kids at TerraCycle have gone and created the first nationally distributed product line made from upcycled vinyl records and circuit boards. Their novel products include clocks made from computer circuit boards or vinyl records, coasters from circuit boards and picture frames made from either vinyl records or circuit boards.
TerraCycle explains that every time consumers upgrade their PC, TV, stereo, or other electronics, they add to the colossal stream of e-waste. In 2005, Americans generated 2.6 million tons of e-waste according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Of this amount, only 12.6% was recycled.
TerraCycle remains one of the most fascinating new companies in the USA, all products that the company sells are made from waste or reclaimed...
Convenience Store Petroleum
Frito Fashion (May 15, 2009)
Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo, has forged a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upcycling company that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quality goods. Through this joint program, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging, and at the same time redirect packaging from landfills.
Over the past few years, the company's packaging initiatives have reduced the amount of plastic in packaging by 10% and over the last five years eliminated 12 million pounds of materials used to make the snack bags. This month, the company announced that in 2010 its SunChips brand will be introducing a fully compostable bag made from plant-based renewable material. Marking the company's latest effort,...
Smart Family Tips
Featured Do-Gooder: TerraCycle Part 2 (May 15, 2009)
I’ve written about TerraCycle before, but there are some updates that I’d like to make you aware of. It’s no secret that I’m a fan of TerraCycle, and I’m excited about their growth. The company is changing the way we perceive waste and finding innovative uses for our “trash.”
The Book:
In Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business, Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, explains how he co-founded the company as a freshman at Princeton and tracks the amazing growth the company has seen over the last five years. I’ve just finished reading the book myself (I won it in a giveaway at The Good Human) and I found it fascinating. TerraCycle has become successful because Tom and the other members of the team have been able to re-envision what “waste”...
The 33
Turning Trash into Fashion (May 15, 2009)
Frito Lay is known for potato chips, but now the company will be turning trash into fashion. The company is trying to do its part to help the environment.
Coming to a store near you, the latest in Frito Lay fashion. The Plano based company has announced plans to convert used plastic potato chip wrappers into carrying bags, purses, notebooks, and cd cases. The mission: to help the environment -- as well as give schools, churches and community groups across the country a new way to raise money.
Spokesman Matt Smith says, " We will count the number of bags that they send in and send them a check for two cents for each one of those bags."...
The Street Insider
It's In The Bag: Packaging From Major Snack Brands Gets A New Purpose (May 15, 2009)
PLANO, Texas, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo, today announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upcycling company that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quality goods. Through this joint program, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging, and at the same time redirect packaging from landfills.
Over the past few years, the company's packaging initiatives have made some significant strides. This includes reducing the amount of plastic in packaging by 10% and over the last five years eliminating 12 million pounds of materials used to make the snack bags. This month, the company announced that in 2010 its SunChips brand will be introducing a fully...
Eco Child's Play
Become Part of Terracycle’s Chip Bag Brigade and Earn Money for Your School (May 14, 2009)
You can collect Frito Lay chip bags, keep them out of landfills and send them to be remade into something useful all while earning money for your school or nonprofit organization.
TerraCyclehas teamed up with Frito Lay to collect used packaging from FritoLay snack products- Doritos, Cheetos, Tostidos and other chip bags and turn them into affordable upcycled products- folders, tote bags, purses and pencil cases....
Trenton Times
Science nonfiction (May 14, 2009)
Tapping into American ingenuity, through concentrated and coordinated scientific research or the aha! moment of a latter-day Edison, is the key in the quest for innovation.
And don't think it can't happen. Consider the humble beginnings of TerraCycle Inc. The company began in Trenton with worm droppings and a dream and has evolved in less than a decade to become perhaps the quintessential model of eco-capitalism. From selling garden fertilizer (courtesy of the worms) in used plastic bottles, the little company that could has partnered with some of the country's largest manufacturers to "upcycle" wrappers, boxes and containers into everything from cell phone holders to backpacks to eco-friendly fire starters. ...
One Green Mommy
Terracycle Update (May 14, 2009)
I went to a local home and garden store today to get the final plants for our newly-planted garden. I was hoping that they would carry Terracycle's natural worm poop fertilizer. That's right! I was actually looking for worm poop! Unfortunately, they didn't carry it, but I poked around the Terracycle site and found which other stores do carry it.
I had been getting a little itchy about Terracycle recently since I had left a few voicemails and e-mails about a recent batch of pouches we sent in, and received no feedback. However, I really do like the company and want to cut them some slack. (Could be the New Jersey connection, or the fact that I love how they started! Either way, it doesn't matter!)
...
Earth Stream
Become Part of Terracycle’s Chip Bag Brigade and Earn Money for Your School (May 14, 2009)
You can collect Frito Lay chip bags, keep them out of landfills and send them to be remade into something useful all while earning money for your school or nonprofit organization. TerraCyclehas teamed up with Frito Lay to collect used packaging from FritoLay snack products- Doritos, Cheetos, Tostidos and other chip bags and turn them into affordable upcycled products- folders, tote bags, purses and pencil cases. ...
Reuters
TerraCycle Wants Frito-Lay's Trash (May 14, 2009)
Is there any trash TerraCycle won't take?
The New Jersey-based upcycling company has entered a partnership with Frito-Lay to turn snack bags into pencil cases and other products, eventually planning to create building materials made out of trashed bags.
TerraCycle hopes to collect 5 million Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos, Cheetos and Fritos snack bags over the next year, and will turn them into tote bags, purses and pencil cases for sale later this year at retailers like Walmart....
About.com
TerraCycle Inc - My kind of company (May 14, 2009)
If there was ever a company to really respect and admire it would have to be TerraCycle Inc. I have been kind of passively on-the-lookout for their product after hearing about their legal battle with lawn care giant Scotts/Miracle-Gro a couple of years ago. I finally stumbled upon it hidden amongst the racks of big name lawn care brands at my local big box store. After seeing their signature recycled soda bottle containers and jumbo "worm poop" lettering, I couldn't resist trying their liquid lawn fertilizer.
TerraCycle seems to be nothing less than the purest, safest, most natural, organic fertilizer there is. Worm castings and organic matter are the very stuff that grows most of the plants on this planet. It's safe to handle and apply. It's safe for children and pets, and doesn't...
Women's Times
TerraCycle.Net (May 14, 2009)
Get money for every Frito bag you throw out! TerraCycle is two opportunities in one: the company accepts a wide variety of used packaging materials which can be mailed to the company for cash redemption- a gret way to turn trash into treasure for any charity, school, or organization. Some of these wrappers are transformed into chich recycled acessories the company sells on its site-pencil cases, clocks, bags and more. Other items are made of eco-friendly materials and packaged in recycled containers, like the compost-tea plant fertilizer packaged in soda bottles....
The Trentonian
Recycling kids in Hamilton partner with TerraCycle (May 14, 2009)
At Our Lady of Sarrows School in Hamilton, Students have formed a recycling club, and their partnership with Trenton-based TerraCycle is showing the kids that saving the planet can pay off in more ways than one.
Through the club, students in fifth through eighth grade have signed on to form one of TerraCycle's garbage " Brigades," in which their task is to collect used juice pouches and cookie and snack wrappers as raw materials for the company to transform or " upcycle", into new consumer goods. ...
Wingfoot
Join the Bear Naked Brigade (May 14, 2009)
Last March, we told you about the Wrapper Brigade, a joint venture of the TerraCycle company (makers of all-natural fertilizers, home case and office products) and Clif Bar that worked to upcycle used energy bar wrappers by turning them into useful accessories such as totes, office products and shower curtains. The program has proved to be a big success, and in January of this year, TerraCycle announced that the program kept over a half million wrappers out of landfills in 2008, while simultaneously helping to raise 11,000 for a number of non-profit organizations. the program gained further momentum with the addition of balance bar as a participating sponsor. ...
GreenerDesign
TerraCycle Wants Frito-Lay's Trash (May 13, 2009)
Is there any trash TerraCycle won't take?
The New Jersey-based upcycling company has entered a partnership with Frito-Lay to turn snack bags into pencil cases and other products, eventually planning to create building materials made out of trashed bags.
TerraCycle hopes to collect 5 million Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos, Cheetos and Fritos snack bags over the next year, and will turn them into tote bags, purses and pencil cases for sale later this year at retailers like Walmart.
Doritos bagFrito-Lay is funding the collection and reuse of its bags, donating 2 cents per bag to charities chosen by the snack bag collection brigades....
Potato Pro
Frito-Lay packs to find new life as totebags, notebooks (May 13, 2009)
Frito-Lay North America, Plano, TX, a division of PepsiCo, has announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. (www.terracycle.net) an upcycling company that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quality goods. Through this joint program, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging, and at the same time redirect packaging from landfills.
The company is asking consumers to form Chip Bag Brigades; for every bag a brigade collects and sends to TerraCycle, Frito-Lay will donate two cents to their charity of choice. Initially, there will be 1,000 collection sites, and more are expected to be added during the year. The goal of the program is to engage at least 150,000 people and divert more than...
Follow Green
TerraCycle Wants Frito-Lay's Trash (May 13, 2009)
Waste upcycler TerraCycle has entered a partnership with Frito-Lay to turn trash from Doritos, Fritos and other snacks into tote bags, pencil cases and, eventually, building materials. Their first goal: Collect 5 million snack bags....
Rockford's News Leader
Snack wrappers get upcycled (May 13, 2009)
Feeling guilty about that bag of potato chips or candy bar you just had for lunch? We're not talking about calories here, but the waste made by non-recyclable packaging regularly generated while snacking.
To start making a dent in this waste stream, Frito-Lay (think Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos and Cheetos) and Mars (Snickers, Winterfresh, Altoids and Pedigree) are teaming up with TerraCycle to create new, "upcycled" products from their wrappers....
Popsop
Frito-Lay packs to find new life as totebags (May 13, 2009)
Frito-Lay North America, Plano, TX, a division of PepsiCo, has announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, Inc., an upcycling company that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quality goods.
Through this joint program, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging, and at the same time redirect packaging from landfills.
Over the past few years, Frito-Lay’s packaging initiatives have made some significant strides. This includes reducing the amount of plastic in packaging by 10% and, over the last five years, eliminating 12 million pounds of materials used to make the snack bags. This month, the company announced that in 2010 its SunChips brand will be introducing a fully compostable...
Park Howell
Eco-Capitalism: How to Build a Small Empire from Worm Droppings (May 13, 2009)
What better way to follow-up Earth Hour as we move towards Earth Day than with a spotlight on one the world’s leading eco-capitalists: TerraCycle.
Essentially, Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle, upcycles trash and turns it into new products. We’re not talking just plastics, cans and glass. We’re talking just about everything.
They got their start by feeding organic waste to worms, liquefying their poop and packaging it in reused soda bottles....
Green Jersey
TerraCycle’s Tom Szaky in Princeton Thursday (May 12, 2009)
On Thursday, Princeton’s Labyrinth Books hosts Tom Szaky, the cool, young CEO whose business is garbage.
Szaky, CEO and co-founder of Trenton-based TerraCycle, is at the forefront of a new generation of eco-capitalists. His TerraCycle Plant Food, fertilizer made from worm waste and packaged in old soda bottles, is available at the country’s biggest chains; bottles are topped with companies’ unwanted spray-bottle triggers and packed in mislabeled cardboard boxes. TerraCycle, based in Trenton, now sells dozens of other products too and is turning a handsome profit — all from stuff people would have otherwise thrown away.
In his book “Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle is Redefining Green Business,” Szaky tells the story of his business, which Inc. magazine...
Jackie's Crazy Ideas
Terracycle, Inc. uses creativity and trash (yes, I said trash) to make their products. (May 12, 2009)
Remember the old saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” ? Well, Terracycle Inc has taken that notion one step further. They take our trash and make usefull things out of it. But wait, it gets better. They than SELL IT BACK TO US! Genius! The Home Depot, Walmart and Target are a few of the big names that carry Terracycle Inc’s products. Some of products that you may have seen or heard of are:
Worm Poop Fertalizer- Liquefied worm poop bottled in used (but cleaned) soda bottles and re packaged w/ Terracycle’s Label.
Drink Pouch Backpack- A backpack made from empty drink pouches (think Capri Sun). Actually Terracycle makes a bunch of stuff from used/empty drink pouches....
Replayground
Pratt / TerraCycle Upcycle Design Show! (May 12, 2009)
Q: What do you get when you connect the mighty fine design students at Pratt Institute with the garbage pile at TerraCycle?
A: Loads of new product ideas made from recycled materials!
This semester we challenged Pratt students with TerraCycle wastestreams - like wine corks, cookie wrappers, plastic bags (like the flower vase pictured above), bottle caps, gift cards, and more. You can come see the winning results for yourself at:
Sustainable NYC
139 Ave. A between 8th and 9th St.
On display May 16 - 19
Gallery reception May 18, from 7pm - 10pm
It's free and open to the public!...
Smart 2 Be Green
Smart Tips (May 12, 2009)
May 7, 2009
Recycling Snacks
If you made your kids a lunch today
And it's something you do everyday
Look on the back of their favorite snack
And see how to recycle all those old packs.
Green Lunchboxes
* Snack, check... drink, check... as you go down the list of your kids' favorite lunch items look on the back of the packaging to see if they participate in the Terracycle recycling program which turns old packaging into new products like school gear.
* Terracycle has teamed up with snack powerhouses such as Capri Sun and Mars Chocolates to make a trade with consumers for their old containers and packaging in exchange for some cold hard change.
...
Time Off
Cash From Trash (May 12, 2009)
On a hot Princeton night in June 2001, Tom Szaky imagined wearing a suit at an investment bank and equated it with a gulag.
That image, along with his fear of personally repaying a business loan, motivated him to complete the task at hand- the disgusting, repulsive, nauseating task at hand....
Ez Vacuum
Green Living: TerraCycle All Natural Skunk Odor Remover (May 12, 2009)
TerraCycle All Natural Skunk Odor Remover - from PETCO.com TerraCycle All Natural Skunk Odor Remover uses the friendly bacteria to break down and digest skunk spray, effectively eliminating the odor. TerraCycle All Natural Skunk Odor Remover doesn’t mask the odor, it gets rid of it completely and without the use of harsh chemicals. Unique eco-friendly packaging makes this product an even smarter choice! TerraCycle All Natural Skunk Odor Remover is packaged in an upcycled (saved from the landfill and re-purposed) bottle, so you can feel good about making a positive impact on our earth while safely and naturally eliminating unpleasant skunk spray odors....
Ez Vacuum
TerraCycle All Natural Stain & Odor Remover (May 12, 2009)
This non-toxic, biodegradable solution will naturally get rid of stains and odors caused from feces, urine, blood, vomit and dirt without the use of harsh chemicals. Perfectly safe to use on carpets, upholstery, bedding, clothes or any other water-safe surface. TerraCycle All Natural Stain & Odor Remover uses nature’s own processes to naturally lift and remove stubborn pet stains and odors. Odors are not just masked, they are eliminated! Unique eco-friendly packaging makes this product an even smarter choice! TerraCycle All Natural Stain & Odor Remover is packaged in an upcycled (saved from the landfill and repurposed) bottle, so you can feel good about making a positive impact on our earth while safely and naturally eliminating unpleasant pet stains and odors....
Progressive Democrats of America
Life Among the Eco-Capitalists: A Revolution Takes Hold in New Jersey (May 12, 2009)
Somewhere between California and Hawaii is a big plastic trash dump floating in the ocean. Twice the size of Texas, it's known as the "Pacific Trash Vortex."
Spiral-shaped currents concentrate thousands of acres of non-biodegradable plastic waste. Birds and fish that get tangled up in the mass die with stomachs full of plastic. High-speed, high-tech modern life is not exactly working in sync with Mother Earth here. Maybe that's why the global ecosystem is on the verge of collapse.
But don't get bummed out! The Pacific Trash Vortex is one of the many things that inspires Tom Szaky (pronounced "Zackie"). He's the scruffy 30-year-old CEO and founder of America's most kick-ass green company.
...
Ez Vacuum
Green Living: TerraCycle All Natual Trash Can Protector (May 12, 2009)
TerraCycle All Natual Trash Can Protector - from PETCO.com TerraCycle All Natual Trash Can Protector uses all natural scents to discourage animals from tipping over your trash cans and making a mess. Unique eco-friendly packaging makes this product an even smarter choice! TerraCycle All Natual Trash Can Protector is packaged in an upcycled (saved from the landfill and re-purposed) bottle, so you can feel good about making a positive impact on our earth while safely and naturally discouraging your wild friends from digging through your trash cans....
Marietta Times
4-H news (May 12, 2009)
A new ongoing community service project was announced by Foreman. All members are encouraged to gather Capri Sun-type drink pouches to donate to Families Forward, which will turn them into Terracycle for two cents each. Anyone would like to support this cause can sign up on www.Terracycle.net.
The next meeting will be 2 p.m. on May 17 and will include a community trash pick up. Meetings are open to the public and any help with the trash pick up would be welcome....
Over Coffee
Book review and giveaway: Revolution in a bottle (May 12, 2009)
A while back I told you about the book I was reading. I also told you that it was way too good of a book for me to keep to myself so after I was done reading it I was going to pass it along to one of you. Well, that is not quite what I am going to do. I am going to give you the chance to win a new, has not been read before, Revolution in a Bottle; the story of how TerraCycle began, book of your own!
Last week I received a surprise package in the mail from the very cool folks at TerraCycle (I seriously love these guys, they crack me up). In my surprise package was a bottle of my very own Worm Poop (and other great goodies that I will be reviewing soon) and a new, un-read book! (Thanks guys, you are the best!) My son was very happy about this too cuz now he gets to keep my copy for...
Give it to me Raw
Garbage Mogul Makes Millions From Trash (May 12, 2009)
With a brilliant business model built around recycling, TerraCycle will either go big or go broke.
In a sprawling former suitcase factory in New Jersey, a camera crew is filming entrepreneur Tom Szaky and his company, TerraCycle, for a new reality TV show. Ten of the recycling firm's 46 employees sit around a table awaiting Szaky's next challenge. "So, guys," says Szaky, reaching into the pocket of his corduroy jacket and tossing a used toothbrush onto the table. "What are we going to do with this?"
...
News Channel 8
Snickers, M&M's Wrappers to be 'Up-cycled' into Laptop Bags, Pencil Holders (May 12, 2009)
The McLean-based Mars Company, manufacturer of Snickers and M&M's, is turning its waste into good use by teaming up with a company that recycles used packages into consumer products.
...
Packaging World
Trash talk with TerraCycle (May 11, 2009)
In this 12-minute Podcast with PW technical editor Rick Lingle, Zakes discusses the following updates:
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• Its upcycling initiative with Kraft, including the incredibly successful Capri Sun program;
• Status of its flagship product, Worm Poop plant food, which represents about 35% of company sales;
• Effects of the recession on its products and plans;
• The plans for its new e-commerce site, TerraCycleshop.com;
• The "circular" messaging the company expects to gain through its new School Fundraiser program launching September 2009. ...
Crafting a Green World
TerraCycle Gets Crafty With Discarded Wine Products (May 11, 2009)
TerraCycle is best known for their garden products packaged in reused bottles and their recycled material fire starter logs.
Now they are expanding their selection of products made from waste to include rain barrels and composters made from discarded wooden wine barrels and cork boards made from used wine bottle corks. They’ve also expanded into making office products from various materials. The cork boards and other office products are available at Office Max stores....
About.com
TerraCycle Natural Bathroom Cleaner Review (May 11, 2009)
TerraCycle uses the most eco-friendly packaging we've seen to date, and you'll be surprised at just how multipurpose the TerraCycle Bathroom Cleaner is.
From mirrors, to toilets, this bathroom cleaner is perfect for almost any surface. The one catch? You'll probably want to use something else to scrub the tub....
The Huffington Post
Your request is being processed... Snack Wrappers Get Upcycled Into Bags (May 11, 2009)
With Frito-Lay, TerraCycle will start a new recycling brigade set to collect used chip bags. These bags will become a host of products, from notebooks and folders to purses and backpacks. TerraCycle is also launching a new building product made from shredding the bags, which should launch in 2010....
Elite TV
Frito-Lay Partners With Terracycle to Close the Loop on Chip Bags (May 11, 2009)
Frito-Lay has announced plans to partner with ‘Upcycler’ Terracycle to give their chip bags a second life. Frito, which on Earth Day of 2008 unveiled a solar thermal generation facility at their manufacturing plant in Modesto, CA, with the capacity to power that entire plant, is making public its desire to reduce the environmental footprint of their packaging. By partnering with Terracycle, they are making a significant stride toward that end with an innovative program wherein they provide incentives for people to upcycle their chip bags (people will actually ship them directly to Terracycle, but Frito pays the postage). Terracycle will then do what they do best, turning the chip bags into everyday products like clipboards and tote bags.
Personally, I can’t wait to see what...
NJ Monthly
Green Divas’ Choice for New Jersey Eco-Power Couple (May 11, 2009)
TerraCycle has done it again . . . Tom Szaky and his talented wife, Soyeon Lee have managed to make used Frito Lay bags into CD covers for Soyeon’s latest release, Reinvented.
Soyeon is a classical concert pianist, with an impressive Juilliard, Carnegie Hall performance history who may be the first to bring the eco-cause into the world of classical music. In her effort to bring classical music and environmental awareness together, she turned to husband and garbage-to-gold entrepreneur Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, to help design the new CD cover for Reinvented. As it turns out, he had just come home with a sample of new composite board made from - yup, you guessed it - tossed out Frito Lay bags!...
Redding Record Searchlight
TerraCycle recycles, reuses and has plans to reuse again (May 11, 2009)
Reducing the amount of non-degradable waste such as complex polymers and plastics is the driving force behind TerraCycle's programs. TerraCycle's created a circular recycling system to combat the problem.
TerraCycle's programs accept widely used, non-recyclable items such as cookie wrappers, granola bags, yogurt containers, energy bar wrappers, even wine bottle corks. The company then uses that material in various consumer products such as tote bags and backpacks.
You can sign up for any or all of their programs at TerraCycle.net, says Albe Zacks, vice president of media relations at TerraCycle. ...
Scouts recycle drink boxes to help earth, school (May 11, 2009)
Members of the Beechview Elementary second grade Brownie Troop 40178 of Farmington Hills are the latest members of the Capri-Sun pouch brigade.
Every year, billions of drink pouches end up in the trash and landfills across America. The Beechview Brownie Troop 40178 Brigade has teamed up with an innovative company called Terracycle to help prevent and reduce the amount of non recyclable waste being put into our earth. Terracycle is going to convert the used drink pouches we collect into unique fashion bags, tote bags, and pencil cases for kids and adults....
Packaging News
Refills get on-shelf road test (May 11, 2009)
Jesus turned water into wine. But now one Australian company is turning wine into water with its reusable packaging. Reschke wine bottles use a glass stopper and a removable paper label so that when the wine has been drunk, the bottle can be reused for water.
Second in the reduce, reuse, recycle trilogy, reusable packaging is a great idea that hasn’t really hit the mainstream. It predates recycling and the green agenda, with the traditional milkman and returnable beer bottles classic examples of packaging reuse. Logistics, consumer convenience and arguments around pack minimization versus recyclability have, in the past, proved to be stumbling blocks. But consumers are increasingly aware of, and willing to act on, environmental issues. Is now the time to bring back reusable packaging?
...
EnviroThink
Giving Trash A New Life with Drink Pouch Brigades (May 11, 2009)
Think recycling only means paper, plastic and aluminum?
There’s a new program that recycles drink pouches your kids take to school.
In 2007, TerraCycle – a company founded on nothing being wasted and everything reused – created the Drink Pouch Brigade program, a free, nationwide program that “upcycles” used drink pouches, turning them into something new.
TerraCycle has pioneered programs that take items like white plastic bags, used soda bottles and food wrappers, and turns them into grassroots ventures that reduce waste and create fundraising opportunities....
Earth 911
Snack Wrappers Get UpCycled (May 11, 2009)
Feeling guilty about that bag of potato chips or candy bar you just had for lunch? We’re not talking about calories here, but the waste made by non-recyclable packaging regularly generated while snacking.
To start making a dent in this waste stream, Frito-Lay (think Lay’s, Doritos, Tostitos and Cheetos) and Mars (Snickers, Winterfresh, Altoids and Pedigree) are teaming up with TerraCycle to create new, “upcycled” products from their wrappers....
Pacific Free Press
Eco-Capitalism and the Great Pacific Trash Vortex (May 11, 2009)
Somewhere between California and Hawaii is a big plastic trash dump floating in the ocean. Twice the size of Texas, it's known as the "Pacific Trash Vortex."
Spiral-shaped currents concentrate thousands of acres of non-biodegradable plastic waste. Birds and fish that get tangled up in the mass die with stomachs full of plastic. High-speed, high-tech modern life is not exactly working in sync with Mother Earth here. Maybe that's why the global ecosystem is on the verge of collapse. But don't get bummed out! The Pacific Trash Vortex is one of the many things that inspires Tom Szaky (pronounced "Zackie"). He's the scruffy 30-year-old CEO and founder of America's most kick-ass green company.
TerraCycle makes good-looking products out of garbage. It sells hip messenger bags...
Convenience Store News
Frito-Lay to 'Upcycle' Used Packaging (May 7, 2009)
PLANO, Texas -- Frito-Lay North America, a division of PepsiCo Inc., is partnering with TerraCycle Inc., a firm that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quality goods, according to Greenerpackage.com.
Through this program, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging, while redirecting packaging away from landfills.
Over the past few years, Frito-Lay’s packaging initiatives have included reducing the amount of plastic by 10 percent and, over the last five years, eliminating 12 million pounds of materials used to make the snack bags. This month, the company announced that in 2010, its SunChips brand will be introducing a fully compostable bag made from plant-based renewable material,...
Central Jersey Packet Publications
Trash From Cash TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky’s book on eco-capitalism might help plant more trees than it cuts down (May 7, 2009)
ON a hot Princeton night in June 2001, Tom Szaky imagined wearing a suit at an investment bank and equated it with a gulag.
That image, along with his fear of personally repaying a business loan, motivated him to complete the task at hand — the disgusting, repulsive, nauseating task at hand.
Mr. Szaky and a friend — both Princeton University students — were emptying a dozen 55-gallon barrels of decomposing waste and leftovers from Wilcox Dining Hall. They shoveled the sludge into the $20,000 worm-compost machine Mr. Szaky had bought with borrowed money.
...
Green Daily
Terracycle Green Pet Products - GreenDaily Giveaway Winner! (May 7, 2009)
We have a winner of the Terracycle natural and nontoxic pet products kit. Winner Matt will have a fresh and clean home, a healthy and happy pet, and be environmentally responsible with this great basket of cleaning products:
* Yard Odor Remover
* Stain & Odor Remover
* Trash Can Protector Spray
* Skunk Odor Remover -- the pet equivalent of a fire extinguisher – hopefully you never have to use it!
* Bird Feeder...
Healthy Bliss
Earn $ for your school by Terracycling! (May 7, 2009)
Earn $ for your school by Terracycling!
Want to earn money for your school while helping the environment? You can do both by joining a Terracycle Brigade!
healthy bliss Earn $ for your school by Terracycling!
Terracycle is a unique company that takes "garbage" and turns it into usable products through a process called upcycling.
* Transforms used wine barrels into composters and rain barrels
* Fills used soda bottles with worm poop
* Crushes computers and fax machines into pots
* Makes kites from cookie wrappers
...
Triple Pundit
Frito-Lay Partners With Terracycle to Close the Loop on Chip Bags (May 7, 2009)
Frito-Lay has announced plans to partner with 'Upcycler' Terracycle to give their chip bags a second life. Frito, which on Earth Day of 2008 unveiled a solar thermal generation facility at their manufacturing plant in Modesto, CA, with the capacity to power that entire plant, is making public its desire to reduce the environmental footprint of their packaging. By partnering with Terracycle, they are making a significant stride toward that end with an innovative program wherein they provide incentives for people to upcycle their chip bags (people will actually ship them directly to Terracycle, but Frito pays the postage). Terracycle will then do what they do best, turning the chip bags into everyday products like clipboards and tote bags.
Personally, I can't wait to see what cool...
TCT Business Solutions
Coffee with Tracey (May 7, 2009)
Tom Szaky, 27, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TerraCycle, Inc., producer of the world's first product made from waste (worm poop) and packaged in waste (used plastic bottles.) TerraCycle has twice won the Home Depot Environmental Stewardship Award for being the most eco-friendly product sold at Home Depot. In 2006 an Inc. Magazine cover story named TerraCycle “The Coolest Little Start-Up in America!” That same year Tom was named the “#1 CEO in America Under 30” in the Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 Awards, beating billionaire Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg. Imagine a social entrepreneur who donates more money to charities every year than he takes home, beating out a billionaire dot-com founder!
Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1982, Tom emigrated with his family...
Over Coffee
Its official. I am a Terracycler! (May 6, 2009)
It came with 4 pre-paid pre-addressed pouches that I can use to send my non-recyclable Cliff bar wrappers back to Terracycle. They will then use the wrappers to make this cool looking purse.
I am so so excited about this company and about being part of their energy bar brigade.
You see, my husband and I each eat a Cliff bar a day (sometimes I also eat a Luna bar as an afternoon snack) and sometimes my kids eat one too. So on average, my family of 4 generates ~16 wrappers a week.
16 wrappers a week x 52 weeks a year = 832 wrappers that would normally go into the landfill will now go to TerraCycle to be transformed into new products. ...
That Darn Girl
Terracycle in effort to... (May 6, 2009)
In efforts to practice what I preach I am going green...
Start small...think BIG! I live in a apartment now I just need to find a way to compost my own trash without smelling up the place.
Today...
Go to goodwill purchase 100% recycled planters...
Buy tomato plants, strawberry planters and cilantro...
Make a big big mess...
Tada...
I also used a new and up coming exciting fertilizer (worm poop)...
I have been researching this Co for my class...
They are smarter than should be legal...
Terracycle......
Alternet
Life Among the Eco-Capitalists: A Revolution Takes Hold in New Jersey (May 6, 2009)
Somewhere between California and Hawaii is a big plastic trash dump floating in the ocean. Twice the size of Texas, it's known as the "Pacific Trash Vortex."
Spiral-shaped currents concentrate thousands of acres of non-biodegradable plastic waste. Birds and fish that get tangled up in the mass die with stomachs full of plastic. High-speed, high-tech modern life is not exactly working in sync with Mother Earth here. Maybe that's why the global ecosystem is on the verge of collapse.
But don't get bummed out! The Pacific Trash Vortex is one of the many things that inspires Tom Szaky (pronounced "Zackie"). He's the scruffy 30-year-old CEO and founder of America's most kick-ass green company....
Over Coffee
Congratulations to the Capri Sun-Terracycle Winners (May 5, 2009)
3 R Fridays | Eco PR Welcomed | About Me | My Healthy Bliss Posts| Links| Fav Posts/Guest Posts
Sunday, May 3
Congratulations to the Capri Sun-Terracycle Winners
Winner #1: Laney said... I also love the drink pouch messenger bag and the drink pouch tote
Winner #2: Donna said... "Every year BILLIONS of drink pouches end up in dumpsters and landfills across America."
Congratulations! I hope you love your backpack, pencil pouch, and folder that were previously CapriSun drink pouches but are now unique items for you to enjoy!
Thanks to everyone who entered. I hope that you all become TerraCyclers!...
The Unplastic Life
Congrats, Brooke! Thanks for the Terracycle Tip! (May 5, 2009)
Brooke brought the Terracycle products to my attention. She noticed them at OfficeMax, but you can also find them on the Terracycle website. I'm in love. Not only do they RECYCLE and use RECYCLABLE materials, but they REUSE. That's exactly what we so desperately need to do! They actually send out their cleaning supplies in re-used bottles that - get this - you can earn money sending to them! Some of their products, admittedly, look like a rainy day project for you and the fam. But others are pretty inspiring. My favorite?
The recycled newspaper pencil! Yup, it's exactly what it sounds like....
Idea Marketers
Green Nation Gardens Enjoying Huge Success With TerraCycle Products (May 4, 2009)
Every so often an idea comes along that is destined for greatness. When that idea is good for people, good for the planet and good for the economy, it could very well reshape the entire way we live and do business. Tom Zsaky, founder of TerraCycle has done just that, and the products that TerraCycle products is creating a whole new way of living appropriately known as Eco-Capitalism.
GreenNationGardens.com names TerraCycle Their Flagship Line of Products. ...
The Resource Action Programs Blog
You Know What They Say, “One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure” (May 4, 2009)
A friend of mine runs the organic division of Mars, Inc. called Seeds of Change. He handed me a DVD to watch last weekend about a company Mars, Inc. has recently started to work with called TerraCycle (www.terracycle.net). This company uses items that would wind up in the landfill (such as juice, candy, cookie, chip wrappers) to manufacture products, like backpacks, tote bags, kites, etc.
Terra Cycle’s co-founders, Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer, felt that a company could be financially successful while being ecologically and socially responsible. Boy are they proving that to be true!...
Jacksonville Advantage
Small business owners learn how vision and flexibility are win-win combo (May 4, 2009)
Only the future will tell if the 27-year-old casually attired keynote speaker at the 17th Annual Small Business Week
Celebration will be the next Bill Gates. But the audience of about 350 small business owners left the luncheon presentation acknowledging that Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, Inc., had a great thing going. The concept he virtually invented—upcycling—could revolutionize waste management as his company, which has no direct competitors, continues to grow.
His success can be attributed to creative problem solving, discipline to remaining true to his cause, and flexibility to grow in new but related directions.
Szaky, an entrepreneur who started his first company in Web design when he was only 14, was born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States via...
Rachael Ray
Designers Create Cool Products out of Trash! (May 4, 2009)
Tiffany is a good friend of mine, who has a company called Replay Ground. She’s also the chief “design junkie” for a terrific company called Terracycle, founded by an incredible Greentrepreneur Tom Szaky and together they are on a mission to get rid of the concept of waste. Whatever the trash, Terracyle tries to create cool, unique and fun product out of it. You’ve gotta love these people – salt of the earth.
Anyway, Tiffany called me and asked me to judge the first annual Terracycle and Pratt Institute UPCYCLE design competition. When you UPcycle, instead of reusing something as the same thing like you do when you REcycle, you are actually turning it into something better. How clever!...
South Coast Today
Is America a landfill of opportunity? (May 4, 2009)
Forget everything you know about recycling and dumpster diving. "Garbage Moguls" (9 p.m., National Geographic) looks at entrepreneurs and innovators who see gold in them thar landfills. Major retailers have embraced their efforts to turn trash into cash.
Wal-Mart sells their line of kites made entirely out of old cookie wrappers. "Moguls" focuses on the office squabbles and tensions between the artistic types and money people, engineers and marketers. It may be the first show of any type to document a meeting between Wal-Mart's notoriously stingy buyers and a group of venders selling products made entirely out of garbage....
Employee Benefits - Daily Diversion
Wish You Were Here: Mars Drinks forms partnership to be cleaner and greener (May 4, 2009)
It's rare that a company could combine two things I truly love -- coffee and promoting greener living -- but it seems Mars drinks has done it.
Mars Drinks, makers of single-serve beverages served in offices and law firms around the country, is partnering with TerraCycle to help decrease the amount of waste from its packaging. TerraCycle will take used FLAVIA fresh packs and turn them into high-quality office products such as pencil cases and notebooks — and compost coffee grounds once they’ve been brewed....
The New Green Economy
The Power of Compost (May 4, 2009)
Compost Awareness Week runs from Sunday May 3rd to Saturday May 9th and if you are not currently someone who composts, now is a great time to get started. Composting is one of the simplest and most interesting ways that you can get involved with lifecycle thinking and it provides you with a cost-free method of producing healthier and tastier fruits and vegetables in your garden this year.
Lifecycle thinking is one of the keys to the New Green Economy and will inspire your personal life, your creativity, and your business development strategies.
Terracycle Rotary Composter
Take for example Terracycle's Rotary Composter which, while providing a useful and attractive composting device, is also a form of "product composting" itself. The composter is made from Napa Valley...
Packaging World
Frito-Lay packs to find new life as totebags, notebooks (May 4, 2009)
Frito-Lay North America, Plano, TX, a division of PepsiCo, has announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. (www.terracycle.net) an upcycling company that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quality goods. Through this joint program, consumers and local community groups can earn money by collecting the used packaging, and at the same time redirect packaging from landfills.
Over the past few years, Frito-Lay’s packaging initiatives have made some significant strides. This includes reducing the amount of plastic in packaging by 10% and, over the last five years, eliminating 12 million pounds of materials used to make the snack bags. This month, the company announced that in 2010 its SunChips brand will be introducing a fully...
Natural Living
TerraCycle tackles trash (April 30, 2009)
Recycling company TerraCycle is making it easy for Americans to start trash cleanup projects. Simply sign up at terracycle.net to have collection bags with prepaid return shipping labels mailed to your home or business. Fill them with chip bags, cookie wrappers, drink pouches, and other food-packaging waste and send them back to TerraCycle; the trash will then be “upcycled” into tote bags and pencil cases (you can buy these accessories at Target stores or target.com). Thanks to partnerships with food giants like Frito-Lay, Mars, and Nabisco, plus well-known natural brands such as Kashi, Clif Bar, Honest Kids, and Bear Naked, TerraCycle will donate $.02 for every wrapper you collect to the charity of your choice. At the end of last year, volunteers had raised more than $100,000 for public...
EATS Blog
Trade Chip Bags for Charity Cash (April 30, 2009)
Used snack chip bags can be turned in and converted into purses and charitable donations, under a new program from Plano-based Frito-Lay Inc.
Frito-Lay is seeking consumers to serve as captain' of "bag brigades," who would collect used snack bags from family, friends, and co-workers and send the bags to Trenton, N.J.-based TerraCycle. The "upcycler" then converts the bags into items such as tote bags and pencil cases.
For every Frito-Lay bag sent to TerraCycle, the nation's largest snack maker will donate two cents to charity. ...
Mom in the City
TerraCycle (April 30, 2009)
For moms, the two product lines that fit best are their eco-friendly cleaners and pet products. I don’t have pets, but I tried their bathroom cleaner. It worked really well. I must say that I’m constantly impressed when more natural cleaners (i.e. method, seventh generation and now TerraCycle) work just as well as the cleaners with chemicals. TerraCycle also sent me one of their adorable Capri Sun Backpacks from their “Drink Pouch” line for preschoolers. After seeing and touching it, I still can’t believe that it’s made from 100% used drink pouches. One Mom in the City reader will get this eco-friendly backpack ($17.99) for their little one....
Sierra Club
Book Roundup Wednesday: Tomes on Trash and Treasure (April 30, 2009)
Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business (by Tom Szaky, $15, Portfolio, 2009): Tom Szaky is a master reuser--he built a successful company, TerraCycle, using food waste and worm poop. More than musings on the value of rubbish, this book offers an inspirational tale and sound advice for aspiring eco-entrepreneurs....
What They Think
TerraCycle - Waste as a Raw Material (April 30, 2009)
It’s exactly that perspective that has provided Tom Szaky an almost unlimited source of extremely low cost raw materials for the dozens of products that TerraCycle manufacturers.
Revolution in a BottleSzaky tells the story of TerraCycle in Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle is Redefining Green Business, (Portfolio Trade, 2009). He’s young, hyper-active, and smart!
In the beginning… there were worms. And the worms did what worms do, eating and making worm castings (a polite way of saying “worm poop). Tom convinced a handful of friends and schoolmates that an army of worms could turn lunchroom waste into a marketable fertilizer and TerraCycle was founded...
The HR Capitalist
Managing Fear in a Landscape of Layoffs and The Van Down By The River... (April 30, 2009)
For some leaders, the paranoia is a kind of blessing. "The world's best innovation comes from the greatest desperation," says Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, a Trenton (N.J.) company that makes organic fertilizer and other planet-friendly products. Times are tough for TerraCycle, as they are for a lot of companies that supply hard-pressed retailers. "We have no money to hire anyone," says Szaky. He put the challenge out to his charges: Do more with less. Amp up sales without spending any money.
Of course, some managers are open to letting the fear work it's magic. You know the type of magic, like employees sleeping in their back seats rather than at a Best Western:...
New York Times
‘Upcycling’ for Not-So-Green Consumers (April 30, 2009)
By most accounts, a growing number of consumers appear willing to pay the so-called “green premium” for environmentally friendly products.
A report released in January by the Boston Consulting Group, for example, found that of 4,000 consumers surveyed worldwide, almost a third said they were willing to ante up a bit more for green products — especially for fresh and prepared foods, and large appliances.
That survey, conducted last October, dovetails with previous consumer studies....
Catholic Online
Entrepreneur blazes new trail with old packages (April 28, 2009)
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - In 2003, an investor offered 21-year-old Princeton dropout Tom Szaky a million bucks.
Szaky turned him down.
Not that he didn't need the money. He was sleeping in a makeshift office, showering in the gym, and pondering a cash balance of zero.
The guy wanted Szaky to lose the environmental pitch with his business plan, except that was the plan. ...
Green Muze
Meet The Garbage Moguls (April 28, 2009)
Kites constructed from Oreo cookie wrappers. Spiral notebooks made from old cereal boxes. Pencils from rolled newspaper.
How is it possible to run a successful American company and yet make all the merchandise out of trash?
TerraCycle, Inc., one of the coolest companies on the planet, is doing just that. This young, hip company just may be the only company in existence that produces products made entirely out of waste.
A new series, Garbage Moguls, recently premiered on National Geographic Channel, and follows the TerraCycle team’s unorthodox creative process ― the brain-racking and stress, the silliness and infighting ― while working to build a profitable business with products composed entirely of trash....
Russet House Mother
Green Tip of the Day (April 28, 2009)
Energy bars are convenient, sure, but what about the 800 million wrappers discarded each year? Now they and other selected junk can be sent to, TerraCycle, a company that's making big business out of household garbage.
Bangor Daily News
New HOPE Festival location a rousing success (April 28, 2009)
On Saturday, Tolman and fellow team member Dustin Ramsay, 13, of Hampden offered juice pouches to thirsty festival-goers, asking them to return the pouches. The Green Team sends the pouches to a New Jersey company called TerraCycle Inc. That firm pays the team 2 cents per pouch and turns them into tote and book bags that are sold at retail stores.
Two years ago, the Green Team was awarded $500 at the festival by the Joe Hill Foundation. The team has used that money to create a tool kit to help students around Maine in grades three through eight organize and lead a Green Team of their own. It will be available next month, according to Ramsey....
Green Launches
TerraCycle to reduce waste by reusing Mars candy wrappers (April 28, 2009)
TerraCycle to reduce waste by reusing Mars candy wrappers
snickers.jpg TerraCycle, known to reuse thrown away wrappers and put them into something useful has tied up with Mars Inc to reuse packaging from Snickers, Altoids, Big Red and other Mars' food, drink, candy, gum and dog food products. TerraCycle will use both surplus and used packaging from the products with Mars sponsoring collection brigades for its packaging waste which will then be ‘upcycled’ into products like cell phone holders, laptop sleeves and messenger bags.
The products included in the partnership include M&Ms, Snickers, Milky Way, Twix, Starburst, Skittles, 3 Musketeers, Juicy Fruit, Doublemint, Wrigley's Spearmint, Orbit, Extra, Freedent, Eclipse, 5, Winterfresh, Big Red, Life Savers, Altoids, Pedigree,...
The Florida Times Union
Collect your water in a rain barrel (April 27, 2009)
It's fresher, it's natural and it's free.
Rainwater collection in rain barrels is one good way to help keep your garden, grass and wallet green, said Devon Ritch of Earth Works, a landscape and garden center on Jacksonville's Southside.
"This way you can save the water to use when you most need it," she said, "especially now that we're not getting as much rain as we used to in the afternoons."...
Green Review
The Depression bites (April 27, 2009)
While most governments are still playing around with the terminology and still will not call it the big “D” word the common man in the street knows that we are already in a depression, regardless of what the power brokers and politicians are trying to tell us.
Car production in the United Kingdom alone has fallen by two-thirds over the last year, that is to say in the time from March 2008 to March 2009.
...
Stone Talker
TerraCycle (April 27, 2009)
I saw a bit of a documentary about TerraCycle on the television last week. This company is awesome. They go garbage diving for what they can use, and make it into something usable, and market it. Tote bags made from empty 'Caprisun' pouches. Perpetual totes made from discarded single use plastic bags. Bird feeders made from water bottles. And much more.
I was amazed at what they were doing. It is both 'green' and very inventive.
My first thought was, "What a great idea!"
My second thought was, "Why didn't I think of that?"...
Over Coffee
Capri Sun + TerraCycle = A Great Giveaway (April 27, 2009)
Every year BILLIONS of drink pouches end up in dumpsters and landfills across America.
Now TerraCycle has found a unique way to convert those pouches from garbage to resource!
With the help of pouch producers such as Capri Sun and people just like you, more than one million pouches have been saved from landfills via the Drink Pouch Brigade™!
* Sign up for the Drink Pouch Brigade
* Receive an activation email
* Activate your account
* TerraCycle will mail you 4 prepaid collection bags
* Fill a collection bag with at least 100 drink pouches
* Seal and drop off the filled bag at a UPS drop off location near you
* For every pouch that you send to TerraCycle, 2 cents will be donated to a charity of your choice. ...
Olive & Beans
TerraCycle. (April 27, 2009)
Most (hopefully, all!) of us are in the habit of recycling paper, plastic, cans and glass containers. Now we take another step towards reducing waste by registering with TerraCycle, a company which has paired up with a few green retailers in their quest to recycle even more empty packaging which usually ends up in the garbage.
Sign up with TerraCycle to send in your yogurt containers, empty juice/drink pouches, energy bar wrappers and soda bottles. The company will supply you with large bags for the wrappers and boxes for the yogurt containers and bottles. When you?ve filled the provided containers, just send the prepaid packages back to TerraCycle and they will donate money to various causes for each returned wrapper and container....
MAKE
New TV show, Garbage Moguls, Features Crafty Tiffany Threadgould (April 27, 2009)
Longtime recycling maven and CRAFT contributor Tiffany Threadgould is a busy, busy girl these days.
Besides running her really clever recycling and reuse company, RePlayGround, she's working on articles for Craftzine.com, writing a book, and is one of the stars (yes, I said it, she's a star!) of the new show Garbage Moguls, in which she works as a product designer for the company Terracycle.
The company is taking garbage and making useful things out of this trash, thereby robbing the landfill of more content. Terracycle is home to a lot of different personalities, who keep you highly entertained for the hour-long show. There's plenty of research and development, a look into the process of brainstorming, some bickering, flirting, failure, and some redemption to boot. Above...
THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Plants from seed are easy but require care (April 27, 2009)
Question: I started some tomatoes, peppers, basil and a few different flowers from seed a few weeks ago in my living room. I have them under lights and they are looking pretty good. I'd like to know when to start fertilizing them, what I should use to do it, and how often. Any other suggestions to help them along?
Answer: Starting your own seeds is very rewarding and allows you to grow many more varieties than are available at the average nursery. I'm glad you are using a lighting system vs. putting them on the windowsill. The light from most windows is very uneven and usually not enough to keep seedlings from getting pale and leggy. A simple florescent shop light hung from chains works fine, and the fancy, more expensive grow light systems also can be used on blooming plants during...
Feel Good Style
Green Diva’s Guide to Fresh Style: Where Garbage Meets Music (April 27, 2009)
TerraCycle has done it again . . . Tom Szaky and his talented wife, Soyeon Lee have managed to make used Frito Lay bags into CD covers for Soyeon’s latest release, Reinvented.
Soyeon is a classical concert pianist, with an impressive Julliard, Carnegie Hall performance history who may be the first to bring the eco-cause into the world of classical music. In her effort to bring classical music and environmental awareness together, she turned to husband and garbage-to-gold entrepreneur Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle to help design the new CD cover for Reinvented. As it turns out, he had just come home with a sample of new composite board made from - yup, you guessed it - tossed out Frito Lay bags!
They thus created the first garbage-inspired, Frito-Lay CD cover. I have...
Miami Herald
Entrepreneur blazes new trail with old packages (April 27, 2009)
In 2003, an investor offered 21-year-old Princeton dropout Tom Szaky a million bucks.
Szaky turned him down.
Not that he didn't need the money. He was sleeping in a makeshift office, showering in the gym, and pondering a cash balance of zero.
The guy wanted Szaky to lose the environmental pitch with his business plan, except that was the plan.
Today, Szaky is glad he didn't give in....
Metro Green
TerraCycle - Near Perfect Eco-Capitalism (April 27, 2009)
Caught a glimpse of a National Geographic TV special featuring TerraCycle, a company that makes all its products from waste. All its products. Every part of everything, recycled, upcycled, repurposed, reused.
(As of this posting, their website (www.terracycle.net) was down so no link can be provided at the moment. But I'll update this post with a link when their site comes back up.)...
Just Food
US: Mars to ‘upcycle’ product packaging (April 24, 2009)
US confectionery giant Mars has partnered with 'upcycle' firm TerraCycle to repurpose the company's waste packaging into products.
TerraCycle will produce "affordable, high-quality" consumer goods by repurposing surplus and used packaging from more than 20 Mars brands, including Twix, Starburst, Uncle Ben's and Seeds of Change.
The firm will produce products ranging from cell phone holders and laptop sleeves to messenger bags, in a bid to significantly reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills. ...
Groovy Green
Reusing and recycling for fun and profit (April 24, 2009)
In case you haven’t run across this before… There’s a company called TerraCycle that will take your old plastic bottles and jugs, juice boxes, cookie wrappers, cell phones, and other waste, and turn them into useful products. In fact, they claim that 100% of their products and materials come from trash. If you set up a “collection center,” they’ll even donate to the charity of your choice for every item you send.
Products include fire starter bundles, lunch boxes, deer repellent, worm castings, rain barrels, binders, flower pots, and any number of other things. Their products are available at a wide array of “big retailers.
Now, the downside is that they generally only accept certain brand name products (Oreo, Capri Sun, Frito Lay, Clif Bars, etc.) But...
Packaging Digest
Frito-Lay SunChips brand introduces compostable plant-based bag (April 24, 2009)
SunChips, Frito-Lay's popular line of multigrain snacks, announced today that in 2010 it will introduce the first fully compostable snack chip bag made from plant-based materials. The change is designed to significantly improve the environmental impact of its packaging.
This month, the SunChips brand is taking the first step towards this transformational packaging. The outer layer of packaging on 10 ½ oz size SunChips snack bags will be made with a compostable, plant-based renewable material, polylactic acid (PLA). By Earth Day 2010, PepsiCo's Frito-Lay North America division plans to rollout a package for its SunChips snacks where all layers are made from PLA material so the package is 100% compostable.
"We know environmentally-friendly packaging is a priority for our...
The Ithaca Journal
Author of 'Revolution in a Bottle' to speak at Ithaca College tonight (April 24, 2009)
An Earth Week presentation titled "TerraCycle: Revolution in a Bottle" will be held at 7 p.m. today, in Textor 102, Ithaca College.
The talk will be by Tom Szaky. Szaky's newly released book "Revolution in a Bottle: From Worm Poop to a Garbage Empire That Is Redefining Green Business" will be available for sale.
The book tells the story of how Szaky, while a freshman at Princeton, collected dining hall garbage, fed it to worms and turned the resulting waste products into liquefied plant food packaged in recycled soda bottles. TerraCycle Plant Food is now available in every Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Whole Foods store in the country. The TerraCycle products include garbage cans made from crushed computers and handbags made from recycled energy bar wrappers and juice pouches....
AJC
Machine gets good seed-soil contact (April 24, 2009)
Q: You mention “vertical mowing” on your Web site. What the heck is that? Is a vertical mower the same as a dethatching machine?
A: Yes, it’s the same thing. The machine has several small blades on a horizontal shaft. As the shaft turns, the blades cut thin grooves in the soil, raising and shredding any thatch.
Combined with a seed hopper, this machine is excellent for getting good seed-soil contact when planting a lawn.
On the other hand, I rarely see lawns that need dethatching, contrary to the common advice of neighbors and poorly trained lawn technicians....
San Francisco Gate
Hey, Watch It! - Wednesday's TV Picks (April 24, 2009)
It's Earth Day, so you better not be tossing that plastic bottle into the trash. Or those cereal boxes. Or those cookie wrappers. You see, that trash can be turned into virtual gold, and the "eco-capitalists" at TerraCycle are doing just that. Find out how in the documentary special "Garbage Moguls" at 9 P.M. on the National Geographic Channel.
And here's a little Earth Day irony for you: I was sent an advanced screener of this special, and the DVD came in a plastic casing, sent in cardboard and plastic mailer. Now, I am not knocking the sending out of preview copies for publicity purposes, but isn't something like this perfect for an online preview that could, perhaps, be password protected and only available as a streaming video? A completely waste-free way to publicize an ecologically-centered...
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Going Green Resources (April 24, 2009)
Eco-Friendly Products
* Snack Taxi
* Built
* Sigg
* To-Go Ware
* BioBag
* Terracycle
* ResuableBags.com
Books
* In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
* The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan...
Asbury Park Press
Pupils examine "earthy" things (April 24, 2009)
Using magnifying glasses, Kiarah Ali and Ashley Terhune, both 6, kneeled down and inspected a raised garden bed in the courtyard of Ridgeway Elementary School.
A crawling worm caught their attention, and Maya Planter, 10, their fifth-grade buddy, wrote down what the girls found on a list.
RELATED
"We also found a purple flower, a wildflower, a red tulip, a pink flower and a toad," said Maya, who helped the kindergartners find and identify items during a scavenger hunt....
The Good Human
Announcing The Winner Of Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business. (April 24, 2009)
The giveaway has ended, and it’s time to announce the winner of Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business, one of the best books about a company going green that I have read in a very long time. Using Random.org to pick the winner, comment #18 was picked, which was from Beth @ Smart Family Tips . Congrats to Beth! I will be sending you an email for your mailing address, so please be on the lookout for it. For everyone who didn’t win, I have a lot more books to giveaway in the coming weeks, so be sure to stay tuned. :-)...
Jen & Barbs Mom's Life
Is Your Family Green Enough? (April 24, 2009)
Is Your Family Green Enough?...
Melodies in Marketing
Terracycle to Create Products from Mars Inc. Brands (April 24, 2009)
“TerraCycle will repurpose waste packaging from Mars’s U.S. operations into products ranging from cell phone holders and laptop sleeves to messenger bags, significantly reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills. Mars will also sponsor TerraCycle ‘Brigade programs,’ in which organizations can raise money by collecting used packaging from participating brands and sending it to TerraCycle.”
While I’m happy for refurbished and modified “waste” into functionally valuable items from Terracycle, the question I absolutely must ask is “What about product design?” Are the items desirable? To what degree are the original manufacturer’s graphical branding elements visible in the new product? Terracycle’s Tom Szaky is proudly declaring his company making valuable...
Environmental Leader
Mars, TerraCycle Turn Packaging Into Consumer Goods (April 24, 2009)
Mars Inc. and TerraCycle are partnering to turn waste and surplus packaging into consumer goods.
By making products ranging from cell phone holders and laptop sleeves to messenger bags, TerraCycle will repurpose waste packaging from Mars five U.S. business segments - Chocolate, Petcare, Wrigley, Food, and Drinks. The packaging will be recovered at Mars facilities, as well as in a unique consumer recycling program.
Mars will become a sponsor of TerraCycle’s Brigade programs, in which organizations raise money through the collection of used packaging from participating brands, then sending it to TerraCycle, according to a press release....
Green Future Now
Mars, TerraCycle Turn Packaging Into Consumer Goods (April 24, 2009)
Mars Inc. and TerraCycle are partnering to turn waste and surplus packaging into consumer goods. By making products ranging from cell phone holders and laptop sleeves to messenger bags, TerraCycle will repurpose waste packaging from Mars five U.S. business segments - Chocolate, Petcare, Wrigley, Food, and Drinks. The packaging will be recovered at Mars facilities, as [...]
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Supply Chain Analysis
Mars Inc. begins innovative waste reduction scheme (April 24, 2009)
In the United States, Mars Incorporated has announced that its five business segments - Chocolate, Petcare, Wrigley, Food and Drinks - and upcycling company TerraCycle have formed the largest-ever corporate partnership.
This will result in TerraCycle producing consumer goods from surplus and used packaging from more than 20 Mars brands. The waste packaging will be made into products ranging from mobile phone holders and laptop sleeves to messenger bags.
...
The Rider News
Eco-Rep Green Corner: Web sites keep the Earth in mind (April 24, 2009)
Terracycle (www.terracycle.net) is a company that takes trash from other people and repurposes it into other useful goods before the recycling process takes place. Terracycle produces anything from reusable bags out of used Capri-Sun drink packets to recycling bins made out of e-waste (computer waste). Eco-sumo (www.ecosumo.com) is another online retailer that sells eco-friendly products ranging from furniture to clothing and shoes for both men and women.
With people going to video sites like YouTube all the time for not only entertainment, but news and education, there is a green counterpart online. GoGreenTube (www.gogreentube.com) is a Web site similar to YouTube with users posting videos about anything green, such as recycling, EarthHour and reasons to stop using coal for energy....
Live Journal
Garbage Moguls: The Trashiest Reality TV Show Ever (April 24, 2009)
They may be too young to understand why they would not be allowed to watch TV for a week, but 25 children at a kindergarten are willing to give it a try. Garbage Moguls: The Trashiest Reality TV Show Ever [preview] ...
Reality shows are often classified as trashy TV. Now things have come full circle with a reality program focusing on you guessed it garbage. Garbage Moguls, premiering today on The National Geographic Channel, follows a team from upcycling startup Terracycle as they take different waste products and figure out how to turn them into products that can be sold to retailers. Terracycle, founded ... Garbage Moguls: The Trashiest Reality TV Show Ever...
Say No To Plastic
* MISSION * PLASTIC FACTS * CONTRIBUTE * OCEAN KEEPERS * WORKING WITH BUSINESS OPRAH’S EARTH DAY SHOW - MUCH MORE THAN TALK - BRAVO! (April 24, 2009)
OPRAH’S EARTH DAY SHOW - MUCH MORE THAN TALK - BRAVO!
Lots of people and corporations talk about Earth Day and do little else.
Over at MSNBC while they are talking about “Green is Universal” their anchor people and morning on-air personalities sip out of plastic bottles and cups.
17th Annual Women in Entertainment Power 100 Breakfast
Today, Oprah aired a magnificent show that FOCUSED on many of the plastic topics I have been blogging about for months. In particular, she talked about the infamous garbage patch in the Pacific.
Go to her site at www.Oprah.com . . . NOW! There are wonderful resources for you and your family to share. The following resources are from her website. You will also find money saving tips while going green, tips about...
Warming Glow
WHAT’S ON TONIGHT: GARBAGE MOGULS! (April 24, 2009)
Garbage Moguls (National Geographic) — I adore the name of this show. It’s such an honor, like calling someone a Trash Tycoon, or Sh-t Magnate....
4 Kids & Us
EVER GREEN: tv's 'Garbage Moguls' premieres tonight (April 24, 2009)
the home furnishings aisles at Target (you'll find the circuit board frames and vinyl record clocks CEO Tom Szaky tries to sell to Office Max in "Garbage Moguls"), and the fertilizer that launched the company can be found at Walmart and Home Depot. ...
Mixergy
How To Inspire People To Be Passionate About Your Business. - With Tom Szaky (April 24, 2009)
So you know that nobody cares about your business right? (It’s okay, they don’t care about mine either. They care about themselves.) Want to learn how to get them passionate about what you’re building?
Listen to my interview with Tom Szaky, who founded TerraCycle in college, based on the idea of selling worm poop. In the program, Tom taught how to get employees, customers and press to rally around a startup....
South Coast Today
Is America a landfill of opportunity? (April 24, 2009)
Forget everything you know about recycling and dumpster diving. "Garbage Moguls" (9 p.m., National Geographic) looks at entrepreneurs and innovators who see gold in them thar landfills. Major retailers have embraced their efforts to turn trash into cash.
Wal-Mart sells their line of kites made entirely out of old cookie wrappers. "Moguls" focuses on the office squabbles and tensions between the artistic types and money people, engineers and marketers. It may be the first show of any type to document a meeting between Wal-Mart's notoriously stingy buyers and a group of venders selling products made entirely out of garbage....
Global Sourcing
Making Cool Products Out of Trash, Terracycle's Product Development and Materials Sourcing Process (April 24, 2009)
Before the company Terracycle, the only thing that backpacks, laptop bags, and kites, had in common with Caprisun pouches, Oreo wrappers, and chips bags, is the kids that took them to school everyday. Not anymore. Terracycle is flipping this on its head, by creating products like backpacks, laptop bags, and kites out of the trash that we toss out everyday.
Founded by Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer in 2001, Terracycle started by offering composted plant food, which eventually hit shelves in Home Depot in 2004. Since then, the company is gaining steam and, according to Ecopreneurist (h/t for the story), is now exploring opportunities with Walmart and Office Max. ...
Recycling Post
Book Review & Giveaway-Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business. (April 24, 2009)
This giveaway has ended. It’s time for another giveaway, and this time it is for a copy of the new book from the founder of TerraCycle, Tom Szaky. Back in August of last year, I wrote a post about a few of the products that TerraCycle makes out of our waste stream, and I have been following their amazing growth since then. If you have not heard of them before, you will soon enough - their products are showing up everywhere, from Whole Foods to the biggest of the big-box stores. This new book, Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business, is an amazing story of how Szaky took an idea for selling worm poop as fertilizer while at Princeton all the way to the giant green company they are today. I read it in just a few sessions as I had trouble putting it down. So many...
Natural Home
Garbage Moguls: TerraCycle Turns Trash Into Treasure (April 24, 2009)
Premiering tonight on National Geographic at 9 pm EST, the Earth Day special "Garbage Moguls" follows the Trenton, New Jersey-based company TerraCycle as it attempts to turn trash into treasure. TerraCycle, led by 27-year-old CEO Tom Szaky, salvages waste from landfills to make useful products such as pencils, reusable bags, clocks, coasters and other household and office items.
Tune in tonight to follow the TerraCycle team’s creative process, which includes field trips to the landfill and automobile junkyard. The team faces the challenge of constructing a kite made entirely from Oreo wrappers to present to Wal-Mart executives and designing a messenger bag made from old billboards and seat belts to present to Office Max executives....
Bradenton Herald
Entrepreneur blazes new trail with old packages (April 24, 2009)
In 2003, an investor offered 21-year-old Princeton dropout Tom Szaky a million bucks.
Szaky turned him down.
Not that he didn't need the money. He was sleeping in a makeshift office, showering in the gym, and pondering a cash balance of zero.
The guy wanted Szaky to lose the environmental pitch with his business plan, except that was the plan.
Today, Szaky is glad he didn't give in....
Tonic!
An Interview With a Garbage Mogul! (April 23, 2009)
TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky had a revolutionary idea back in 2001, during his freshman year at Princeton. What if you could make a useful product entirely out of garbage?
He came up with the first product, a fertilizer made from worm poop, and packaged in soda bottles that they “liberated” from neighborhood cycling bins. Just a few years later, TerraCycle is a multi-million dollar company on the leading edge of repurposing materials that other people see as waste into useful, effective and eco-friendly products....
Waco Tribune-Herald
With Mars 'upcycling' program, you could end up carrying that Snickers around for years (April 23, 2009)
A New Jersey company that makes wallets, tote bags and cell phone holders from used candy wrappers and other recyclables has signed an agreement with Mars Inc., which has a candy plant in Waco.
Mars will donate the wrappers to TerraCycle, but will pay nonprofit organizations up to 2 cents per wrapper they collect for Mars.
“The Waco plant is involved in this initiative because it makes Starburst, Skittles and Snickers products,” Mars spokeswoman Alice Nathanson said....
Healthy Bliss
Capri Sun + TerraCycle = Unique Giveaway (April 23, 2009)
Every year BILLIONS of drink pouches end up in dumpsters and landfills across America.
TerraCycle has found a unique way to convert those pouches from garbage to resource! With the help of pouch producers such as Capri Sun and people just like you, more than one million pouches have been saved from landfills via the Drink Pouch Brigade™!
For every pouch that you send to TerraCycle, 2 cents will be donated to a charity of your choice. To date, more than $25,000 has been donated to schools and community programs nationwide! (For more details visit the Drink Pouch Brigade FAQ page)...
Reviewin it up!
Encourage Your Kids to Go Green with Capri Sun and TerraCycle - GIVEAWAY! (April 22, 2009)
In honor of Earth Day (April 22nd) and their commitment to promoting a greener planet, Capri Sun is encouraging kids and parents to start Drink Pouch Brigades in their community. The program not only reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills, but it teaches kids the importance of being environmentally conscious and preserving the Earth’s resources - a lesson I think we all want our kids to learn!
Capri Sun and TerraCycle, a company who has pioneered the concept that any material can be reused and made into something of value, have teamed up to create the Drink Pouch Brigades. The free collection program allows kids, parents and teachers to work together to eliminate waste by collecting used Capri Sun and other drink pouches to raise extra funds for their local schools, churches...
EcoPreneurist
“Garbage Moguls” - A new reality show about Terracycle (April 22, 2009)
Paul Smith wrote a series of articles about Terracyle last year. Founded by Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer in 2001 while students at Princeton, Terra Cycle started as a way to spread the benefits of vermicomposting (that is, composting with worms) to a larger audience. Szaky and Beyer were eventually able to earn startup funds, and by 2004, Home Depot was carrying Terra Cycle Plant Food on their website.
Today the story has developed much further. The Terracyle team now visits landfills on a routine basis to collect whatever garbage they can find, for ultimate conversion into usable products. With computer bags made from billboards, pencils made from rolled newspaper and kites made from Oreo cookie wrappers, Terracycle now has regular sales appointments at major retailers like Office Max...
Green Biz
Mars Partners With TerraCycle to Turn Candy Wrappers Into New Products (April 22, 2009)
TerraCycle has further expanded its reach into the waste stream through a partnership with Mars Inc. that will help TerraCycle reuse packaging from Snickers, Altoids, Big Red and many other brands.
The partnership with Mars encompasses a wide swath of Mars' food, drink, candy, gum and dog food products.
TerraCycle will be use both surplus and used packaging from the products, with Mars sponsoring collection brigades for its packaging waste....
Star News
EVER GREEN: TV's 'Garbage Moguls' premieres tonight (April 22, 2009)
"Garbage Moguls," premiering tonight on National Geographic Channel, peeks behind the scenes at Terracycle, a company of self-described "eco-capitalists."
The television special tracks the Terracycle team's progress on bringing two prototypes from mere ideas to products on the shelves of mass retailers Walmart and Office Max. Although viewers get to see the creation of kites made of Oreo wrappers and a messenger bag made of old billboards and seatbelts, the program is more about watching the zany characters at work at Terracycle....
Eco Info Blog
Mars Partners With TerraCycle to Reuse Twix, Doublemint, Altoids Packaging (April 22, 2009)
TerraCycle has gained another big-name ally in its efforts to upcycle all types of waste. Mars, Inc. has partnered with TerraCycle to reuse surplus and used packaging from its wide range of food, candy and gum products.
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The Hub
"Garbage Moguls" (April 22, 2009)
9 p.m., National Geographic Channel. Tom Szaky was a Princeton freshman when he hatched his plan for TerraCycle, which makes things entirely out of garbage. Now, at 27, he says he wants to prove "you can make a boatload of money and save the world."...
The Inspired Economist
Talking Trash on Earth Day (April 22, 2009)
The Inspired Economist recently published a story about Funding Factory, a company that provides funding through recycling. Ecopreneurist has featured several stories about recycling startups. However, even with all the buzz, IBISWorld, an industry research firm tell us that recycling is expected to decline significantly in 2009 - after five years of strong growth.
“Falling prices have put the recycling industry on the scrapheap this year,” explained George Van Horn, senior analyst with IBISWorld. “It is the thirteenth biggest revenue loser in 2009, and is expected to plummet a drastic 20 percent.”
Growing at an annualized rate of 6.3 percent for the past five years to 2008, Recycling Facilities is one of the few industries in the “green sector” to observe...
Fast Company
Garbage Moguls: The Trashiest Reality TV Show Ever [preview] (April 22, 2009)
Reality shows are often classified as trashy TV. Now things have come full circle with a reality program focusing on--you guessed it--garbage. Garbage Moguls, premiering today on The National Geographic Channel, follows a team from "upcycling" start-up Terracycle as they take different waste products and figure out how to turn them into products that can be sold to retailers.
Terracycle, founded in 2001, got its start selling natural plant food made out of worm waste products. Now the company takes waste products of all stripes that can't be recycled and upcycles them into backpacks, pencil cases, folders, and more. Earlier this month, Terracycle inked a deal with Mars, Inc. to recycle waste packaging from cell phone holders and laptop sleeves into messenger bags. ...
CNBC
Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Redefines Green Business (April 22, 2009)
Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle is Redefining Green Business: Author and CEO of Terra Cycle, Tom Szaky writes a great guest blog for Bullish to those who aspire to become eco-preneurs and the rest of us who just want to do our part to help clean up Mother Earth.
Szaky writes how we need to embrace and partner up with big business if we want to make big changes ... great words of prophet and profit....
Scooter McGavin
Previewing Garbage Moguls (April 22, 2009)
Today is Earth Day which begs the question: why are you even on your computer? Okay, rule number one of being eco-friendly is don’t beat yourself up when you do something not so eco-friendly. I can rest in the solace that I am currently on a Hybrid computer that uses seventy percent energy than a regular desktop. And certainly do not feel bad if you fire up the television tonight to see Garbage Moguls at 9:00 on the National Geographic Channel.
The special follows a company, TerraCycle, who tries to turn garbage into cash. Their current projects include trying to create a kite made of used Oreo wrappers that they are trying to sell to Walmart. The other is to make a laptop carrier out of billboards and seat belts in hopes that Office Max will order them....
ABC
Upcycling: CEO Turns Trash Into Cash (April 22, 2009)
On this Earth Day, when many people are thinking about recycling and deciding on just one thing they can do to become more eco-friendly, one 27-year-old entrepreneur has managed to turn his dreams of a greener Earth into money in the bank.
TerraCycle's Tom Szasky explains how he made a profit out of garbage.
Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, has a tale of ultimate eco-capitalism. To Szaky, another man's trash literally is his treasure.
"I don't see garbage anymore. I just see cash," he said. ...
Technology Info
Big Box Stores Lessen Environmental Impact With Help From Enviro Company Terracycle (April 21, 2009)
We’ve introduced you to Terracycle before and their line of eco-friendly products. Now, Terracycle is expanding by partnering up with big box stores around the US to promote recycling of non-recyclables. It’s a bold business move by a company whose ethics aren’t necessarily in line with many of the consumption driven big names we’re already familiar with, and smart PR for those corporations looking to improve their environmental image.
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Monsters & Critics
Nat Geo's 'Garbage Moguls' Wednesday, Earth Day a no miss (April 21, 2009)
Kites fashioned from Oreo® cookie wrappers. Spiral notebooks from old cereal boxes. Pencils from rolled newspaper. Coming to a superstore near you are ingenious products made entirely of garbage.
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Your Family Friend
We’re On Vacation, But…. (April 21, 2009)
Finally, only because I like what the company is doing am I recommending Garbage Moguls, on National Geographic Channel, Wednesday at 9 p.m. (4/22). The owners of TerraCycle take garbage, such as cookie wrappers and used billboards and make useful products out of them. On the plus side, there is some real out of the box thinking going on in one of the design sessions and it’s a great example of working creatively. On the down side, the people across the board aren’t very nice to each other - and it gets pretty grating after a while. Oh, and the language gets a little rough here and there, with some words bleeped.
Now, of course, you’re recording these shows for looking at after this weekend, and in the meantime are doing cool things like making kites or cookies or singing...
TreeHugger
Garbage Moguls, the TerraCycle Reality TV Show! (April 21, 2009)
After 3 years of pitching networks, meeting with various producers, and all of the other Hollywood headaches,TerraCycle finally has our own Reality TV Show. Garbage Moguls, which debut's on National Geographic Channel on Earth Day, April 22, at 9pm EST and 9pm PST, follows our team at TerraCycle as we take waste like Oreo Wrappers and Coca-Cola Billboards, figure out how to upcycle them into products like kites and messenger bags, and finally sell them to a major retailers like Wal-Mart and Office Max. Check out more info after the jump.
Our hope with the series is to bring awareness around trash and waste in a fun and exciting way, and highlight what one can do with it. Perhaps this show may become a vehicle to take upcycling mainstream? I'd love to hear your opinion though. If...
EcoSilly
Garbage Moguls, the TerraCycle Reality TV Show! (April 21, 2009)
Garbage Moguls, the TerraCycle Reality TV Show!
After 3 years of pitching networks, meeting with various producers, and all of the other Hollywood headaches,TerraCycle finally has our own Reality TV Show. Garbage Moguls, which debut’s on National Geographic Channel on Earth Day, April 22, at 9pm EST and 9pm PST, follows our team at TerraCycle as we take waste like Oreo Wrappers and Coca-Cola Billboards, figure out how to upcycle them into … ...
Inventor Spot
Big Box Stores Lessen Environmental Impact With Help From Enviro Company Terracycle (April 21, 2009)
We've introduced you to Terracycle before and their line of eco-friendly products. Now, Terracycle is expanding by partnering up with big box stores around the US to promote recycling of non-recyclables. It's a bold business move by a company whose ethics aren't necessarily in line with many of the consumption driven big names we're already familiar with, and smart PR for those corporations looking to improve their environmental image.
Major chains like PETCO, OfficeMax, Home Depot
and Best Buy are amongst the big box stores that have setup collection points for packaging and other waste that is not typically recyclable. Terracycle is hoping to implement similar recycling centers in all stores belonging to these chains in the upcoming years, and is there any reason why they would...
Blog Tactics
From Tonnes Of Craps To a Pot Of Gold (April 21, 2009)
Today's post is about an introduction to the ultimate Eco-Capitalism. That is making money from people's trash. It is not about making money from selling unused junks. It is about making money from useless items like plastic wrappings and organic wastes (like kitchen wastes, dead leaves and chicken feathers).
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Waco Now
Mars Inc., Terracycle partner for waste reduction program (April 21, 2009)
McLean, VA, April 20, 2009 - Mars, Incorporated’s five business segments - Chocolate, Petcare, Wrigley, Food, and Drinks — and upcycling company TerraCycle today announced TerraCycle’s largest-ever corporate partnership. TerraCycle will produce affordable, high-quality consumer goods by repurposing surplus and used packaging from more than 20 Mars brands, including: leading confectionary brands such as M’S®, SNICKERS®, MILKY WAY®, TWIX®, STARBURST®, SKITTLES®, 3 MUSKETEERS®, JUICY FRUIT®, DOUBLEMINT®, WRIGLEY’S SPEARMINT®, ORBIT®, EXTRA®, FREEDENT®, ECLIPSE®, 5®, WINTERFRESH®, BIG RED®, LIFE SAVERS®, and ALTOIDS®; dog and cat food brands PEDIGREE®, NUTRO® and THE GOODLIFE RECIPE®; and food and drink brands UNCLE BEN’S®,...
Bliss Tree
Earth Day News & Green Tips (April 21, 2009)
The National Geographic Channel has a show coming up that all green heads will enjoy, Garbage Moguls. Airing on April 22nd, the show will cover one of the world’s most eco-friendly manufacturers, TerraCycle, and their efforts to turn trash into cash. During this hour-long show, the TerraCycle team successfully develops, creates, tests and sells two unique products to two major retailers, OfficeMax and Walmart, turning used billboards into messenger bags, and Oreo cookie wrappers into kites.
If you want to support the earth in less time, and with less effort, you can give GoodSearch.com or GoodShop.com a whirl. GoodSearch.com is a Yahoo powered search engine that donates a penny per search to your favorite environmental cause while GoodShop.com is an online marketplace that features...
EcoSilly
Terracycle Green Pet Products - GreenDaily Giveaway Reminder! (April 21, 2009)
Do you have a pet? A love of natural cleaning products? If so, you’ll be crazy about the new TerraCycle line of pet cleaning products.
TerraCycle partnered with PETCO to create a new line of natural and nontoxic pet products. They’re even packaged in repurposed plastic bottles — the first line of pet products ever. ...
Alt Tech Foundation
10 Tips from an Eco-Capitalist: Tom Szaky Shares TerraCycle's Secrets to Success (April 21, 2009)
Tom Szaky has created a new form of capitalism, eco-capitalism, in which waste is re-conceptualized as a raw material and becomes an economic driver. In his new book, "Revolution in a Bottle," Szaky reveals the secrets to TerraCycle's success as well as its twists and turns along the way to becoming a national consumer products company, renowned for creating products from -- and packaged in -- waste.
I first learned of TerraCycle when reading "Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World" by CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, Gary Hirshberg. I was so intrigued by the company, I requested an interview with Szaky and to my astonishment he agreed (this was at the very start of my still fresh blogging career -- you can read that article here). And, full disclosure here, as a result of...
Bliss Tree
Win a Capri Sun Green Package (April 21, 2009)
Pledge to be green and win! Capri Sun has teamed up with TerraCycle, a company who has pioneered the concept that any material can be reused and made into something of value, to create the drink Pouch Brigades. The free collection program allows kids, parents and teachers to work together to eliminate waste by collecting used Capri Sun and other drink pouches to raise extra funds for their local schools, churches and community groups.
* Each year, billions of drink pouches are sent to dumpsters and landfills across the U.S
* There are currently over 14,500 participating Drink Pouch Brigade locations in the U.S.
* For every juice pouch collected and sent, TerraCycle donates 2 cents back to the community
* The used drink pouches are then repurposed into cool and...
The Good Human
Book Review & Giveaway-Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business. (April 21, 2009)
It’s time for another giveaway, and this time it is for a copy of the new book from the founder of TerraCycle, Tom Szaky. Back in August of last year, I wrote a post about a few of the products that TerraCycle makes out of our waste stream, and I have been following their amazing growth since then. If you have not heard of them before, you will soon enough - their products are showing up everywhere, from Whole Foods to the biggest of the big-box stores. This new book, Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business, is an amazing story of how Szaky took an idea for selling worm poop as fertilizer while at Princeton all the way to the giant green company they are today. I read it in just a few sessions as I had trouble putting it down. So many books I read about companies...
Washington Post
Early Briefing: Ready to Watch TV on Your Phone? (April 21, 2009)
Mars, the candy giant based in McLean, said that to reduce trash at its U.S. factories it will partner with TerraCycle, a New Jersey company that makes products out of waste such as packaging. Mars said TerraCycle will take surplus packaging used in making more than 20 Mars brands. TerraCycle creates a variety of products out of such waste, including cellphone holders and laptop sleeves.
Internet data analysis provider ComScore named Kenneth Tarpey as chief financial officer, replacing John Green. Green will take on the role of executive vice president and head of the Reston-based firm's human capital department. Tarpey most recently served as CFO of video surveillance software provider ObjectVideo....
Earth Times
College Drop Out Redefining Intersection between Business and the Environment (April 20, 2009)
27-year-old college drop out turned CEO, Tom Szaky's new book “REVOLUTION IN A BOTTLE: How TerraCycle is Redefining Green Business” hit shelves April 2009 as a paperback original. The first of it's kind, this book is an upcycling vehicle. For each returnable book cover sent in, Bear Naked Granola plants a tree in conjunction with The Arbor Day Foundation.
Szaky dropped out of Princeton in 2002 to lead a startup that makes useful stuff out of garbage. Now TerraCycle is a leader of the eco-capitalist movement, with products like worm poop fertilizer and tote bags made from used juice pouches....
Trust Pony
Earth Day Giveaway! Upcycled Drink Pouch Tote by Terracycle (April 20, 2009)
Schools and non-profits get two cents for each juice pouch they turn over to Terracycle, which scours, sorts, then double-stitches them into bags. Last year alone, 42 million pouches were saved from the landfill and made into funky, durable bags like these—great for overnights, camping supplies, beach necessities and more.
Incidentally, the story of the young “eco-capitalists” behind Terracycle is fascinating enough to warrant its own TV show, Garbage Moguls, which debuts on Earth Day (Wednesday) evening on the National Geographic Channel. The company was founded by a Princeton student so taken by a friend’s worm box that he quit school to make all-natural, all-organic worm-poop plant food packaged in a bag made from reused soda bottles. Products created from and packaged...
Green Daily
Terracycle Green Pet Products - GreenDaily Giveaway Reminder! (April 20, 2009)
Do you have a pet? A love of natural cleaning products? If so, you'll be crazy about the new TerraCycle line of pet cleaning products.
TerraCycle partnered with PETCO to create a new line of natural and nontoxic pet products. They're even packaged in repurposed plastic bottles -- the first line of pet products ever.
We're giving away a "basket" of these products to one lucky winner, including:
* Yard Odor Remover
* Stain & Odor Remover
* Trash Can Protector Spray
* Skunk Odor Remover -- the pet equivalent of a fire extinguisher – hopefully you never have to use it!
* Bird Feeder
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Mixergy
Upcoming Live Interview: How To Be An Eco-Capitalist, With Tom Szaky, Founder of TerraCycle (April 20, 2009)
I need you to join me in this live interview so we can learn how to build businesses that change the world. I’m not talking about sitting around and singing kumbaya, while being upset that peole don’t recycle enough. This is about how to build a real business THAT MAKES FINANCIAL SENSE, while having an impact THAT YOU CAN BE PROUD OF.
Join me in this live interview and ask your questions....
The Trentonian
Daft recyclers shoot pilot to air on ‘National Geographic’ (April 20, 2009)
TRENTON — TerraCycle, the city’s little eco-friendly start-up that’s not so little anymore, is well on its way toward its goal of redefining the concept of waste in this country, and it’s now embarking on a new mission — to dominate the media.
Earlier this month, the company’s founder and CEO, Tom Szaky, released a book called “Revolution in a Bottle.” It details his company’s aim to save the world while turning a profit.
On Wednesday, Earth Day, the National Geographic Channel will air an hour-long documentary that could serve as a pilot episode for a new TerraCycle reality show....
Bliss Tree
Win a Capri Sun Green Package (April 20, 2009)
Pledge to be green and win! Capri Sun has teamed up with TerraCycle, a company who has pioneered the concept that any material can be reused and made into something of value, to create the drink Pouch Brigades. The free collection program allows kids, parents and teachers to work together to eliminate waste by collecting used Capri Sun and other drink pouches to raise extra funds for their local schools, churches and community groups.
* Each year, billions of drink pouches are sent to dumpsters and landfills across the U.S
* There are currently over 14,500 participating Drink Pouch Brigade locations in the U.S.
* For every juice pouch collected and sent to TerraCycle, Capri Sun donates 2 cents back to the community
* The used drink pouches are then repurposed...
Replayground
Garbage Moguls! Premiering this Earth Day! (April 20, 2009)
Celebrate Earth Day with me and all of my TerraCycle friends!
Garbage Moguls is a new show on the National Geographic channel that follows TerraCycle through all of the crazy chaos that happens with our product development. This first episode has us creating kites out of cookie wrappers and messenger bags out of old billboards. How do we do it? Well, that's what your TV is for.
Catch us this Wednesday, 9pm, on the National Geographic network.
And check out the Garbage website, too - there are even some DIY projects I helped with - turning cookie wrappers into a wallet and beaded jewelry....
Fox News
Stocking the Drawers With Sustainable Supplies (April 20, 2009)
About every few months, my cache of writing and class supplies—pens, notepads, folders, printer paper—begins to run low, which means it’s time to visit the nearby big-box office supply store.
In months and years past, as I’ve run through thousands of pages of notebook paper and innumerable pens, I’ve developed a few personal favorites—the Pilot G2 gel pen, Office Max brand legal pads, the 6”x9” Steno Pads for reporting. But as I approached the office supplies aisle in the nearby Office Max earlier this morning, I noticed an entire section of “green,” recycled, curiously eccentric pens and notebooks and even staplers.
So, in the spirit of month of green living, I did a little investigating for my college-aged readers and myself on the new wave of eco-friendly...
Shallow Nation
National Geographic: Garbage Moguls Video, Photos (Earth Day 4-22-09) (April 20, 2009)
Watch National Geographic Garbage Moguls video and photos here. The documentary, presented on Earth Day, April 22, 2009 at 9 p.m. ET/PT chronicles the efforts of a New Jersey company, TerraCycle, helmed by a 27-year-old CEO, Tom Szaky, with a staff of more than 50, who literally turn trash into cash.
Tom Szaky established the company in his dorm room while he was a freshman at Princeton. It was actually the second company the Hungarian born and Canadian-raised Szarky had established; at 14 he had a web design business. It has since become a multimillion dollar company that employs more than 50 people and whose clients include Wal-Mart, OfficeMax, Home Depot and Target. ...
Pajama Mommy Community
Capri Sun Drink Pouch Brigade and Giveaway (April 20, 2009)
Did you know that almost any material can be reused and made into something of value? Capri Sun has teamed up with TerraCycle to create the Drink Pouch Brigade. The Drink Pouch Brigade is a free collection program, which allows kids, parents, and teachers to work together to eliminate waste by collecting Capri Sun pouches to raise funds for their schools and churches. It is hard to believe that each year, billions of drink pouches are sent to landfills to just sit. Capri Sun wants to raise awareness about recycling and reusing. For each juice pouch collected and sent to TerraCycle, Capri Sun will donate 2 cents back to the community. The collection of the drink pouches are being sent to TerraCycle, who takes the pouches and reuses them to make cool and fashionable accessories such as pencil...
Russet House
Green Tip of the Day (April 20, 2009)
Energy bars are convenient, sure, but what about the 800 million wrappers discarded each year? Now they and other selected junk can be sent to, TerraCycle, a company that's making big business out of household garbage.
* Collect your wrappers, juice pouches, and plastic yogurt containers, send them to TerraCycle and see them reincarnated as purses, backpacks, and planter pots on the shelves of Target and Home Depot. ...
Reduce Footprints
Earth Day ... (April 20, 2009)
Another activity taking place this Earth Day is a television program on the National Geographic Channel about a fabulous, new company called TerraCycle. This is a company that produces products entirely made of waste. Since its inception, it has saved over 70 million drink pouches, 10.5 million cookie wrappers, and 3.1 million plastic bottles from ending up in a landfill.
I first learned about TerraCycle awhile back and was truly impressed. Not only have they created an entire business model based on ... well ... garbage, they have also taken their "green" message to schools, teaching children that walking gently on the earth is a good thing. They are an example of creativity and enthusiasm ... and they give me hope for the future. Here is a brief video that will give you a little...
Dave Walker
The TV week ahead, April 19-25: New animated comedy, 'Garbage Moguls,' 'Trouble the Water' (April 20, 2009)
"Sit Down, Shut up," series premier, 8:30 p.m. Sunday (April 19). A new sort-of-animated series set in a high school from "Arrested Devlopment" creator Mitchell Hurwitz, who's employed several of his "AD" players (Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Henry Winkler) as voice talent.
"Garbage Moguls," 8 p.m. Wednesday (April 22), National Geographic Channel. To honor Earth Day, NGC looks at a company of "eco-capitalists" who are looking to make treasure out of trash. ...
Denver Post
Recycling: It's not just for paper and bottles (April 20, 2009)
Food packaging including cookie wrappers, drink pouches, potato chip bags, yogurt containers, wine bottle corks and cereal boxes are repurposed by TerraCycle (terracycle.net).
Hard drives from old computers are recycled for a small fee by Back Thru the Future, which also accepts CDs and DVDs for free, and arranges large- scale business recycling. E-mail recycle@backthru thefuture.com. for details. CDs are also accepted by CD Recycling Central (cdrecyclingcentral.com). ...
The EcoChic
TerraCycle on TV (April 17, 2009)
If you’ve been a regular here at The Eco Chic you know that I’m very fond of a company in New Jersey that is the king of upcycling. TerraCycle takes our garbage and turns it into products that we can all use. From reusing plastic bottles to package their worm poop fertilizer to reusing wine barrells by turning them into rain barrels TerraCycle really knows how to get creative with trash.
I was speaking with George over at TerraCycle this week and he sent me a link to their new show, Garbage Moguls, that aires on the National Geographic Channel the evening of Earth Day. Check out this funny clip to see what it’s all about. I have my DVR set to record it since I’ll be out of town.
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Sun Sentinel
Earth Day Has Fashion World Going Green (April 17, 2009)
Fashion is looking for any kind of boost it can get these days.
The latest is Earth Day on April 22. Green - as it turns out - is the new black.
For example, designer and best-selling author Justina Blackeney of Compai (a company renowned for rehabilitating “used and abused” clothing) created a dress made entirely out of Capri Sun pouches (PICTURED ABOVE).
The Capri people staged a "Ready-to-wear Re-wear" fashion show last month with five local school participating. The show used children's clothing from Bloomingdales and accessories from TerraCycle, a company that takes the used juice pouches and turns them into tote bags, backpacks and pencil cases.
The dress was auctioned on EbayGivingWorks.com to benefit the National Chapter of the Boys &...
Abilene Reporter News
SIP: Wineries uncork recycling effort (April 17, 2009)
NAPA, Calif. -- Something fresh is popping up in wine country, a save-the-cork effort that puts a new twist on recycling.
"All of a sudden we found that we had a product that had another life in it," says Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program that has signed up nearly 200 wineries, restaurants and retailers on the West Coast.
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be ground up and turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings....
PTO Today
Cash for Pouches (April 16, 2009)
Move over, labels and box tops. A new collection program has popped up in grocery stores. Capri Sun is offering 2 cents apiece for empty drink pouches. While the rate is lower than some other programs( General Mills offers 10cents per box top), families who buy juice drinks in pouches go through a lot of them. The program is run through TerraCycle, which makes new products from recycled waste. The drink pouches are turned into backpacks, pencil cases, lunch boxes, folders, and more. TerraCycle also pays for Kool-Aid and Honest Kids drink pouches. For details, go to www.terracycle.net ...
Vladowsky
Cookie Wrapper Kite (April 16, 2009)
The Garbage Moguls have been given a challenge with a new material, so it’s time to gather round and brainstorm. Garbage Moguls: WED APRIL 22 9P channel.nationalgeographic.com...
Well Fed
Eco-Capitalism at Work (April 16, 2009)
I was in OfficeMax the other day and saw a whole display of TerraCycle products. I grabbed the pencils and went on my way. Checking out the website, I sat and watched the video on their story page. Three years of perseverance, worm poop and reused soda bottles… and voila! The first-ever Eco-Capitalist company.
TerraCycle might have began with plant food, but their product base has expanded way more than that. ...
Triple Pundit
Can the Recycling System Be Upgraded? (April 16, 2009)
Are things like Tetrapaks and Dannon/Stonyfield yogurt recyclable today? Yes and no. Here’s why: There are a few recycling centers that accept Tetrapaks and yogurt cups, but they are the exception. Most recycling centers do not except these materials, and those that do are so few and far between that only a small percentage of the American population can participate.
This creates a few problems: First, companies like Tetrapak and Dannon cannot state on their package that their product is recyclable since there is only service in a few communities. Second, a company like Tetrapak, that has invested millions to build Tetrapak recycling centers, cannot get any credit for their investment and continue to get bad PR for producing a non-recyclable product....
Mother Nature Network
Wine corks, recycled (April 15, 2009)
No, I didn’t count them — but these collected wine corks were really starting to take up too much space in my apartment. I was collecting them in individual wine glasses — and running out of wine glasses –
So today they’ll be mailed off to the Terracycle Cork Brigade, to become mats and other upcycled products that’ll hopefully not be too fugly.
There are, of course, other ways to upcycle corks — one of the easiest ways being to throw them in the compost, if your corks are indeed made of real cork and you have a home composter. My sister’s way’s illustrated below. We are, as you may’ve guessed, very different people.
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Green LA Girl
Upcycling my wine corks (April 15, 2009)
No, I didn’t count them — but these collected wine corks were really starting to take up too much space in my apartment. I was collecting them in individual wine glasses — and running out of wine glasses –
So today they’ll be mailed off to the Terracycle Cork Brigade, to become mats and other upcycled products that’ll hopefully not be too fugly.
There are, of course, other ways to upcycle corks — covered in my Recycling for winos post. My sister’s way’s illustrated below. We are, as you may’ve guessed, very different people.
What do you do with your own corks?...
The Greenest Dollar
Earn Money With Your Garbage Through Terracycle (April 15, 2009)
Think you can’t earn money by recycling garbage? Think again.
I have to admit, this is really exciting to me. After all, it’s not often we can earn money by recycling our garbage. And I’m not talking electronics here: I’m talking Oreo wrappers, yogurt containers, Capri Sun drink pouches, Kashi boxes, energy bar wrappers…you know. Garbage.
Right now, Terracycle is looking for people to sign up for their recycling program. The company makes things like bags, homework folders, lunch boxes, plant food, and fire starters out of recycled materials. And, they need people’s garbage to keep making their awesome products....
Inc.
The Coolest Little Start up in America (April 15, 2009)
Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton to lead a startup that makes useful stuff out of garbage. Now TerraCycle is a leader of the eco-capitalist movement, with products like worm poop fertilizer and tote bags made from juice pouches.
Revolution in a Bottle is a rollicking tale of entrepreneurial adventure and an essential guide to creating a company that's good for people, good for profits, and good for the planet.
"Hugely entertaining."
- Library Journal...
Nature's Garden
Better (April 15, 2009)
TerraCycle saves barrels originally used for fermenting red wine at California vineyards and rolls them into a second life holding rainwater in the garden. The 55- gallon barrel is made of African Oak, an extremely hard and durable wood. It's heavy, too, so you'll likely want to keep it where you place it. Adapted with spigot and hose attachment....
Daily Greenz
Green Reading: Revolution In a Bottle (April 15, 2009)
The last time we wrote about TerraCycle it was about their announcement that they would be setting up recycling bins for traditionally non-recyclable items at a variety of major chain stores around the country, including Home Depot and OfficeMax. Today’s post isn’t so much about the little green company that could, but about its founder, Tom Szaky, and his new book, Revolution In a Bottle (printed on 100% recycled materials).
The book is a must-read if you run (or are hoping to one day run) your own green business, but Szaky’s observations on the blending of the business world and the environmental world are interesting enough to keep even those with no green business involvement reading. Hungarian-born Szaky’s quick rise to become one of the top young entrepreneurs is pretty...
Quad City's Online
Habitat ReStore celebrates Earth Day 2009 (April 15, 2009)
New this year the ReStore has joined the "cookie wrapper" brigade. Bring your clean cookie wrappers to the ReStore. The ReStore will redeem them for $0.02 each - keeping them out of the landfill AND providing materials for eco-friendly products which can be viewed at terracycle.net
Attend this year's Earth Week Fair at the QCCA Expo Center on Saturday, April 18th 10 am - 4 pm. Visit the ReStore booth and make a junk sculpture. Event is FREE and open to the public....
Robin's Gardens
TerraCycle Bird Feeder Headed to the stores! (April 15, 2009)
If You Are Looking For Quality Information Related To Bird Gardens, Add This Site To Your Favorites Right Now, As We Update It Daily With The Latest News And Information Related To Bird Gardens And Similar Topics. Enjoy The Site....
Triple Pundit
Terracycle CEO to You: Please Tear the Cover Off My Book (April 15, 2009)
It's not often that the author of a book tells you he wants more people tearing off the cover, but that's just what Tom Szaky, CEO of Terracycle and author of Revolution In A Bottle, wants. This surprisingly has not been well covered in reviews says Szaky. It's a bit hard to miss, with orange ink inside drawing your attention to what turns out to be a would be envelope when turned inside out to send back Bear Naked Granola packaging, to be made into kites and umbrellas.
It's a perfect example of Terracycle's driving motivation - making the making of more planet friendly choices simple and easy to do, at an identical or cheaper price then the toxic conventional options.
The origin stories of startups are frequently interesting, but it's safe to say that few business ideas...
Green Daily
Terracycle Green Pet Products - GreenDaily Giveaway! (April 14, 2009)
We all try to keep our environmental footprint light, and ideally our pets would benefit from that, too. But sometimes accidents happen, and that's when you need the products -- and occasionally a hazmat suit -- to clean them up.
Terracycle, the company that practically invented zero footprint, has partnered up with PETCO to create a new line of natural and nontoxic pet products. Even better, this is the world's first line of pet products packaged in repurposed plastic bottles.
Now you can have a fresh and clean home, a healthy and happy pet, and be environmentally responsible! ...
Follow Green
Terracycle Green Pet Products - GreenDaily Giveaway! (April 14, 2009)
We all try to keep our environmental footprint light, and ideally our pets would benefit from that, too. But sometimes accidents happen, and that’s when you need the products — and occasionally a hazmat suit — to clean them up. Terracycle, the company that practically invented zero footprint, has partnered up with PETCO to create a new line of natural and nontoxic pet products. Even better, this is the world’s first line of pet products packaged in repurposed plastic bottles.Now you can have a fresh and clean home, a healthy and happy pet, and be environmentally responsible! To help green one lucky “pet parent”, we’re giving away a “basket” of the Terracycle pet line, including:
Yard Odor Remover
Stain & Odor Remover
Trash Can Protector Spray
Skunk Odor Remover...
Sustainable Is Good
Revolution in a Bottle How TerraCycle is Redefining Green Business (April 14, 2009)
TerraCycle's CEO Tom Szaky is a person who garners lots of interest from those in green business because he's taken a company and grown it beyond people's expectations and through a number of significant challenges. Today, TerraCycle is doing very well and continues to diversify its product offerings beyond the plant food and fertilizers that put it on the map.
Szaky's new book Revolution in a Bottle, is of particular interest to anyone looking to go into business for themselves. He candidly recounts the last few years of challenges and triumphs and how he handled them. ...
Publishers Weekly
Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle is Redefining Green Business (April 14, 2009)
Szaky tells the rags-to-riches story of how his business TerraCycle, which the college dropout founded in 2002, used an environmentally-conscious business plan to develop and market what is now the “best-known organic fertilizer product in the country.” Captivated with the idea of letting earthworms consume ordinary household garbage, Szaky left Princeton after his freshman year, launching his business by purchasing a $40,000 worm-compost machine, then negotiating a supply of waste from the student dining hall. Along with a partner and some student volunteers, he spent back-breaking hours feeding maggoty garbage into the machine and looking for ways to cash in on his vision. The company's progress involved courting potential investors (emphasis on “potential”), drumming up press coverage...
Planet Trash
Revolution in a Bottle (April 14, 2009)
I’m reading a great book which was provided to me from Penguin Books. It is the story of Tom Szaky who dropped out of Princeton to start TerraCycle. His green business takes food wastes and red wiggler worms and makes natural fertilizer. It sounds easy, but it is not. I have only read through Chapter 5, and I am blown away by the amount of venture capital that the undertaking is requiring to be successful.
While he is receiving his food wastes for nothing, or folks pay him to take it away, an enormous amount of money is still needed to keep the business afloat.
The aim of the book is to show how we can use our wastes efficiently. My self-employed mind right now is stuck on the fact that to make money we need money....
Earth is not a Trash Can
Speaking of Garbage Moguls (April 14, 2009)
I received a notice today that the National Geographic channel (one of our favorite’s) is having a series on Tom Szaky and his TerraCycle product beginning Earth Day, April 22. More information at http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/garbage-moguls-4314/Overview. I like that term, Garbage Mogul. I’ve always called myself the Trash Tsarina.
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Planet Trash
Revolution in a Bottle, Part 2 (April 14, 2009)
I finished reading this book about TerraCycle. I’ll never look at something I throw away the same way again. I will be wondering how I can reuse it. I highly recommend the book to anyone who is interested in reducing the amount of garbage they produce.
And as soon as I finish off my MiracleGro plant food, I’ll be purchasing some worm poop from TerraCycle.
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My Green Projects and Education
Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Redefines Green Business (April 13, 2009)
The book Revolution in a Bottle, hit the streets this week. It follows the story of TerraCycle from our beginnings in my dorm room, shoveling maggot filled organic waste, to creating products we sold to Wal-MartScryve Corporate Social Responsibility Rating and other major big box retailers, getting sued by Scotts and creating “sponsored waste” programs to upcycle branded waste. It also offers insights on how we approach media and pursue new opportunities. Read on to catch an excerpt from the book.
TerraCycle’s story is one of getting people interested and involved. One of the lessons I have learned over the years, is people have to care about your business to support your efforts. This has helped differentiate TerraCycle from many other companies over the years. After all,...
Everyday Trash
Eco-capitalism (April 13, 2009)
“We take waste, we add design and produce mass merchandise,”says TerraCycle founder and CEO Tom Szaky in the opening of his new show, Garbage Moguls. “I don’t see garbage, I see cash.”
He’s a soundbitey guy, that Szaky, which is probably an element of TerraCycle’s success. The man knows how to bottle charm.
After watching a sneak peak of the first episode—airs at 9pm ET/PT on Wednesday, April 22 a.k.a. Earth Day—I can honestly say it’s a show I would watch [If I got the National Geographic Channel. Which I did, until this week when my sister and I decided we couldn't afford cable anymore]. It’s like Ace of Cakes, if you’ve ever seen that gem about a punk rock baker runing a fancy cakemaking service with his friends. Only better, because this reality...
National Geographic Channel
Garbage Moguls (April 10, 2009)
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Recycling gets a makeover with a quirky group of young "eco-capitalists" at TerraCycle, Inc. Using only materials found in the trash, the team will transform cereal boxes into notebooks, newspaper into pencils and cookie wrappers into kites....
AOL Lifestyle
SIP: Wineries Uncork Recycling Effort (April 10, 2009)
Something fresh is popping up in wine country, a save-the-cork effort that puts a new twist on recycling.
"All of a sudden we found that we had a product that had another life in it," says Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program that has signed up nearly 200 wineries, restaurants and retailers on the West Coast.
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be ground up and turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings....
Women's Lifestyle
From Drink Pouch to Backpack (April 10, 2009)
One Company has found a way to turn wrappers into practical but fun accessories: think Kool-Aid purses, Oreo backpacks and Honest Kids pencil bags, all made from recycled- or in this case, upcycled - wrappers from popular products found inside a kid's lunch bag....
Fashion Windows
A Dress Made of Capri Sun Pouches (April 9, 2009)
DALLAS, Apr 8, 2009 / FW/ — We’ve seen a dress made of zippers; there is also a dress made of cranberries; how about a dress made of Capri Sun pouches, as in Capri Sun, your favorite drink.
Commissioned by Capri Sun and TerraCycle, green designer Justina Blakeney of Compai created a one-of-a kind dress designed entirely from CAPRI SUN drink pouches. The unique dress was unveiled during the CAPRI SUN Ready to Re-Wear Runway Show at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade in Florida.
With Anna Sophia Robb, star of Disney feature film ‘Race to Witch Mountain’ hosting the show, CAPRI SUN Ready to Re-Wear Runway Show featured clothing from Bloomingdale’s and accessories crafted by TerraCycle from used CAPRI SUN drink pouches –- pouches that used to go to landfills...
Natural Home
Fresh Finds: Reduce, Reuse, Refresh (April 9, 2009)
TerraCycle transforms old vinyl records into hip home décor. Made from records collected from local radio stations, these clocks help keep e-waste from the landfill. Vinyl record clock: $13. (609) 393-4252. Register to win this TerraCycle vinyl record clock!
These red-hot, recycled dishes from La Mediterranea are made of 100 percent recycled glass from Spain. Available in 19 colors, the Aster collection matches any kitchen. 3.5-inch red bowl: $12; 8-inch red salad plate: $22; 10-inch red dinner plate: $30. Register to win these La Mediterranea dishes!
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Sky Hi Daily News
Landfill waste foiled by new Fraser Valley Elementary ‘upcycling’ project (April 8, 2009)
Once Nicole Robinson heard about it on TV, she said she couldn’t simply stand by and do nothing with her new knowledge.
“It was just one of those things,” she said. “It’s my way to do my part — anytime that you can do a task that’s easy to implement and multiple goods come out of it,” how can you turn that down? she asked.
Robinson was inspired by a Today Show program about an eco-friendly innovator. Now Fraser Valley Elementary is one of almost 14,500 schools that have kick-started a new “upcycling” program....
Low Budget Green
If it can’t be recycled it can be TERRACYCLED. (April 8, 2009)
TerraCycle embodies Low Budget Green. They pioneered the concept of making a product from garbage to make it cost less and stop trash from ending up in a landfill. So simple, So genius. Their original product was pure waste, leftover cafeteria food, which was fed to worms producing high quality fertilizer, but having spent all their start up capitol making the product they had no money to package it. To solve this dilemma they collected used soda bottles and trigger spray tops and had a product made entirely of waste. The quality of this product made it valuable, what it’s made from made it cheap, the perfect Low Budget Green solution.
Being a fan of urban gardening this is a great product but not entirely useful in daily life. TerraCycle took the idea of their fertilizer packaging...
LA Pretty
Filthy and gorgeous for Earth Day (April 8, 2009)
After TerraCycle helped us get Eco-Pretty we have been all about being green, especially since Earth Day is right around the corner on April 22. So we're excited about their new TV show, Garbage Moguls airing on the National Geographic channel that will take everyday trash and turn it into something spectacular.
The show follows the ups and downs of the TerraCycle team on the edge of billion-dollar success - and bankruptcy - all while trying to make the earth a better place. Garbage Moguls tracks the theam's work on two prototypes: a messenger bag for OfficeMax - made from old billboard materials and seat belts - and a kite made entirely of Oreo wrappers for Wal-Mart. Viewers witness the zany brainstorming ideas (a Slip 'N Slide made of wrappers?), the uphill battles and the real-life...
Tom's Guide
Office: Circuit Board Photo Frame and Desk Clock (April 7, 2009)
What green home would be complete without a bit of stylish décor? The newest offerings from TerraCycle include a few nifty pieces for the home office and they’re all made from the circuit boards of computers and gadgets.
We reviewed the Circuit Board Clock ($12.99, see page 1 of this article for photo) and the Photo Frame for 4 x 4 prints (also $12.99) and were impressed with the durability and geek styling of both pieces. With electronics waste making up over 2.5 million tons of annual landfill burden, it’s good to know that a little less will make it there. As an added bonus, it also can dress up a desk for less than $15. ...
Greenopolis
Is recycling worth it? (April 7, 2009)
The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of is one the fundamental backbones of eco-capitalism. (Tom Szaky, TerraCycle)
In the recycling model plastic has a positive value because it can be sold as a commodity and future traded, probably, even. But in order to do that one has to destroy the shape and reduce the plastic to a form that is useful for something new. The shape has, in a sense, negative value. All the recycling of that kind takes time and energy, which is the reason why people argue back and forth whether it is really an environmental plus to recycle plastic bottles (and other plastic containers). Not only is energy expended in transforming a soda bottle into a usable material, there is also the cost of the trucks and the diesel fuel they...
Care
Indoor Air Quailty (April 7, 2009)
by George Chevalier
Anybody with allergies, chronic sinus problems, or other health issues will testify that the smallest change in their environment can escalate these ailments. Indoor air quality is of particular concern in these cases, and simply necessary to remain healthy. It is vital to consider any products used in the home or office that may have an effect on air quality. Particulates from spray deodorant, hair spray, cleaning products, adhesives, etc. can accumulate, making indoor spaces unbearable for allergy sufferers. Even choosing carpet over hard flooring can negatively affect indoor air quality, as the fibers hold particulates and the underlying padding breaks down into nasty dust....
Scientific American
Pouch of pouches (April 7, 2009)
Paper, plastic or drink pouch? TerraCycle turns junk into gems by recruiting communtiy brigades to collect nonrecyclable matericals such as wine corks, yogurt cups, cookie package wrappers and in this case, drink pouches. These totes($9.99) arise from more than 7,200 groups that collect some of the fine billion non=recyclable drink pouches thrown away every year. TerraCycle donates two cents per pouch to charity then the company sews the trash into bags, back packs and pencil cases. tote available only at www.Target.com...
Alt Tech Foundation
TerraCycle collects non-recyclables at big-box stores (April 7, 2009)
TerraCycle and its ever-expanding list of eco-innovations have once again caught our eye. Not satisfied with simply making eco-fertilizer from organic waste and worm poop or turning old wrappers into eco-chic bags and accessories, the US-based company has now introduced a non-recyclable packaging collection system in several American big-box chain stores.
The collection project first began in 2007, letting the public (most often civic groups or schools) set up collection points for packaging and other waste. TerraCycle donates USD 0.02–0.06 to the charity of the collector’s choice for each unit that enters the system. The benefit for TerraCycle: a warm, fuzzy planet-saving glow, and a source of raw material for the upcycled products it sells, including pencil cases, lunch boxes...
Mercury News
SIP: Wineries uncork recycling effort (April 7, 2009)
NAPA, Calif.—Something fresh is popping up in wine country, a save-the-cork effort that puts a new twist on recycling.
"All of a sudden we found that we had a product that had another life in it," says Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program that has signed up nearly 200 wineries, restaurants and retailers on the West Coast.
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be ground up and turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings.
But it takes a lot of corks to create much of anything useful. About 300,000 corks make up a ton. Collecting and gathering all those corks can be costly and time consuming.
Getting around that was the impetus for ReCORK, which is sponsored...
Consumer Goods Technology
Kraft, TerraCycle Make Green Fashion Statement (April 7, 2009)
CAPRI SUN, a Kraft Foods brand and TerraCycle, the eco-company with the concept that any disposable material can be reused and created into something of value, have teamed up with green designer Justina Blakeney of Compai to create a one-of-a kind dress designed entirely from CAPRI SUN drink pouches. And, it's now being auctioned online for charity at www.ebaygivingworks.com. All proceeds from the auction, which will run through April 4, will benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
"As the largest producer of juice drink pouch products, CAPRI SUN is thrilled to support TerraCycle's efforts to repurpose our pouches, and help them give back to the community, as well," says Nora Kalter, brand manager, CAPRI SUN. "The Drink Pouch Brigade encourages both kids and their parents to protect...
Chicago Tribune
Movement grows to recycle wine-bottle corks (April 7, 2009)
Think about what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings.
But it takes a lot of corks to create much of anything useful. About 300,000 corks make up a ton. Collecting and gathering can be costly and time consuming. Getting around that was the impetus for ReCORK, which is sponsored by Amorim, a Portuguese cork manufacturer.
The group, which collects natural corks only, asks wineries, restaurants and retailers to serve as collection centers. ...
Sun Sentinel
Movement grows to recycle wine-bottle corks (April 7, 2009)
Think about what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings.
But it takes a lot of corks to create much of anything useful. About 300,000 corks make up a ton. Collecting and gathering can be costly and time consuming. Getting around that was the impetus for ReCORK, which is sponsored by Amorim, a Portuguese cork manufacturer.
The group, which collects natural corks only, asks wineries, restaurants and retailers to serve as collection centers.
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Quadsville
Take cookie wrappers to Habitat ReStore (April 7, 2009)
If you're a good recycler – faithfully dropping your plastics, tin, glass and paper into bins – you may occasionally wince at the stuff that still doesn't make it.
Stuff like cookie and drink box wrappers, chip bags, bottle corks or yogurt cups.
Now there's a company, TerraCycle, that will collect those, too.
I learned about this by reading the newsletter for Habitat ReStore, the nonprofit Davenport busi-ness that sells new and gently used building materials at a discount.
ReStore is encouraging its customers to drop off Nabisco brand cookie wrappers, such as those for Oreos, at its store at 3629 Mississippi Ave....
San Francisco Examiner
Recycling the cork from your wine is made easier (April 6, 2009)
Helping save wine bottle corks from ending up in a landfill is as easy as dining out or visiting a grocery store.
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be ground up and turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings.
David Lawrence, left, of Luna Vineyards, and Maren Goebert of WTN Services dump wine corks into a bin that will be sent to Portugal for recycling at a collection facility in Napa, Calif. Something fresh is popping up in wine country, a save-the-cork program that puts a new twist on recycling. AP
“All of a sudden we found that we had a product that had another life in it,” says Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program that has signed up nearly 200 wineries,...
ABC 7
From kiddie drink to fashion statement: A juice pouch dress (April 6, 2009)
Who knew that kiddie friendly Capri Sun pouches could become so chic? TerraCycle, a green company that promises that anything you throw away can be transformed into something useful, recently paired with Capri Sun to create a one-of-a-kind dress made from empty juice pouches.
The dress was modeled by teen starlet AnnaSophia Robb (she’s in the new Disney movie Race to Witch Mountain) at a charity runway show that featured lots of recycled accessories by TerraCycle. The pouch dress carries a bit of cachet, as it was designed by popular green designer Justina Blakeney of Compai....
City Renewed
TerraCycle: A new way to think about trash (April 6, 2009)
So, traditionally when we think about reusing trash we think about recycling; a process that can be loosely described as taking trash in the form of a bottle, paper, bag, etc. and creating a new bottle, paper, or bag down the road. Well, a young entrepreneur/Princeton drop-out has become very successful by getting even more creative and more eco-friendly with his re-use of trash.
Tom Szaky and his co-founder Jon Beyer started their creative trash concept, now called TerraCycle, with worm poop…that’s right worm poop. As the story goes, some of their friends were finding incredible gardening success using worms to breakdown organic food waste and create nutrient rich soil. Tom and Jon saw this as a great opportunity: take worms and trash and create a plant fertilizer…so they...
Star Ledger
TerraCycle looks to transform U.S. habits by creating useful products (April 6, 2009)
About the only things not reused in Tom Szaky's quirky but growing eco-friendly company are the building's cinder block walls.
On first appearance, Szaky's 6-year-old startup, TerraCycle, looks like a derelict auto body shop. Located on a desolate industrial stretch near downtown Trenton, its black and green exterior is covered with spray-paint murals. ...
BusinessWeek
Job Anxiety: Workers Are Really Working Up a Sweat (April 6, 2009)
For some leaders, the paranoia is a kind of blessing. "The world's best innovation comes from the greatest desperation," says Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, a Trenton (N.J.) company that makes organic fertilizer and other planet-friendly products. Times are tough for TerraCycle, as they are for a lot of companies that supply hard-pressed retailers. "We have no money to hire anyone," says Szaky. He put the challenge out to his charges: Do more with less. Amp up sales without spending any money.
So the TerraCyclers decided to become their own marketing machines, hitting the road and visiting stores in person. Normally, when TerraCycle staffers visit far-flung Wal-Marts (WMT) and Home Depots (HD) to check on displays and chat up customers, they take a plane, stay in a hotel, and expense...
The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet
Talk About Juicy Couture (April 6, 2009)
CAPRI SUN AUCTION DRESS
•Capri Sun is holding an eco-fashion charity auction that features a designer dress made out of reused drink pouches, where all proceeds will benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of America
•Over 130 Capri Sun pouches have been used to create this exclusive and one-of-a-kind dress by LA-based eco-designer, Justina Blackeney of Compai, a company renowned for rehabilitating “used and abused” clothing
•From the pouches, buttons to the zipper, the dress is entirely made out of reusable materials
•Dress fits sizes 4-6
•This dress, along with accessories such as backpacks, pencil cases, folders and tote bags, is made possible by DRINK POUCH BRIGADES
•Auction ends on Saturday, April 4th; bids can be placed on ebaygivingworks.com
•Model name: Gracie Blackburn...
Daily Entrepreneur Tips
Keep it Simple - Like Poop (April 6, 2009)
Today’s tip comes from Tom Szaky. Tom dropped out of Princeton to sell worm poop to retailers including The Home Depot. TerraCycle now works with companies on corporate social responsibility efforts. Szaky’s new book
Keep it simple no matter how complex your business.
I only have a few rules for running TerraCycle, based on my knowledge that consumers want a good quality product but will not pay a green premium, even in good economic times. These simple rules drive everything we do in a typical business day, from developing new products, to building partnerships with manufacturers and retailers. “Revolution in a Bottle” describes our entertaining journey....
Life Of Stubby
More Ways to Recycle From Terracycle (April 6, 2009)
Last month, Terracycle rolled out collection bins in stores to make it easier for people to recycle. The bins are in places you shop all the time like Petco, OfficeMax, Best Buy, and Home Depot, but for now they are just in the New York and New Jersey area. This three month pilot program is just the beginning of a nationwide plan to have bins in 10,000 retail locations nationwide by this time next year.
Each store will have bins specific to their items. This just makes sense since you would not be recycling something at Petco that you bought at Home Depot. Terracycle also only wants specific items that they can use now or that they are developing a need for.
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TreeHugger
Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Redefines Green Business (April 2, 2009)
My book, Revolution in a Bottle, hit the streets this week. It follows the story of TerraCycle from our beginnings in my dorm room, shoveling maggot filled organic waste, to creating products we sold to Wal-Mart and other major big box retailers, getting sued by Scotts and creating “sponsored waste” programs to upcycle branded waste. It also offers insights on how we approach media and pursue new opportunities. Read on to catch an excerpt from the book.
In many ways, what follows are lessons I learned on the job as an untrained and highly instinctual entrepreneur. TerraCycle taught me extreme forms of bootstrapping, and many of the innovations for which we are known were responses to failures of initial attempts in packaging, marketing, product development and even investor...
Earth Times
This earth day, recycling gets a makeover! (April 2, 2009)
Step 1. Team of “Eco-Capitalists” Scour Landfills
Step 2. Design Hip Products From Garbage
Step 3. Sell to Major Retailers
Step 4. Make “Boatload” of $$$
Garbage Moguls Premieres on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at 9 PM ET/PT
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) Kites from Oreo® cookie wrappers. Spiral notebooks from old cereal boxes. Pencils from rolled newspaper. Coming to a superstore near you are ingenious products made entirely of garbage. Now, a new National Geographic Channel (NGC) special, premiering on Earth Day, takes a look at the quirky young “eco-capitalists” at the pioneering company TerraCycle, Inc., who are making this revolutionary concept happen: rummaging through dumpsters and landfills for materials, brainstorming innovative products … and hoping...
Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
An Interview With Tom Szaky Of TerraCycle (April 2, 2009)
I had the good fortune of interviewing Tom Szaky, a TPE extraordinaire and founder of TerraCycle. His company is making a variety of products, all out of garbage. They aren’t recycling a little here and a little there. Tom’s company is in fact producing all their products from 100% waste materials. His is an amazing guy, with an amazing story. Here are parts from my interview:
Mike Michalowicz: Tom, I understand you started your business, TerraCycle, back in 2001 and it has received an amazing amount of accolades for its innovative approach. Tell me exactly what you do.
Tom Szaky: TerraCycle makes organic lawn & garden fertilizers, hand painted e-waste flower pots, office and school supplies, eco-friendly cleaning supplies, pet products, home décor items, billboard...
The Thrid Sector
17th Annual Small Business Week Celebration (April 2, 2009)
Tom Szaky is co-founder and CEO of TerraCycle, Inc., producer of the world's first products made from, and packaged in, waste. Although he is only 26, Szaky has been featured in virtually every major media outlet from "60 Minutes" to the Wall Street Journal (5 times) and dubbed the "Coolest Startup In America" by Inc. magazine. Tom's book, Revolution in a Bottle, was released in February.
Don't miss Tom's amazing keynote address at the 17th Annual Small Business Week Celebration. This event culminates in the presentation of the prestigious SBA Small Business Week and Top Lender award
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Journal Standard
SIP: Wineries uncork recycling effort (April 2, 2009)
Napa, Calif. -
Something fresh is popping up in wine country, a save-the-cork effort that puts a new twist on recycling.
"All of a sudden we found that we had a product that had another life in it," says Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program that has signed up nearly 200 wineries, restaurants and retailers on the West Coast.
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be ground up and turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings....
Kids LA
Bag Lady (April 2, 2009)
TerraCycle offers families, schools and non-profits a way to raise money through the collectio of hard to recycle item such as drink pouches, cookie wrappers yogurt cups/ by encouraging people to rethink " what is waste" TerraCycle is making it simple for consyumers to have a positive impact on the environment. participation is free and all shipping costs are paid. Upcycled products are then sold at major retailers and online. sign up or purchase products at www.TerraCycle.Net...
Fitness Mind Body and Soul
Waste Not (April 2, 2009)
Saving the planet just got more "trashionable." Green designers are using garbage bicycle inner tubes, energy- bar wrappers, water - bottle labels to create everything from tote bads to clothes. A form of "upcycling" the movement is growing among the ecoconscious because "when you're not shredding trash and melting it down, your using less energy and cutting emissions," says Albe Zakes, VP of media relations at TerraCycle, one of the companies driving the trend....
Inc.
Revolution in a Bottle (April 1, 2009)
My book, Revolution in a Bottle, hit the streets this week. It is a quick read that is meant to flow more like a novel, less like a business book. It follows the story of TerraCycle from our beginnings in my dorm room, shoveling maggot filled organic waste, to creating products we sold to Wal-Mart and other major big box retailers, getting sued by Scotts, and creating "sponsored waste" programs to upcycle branded waste. It also offers insights on how we approach media and pursue new opportunities. Here's are two excerpts from the introduction:
TerraCycle would never have succeeded if we had started it in another country. America is a land of unique opportunity, and it happens to produce disproportionate amounts of waste. A maverick with a big idea can go further in America than in...
Budget Travel
Born Again Bags (April 1, 2009)
The New Jersey recycling firm salvages more than 42 million Capri Sun pouches from schools and factories each year and then stitches them together to produce reusable sacks. Target.com shopping bag $10...
Green Biz
Trashing The Idea of Waste (April 1, 2009)
Since 2001, Terracycle has been changing the perception of what is trash, using worms to make fertilizer and reappropriating food wrappers, pop bottles, vinyl records and, with it's latest program, saw blades, cat food bags and more, to upcycle waste into new products.
Terracycle's founder Tom Szaky spoke with GreenBiz Radio about the thought process behind giving trash a new life and why end-of-life must be considered at the start of every design.
Szaky will be one of the keynote speakers at GreenBiz.com's Greener by Design conference May 19-20 in San Francisco, and recently published a book, "Revolution in a Bottle."...
Parents
Green Scene (April 1, 2009)
Green Thumb
This unique 8" flowerpot is repurposed from e-waste such as old computers and fax machines. $9;wormfarm.com...
ABC News
SIP: Wineries Uncork Recycling Effort (April 1, 2009)
Something fresh is popping up in wine country, a save-the-cork effort that puts a new twist on recycling.
"All of a sudden we found that we had a product that had another life in it," says Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program that has signed up nearly 200 wineries, restaurants and retailers on the West Coast.
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be ground up and turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings....
The Trentonian
Garbage Moguls (April 1, 2009)
The founder of the city;s greenest business, TerraCycle, has penned a narrative of his company's rise as a model for other environmentally minded businesses.
The book, Tom Szaky's " Revolution in a Bottle" has its official release today, and the entrepreneur-turned-author hopes it can provide a roadmap for those keeping in mind those with the triple bottom line of remaining environmentally and socially conscious while still turning a profit....
Houston Style Magazine
It’s Easy Being Green! (April 1, 2009)
What can one family do to protect the environment and make a difference? Plenty, says FamilyFun magazine. The FamilyFun Volunteers Contest: Green Edition honors families that work together to help the environment. FamilyFun magazine, in conjunction with the HandsOn Network and Kim Sams, administrator of the DisneyWorldwide Conservation Fund, selected five winning families, each awarded $5,000 for the charity of their choice from The Walt Disney Company.
From collecting recyclables to creating an elementary-school garden, the winning “eco-families” discovered fun, innovative ways to nurture the planet. The winners, along with 25 FamilyFun reader-submitted ways to go green, are featured in the April 2009 issue of FamilyFun magazine and are available on FamilyFun’s Web site, FamilyFun.com/magazine...
Fox Business
CAPRI SUN, TerraCycle Make Green Fashion Statement for a Worthy Cause (April 1, 2009)
MIAMI, Mar 31, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) ----CAPRI SUN juice drink pouches have long been a favorite beverage for kids everywhere; they might become a favorite thing to wear now, too.
CAPRI SUN and TerraCycle, the eco-company that has pioneered the concept that any disposable material can be reused and created into something of value, have teamed up with green designer Justina Blakeney of Compai to create a one-of-a kind dress designed entirely from CAPRI SUN drink pouches. And, it's now being auctioned online for charity at www.ebaygivingworks.com. All proceeds from the auction, which will run through April 4, will benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
The unique dress was recently unveiled as part of the CAPRI SUN Ready to Re-Wear Runway Show at the Boys & Girls Clubs...
Fort Mills Times
SIP: Wineries uncork recycling effort (April 1, 2009)
NAPA, Calif. — Something fresh is popping up in wine country, a save-the-cork effort that puts a new twist on recycling.
"All of a sudden we found that we had a product that had another life in it," says Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program that has signed up nearly 200 wineries, restaurants and retailers on the West Coast.
Senior Shield from the Lt. Governors Office on Aging
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be ground up and turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings....
Fashion Fille
Prom-Arama (April 1, 2009)
Capri Sun and TerraCycle may have the answer to every teen (and parents) heartfelt prom dress wish and it's available now on ebay until Saturday, April 4th. TerraCycle, an eco-friendly company formed around the concept that everything can be reused, teamed up with Capri Sun and fashion designer Justina Blakeney of LA’s Compai, known for rehabilitating “used and abused” clothing, to create a truly one of a kind dress made out of more than 130 Capri Sun drink pouches. And what high schooler didn’t love drinking Capri Sun as a kid?
The only dress of its kind, the 100% green design was unveiled by Race to Witch Mountain Star AnnaSophia Robb during Miami fashion week’s “Ready to Re-Wear Runway Fashion Show” on March 25th. There are currently no plans for the dress to be...
The Hour
Wineries uncork recycling effort (April 1, 2009)
NAPA, Calif. -- Something fresh is popping up in wine country, a save-the-cork effort that puts a new twist on recycling.
"All of a sudden we found that we had a product that had another life in it," says Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program that has signed up nearly 200 wineries, restaurants and retailers on the West Coast.
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be ground up and turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings....
Daily Press
SIP: Wineries uncork recycling effort (April 1, 2009)
NAPA, Calif. (AP) -- Something fresh is popping up in wine country, a save-the-cork effort that puts a new twist on recycling.
"All of a sudden we found that we had a product that had another life in it," says Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program that has signed up nearly 200 wineries, restaurants and retailers on the West Coast.
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be ground up and turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings....
Green Living Review
REVOLUTION IN A BOTTLE – Book Review (April 1, 2009)
Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton in 2002 to lead a startup company that makes useful stuff out of what other people consider nothing but garbage. Now TerraCycle is a leader of the eco-capitalist movement, which produces worm poop fertilizer and tote bags made from used juice pack and other products made from waste.
The author tells a fascinating tale on a number of levels – personal, business, and environmental.
...
Earth Times
CAPRI SUN, TerraCycle Make Green Fashion Statement for a Worthy Cause (March 31, 2009)
MIAMI - (Business Wire) CAPRI SUN juice drink pouches have long been a favorite beverage for kids everywhere; they might become a favorite thing to wear now, too.
CAPRI SUN and TerraCycle, the eco-company that has pioneered the concept that any disposable material can be reused and created into something of value, have teamed up with green designer Justina Blakeney of Compai to create a one-of-a kind dress designed entirely from CAPRI SUN drink pouches. And, it’s now being auctioned online for charity at www.ebaygivingworks.com. All proceeds from the auction, which will run through April 4, will benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. ...
The Crusader
Recycling provides new opportunities (March 31, 2009)
Most people know what you can and cannot recycle. Cardboard, plastics, cans and paper can all be used again to make new products. But WQSU and TerraCycle are working to change that.
Normally potato chip bags and other foil products cannot be recycled. TerraCycle has developed a new way to recycle these products so that they won't keep piling up in our already overflowing landfills. The foil-lined wrappers are being used to make purses, pencil cases and even lunch boxes.
WQSU has placed special TerraCycle bins near Benny's, the Info Desk and the WQSU station office where these wrappers can be disposed off....
Akron Ohio Moms
Teaching Kids to Go Green (March 31, 2009)
TerraCycle makes recycling easy, fun & lets kids see how good recycling can be for the earth, a
favorite charity or their school!!caprisunbag
Sign up to collect soda bottles, yogurt containers, drink pouches or cookie wrappers (among other items as well). They will send you boxes & bags for you & your kids to fill and return. TerraCycle then turns your trash into flowerpots, messenger bags & bottles for plant food, which you can buy on the the site. They will also donate up to six cents per recycled item to your kid’s school or favorite charity!!...
Fortune and Small Business
Trash Talker (March 31, 2009)
In a sprawling former suitcase factory in New Jersey, a camera crew is filming entrepreneur Tom Szaky and his company, TerraCycle, for a new reality TV show. Ten of the recycling firms 46 employees sit around a table awaiting Szaky's challenge. "So, guys," says Szaky, reaching into the pocket of his corduroy jacket and tossing a used toothbrush on the table. "What are we going to do with this?"...
Princeton Magazine
One man's trash (March 31, 2009)
"You always hope, but you never really believe it until it happens," said the 27-year-old of dropping out of college in 2002 in order to run a green business, the foundation of which is trash.
Yes, trash. TerraCycle diverts waste destined for landfills and upcycles it into products running the gamut of organic cleaning supplies to reusable bags, to plant food. The products themselves are made almost completely out of garbage. Cleaners are packaged in used soda bottles and the spray tops are discards from manufacturing companies. Garden pots and trash cans are made entirely out of e-waste, namely crushed computers. The Retote is a reusable tote bag created from discarded plastic shopping bags. Szaky said that since they've started manufacturing it 2.5 million plastic bags have already...
Miami Herald
Here she comes ... fun, funky Funkshion (March 30, 2009)
Capri Sun Ready to Re-Wear Runway Show: Showcases a collection of TerraCycle accessories made from used Capri Sun pouches. Includes auction of a specially-designed dress made of Capri Sunpouches. Proceeds benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs of America; 3:30 to 5 p.m. Wednesday at Boys and Girls Club Hank Kline Unit, 2805 SW 32nd Ave., Miami; free with an empty Capri Sun juice pouch. 305-446-9910....
Junior Celebs
AnnaSophia Robb Hosts CAPRI SUN Ready to Re-Wear Show (March 30, 2009)
AnnaSophia Robb sparkles in red as she hosted the CAPRI SUN Ready to Re-Wear Show yesterday! The Race to Witch Mountain starlet cheered on 12-year-old Chantellyne Rivera of Miami as she debuts a one-of-a-kind dress–designed entirely out of CAPRI SUN drink pouches.
The show featured fun and affordable accessories all created from used CAPRI SUN drink pouches and made (or re-made, in this case) by TerraCycle, the eco-company that has pioneered the concept that any disposable material can be reused and created into something of value. This one-of-a-kind dress was crafted by Los Angeles designer Justina Blakeney of Compai, a company renowned for rehabilitating “used and abused” clothing....
Really Natural
Revolution in a Bottle: How Terracycle is Redefining Green Business (March 30, 2009)
revolution_in_bottle.jpg Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business is by the founder of TerraCycle, one of our favorite companies on Really Natural. Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton in 2002 to start a company that would work towards eliminating the concept of waste. Of course this book is printed on 100% recycled paper, and the bookjacket can be removed and turned into a prepaid upcycled mailing envelope to support TerraCycle's Brigade program.
Revolution in a Bottle is a rollicking tale of entrepreneurial adventure and an essential guide to creating a company that's good for people, good for profits, and good for the planet. Szaky offers an array of insights into how to (and how not to) work with major companies, media, consumers and even investors....
Andrew Detmers
EcoCapitalist (March 30, 2009)
It seems that all I hear about these days is the recession. Although I believe it is important to understand its cause and to recover I would like to hear more about how we keep from it happening again. Because I don't hear it enough I thought you are probably in the same boat, so I went looking. The most interesting story I found focused on TerraCycle which is a manufacturing company who's products are made entirely from garbage....
America On Line
SIP: Wineries uncork recycling effort (March 30, 2009)
Something fresh is popping up in wine country, a save-the-cork effort that puts a new twist on recycling.
"All of a sudden we found that we had a product that had another life in it," says Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program that has signed up nearly 200 wineries, restaurants and retailers on the West Coast.
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be ground up and turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings. ...
Knerq
How to recycle anything (March 30, 2009)
Juice bags: Because most are a combination of a plastic polymer and aluminum, these are not recyclable. But TerraCycle will donate 2 cents for each Honest Kids, Capri Sun, and Kool-Aid Drink pouch and 1 cent for any other brand you collect and send in to the charity of your choice. The organization provides free shipping, too. What does TerraCycle do with all those pouches? Turns them into colorful purses, totes, and pencil cases that are sold at Target and Walgreens stores throughout the country. To get started, go to terracycle.net.
Makeup: Makeup can expire and is none too pretty for the earth when you throw it in the trash (chemicals abound in most makeup). Some manufacturers are making progress on this front. People who turn in six or more empty MAC containers, for example,...
Wall Street Journal
Greedy Self-Interest Will Save Earth (March 30, 2009)
I enjoyed David A. Price's review of "Revolution in a Bottle" (Bookshelf, March 11). It tells eco-capitalist Tom Szaky's account of the birth of TerraCycle, his "upcycling" company that marries environmentalism and price-conscious consumerism by building consumer products from waste material. It reminds me that indeed there is nothing new under the sun.
The head of one of the more prosperous families in the southwest Philadelphia neighborhood where I grew up owned a junkyard in West Philadelphia. In the parlance of the day, he was a junk man. Apparently, he made a pretty good living doing it....
EcoFrenzy
10 Tips from an Eco-Capitalist: Tom Szaky Shares TerraCycle’s Secrets to Success (March 30, 2009)
Tom Szaky has created a new form of capitalism, eco-capitalism, in which waste is re-conceptualized as a raw material and becomes an economic driver. In his new book, “Revolution in a Bottle,” Szaky reveals the secrets to TerraCycle’s success as well as its twists and turns along the way to becoming a national consumer products company, renowned for creating products from — and packaged in — waste.
I first learned of TerraCycle when reading “Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World” by CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, Gary Hirshberg. I was so intrigued by the company, I requested an interview with Szaky and to my astonishment he agreed (this was at the very start of my still fresh blogging career — you can read that article here). And, full disclosure here, as...
Park Howell
Eco-Capitalism: How to Build a Small Empire from Worm Droppings (March 30, 2009)
What better way to follow-up Earth Hour as we move towards Earth Day than with a spotlight on one the world’s leading eco-capitalists: TerraCycle.
Essentially, Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle, upcycles trash and turns it into new products. We’re not talking just plastics, cans and glass. We’re talking just about everything.
They got their start by feeding organic waste to worms, liquefying their poop and packaging it in reused soda bottles...
Associated content
Uncork Recycling Efforts with Wine Corks (March 30, 2009)
Wine Corks Can Be Used for Other Things
Other uses for used wine corks have been found. This has spurred a recycling effort for them. Save the cork effort is putting a new look on recycling. This effort began just 18 months go. However, as it has grown quickly on the West Coast, it has now carried over to the
East coast as well.
It takes 300,000 corks to make one ton. Collecting these can take time and be cost consuming. Corks can not be used over for new fresh bottles of wine. Sealing bottles of wine with a cork is a one and done thing. It turns out that corks can be ground up and used for flooring and wall products. Recycling companies are looking for companies that are experimenting with using corks in other ways as well....
The Moment Blog
Anne on the Move | Red Hook, Brooklyn (March 27, 2009)
You might have heard of Terracycle — Tom Szaky’s worm poop story is now part of eco-folklore! Now, the first free-standing store dedicated to Terracycle’s all-natural, all-organic, all-recycled products has opened in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Appropriately called Waste Nought, the store sells everything from kid-size backpacks made from recycled Capri Sun juice pouches and flowerpots made from e-waste (think old computers and fax machines) to all-purpose house cleaner and bird feeders packaged in discarded soda bottles. Waste Nought is also trying to encourage neighborhood “up-cycling” by producing local products from local waste (for example: collecting candle remnants from local restaurants, re-casting them, then selling them back to restaurants)....
Compai
Compai for Capri Sun and Terracycle (March 27, 2009)
Making clothing out of unusual materials is our thing here at Compai, so when we were asked by Terracycle and Capri Sun to re-fashion a dress out of Capri-Sun pouches for a fashion show-- we couldn't refuse! The dress took a couple of weeks to put together- I had to replace the zipper 4 times!! But after breaking only about 80 needles, and trying it onto every tiny friend that I have-- it all came together! Check out the pics and then... guess what?? You can actually own this one! It's on auction at ebay-- and all of the proceeds benefit the Boys and Girls Club of America! -- So it's really a win-win- situation! So go ahead and get to bidding here!...
EcoFashion
TerraCycle (March 27, 2009)
The TerraCycle Story…
…is a tale of ultimate Eco-Capitalism. The company’s flagship product, TerraCycle Plant Food™, is an all-natural, all-organic, ‘goof-proof’ liquid plant food made from waste (worm poop) and packaged in waste (reused soda bottles)!
It all started in 2001 when two Princeton University students set out to change the way people do business. Inspired by a box of worms, these students had a dream: a company could be financially successful while being ecologically and socially responsible....
Matt Castille
Garbage mogul: TerraCycle’s plan to make millions from trash (March 27, 2009)
TRENTON, N.J. (Fortune Small Business) -- In a sprawling former suitcase factory in New Jersey, a camera crew is filming entrepreneur Tom Szaky and his company, TerraCycle, for a new reality TV show. Ten of the recycling firm's 46 employees sit around a table awaiting Szaky's next challenge. "So, guys," says Szaky, reaching into the pocket of his corduroy jacket and tossing a used toothbrush onto the table. "What are we going to do with this?"
You could ask the same question about every piece of trash in this 250,000-square-foot warehouse. Those boxes of Capri Sun juice pouches will become pencil cases. Circuit boards will be reincarnated as picture frames and clocks. Oreo wrappers will morph into kites. ...
CNBC
Revolutionaries Have to Dream Big! (March 27, 2009)
This Guest Blog was written by Tom Szaky author of, "Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle is Redefining Green Business" and CEO of TerraCycle.
As the CEO of an environmentally focused company I end up in many debates or discussions about “green” business. How being environmentally responsible is or isn’t defined, what limitations the movement faces and what the future holds for green companies and green products or services. ...
Examiner
SIP: Wineries uncork recycling effort (March 27, 2009)
Something fresh is popping up in wine country, a save-the-cork effort that puts a new twist on recycling.
"All of a sudden we found that we had a product that had another life in it," says Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program that has signed up nearly 200 wineries, restaurants and retailers on the West Coast.
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be ground up and turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings....
WRAL
SIP: Wineries uncork recycling effort (March 27, 2009)
NAPA, Calif. — Something fresh is popping up in wine country, a save-the-cork effort that puts a new twist on recycling.
"All of a sudden we found that we had a product that had another life in it," says Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program that has signed up nearly 200 wineries, restaurants and retailers on the West Coast.
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be ground up and turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings....
San Francisco Chronicle
SIP: Wineries uncork recycling effort (March 27, 2009)
Something fresh is popping up in wine country, a save-the-cork effort that puts a new twist on recycling.
"All of a sudden we found that we had a product that had another life in it," says Roger Archey, program manager of the ReCORK America program that has signed up nearly 200 wineries, restaurants and retailers on the West Coast.
At issue is what happens after a cork is yanked out of a bottle of wine. Turns out corks can be ground up and turned into other products, including flooring and wall coverings.
But it takes a lot of corks to create much of...
Retire Rich
TerraCycle...the Wal-mart of Garbage. (March 26, 2009)
A new reality TV, Garbage Moguls, show airing on the National Geographic channel.
Ten of the recycling firm's 46 employees sit around a table awaiting Szaky's next challenge. "So, guys," says Szaky, reaching into the pocket of his corduroy jacket and tossing a used toothbrush onto the table. "What are we going to do with this?"
You could ask the same question about every piece of trash in this 250,000-square-foot warehouse. Those boxes of Capri Sun juice pouches will become pencil cases. Circuit boards will be reincarnated as picture frames and clocks. Oreo wrappers will morph into kites. ...
Everything Fabulous
Capri makes a Green Fashion Statment for a Worthy Cause (March 26, 2009)
Calling all green fashionistas! CAPRI SUN juice drink pouches have long been a favorite of kids everywhere, and now they may become a favorite of fashionistas, too!
CAPRI SUN and TerraCycle, the eco-company that has pioneered the concept that any disposable material can be reused and created into something of value, are teaming up to present the CAPRI SUN Ready to Re-Wear Runway Show this Wednesday, March 25 at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade Hank Kline Club at 3:30 p.m. ET.
Everything Fabulous will be present to report on the latest eco recycle fashion....
Green Biz
Turning Guilt Trips into Gold (March 26, 2009)
I knew one of the questions my panel would be asked on Tuesday would deal with the topic of green innovation and the travel industry. And I figured I'd talk about cradle-to-cradle innovators like Valley Forge Fabrics (who make bedding from 100 percent recycled polyester and will take it back to recycle and sell again) and upcycler Tom Szaky of TerraCycle. I've written before about how Tom's company takes branded garbage and turns it into branded goods (see "Tom Szaky Writes Garbage"). One of the reasons I enjoy talking with Tom is that his innovations often come from being financially constrained and even though we can't be happy about the current state of the economy, in a free market tough times can foster innovation....
Smart Brief
One man's trash (March 26, 2009)
Tom Szaky has an unusual ambition: "We want to be the Wal-Mart of garbage," says the 26-year-old founder of TerraCycle, a company that converts post-consumer waste into tote bags and picture frames. Szaky has 17,000 "trash brigades" searching for garbage and a reality show about to launch on the National Geographic Channel. What he doesn't have yet are profits. TerraCycle lost $3.5 million last year, and fundraising is a constant concern. CNNMoney.com/Fortune Small Business (03/25) ...
Just Jared Jr
AnnaSophia Robb is CapriSun Cute (March 26, 2009)
AnnaSophia Robb looks cute in her red and white floral dress as she hosts the Capri Sun Ready to Re-Wear Runway Show held at the Hank Kline Club on Wednesday afternoon (March 25) in Miami, Fla.
The 15-year-old Race to Witch Mountain actress shared about going green, “How cool is this pouch dress (on the model)! I’ve never seen anything like it. Taking care of the environment is so important and I’m thrilled to be working with companies like Capri Sun and TerraCycle who have made awesome accessories while keeping pouches out of landfills!”...
Planet Good Radio
Innovative Business Model: TerraCycle (March 26, 2009)
Interview with Tom Szaky - In 2001, as a college freshman, Tom founded TerraCycle in hopes of building a new, more responsible way of doing business. TerraCycle (www.terracycle.net) represents a new generation of company, putting as much emphasis on its social and environmental impact as its profits. TerraCycle has revolutionized the industry by making eco-friendly and affordable products from waste...
EarthaScope
How Can You Recycle Wine Corks? (March 25, 2009)
Did you know that you can recycle wine and champagne corks through a company we have discussed on Earthascope before, TerraCycle? You might also try to sell them on Ebay or make them into something useful! Check out the step-by-step process for collecting and recycling (along with photos) below!
How do you recycle wine corks? Wine cork recycling can be easy!
I used TerraCycle for sending off my wine corks. You can check out handmade sites like Etsy to see if there are any projects you might want to take on yourself to use, give as a gift, or sell. Or make it up yourself! I’ve seen trivets, wreaths, baskets, and bulletin boards made from spent wine corks. What ideas do you have for reusing wine corks? Comment below!
You have to register with TerraCycle in...
GreenerDesign
10 Tips from an Eco-Capitalist: Tom Szaky Shares TerraCycle's Secrets to Success (March 25, 2009)
Tom Szaky has created a new form of capitalism, eco-capitalism, in which waste is re-conceptualized as a raw material and becomes an economic driver. In his new book, "Revolution in a Bottle," Szaky reveals the secrets to TerraCycle's success as well as its twists and turns along the way to becoming a national consumer products company, renowned for creating products from -- and packaged in -- waste.
I first learned of TerraCycle when reading "Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World" by CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, Gary Hirshberg. I was so intrigued by the company, I requested an interview with Szaky and to my astonishment he agreed (this was at the very start of my still fresh blogging career -- you can read that article here). And, full disclosure here, as a result of...
Elephant Journal
Review: Terracycle Household Cleaners (March 25, 2009)
My shiny kitchen counters say it all - This stuff works! I tried these natural cleaners from Canadian eco brand Terracycle. They are among the first consumer products to carry the Zerofootprint seal which means that in addition to following sustainable business practices, the company also purchases meaningful offsets to minimize their impact. The bottles are waste stream recycled (cleaned and re-used) and the ingredients are basically just water, natural minerals and essential oils.
Both the All Purpose Cleaner and the Bathroom Cleaner did their job and left a mild herbal smell that dissipated quickly. I don’t like my house to smell like cleaning products. You can find them at most of the usual places - Wild Oats, Target, Walmart, Walgreens or King Soopers....
Green Daily
"Revolution in a Bottle" Book Review"Revolution in a Bottle" Book Review (March 25, 2009)
A few weeks ago I wrote about office supplies from Terracycle, the company that makes cool things out of garbage. TerraCycle tracked me down and offered an advance copy of their founder, Tom Szaky's, new book, Revolution in a Bottle.
I actually read the whole thing, which is rare for a business book. Usually you just read the first two chapters, skim the middle, then read the last chapter. But this is such a wacky ride -- and at 200 pages, doable in an evening -- that you will keep reading to see what happens next.
...
EcoSilly
"Revolution in a Bottle" Book Review (March 25, 2009)
A few weeks ago I wrote about office supplies from Terracycle, the company that makes cool things out of garbage. TerraCycle tracked me down and offered an advance copy of their founder, Tom Szaky’s, new book, Revolution in a Bottle.
I actually read the whole thing, which is rare for a business book. Usually you just read the first two chapters, skim the middle, then read the last chapter. But this is such a wacky ride — and at 200 pages, doable in an evening — that you will keep reading to see what happens next.
It’s a fun read, mainly because it’s the story of how Tom dropped out of Princeton to make and market worm poop and somehow created a successful, cutting-edge green company while sticking to his principles. ...
CNN
Garbage mogul makes millions from trash (March 25, 2009)
TRENTON, N.J. (Fortune Small Business) -- In a sprawling former suitcase factory in New Jersey, a camera crew is filming entrepreneur Tom Szaky and his company, TerraCycle, for a new reality TV show. Ten of the recycling firm's 46 employees sit around a table awaiting Szaky's next challenge. "So, guys," says Szaky, reaching into the pocket of his corduroy jacket and tossing a used toothbrush onto the table. "What are we going to do with this?"
You could ask the same question about every piece of trash in this 250,000-square-foot warehouse. Those boxes of Capri Sun juice pouches will become pencil cases. Circuit boards will be reincarnated as picture frames and clocks. Oreo wrappers will morph into kites.
"We want to be the Wal-Mart of garbage," says Szaky, 26. Today's...
Everyday Trash
Garbage Moguls (March 25, 2009)
DVR alert for anyone who gets the National Geographic Channel! A new show called “Garbage Moguls” will launch next month (timed with Earth Day). The premise: follow around Tom Szaky, the 27-year-old CEO of TerraCycle who started his empire selling worm poop as organic plant food from his Princeton dorm room before dropping out to move on to larger ventures—like partnering with major companies to upcycle their trash into products he sells (and sometimes even getting paid by the companies to take their trash in the first place).
Prediction: That dude in the striped sweater has runaway reality star smeared all over him, Steve-O meets Matther Lillard’s character from Hackers meets Leila’s lunatic vegan ex.
I’ve been endeared to the TerraCycle story since reading...
Green LA Girl
A twice-weekly sharing of eco-shwag. (March 25, 2009)
Today’s freebie’s a copy of Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business by Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of eco-company TerraCycle.
Read my review to learn about how the author went from growing weed to shoveling shit to running a big successful eco-friendly company. ...
Surfers Digest
“Revolution in a Bottle” Book Review (March 25, 2009)
A few weeks ago I wrote about office supplies from Terracycle, the company that makes cool things out of garbage. TerraCycle tracked me down and offered an advance copy of their founder, Tom Szaky's, new book, Revolution in a Bottle.
I actually read the whole thing, which is rare for a business book. Usually you just read the first two chapters, skim the middle, then read the last chapter. But this is such a wacky ride -- and at 200 pages, doable in an evening -- that you will keep reading to see what happens next....
Wend Greenery
The Energy Bar Wrapper Dilemma (March 24, 2009)
Whether cycling the length of the Pacific Coast or hiking the backcountry, being active outdoors burns energy. And what better way to replace those incinerated calories than with an energy bar? Sweet but lightweight; those compact loaves of whole grains, protein and fiber come close to being the perfect power snack. But with power comes responsibility. To maintain freshness and a long shelf life, energy bars are packaged in a way that makes them unrecyclable, which means each time you recharge your engines with an energy bar a landfill will grow by one more wrapper. So what’s an active nature lover to do?
Prior to 1990, energy bar wrappers were less of a threat to the environment because fewer people were buying them. Mainstream consumers viewed the bars as just another bland athletic...
Consumer Goods Technology
TerraCycle Show Premiers on National Geographic (March 24, 2009)
Kites from Oreo cookie wrappers. Spiral notebooks from old cereal boxes. Pencils from rolled newspaper. Coming to a superstore near you are products made entirely of garbage. Now, a new National Geographic Channel (NGC) special, premiering on Earth Day, takes a look at the quirky young "eco-capitalists" at the company, TerraCycle Inc., who are making this concept happen; rummaging through dumpsters and landfills for materials, brainstorming innovative products … and hoping to make millions.
"Garbage is a man-made idea, and we've created garbage because we haven't created solutions for it," explains CEO for TerraCycle, Tom Szaky. "We take waste, we add design and produce mass merchandise." Once just a dorm-room operation, TerraCycle has grown from two employees to more than 50 and...
Mother Nature Network
Revolution in a Bottle (March 24, 2009)
Smoke pot, drop out of college, scoop poop for a living, literally. That sounds like a cautionary anti-drug message, but Tom Szaky, who really did toke up a green worm poop business idea then drop out of Princeton to pursue it, is now the proud CEO of Terracycle, a famous eco-business that started out bottling worm poop fertilizer and today churns out a new upcycled product a week.
Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot — all these huge chain megastores carry Terracycle products, whether it’s the upcycled juice box pencil case, the disposable-made-reusable plastic tote bag, or eco-friendly window cleaner. All of this started, though, with Tom learning that worm poop made his pot plant thrive — and coming up with a half-baked business idea. And Tom’s new book, Revolution in a Bottle:...
Green LA Girl
Book review: Revolution in a Bottle — Pot-inspired eco-capitalism (March 24, 2009)
Smoke pot, drop out of college, scoop shit for a living, literally. That sounds like a cautionary anti-drug message, but Tom Szaky, who really did toke up a green worm poop business idea then drop out of Princeton to pursue it, is now the proud CEO of Terracycle, a famous eco-business that started out bottling worm poop fertilizer and today churns out a new upcycled product a week.
Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot — All these huge chain megastores carry Terracycle products, whether it’s the upcycled juice box pencil case, the disposable-made-reusable plastic tote bag, or eco-friendly window cleaner. All of this started, though, with Tom learning that worm poop made his pot plant thrive — and coming up with a half-baked business idea. And Tom’s new book, Revolution in a Bottle:...
The Green Lady
TerraCycle - The Worm Poop People (March 24, 2009)
In case readers have not yet heard of TerraCycle, Inc., the fantastic Ecofriendly company in NJ that makes the most wonderful fertilizer from worm droppings - they are the Worm Poop people, TheGardenLady wants to tell you about them. Please check out their website.
Many TV programs have not only been talking about TerraCycle Inc.’s fertilizer but recently they have had many featured stories about TerraCycle’s newest Ecofriendly endeavor- recycling your trash.
TerraCycle wants some of your trash to help keep this trash out of landfills and are recycling this trash into new and useful products. TerraCycle wants you to recycle your old soil / fertilizer bags, your old chip bags, your old yogurt containers along with many other items by giving it to them. One place you...
Fox News
TerraCycle on FOX news (March 24, 2009)
TerraCycle Trash for Cash segment on FOX news ...
NJBiz
TerraCycle founder's new book tells the green venture's story (March 23, 2009)
In 2002, Princeton freshman Tom Szaky was shoveling garbage from the university’s dining halls into a composter for earthworms to dine upon.
Six years later, he leads Trenton-based TerraCycle, a green enterprise that turns worm poop into organic plant food, and recycles consumer product packaging — soda bottles, Oreo wrappers, Kool-aid pouches — into backpacks and purses.
In his new book, “Revolution in a Bottle,” Szaky tells the story of how he and a few friends turned a dorm-room venture into a business with 50 employees and sales of $6 million. In frank detail, he discusses the challenges he faced: raising money without losing control of the business; talking his way onto the shelves of Home Depot and Wal-Mart; recruiting unpaid college interns; and getting...
Care2
The Great Spring Clean: Win an Eco-Friendly Cleaning Kit! (March 23, 2009)
TerraCycle, pioneers of the upcycling industry, have donated three gift bags of eco-friendly cleaning supplies to the Care2 community. These products are non-toxic, planet, people and pet safe, and the packaging is 100% recycled, cleverly made by re-using old soda bottles! The best part? The cleaning supplies will come in a super-cute shopping tote made from those pesky, plastic grocery bags and fashioned into an indestructible eco-statement.
Please leave a comment in the field below and you’ll be entered to win. The three winners will be randomly drawn and announced on Friday, Apr. 3. Good luck!...
TreeHugger
4 Radical Solutions to Packaging Waste (March 23, 2009)
As CEO of TerraCycle, I'm constantly thinking about how to solve problems with waste. From bottle bills to packaging taxes, nothing is too out-there to me. I've come up with four radical solutions that could help curb the problem. Click through for my concepts and let me know your reactions and alternative ideas.
1. Tax Non-Standard Packaging
One reason why so few things are recyclable is because of the variety of packaging forms (different composite materials) and styles. If packaging were more standardized, a much greater amount of packaging waste could be recycled. Should we create a standard and tax those brands that use non-standard packaging?
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City Paper
Revolution in a Bottle (March 23, 2009)
Those totes made from recycled Target bags show just how far Tom Szaky and his company, TerraCycle, have come from being vendors of worm poop. But don't call that original product by its name, "vermicompost," says Szaky, or you'll scare off the big-box buyers who seem to have proved his theory that folks will buy earth-friendly if it's competitively priced, readily available and aesthetically pleasing. He is generous with his details of the early years: Anybody with the fortitude to live in a questionable part of Trenton with 30 or so of your closest intern pals could easily follow his path. The part he glosses over is how fuel prices affect things like shipping oak compost barrels from California, and how the overall downturn in spending has affected his company....
(Eco)nomizing
Terracycle (March 23, 2009)
Two Princeton students started Terracycle back in 2001. It started as a business model to sell organic plant food with no waste (recycled packaging etc). The company is now a huge operation that collects all sorts of product waste (cookie wrappers, drink pouches, cell phones) and turns them into new useable products. A great site for school kids especially since they would gather the materials (chips bags) then once they have a certain amount they send it in using the free postage, and 2 cents for each wrapper goes to the non-profit of their choice (could be their own school). It appears that brands/companies have to agree to this - so only certain wrappers are accepted (for example Nabisco is one of the collaborators). So, certainly there is some advertising involved. That’s part of the...
Clean= istry
TerraCycle (March 23, 2009)
TerraCycle
March 20th, 2009
TerraCycle is the brainchild of Tom Szaky, the self-proclaimed eco-capitalist who grabs spent packaging for re-use BEFORE it lands in the recycling center.
Do these bottles of cleaning supplies look familiar? They should.
They might have been in the frig a while back.
Posted in green, makes sense
...
Craftzine
Checkin' In: Recycling Maven Tiffany Threadgould (March 23, 2009)
Giving voice to the voiceless, Tiffany Threadgould is a true advocate for junk. Not for making it, of course, but re-making it. In her own words, "After all, garbage has feelings, too." The girl has a knack for taking overlooked items bound for the recycling bin, and making them useful as well as stylish. We checked in with Tiffany recently to see what she's been up to, but first let's take a look at what Tiffany has contributed to the pages of CRAFT magazine.
Tiffany made her CRAFT debut back in Volume 03, when she asked us to take another look at plastic bottles and taught us how to revise them into "pop art" in the form of a soap dish, trinket dish, photo cuff, and vase:
"I've been designing projects galore for TerraCycle, the eco-company that started off making worm...
Cause Encounters
TerraCycle's 'waste-to-product' business model (March 18, 2009)
I preordered Tom Szaky's first book "Revolution in a bottle" at Amazon, and got it today.
He's the CEO of Terracycle, a company that creates FMCG-products that are entirely made from waste.
Terracycle's wormpoop for example is a success all over Canada ...
Triple Pundit
Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Redefines Green Business (March 17, 2009)
My book, Revolution in a Bottle, hit the streets this week. It is a quick read that is meant to flow more like a novel, less like a business book. It follows the story of TerraCycle from our beginnings in my dorm room, shoveling maggot filled organic waste to creating products we sold to Wal-Mart and other major big box retailers, getting sued by Scotts and creating “sponsored waste” programs to upcycle branded waste. It also offers insights on how we approach media and pursue new opportunities. Here’s an excerpt from the introduction:
While it has not always led to the “right” decision, I have learned that I must always trust my gut. Sometimes this has led to hiring people without requisite experience but who have turned out to be gems as they developed their art. In some...
Beverage World
What’s Old is New Again (March 17, 2009)
Trenton, N.J., USA-based TerraCycle takes used non-recyclable materials such as wine corks and drink pouches and turns them into useful consumer products such as corkboards and kids’ backpacks. As you might suspect, beverage companies are among TerraCycle’s best partners, and so far include Kraft Foods, Coca-Cola and Honest Tea. But the newest partner is Nomacorc, a leading producer of alternative wine closures. terracycle.net...
WSJ: From Dorm Room to Wal-Mart
Campus Entrepreneurship (March 17, 2009)
David A. Price at the WSJ reviews the autobiography of Terracycle founder Tom Szaky. He is a clear favorite in social entrepreneurship circles and it looks like he is a guy worth getting to know. Pretty interesting stuff. From the review:
One of the more colorful of these is Tom Szaky, the 27-year-old co-founder and chief executive of Trenton, N.J.-based TerraCycle. At $8 million in revenue in 2008 — on sales of household items like bathroom cleaners, notebooks and plant food — his company is minuscule by the standards of the consumer-products industry. Nonetheless, TerraCycle’s story should get many an executive’s mental gears turning. It’s not every dorm-room operation that grows to the point of selling its products through Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Target. Rarer still...
Blog of Lowe Moscow
TerraCycle collects non-recyclables at big-box stores (March 17, 2009)
TerraCycle and its ever-expanding list of eco-innovations have once again caught our eye. Not satisfied with simply making eco-fertilizer from organic waste and worm poop or turning old wrappers into eco-chic bags and accessories, the US-based company has now introduced a non-recyclable packaging collection system in several American big-box chain stores.
The collection project first began in 2007, letting the public (most often civic groups or schools) set up collection points for packaging and other waste. TerraCycle donates USD 0.02–0.06 to the charity of the collector’s choice for each unit that enters the system. The benefit for TerraCycle: a warm, fuzzy planet-saving glow, and a source of raw material for the upcycled products it sells, including pencil cases, lunch boxes...
Type A Mom
TerraCycle Natural All Purpose Cleaner Review (March 17, 2009)
TerraCycle is a company that originally made some gardening products, but now has added environmentally-friendly, natural household cleaners to the product line. I had the opportunity to review the TerraCycle All Purpose Cleaner and appreciated the cleaning power of the product very much.
Buy TerraCycle All Purpose Cleaner
Non-Toxic Cleaner for Tough Household Stains
The problem with some non-toxic cleaners is that I'm not always satisfied with the cleaning ability. I was fortunate enough to have an excellent stain to test TerraCycle out on when it arrived in the mail. See this photo of a large ink stain on the office linoleum. That is printed ink from a refill packet my four year old and two year old discovered. Stop laughing at me - it ended up being the perfect test stain for...
Greener Miami
Fashion Show with Stuff Made from Capri Suns (March 13, 2009)
There's a cool event coming up...here is the press releas
Caprisunbag BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MIAMI TO THINK GREEN IN CAPRI SUN FASHION SHOW
Calling all green fashionistas! The Boys & Girls Club of Miami and Capri Sun have teamed up for one of the most eco-friendly events this year that celebrates fashion and the environment, all for a good cause. Hosted by AnnaSophia Robb, popular teen celebrity and star of the upcoming movie “Race to Witch Mountain,” the Capri Sun Ready to Re-Wear Runway Show features a collection of TerraCycle accessories made from used Capri Sun pouches. Members from the Boys & Girls Club of Miami will model the unique designs and the public is invited to attend. The fun takes place on March 25th at the Boys & Girls Club of Miami gymnasium (2805 SW 32nd Avenue)...
Leafy Green
TerraCycle Upcycled Products (March 13, 2009)
In a time with conspicuous consumption and immense waste, TerraCycle is a company that seems counter-intuitive. This innovative company uses all reused materials in order to make their products. The two products I had the pleasure of coming across were a desk clock and drink coasters. The clock was made with a circuit board. This clock would be perfect for tech geek like my parents.
The coasters were made with old vinyl records and packaged in recycled materials. The company has numerous other products for everyday use. If you would like to join this eco-revolution called upcycling and purchase these brand new products, visit your local OfficeMax or visit www.terracycle.net. ...
Wall Street Journal
From Dorm Room to Wal-Mart (March 12, 2009)
In July, back when the Dow was still over 11000, an editor at the San Francisco Chronicle cheered the recession: Financial meltdown, she wrote, is good for the planet. Less money means less buying; less buying means a greener world.
Seems like a pretty dour way of looking at things -- and none too well thought out. Sure, we'll be spending less, but some of the first products to take a hit will be the premium-priced, green-friendly ones. (Indeed, sales of Toyota's Prius fell 28.6% in January compared with the same month last year.)
[Business Bookshelf]
A handful of eco-capitalists, though, have taken on the daunting task of marrying environmentalism to price-conscious consumerism. One of the more colorful of these is Tom Szaky, the 27-year-old co-founder and chief executive...
Liberty Sports
ENERGY BAR BRIGADE (March 12, 2009)
Clif Bar offers a similar "wrapper" incentive to its consumers. Clif partnered with TerraCycle in Trenton, NJ for the Energy Bar Brigade (www.terracycle.net), which is also sponsored by Balance Bar. TerraCycle will ship postage-paid collection bags to you; once you have filled the bag with 200 wrappers, drop it off at a UPS store and then TerraCycle will donate money to the charity of your choice. While 200 may sound like a lot, the program does not require the wrappers be from exclusively Balance or Clif Bars. See the website for images of acceptable and un-acceptable wrappers. There you will also read about TerraCycle's plans to recycle the wrappers and use the material for "upcycling products"...
Green Idea Lab
Terracycle makes Urban Art Pot from E-Waste (March 12, 2009)
Terracycle, a company focused on recycling waste, have started making art pots from 100% e-waste (such as crushed computers and fax machines) that would otherwise have ended up in a landfill or gone to a country like China or East Africa for Lead to be extracted under extremely harmful conditions.
These 8" pots are painted by inner city artists. Each pot is unique and individual....
Gardening How - To
Honorable Mention (March 12, 2009)
Tote bag, seed starters, art pots, bird feeder, and deer repellent from TerraCycle, www.TerraCycle.net value 65$...
Wall Street Journal
From Dorm Room to Wal-Mart (March 11, 2009)
In July, back when the Dow was still over 11000, an editor at the San Francisco Chronicle cheered the recession: Financial meltdown, she wrote, is good for the planet. Less money means less buying; less buying means a greener world.
Seems like a pretty dour way of looking at things -- and none too well thought out. Sure, we'll be spending less, but some of the first products to take a hit will be the premium-priced, green-friendly ones. (Indeed, sales of Toyota's Prius fell 28.6% in January compared with the same month last year.)
[Business Bookshelf]
A handful of eco-capitalists, though, have taken on the daunting task of marrying environmentalism to price-conscious consumerism. One of the more colorful of these is Tom Szaky, the 27-year-old co-founder and chief executive...
We Love Your Walls
Upcycling Packaging: A New Business Concept (March 11, 2009)
Entrepreneurialism is alive and well in America. Just ask Tom Szaky, the founder of TerraCycle.
His big idea: a commercialized liquid plant food made from biological waste—or as Szaky calls it “worm poop”, in reused soda bottles from school recycling programs, after making donations for them. Cleaning the bottles, slapping homey labels on them, and fitting them with trigger sprays other manufacturers couldn’t use, or didn’t want, enabled Szaky to finally bring his product to market.
In a recent Brand Packaging article dubbed: “Spinning Garbage into Gold”, Szaky shares some terrific ideas that ought to inspire a new generation of business owners.
Szaky dropped out of Princeton and worked at the new business for three years until finally securing...
TrickGo Clothing
TerraCycle (March 11, 2009)
A really neat concept by TerraCycle. The whole idea behind the company is that you send in your empty soda bottles, juice pouches, food wrappers, & in exchange you get a whole new product made from the disgcarded. For more info & picture check out their website....
Today's Parent Fl
Free Upcycling Programs Help Kids, Communities And Environment (March 11, 2009)
Families, schools and non-profits nationwide are joining TerraCycle’s free packaging return programs as a way to raise money through the collection of hard-to-recycle items such as drink pouches, cookie wrappers and yogurt cups.
The collection programs, called Brigades, divert packaging waste from landfills and help raise consumer awareness about recycling. By encouraging people to rethink ‘what is waste,’ TerraCycle is making it simple for consumers to have a positive impact on the environment. With a monetary reward as incentive to recycle, the Brigades raise money for a charitable organization of the collector’s choice. Participation is free and all shipping costs are paid. Sign up today at www.terracycle.net/brigades.
The programs are a fun and easy way for...
Green Living Guy TM
TerraCycle Turns Circuit Boards and Records Into Cool Coasters, Picture Frames and Clocks (March 10, 2009)
Who would have thought Terra Cycle would do something cool like that. Great for the bars, don't ya think. I mean think of all the paper coasters out there on a daily basis. Reuse these and have that frosty be coasting on something reused!!!! ...
EcoZebra
New from TerraCycle - The latest in home decor comes from your garbage. (March 10, 2009)
The folks at TerraCycle have done it again by creating yet another amazing product from our trash. The first home decor line from TerraCylce. The innovative upcycler of everything from fax machines to candy wrappers and everything in between has come out with a new line of clocks, coasters and picture frames from your old circuit boards and vinyl records. Another way to upcycle our waste into useful everyday products and look great doing it.
I would say that besides looking pretty cool, the next best thing is that every one of these items comes at a price of only $12.99. It can’t get much better than that. ...
Greenzer
GreenTip: TerraCycle It (March 10, 2009)
You may have seen TerraCycle Plant Food on the shelf at your local Home Depot; it’s the liquefied worm poop fertilizer packaged in a used soda bottle with an end-run sprayer top, the feature product from a brand that’s gotten plenty of attention for being one of the greenest around. The purpose behind TerraCycle products is simple: Make everything–and they do mean everything–from waste, whether it’s the contents, like the lovely-sounding liquefied worm poor, or the product itself, like the lunch box made from used drink pouches.
While seeking out TerraCycle products for use in your home is one good way to get involved with a company who’s truly focused on reducing by reusing, you can also keep an eye out for TerraCycle collection bins that will soon be appearing in major...
Dieline
Upcycling Packaging: A New Business Concept (March 10, 2009)
Entrepreneurialism is alive and well in America. Just ask Tom Szaky, the founder of TerraCycle.
His big idea: a commercialized liquid plant food made from biological waste—or as Szaky calls it “worm poop”, in reused soda bottles from school recycling programs, after making donations for them. Cleaning the bottles, slapping homey labels on them, and fitting them with trigger sprays other manufacturers couldn’t use, or didn’t want, enabled Szaky to finally bring his product to market.
In a recent Brand Packaging article dubbed: “Spinning Garbage into Gold”, Szaky shares some terrific ideas that ought to inspire a new generation of business owners....
Coloradoan
Add green to your pocket (March 10, 2009)
If you have access to garbage, even if it is just building up in your garage, you may have a viable way of making some money by following the model of TerraCycle.
Their business model helps turn trash into cash by taking what normally would be discarded and reinventing it. They turn disposable bags into reusable shopping totes and juice pouches into lunch boxes. This option takes a bit more creativity, but could cost very little.
You never know what could be the next big hit unless you give it a try. See examples and learn more at TerraCycle.net.
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Biz World
TerraCycle's Cool, Repurposed Pet Products (March 10, 2009)
In your search to become more eco-conscious, have you been looking for ways to “green” your pets as well? TerraCycle, an organization known for its creative recycling of everyday trash, and national pet retailer PETCO, found a way to combine natural, nontoxic pet care with recycling that might just be up your alley.
The items are the world’s first line of pet products packaged in repurposed plastic bottles. The products use combinations of essential oils, probiotics and earth-friendly microbes to keep Fido smelling fresh and out of your trash can.
Richard Chene, VP and general merchandise manager for PETCO also noted that “we truly believe if it’s good for the planet, it’s good for pets, too.”...
This Green Life
Gone to the Birds (March 9, 2009)
A while back I wrote a blog entry about “worm poop tea,” or liquid plant food made from waste, by the company TerraCycle. In the meantime TerraCycle has come out with a huge list of recycled products. Including, cool tote bags made from old drink pouches, fire logs made from 100% wax cardboard waste and a huge list of office supplies made from used newspaper, old Oreo wrappers and pretty much anything else you can think of. In one word ingenious. I now want to own one of everything on their product list.
I recently received their new TerraCycle Wild Bird Premium Feeder. It’s fashioned out of an old 2-liter bottle and the base is made out of recycled plastic. The product carries a Zerofootprint™ Seal....
America's Best
Part of Their Nature (March 9, 2009)
Tom Szaky has often been told that he is crazy. At age 19, he dropped out of Princeton to start TerraCycle, a business revolving around selling an all-organic liquid plant food made from worm feces—and no, that's not a typo. When he first started out, he had a hard time raising capital and people often laughed him right out of the office. But things soon changed when he won a business-plan contest and the company took off. In 2006, TerraCycle was named "The Coolest Little Start-up in America" by Inc. magazine.
Located in Trenton, New Jersey, TerraCycle is a very unique company in that it manufactures affordable, potent, organic products that are not only made from waste, but are also packaged entirely in waste. All of the products are packaged in used soda bottles or other recyclable...
Carrabba's World
One more item kept from those landfills! (March 9, 2009)
Terracycle is at it again!
I signed on to check my drink pouch status, and found that they are ready to start collecting CHIP BAGS!
Every week, the students in my class have snack day, where they consume a variety of Frito-Lay chip products. Now, we can upcycle these bags into something else.
While I would prefer to reduce or eliminate the need for these bags, I understand that these students are not going to give up their snacks! Thus showing them that upcycling these previously disposed of items will increase their awareness. They are very keen on giving me drink pouches and cookie wrappers so I am very sure they will be keen on giving me their chip bags!
The drink pouch brigade has been running much more smoothly as of late and I only have another 2,000 drink pouches in my...
Tech Geer
TerraCycle Turns Circuit Boards and Records Into Cool Coasters, Picture Frames and Clocks (March 9, 2009)
Hot new recycled products spin trash into
style. Perfect for Green Geeks. ...
Tidewater Woman
Upcycling Helps the Community (March 9, 2009)
Families, schools and non-profits nationwide
are joining TerraCycle’s free packaging return programs as a way to raise money through the collection of hard-to-recycle items such as drink pouches, cookie wrappers, and yogurt cups. The collection programs, called Brigades, divert waste from landfills and raise consumer awareness about recycling. With a monetary reward as incentive to recycle, the Brigades raise money for a charitable organization of the collector’s choice. Participation is free...
The Daily Green
TerraCycle Turns Circuit Boards and Records Into Cool Coasters, Picture Frames and Clocks (March 9, 2009)
Innovative, New Jersey-based recycled products company TerraCycle has launched a new line of funky items, "upcycled" from e-waste and old vinyl records (remember those? I have lots of 'em I still enjoy, so hands off those guys). These join TerraCycle's other offerings of plant fertilizer, cleaning products, flower pots, messenger bags, pens and other items, made entirely from recycled materials (including the packaging).
terracycle recycled coasters from circuit boards
I love TerraCycle's recycled circuit board coasters, since I'm a geek, and I like technology as much as the next Star Trek TNG fan. When I brought a few home the other day, my roommate (who is also a little geeky but also hot and a musician) went wild over them, since she too spends too much time on her laptop. The coasters...
CNN
Cashing in on trash (March 6, 2009)
A college dropout shows how he's turning trash into cash. CNN's Betty Nguyen reports....
Tell It to Al
Trash for cash (March 5, 2009)
I occassionally try to write an uplifting column about business success, particularly in these bleak times.
Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle Inc. in Trenton, N.J., fits this bill.
OK, so he sells woom poop and stuff he makes out of garbage.
But his revenues are growing and he’s bagging deals with huge companies including Kraft Foods Inc. and PepsiCo Inc’s Frito-Lay division. And he appears to have former Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott eating out of his filthy, wormy hands....
Amazon Wizard
Terracycle Recycles Odds, Ends at Popular Retailers (March 5, 2009)
According to GreenBiz.com, Terracycle, an organization known for its creative recycling of everyday trash, will begin rolling out store-specific collection bins at Home Depot, Petco, OfficeMax and Best Buy to encourage consumers to recycle products typically associated with that store.
For example, when you walk into Petco, you may be in …...
Birds and Blooms
Where's Webster? (March 5, 2009)
MARCH CONTEST
30 people will each win a seed starting kit from Terracycle (right). Contest runs from March 1 to March 31, 2009. Winners will be randomly drawn on or around April 1, 2009.
Who is Terracycle? Terracycle works to find innovative ways to make unique products from recycled material. To learn more about Terracycle and their products, visit their Web site. ...
Green Daily
Terracycle Adding New Recycling Options (March 4, 2009)
Wondering what to do with pet food bags, caulking tubes and used paintbrushes? Terracycle wants you to recycle them. The company will be adding recycling bins to Home Depot and Petco locations to collect all sorts of things you didn't think you could recycle.
Home Depot locations will be talking saw blades, nursery pots, furnace filters and paint brushes. The items will be recycled into clocks, sturdier nursery pots and other items.
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Green Daily
Terracycle - Pens Made of Paper and Corn (March 4, 2009)
Terracylce is a super cool company that takes trash -- and worse, i.e. worm poop -- and turns it into useful items, like bags, lawn and garden items, and fertilizer from the worm poop.
I was in Office Max the other day and discovered the latest addition, a line of recycled office products. In many cases the items, themselves are recyclable. In other cases, like the binder which is made of paper and recycled steel, they ask you to send the product back for repurposing when you're done with them. Talk about a dedication to keeping materials out of landfills!
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Wend Blog
TerraCycle: Making Stuff From Trash is Cool (March 4, 2009)
According to the EPA, in 1960 the average American, produced 2.7 pounds of waste per day. In 2003 that number had increased to an eye-popping 4.5 pounds. That’s why the founders of Terracycle decided to do something productive with trash: make things that are not only functional, but lucrative as well.
From pencil cases to worm poop fertilizers to corn pens, Terracycle takes used wrappers, packaging and other waste to turn it into usable products. Maybe the coolest part about Terracycle’s business is that consumers can take part in the process as well by sending in their own waste. Are you a Clif Bar junkie? Save those wrappers, get collection bags from Terracycle and soon, an item that you otherwise would have thrown away, gets turned into a bag. Terracycle accepts a variety...
Vince Blog
Terracycle! (March 4, 2009)
Terracycle! Oh it is such a sweet word. I’ve looked into it and they’re doing some amazing stuff. I recommend that you take a look at it for yourself and you just might be amazed as I was of what you might find. I’ve got a couple of videos, but it doesn’t even start to describe all the cool products they have. They’re trying pretty darn hard to recycle used items that no one would really think about and turn them into useable items. The best part? They’re doing it by environmentally friendly means and the products are pretty amazing and unique. Let’s just take a look at a couple of these products. They carry bags, cleaners, office supplies, pots, and lawn and garden materials. I’m interested and you should be too.
In lawn and garden, terracycle sells all purpose plant...
Brand Packaging
Retote Shopping Bag > Target and TerraCycle (March 4, 2009)
Reusable shopping bags have been the rage for some time. So when TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky watched an online video of someone using an iron to fuse plastic bags together, he was inspired to set a new standard for the eco-friendliness of such bags. > He developed a method to mass produce the fused material he saw online and approached Target with it as a way to reuse customer-returned, misprinted or damaged plastic bags. The result is the Target reTote, which uses 30 used plastic bags per tote in a process said to be more energy and cost efficient than traditional plastic bag recycling (which can cost up to $4,000/ton and results in a polymer that’s worth just a fraction of that). > The shopping tote debuted with support from Newsweek, which asked readers to use the magazine cover as an envelope...
Clean Power TV
Terracycle recycling bins raise money for schools and profit (March 4, 2009)
Recycling bins harvest the raw materials that are turned into products at Terracycle. Founder & CEO Tom Szaky accurately boasts, “We make products out of garbage.” From their signature worm poop fertilizer (packaged in recycled soda bottles) to rain barrels (from used wine barrels) to pencil cases and bags (from used juice pouches) and more.
The benefits of Terracycle’s business model multiply many times over: garbage collection teams raise money for schools and charities, while saving recyclable waste from being deposited in landfills, while making a handsome profit for the company, and offering you affordable green products that are often cheaper than the traditional products. The products are readily available at large retailers everywhere....
1 Green Product
Eco-Friendly Firelogs -- Duraflame Stax, TerraCycle Fire Log and Pine Mountain (March 4, 2009)
TerraCycle Fire Log -- I used to think all cardboard was recyclable, but according to TerraCycle, wax cardboard (which Internet research indicates is used to protect shipments of perishable foods from moisture damage) cannot be recycled and does not readily biodegrade in landfills. Accordingly, TerraCycle has taken that wax cardboard and transformed it into a fire log that it claims will produce little ash or smoke.
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Earth 911
Terracycle Recycles Odds, Ends at Popular Retailers (March 4, 2009)
According to GreenBiz.com, Terracycle, an organization known for its creative recycling of everyday trash, will begin rolling out store-specific collection bins at Home Depot, Petco, OfficeMax and Best Buy to encourage consumers to recycle products typically associated with that store.
For example, when you walk into Petco, you may be in need of a new bag of dog food since your bag at home is empty. Why not bring in the old bag for recycling, while you’re out picking up a new one?...
Home Tips Guide
TerraCycle Wants To Upcycle Your Junk Everywhere (March 4, 2009)
TerraCycle has been on the forefront of upcycling, reinventing everything from candy wrappers to yogurt containers as new, functional products. Now the company is escalating their upcycling efforts with a new program that will collect even more waste items from major chain stores everywhere.
According to GreenBiz, TerraCycle will placing bins in major chains like Petco, Home Depot and OfficeMax to collect used items that customers wish to recycle or dispose of. Each store will...
Explore Baltimore County
St. Ursula recycling contest proves to be a big winner (March 4, 2009)
When St. Ursula School in Parkville stepped up its annual recycling contest this year, the students stepped up, too.
"It's kind of funny, because I can't keep up with the paper," said Kathy Bivons, the school's environmental coordinator and a sixth-grade teacher.
Bivons, who started the school's environmental club a few years ago, estimated that the club collects about 5 tons of paper each year for recycling.
She guessed that this is the fifth year that the school has held a recycling contest.
The difference is in the length of the project. Last year, the school's February recycling contest lasted only a day or two....
Dow Jones
Garbage Mogul Bags Big Deal (March 4, 2009)
Tom Szaky had a billion worms eating cafeteria scraps and squeezing out four tons of worm poop a day when I first ran into him in 2007.
He'd pour the worm waste into used soda bottles, wrap colorful labels around them and sell them as plant food to Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot and other big box stores....
Success
Going for the Green (March 4, 2009)
When TerraCycle co-founder Tom Szaky left his Canadian home to study at Princeton University, he didn't know that, less than a year later he would be knee-deep in garbage- literally. Visiting friends in Montreal and seeing their plants flourish with the addition of worm excrement, Szaky got an idea: He would start a company selling fertilizer created by feeding organic waste to the res wigglers and collecting the product. He called the company TerraCycle...
Traveling the Green Way
Recycling Your Cell Phones? (March 4, 2009)
From business travelers to family travelers, many travelers have old, unused cell or mobile phones
. If you have unused cell phones, you can make a difference for the environment by recycling them.
ReCellular, a leading electronics sustainability firm, and upcycling company TerraCycle have joined forces in a new cell phone recycling program. They launched a new TerraCycle Phone Brigade Program to encourage consumers and organizations to donate cell phones to help kids, communities and the environment.
By late 2009, the partnership hopes to have 1,000 brigades that collect and donate cell phones, raise funds for local causes and keep e-waste from ending up in landfills....
Denver Post
Lewis: Mogul aims to make millions from garbage (March 4, 2009)
Tom Szaky had a billion worms eating cafeteria scraps and squeezing out four tons of worm poop a day when I first ran into him in 2007.
He'd pour the worm waste into used soda bottles, wrap colorful labels around them, and sell them as plant food to Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot and other big-box stores.
Szaky, now 27, dropped out of Princeton University and maxed out all of his credit cards to do this.
Today, his company, TerraCycle Inc. of Trenton, N.J., has spread worm poop to 10,000 major retail outlets across North America. But now he outsources worm-pooping operations to worm farmers in North Carolina so that his company can focus on garbage. ...
Fox Business
Al Lewis: Garbage Mogul Bags Big Deals (March 4, 2009)
Tom Szaky had a billion worms eating cafeteria scraps and squeezing out four tons of worm poop a day when I first ran into him in 2007.
He'd pour the worm waste into used soda bottles, wrap colorful labels around them, and sell them as plant food to Wal-Mart (WMT: 47.95, 0.59, 1.25%), Target (TGT: 26.67, 0.78, 3.01%), Home Depot (HD: 18.862, -0.038, -0.2%) and other big-box stores.
Szaky, now 27, dropped out of Princeton University and maxed out all of his credit cards to do this....
The Great Epoque
TerraCycle: waste at the base of a éco-capitalism (February 27, 2009)
In 2007, the Americans generated 254 million tons of waste domestic and cumbersome. If the rate of recycling and composting doubled since 1990, spending 16% to 33%,137 million tons of waste still came to block the American landfills in 2007. The remainder is incinerated.
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Green Biz
Terracycle Sets Up Waste Collection Bins in Home Depot, Petco (February 26, 2009)
Terracycle, the company that makes fertilizer from worm poop and tote bags from food wrappers, continues to find ways to use non-recyclable items, and this month is rolling out collection bins for products specific to various chain stores.
Petco, OfficeMax, Home Depot and Best Buy stores are some of the retailers in the New York and New Jersey area that will have the collection bins set up in the coming three months for the pilot phase of the program. By mid-2010, Terracycle hopes to have collection bins in 10,000 locations.
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Azurblau
Second Hand made in the USA (February 26, 2009)
Sie kennen Vintage-Kleider aus Second-Hand-Shops und den so genannten Trash Look als Modetrend rebellischer Teenager sowie ausgewachsener Designer. Aber bestimmt kennen Sie noch nicht die geniale Kombination beider Grundgedanken, mit der sich die Öko-Firma TerraCycle aus New Jersey derzeit ein goldenes Näschen verdient. Sie verwandelt die amerikanischen Straßen in Goldgruben.
TerraCycle sammelt Müll und recycelt nicht nur Abfall, sondern verarbeitet ihn zu modischen Accessoires bzw. bereitet weggeworfene Produkte zu neuen auf, die wieder verkauft werden. TerraCycle ist hierzulande am ehesten vergleichbar mit dem Grünen Punkt, jedoch wäre es neu, wenn man in Deutschland ein modisches Statement mit dem Tragen eines Grünen Punktes am Hemdskragen setzen könnte....
Really Natural
Terracycle Upcycles Record Albums and Circuit Boards into Picture Frames, Coasters and Clocks (February 26, 2009)
I love Terracycle, as they are really trying to take hard to recycle items and upcycle them into new products. The most recent products to come out in March feature record albums and circuit boards.
TerraCycle, Inc., the ultimate eco-friendly brand, is introducing the first nationally distributed product line made from upcycled vinyl records and circuit boards. These products are unique and environmentally responsible because they are made from materials that have been rescued from the world's waste stream and would have ended up in already overflowing landfills. ...
Heather's Healthy Environment
Share and Voice: TerraCycle Inc and... SPAM (February 26, 2009)
don't remember how I ran across this because it was before this class and I just happened to have thought it was cool, but I found this awesome company via website that does some majorly cool things! The company is called TerraCycle Inc. It started with just two Princteon students wanted to make a business but keep it ecologically and and socially resonsible. They took solid waste from teh cafeteria at school, and and made plant food which was all-natural, all-organic, and packaged in reused soda bottles!
The company now has all sorts of cleaning products that not only are very appealing to the eye, but they are all environmentally friendly! They as well, are all made out of reused soda bottles!...
Consumer Goods Technology
TerraCycle Innovates (February 25, 2009)
America generates millions of tons of waste yearly and only 10 percent is recycled. So TerraCycle adds circut board frames and vinyl record clocks made from waste to its portfolio. ...
Soaring Mountains Academy
School Fundraiser Opportunity (February 25, 2009)
As many of you know, I am a huge fan of TerraCycle. I’ve bought their products and I highly recommend them. We’re also involved in a few of their brigades. Tyler drinks Honest Kids juices and we save the pouches to send to TerraCycle for recycling. We also eat Bear Naked granola and we save the plastic bags they come in to recycle with TerraCycle.
Yesterday TerraCycle sent me an email regarding a new program that they are launching. It is the TerraCycle School Fundraiser Program. Now I don’t think it is really geared for homeschoolers, but I think it would easily translate to groups and clubs that homeschoolers are a part of. Plus we all know people who attend regular schools who might be interested so feel free to pass on the info....
Green Grown And Sexy
TerraCycle (February 25, 2009)
Terracycle creates amazing products from recycled goods. Terracycle began in 2001. Two Princeton University students (now co-founders of Terracycle) Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer, inspired by a worm box, set out to prove that a business could financially succeed while being ecologically and socially responsible. So far, so good.
The Terracycle Company first began the company selling eco-lawn and gardening products. The products were created out of recycled soda bottles, yogurts cups etc. The company continued by producing all natural cleaners in upcycled soda bottles. Naturally, the natural cleaning ingredients have never been tested on animals and are biodegradable. ...
Sweet Tea And Coffee
TerraCycle Review and Giveaway #4 ~ Natural Bathroom Cleaner (February 25, 2009)
This is the final TerraCycle review and giveaway in a series of 4. Thanks for reading the previous review and entering the giveaways. I had such a great time trying these eco-friendly products and hope it inspires you to check them out as well.
Now on the the natural bathroom cleaner review...I have to admit that while I like my house clean, cleaning in general isn’t really something I enjoy. There I said it. There are a hundred different things I would rather do than clean. However, it is something I just can’t seem to escape. And the bathroom is the one place I really put off cleaning. ...
The Daily Green
Green Fireplace Logs: The Healthy, Natural Way to Heat Your Home (February 25, 2009)
Recycled and natural fireplace logs take off from Duraflame, Pine Mountain, TerraCycle and even Java-Log, made from coffee. Get safer indoor air quality, and check out cool green furniture....
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
The straight poop on a great idea (February 24, 2009)
He was sharing eco-ideas through "Greening Your Garden While Protecting the Planet." As he moved through his Power Point with alacrity, he paused for an occasional story. The one that sent me spinning was related to a product called TerraCycle.
A couple of young men -- Princeton University students -- got this crazy idea to take worm poop and market it. Joe told the story in some length, but the bottom line is that they knew this was a precious commodity. The guys managed to produce it.
A need for containers launched them into going through trash Dumpsters to round up soda bottles to market the moist substance. After that, they contacted companies that already shipped consumer goods, asking for cardboard wastes. Soon, businesses were paying the young men money to haul...
Riding With No Hands
Mama’s got a brand new (used) bag… *giveaway* (February 24, 2009)
I first heard of TerraCycle about a year ago or so, when I opened an issue of Newsweek to see an offer from Target for a free Retote in exchange for mailing in plastic Target shopping bags to TerraCycle. I happened to have several plastic Target bags in my cabinet, so I stuffed them in the makeshift envelope and sent it away. Just a few weeks later I received a coupon in the mail for my free Retote and picked one up at Target soon thereafter. That a was big turning point for me, because it was the very first reusable shopping bag I ever owned. Thanks to that little nudge from TerraCycle I now rarely use plastic bags and have changed some of my family’s other habits in an effort to go green. If you’ve never heard of TerraCycle, I’m thrilled to introduce you to this wonderful company! If...
Sun Herald
Donate Cell Phones to New 'Phone Brigade' Program, an Innovative Recycling Initiative Launched by ReCellular and TerraCycle (February 24, 2009)
ReCellular and TerraCycle encourage consumers and organizations to donate cell phones to help kids, communities and the environment ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- ReCellular, the world's leading electronics sustainability firm, today announced a new strategic partnership with TerraCycle, the upcycling company that has revolutionized the market for recycled goods. By the end of the year, the partnership hopes to have over 1,000 brigades that collect and donate cell phones, raise funds for local causes and keep e-waste out of landfills. The companies have also committed to expand the relationship through additional upcycling opportunities in the future.
The partnership provides a convenient solution for TerraCycle to expand their upcycling efforts to include consumer electronics....
Earth 911
New Partnership Starts ‘Phone Brigades’ (February 24, 2009)
ReCellular, a leading electronics sustainability firm, recently announced a new partnership with TerraCycle to establish over 1,000 “phone brigades” by the end of the year, building on a similar concept previously launched by TerraCycle. The brigades will collect and donate cell phones, raise funds for local causes and keep e-waste out of landfills.
“Economic, social and environmental sustainability have been at the core of our business long before the term ‘triple-bottom line’ was coined,” says Chuck Newman, CEO and founder of ReCellular. “Today, we are proud to be a part of the emerging green economy, and to partner with an innovative company such as TerraCycle. We look forward to expanding this relationship over the coming months.”...
Environmental Leader
TerraCycle Piloting In-Store Waste Collection Points (February 24, 2009)
TerraCycle is running a pilot program in the New York-New Jersey area where it is setting up non-recyclable waste collection systems in the front of major retail stores. If the program is successful, the company plans to have collection systems in more than 10,000 retail locations by mid-2010, writes Tom Szaky of TerraCycle on TreeHugger.
For each unit of waste deposited, TerraCycle and its partnering retailer company donate $0.02 to charity. The waste is then sent to TerraCycle, where its is cleaned up and upcycled into products that can be sold back to the retailer.
The company is currently partnering with retailers such as Petco, OfficeMax, Home Depot, and Best Buy to bring collection systems into their stores nationwide....
The Street
Five Green Businesses You Can Start at Home (February 24, 2009)
We throw away mountains of garbage every day, but much of this garbage can be converted into new products and given another life. TerraCycle may provide a model for the kind of business others can build by making useful things out of what would otherwise be garbage.
"Garbage is one of the few things we pay people to take away from us," says Tom Szaky, founder of TerraCycle. The company started packaging worm poop fertilizer in used plastic soda bottles, and today it's working with big companies like Target (TGT Quote - Cramer on TGT - Stock Picks). ...
David Monn Modern Luxuries
Recycled Products (February 23, 2009)
Here at David Monn, LLC we always strive to recycle as well as reinvent “used” ideas. For a kids’ party a few years back I used an artist’s soda can figures as centerpieces.
And recently, while coming up with party ideas for a very eco-friendly client, we stumbled across a pretty cool company. Developed by two Princeton students in 2001, Terracycle makes recycled products from everyday waste. They sell bags and backpacks, natural cleaners and degreasers, and even fertilizers. Better than that, they make it easy to take your trash—so long as you adhere to the rules of what they’re looking for. They have all sorts of programs that strive to “eliminate the idea of waste”....
Cubico
TerraCycle (February 23, 2009)
Meet one company that has taken the old adage “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” to a whole new level.
Tom Szaky is CEO and founder of TerraCycle, a now multi-million dollar company dubbed "The Coolest Little Start-up in America" by Inc. Magazine. As a broke Princeton University student working from a crowded basement, he created the first mass-produced consumer product made from and packaged completely in waste, an all-organic liquid worm poop fertilizer that proved wildly successful.
Since then, Szaky has created an empire of recycled goods of all sorts including bird feeders converted to plastic soda bottles, ...
Mother Nature Network
TerraCycle redefines American trash (February 23, 2009)
If there were one company on pace to redefine America’s relationship with its trash, it would be Trenton, N.J.-based TerraCycle. The company that began with its signature plant food — made from worm poop, packaged in empty Pepsi bottles and sold at the likes of Home Depot and Wal-Mart — has evolved into an innovation powerhouse that continually introduces new products made entirely from waste.
Take the E-Water trash cans and recycling bins available at OfficeMax for $10.99 each and made from crushed computers and fax machines (that would otherwise end up in a landfill). Or the rainbarrels and composters made from Kendall-Jackson oak wine barrels that sell for $99 each at Sam’s Club. They’re both prime examples of a company that sees opportunity where others see garbage...
Central Florida Green Guide
Make Money By Recycling (February 23, 2009)
Central Florida schools, organizations, churches and businesses who are looking for a way to go green and make some green, too, can sign up to join a Terracycle Brigade and get paid for recycling.
Terracycle has become one of the most respected green businesses in the country, reusing waste so that it never ends up in a landfill and creating quality products at the same time. I recommend their Worm Poop Plant Fertilizer ….it’s an all-natural, organic plant fertilizer created by the droppings of millions of red worms feeding on biodegradeable waste and packaged in a recycled soda bottle....
Organic Gardening
ENTER TO WIN a Seed Starting Kit from TerraCycle, Inc (February 23, 2009)
Easy-to-Use: Ready-to-use, just plant your seed and grow
Eco-friendly: Packaged in a tray made from 100% recycled paper and contains pure worm poop (which is made from organic waste)
Where to use: Indoors or in a greenhouse
How to use: Place your seed in the cell, water frequently and watch it grow. Once it is ready to transplant simply rip off the cell and plant the entire cell. The tray will biodegrade over time.
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American Institute of Graphic Arts
Design A Future Perfect: Cause & Effect (February 23, 2009)
Tricycle Inc. in Chattanooga transformed the interiors industry by improving efficiency and waste reduction in sampling programs. Printed swatches which retained the appearance of the physical sample were used first to promote carpet samples; interior designers would only order physical samples at the very end of the decision making process. Rockport Publishers' book designer for SustainAble kept all the make-readies from the proofing phase to re-use for the book's cover. Bloomberg collaborated with industrial design firm MIO to find a way to re-use old company business cards from employees around the world and turned out a stool design for offices that was functional and sustainable. Twist's sponge packaging can be re-made into a bird feeder or mobile and Terracycle founded the company on...
Green Home Huddler
TerraCycle Vinyl LP Clock (February 23, 2009)
TerraCycle's upcycled Vinyl LP Clock is environmentally responsible because it is made from an actual LP that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill. Each Clock is different, and you might even get one of your favorite albums! Target sells the TerraCycle Vinyl LP Clock for $12.99....
Inhabitat
Is It Green? (February 23, 2009)
VP Albe Zakes of TerraCycle, makers of the “I Used to be a Plastic Bag” bag, also supports the idea of high-end designer reusable totes – as long as they are sustainably manufactured: “Substituting reusable bags for disposable plastic bags is absolutely essential. But not just any reusable bags are good enough,” Zakes said in an email. “Many bags commonly available in North American stores are made from virgin materials and as such, have to be used 100-300 times before they even reach a break even point (estimates I seen have varied, but several hundred times is a safe statement).
“Bags made of natural fibers are an ideal choice, but until we’ve eradicated the common plastic bag, there also has to be a solution to that menace. I’m a fan, as you would expect, of...
Green Home Huddler
TerraCycle Vinyl Record Coaster (February 23, 2009)
TerraCycle's upcycled Vinyl Record Coasters are environmentally responsible because they are made from actual LP's that would have otherwise ended up in landfills. Each coaster is different, and since they're double sided, each 6-pack contains as many as 12 unique designs. You might even get one of your favorite albums! TerraCycle Vinyl Record Coasters can be found at Target for $12.99.
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The Daily Green
TerraCycle Brings Innovative, Fun Recycled Green Products (February 23, 2009)
According to Tom Szaky, co-founder of New Jersey-based TerraCycle, "Garbage is opportunity, garbage is great." Every component of TerraCycle's products -- tote, messenger and lunch bags; office supplies; garden supplies and more -- comes from garbage. "Our contents are garbage, and we package it directly in garbage," explains Szaky.
terracycle recycled, upcycled oreo messenger bag
The company's flagship product, TerraCycle Plant Food, is an all-natural, all-organic, 'goof-proof' liquid plant food made from waste (worm poop). It is packaged in reused soda bottles, so every product on the shelves can look a bit different, turning mass-reproduction capitalism a bit on its head. (You can find their products at Whole Foods, Home Depot, Wal-Mart and elsewhere). ...
NJN
Circuit Board and Vinyl Record Lineup (February 23, 2009)
Circuit Board and Vinyl Record Lineup, and a general TC overview....
Tech Geer
TerraCycle Brings Innovative, Fun Recycled Green Products (February 23, 2009)
According to Tom Szaky, co-founder of New Jersey-based TerraCycle, “Garbage is opportunity, rubbish is great.” Every component of TerraCycle’s products — tote, messenger and lunch bags; office supplies; garden supplies and more — comes from rubbish. “Our contents are rubbish, and we package it directly in rubbish,” explains Szaky.
The company’s flagship product, TerraCycle Plant Food, is an all-natural, all-organic, ‘goof-proof’ liquid plant food made from waste (worm poop). It is packaged in reused soda bottles, so every product on the shelves can look a bit different, turning mass-reproduction capitalism a bit on its head. (You can find their products at Whole Foods, Home Depot, Wal-Mart and elsewhere). ...
Sweet Tea And Coffee
TerraCycle Review and Giveaway #3 ~ Natural Window Cleaner (February 23, 2009)
TerraCycle Natural Window Cleaner Review and Giveaway
We have now arrived at the window cleaning portion of the TerraCycle reviews. If there is one thing I don't mind cleaning too much, it's windows or mirrors. You just spray and wipe, not too much scrubbing involved. So seeing a natural window cleaner in my TerraCyle package was pretty exciting.
Now if you have been reading this blog for any length of time, you probably know that I have a child and a dog. This is why natural cleaning products are so important to our family. And this is just one example why these cleaning products are necessary: We have a door with a large pane of glass overlooking our back patio and yard. To a toddler and dog, this window is like peaking into another world. My dog likes to alert the...
The Crusader
WQSU partners with TerraCycle (February 23, 2009)
A Cubico.com article recently featured WQSU's partnership with eco-friendly waste-conversion company TerraCycle.
WQSU encourages students to recycle foil-lined energy bar and granola wrappers, juice pouches and cookie packaging. Recycling bins are located in various locations around campus including the WQSU office in the lower level of the Degenstein Campus Center.
Cubico publishes articles related to campus life, music, lifestyle and fashion. The site strives to produce high-quality content that is relevant to urban youth. The article mentioning WQSU can be viewed online at cu-bico.com/terra_cycle.php, and for more information on TerraCycle visit terracycle.net....
The Tao Of Change
TerraCycle Makes it Simple to UPCYCLE, RECYCLE (February 23, 2009)
I’m still awed and inspired by the Terracycle eco-capitalist model and their recycling programs. Here’s a bit more about it -
Status Quo (or, How We Got Here) Capitalism: takes raw materials from the earth which causes depletion and destruction of resources and habitats >>> sends it to a factory which uses polluting and wasteful manufacturing processes >>> products go to consumers, most of which end up in landfills.
Eco-Capitalism: Uses garbage as raw material >>> sends to a more sustainably-operated factory >>> products go to consumers >>> products disposed of are recycled and/or turned back into raw material....
Marketing Advocacy
TerraCycle: Turning Garbage Into Gold! (February 23, 2009)
A few weeks (and postings) ago, I had a chance to see the CEO & Founder of TerraCycle.net present at the CORE: club. I was really blown away by their business and curious to see more for myself, so we called them up and asked if we could get a tour.
Today George and I went down to Trenton NJ for a visit and all I can say is... Wow! Wow! And Wow! We spent close to 3 hours today at TerraCycle and the story just keeps getting better.
First, a big shout out to Albe Zakes, TerraCycle's PR whiz (and a great story in his own right - more on that in a future post) for so expertly delivering us the full tour of TerraCycle's facilities and operations....
World Inc.
Social Responsibility (February 23, 2009)
Kraft recognizes that the packaging of its products carries a large ecologic footprint; that is why Kraft has also partnered with TerraCycle Inc. on a packaging-reclamation program for “unrecyclable” items in which the packaging is “upcycled” into new consumer products available at retail stores. TerraCycle Inc. “upcycles” Kraft products like used Capri-Sun drink pouch containers, reclaims, cleans and uses them in new products like tote bags. The TerraCycle Inc. and Kraft Foods partnership is raising awareness about sustainability; product reclamation, reuse and recycle; and using Kraft’s scale and TerraCycle’s creativity to divert waste from landfills. Kraft is working with TerraCycle Inc. on creating a broader national network of collection points, often in partnership with...
Confessions of Complusive Crafter
Weekly Green (February 23, 2009)
TerraCycle, Inc. where you can send in yogurt containers, drink pouches, toasted chip bags, wine corks and even energy bar wrappers for $$$. It may be only a few cents a container but hey, it’s monies! TerraCycle began making Terra Cycle Plant Food™, an all-natural, all-organic, liquid plant food made from worm poop and packaged in reused soda bottles! They make fun recycled things that you can purchase at places like Target, Gardener’s Supply Company, Ideal TrueValue and Clean Air Gardening. ...
From the World
TerraCycle (February 23, 2009)
学在学中に起業、ドロップアウトして大成功･･････IT企業ではこんな話をよく耳にする。今回紹介するテラサイクル社もそういう創業者を持つが、「若きIT長者」のスマートなイメージはない。なにしろ彼は「ゴミ」と「ミミズ」にまみれて働いているのだ。
テラサイクルの創業者兼CEO、トム・スザキーはハンガリー生まれで、７歳のとき両親とともにカナダに移住した。彼は14歳でウェブデザインの会社を興すなどビジネスに強い関心を抱いていたが、当時はまさか「ゴミ」で仕事をすることになるとは思っていなかった。人生を変えたのは、トムが留学していたプリンストン大学での、ある週末の出来事だ。
その日、友人の部屋で行われたパーティに出ていたトムは、キッチンで土の入った容器をみつけた。何に使うものか不思議に思ったトムが友人に聞くと、ワーム・コンポスト（ミミズ堆肥）だと言う。生ゴミをミミズにやると、有機物を分解して排泄物という形で上質な天然肥料をつくってくれるのだ。ゴミが役に立つ素晴らしいものに変身する様に、トムは感銘を受けた。そして彼は「これをビジネスにしよう」と考え始めた。...
Tacoma Green Mama
TerraCycle (February 23, 2009)
Enter TerraCycle (www.terracycle.net). I learned about this company recently. They have a great story on their web site. They're a pair of Princeton grads who decided to start a company to maximize the "triple bottom line." Basically, there are three bottom lines a company can (and should) be concerned about: profit, people, and environment. Conventional wisdom says that the only way to maximize profit is to in some way shortchange people and the environment. That's why none of the most socially conscious companies out there (e.g., Whole Foods, Seventh Generation), while profitable to a degree, are among the top 500 companies in America.
These guys thought they could figure out a way. They started by making fertilizer, but have branched out into a range of gardening supplies, as...
Rants From The Rookery
Cork it. (February 23, 2009)
TerraCycle is saving millions of corks from going into landfills. We are recruiting wine enthusiasts, restaurants, bars, tasting rooms and wineries to keep used corks out of the waste stream. As an eco-friendly innovator, TerraCycle upcycles used corks - both natural and synthetic - into cool products are available nationally at major retailers.
If you normally put corks in the trash, this program gives you a planet friendlier option! Click here for the Cork Brigade FAQ.
Participating in the Cork Brigade is easy! All you have to do is mail corks to TerraCycle! If you have lots of corks, we will pay shipping and provide downloadable shipping labels. Sign up, activate your account, follow the email instructions and voila! You can begin sending corks to TerraCycle and away...
Cat Productions
Greening up lunch (February 23, 2009)
Recently, I found Honest Kids Drinks with information on the box about earning money for schools by recycling the pouches. When I went to the TerraCycle Web site, I found out they also donate money to schools for CapriSun pouches, too. And, CapriSun has 100% juice drinks, so that's good, too.
TerraCycle not only donates 2 cents for every pouch collected, but the company takes the empty juice pouches and make purses, backpacks, messenger bags, etc., which they sell on their Web site. I like supporting a company like that....
Lollies Garden
Starting Over (February 23, 2009)
Almost all the lettuce seedlings were dying so I decided to dump all the bad Hyponex soil and start from scratch. What a mess - I'm not capable of doing anything on the neat side. Soil was all over the kitchen. Good thing I have the Dyson. It picked up almost all the soil on the floor. I mixed Miracle Grow potting mix (not soil) with 1/3 Perlite and replanted a few of the spinach seedlings I had saved and scattered the mesclun seeds. I figured 2 weeks wasted is better than waiting a few more weeks and having them all die. The soil was just too heavy and the seedlings were all damping off and falling over. Hopefully this will work well until it's warm enough to bring the plants outside.
On a good note, this Terracycle plant food is terrific. One of my houseplants is a Yucca and it...
Green God
Major Retail Stores Support Terracycle's Initiative To Non-Recyclable Waste (February 23, 2009)
I was so excited to see this article in Treehugger! I'm sure all of you environmentalists will be looking forward to TerraCycle's non-recyclable waste collection system. This collection system will be set up in front of major big-box companies such as Petco, Home Depot, Best Buy, Office Max. TerraCycle will be collecting the following used items:
* CFLs
* Tape Rolls
* Chaulking Tubes
* Paint Brushes
* Chip Bags
* Candy Wrappers
* Fertilizer and Soil Bags
* Nursery Pots
* Furnace Filters
* Plastic Bags
With each unit of waste, TerraCycle will donate $0.02-0.06 to charity. When these items are collected, TerraCycle will clean them and then upcycle them into products that they may be sold back to Home Depot such as gardening...
Holier Than You
Clif Bar Wrappers (February 23, 2009)
I really don't care for clif bars. I prefer "real food". Sure, they're formulated with all sorts of good stuff but they're pretty nasty - I'd rather find a burrito joint. But they do have their place. Unfortunately the wrappers they come in also have their place - in a landfill. Doh!
I've met plenty of people who make their own energy bars - usually done for costs, but often because they don't want to create all the trash. Since I'm not too into the things in the first place, I tend to take bananas (compostable - but also shipped in from Hawaii or further so not exactly eco-friendly, c'est la vie). But for those wanting to reduce the impact of those damn wrappers - Terracycle - a company that produces organic fertilizer from worm poop and ships it in re-used soda bottles - is recycling...
Trend Hunters
Mass-Market Recycling Initiatives (February 23, 2009)
One of the key reasons recycling
isn’t more widespread is that there are many household items (like paintbrushes, for example) that simply can’t be recycled as easily as bottles or cans. However, a new initiative from TerraCycle hopes to make recycling these items more convenient.
TerraCycle is in the process of rolling out a nationwide waste collection system in big box stores like Home Depot, Petco, Office Max, and Best Buy that allows customers to place non-recyclable items into receptacles at these locations. The waste is then transported to TerraCycle, where it’s cleaned and upcycled into a new product, which is then sold back to the retail stor...
Board Converting News
TerraCycle Finds Use For Waxed Corrugated (February 10, 2009)
For years, waxed corrugated has been the bane of supermarkets, which are forced to separate it from regular OCC and target it for a landfill.
Trenton, New Jersey based TerraCycle, Inc. reported that it has found a new use for waxed corrugated. The company's Eco-Friendly Fire Log, made entirely from products that are seldom recycled, such as wax coated corrugated and poly coated milk cartons, is said to burn cleaner and hotter than wood,"making it an excellent choice for fire places and barbecues," the company said.
Packaged in recycled paper, the log can be lit with one match, burns for around three hours, and produces very little ash and smoke, TerraCycle said.
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Solid Waste & Recycling
Nomacorc and Terracycle partner (February 10, 2009)
Nomacorc, the world’s leading producer of alternative wine closures, announced that it has joined forces with TerraCycle, the eco-friendly company that collects pre- and postconsumer material nationally and “upcycles” it into unique home, office, and school products sold at major North American retailers. Through a joint program, Nomacorc closures collected by TerraCycle nationwide will be collected and upcycled into consumer products.
The products TerraCycle will develop from reprocessed Nomacorc closures will be recyclable and made via low energy consumption means. TerraCycle's upcycled products are currently available in major national retailers including Wal-Mart, OfficeMax, The Home Depot, and Whole Foods. With the early success of TerraCycle's wine closure recycling initiative,...
Great Lakes Green Pages
PetCo Apologizes and the CPD Arrives (February 10, 2009)
We have received several concerns of the length of the paper and it is currently being reviewd by our highest management level at our National Support Center.
One example of PETCO’s effort to GO GREEEN is, in advance of new legislation in the New York area that would require retailers to charge a 5-cent fee for plastic shopping bags – and which may eventually lead to a city or statewide ban on plastic bags, PETCO has teamed up with TerraCycle to place recycling bins in a handful of stores where customers can recycle their plastic shopping and pet food bags. The bags are then packaged up and sent to TerraCycle to be “upcycled” and turned into a variety of other usable products that could eventually be marketed and sold in our stores.
My hope is that you will understand that I in no...
Green Home Huddler
TerraCycle Circuit Board Picture Frames (February 9, 2009)
TerraCycle's upcycled Circuit Board Picture Frames are environmentally responsible because they're made from actual circuit boards that would have ended up in landfills. Every year millions of tons of e-waste are created and only a minuscule portion is recycled. Continuing the Upcycling Revolution, TerraCycle has begun reusing circuit boards to create new products. TerraCycle Picture Frames come in 4"x4" and 4"x6". Sold at Target stores, they retail for $12.99....
Green Home Huddler
TerraCycle Circuit Board Clock (February 9, 2009)
TerraCycle's upcycled Circuit Board Clock is environmentally responsible because it's made from actual circuit boards that would have otherwise ended up in landfills. Every year millions of tons of e-waste are created and only a minuscule portion is recycled. Continuing the Upcycling Revolution, TerraCycle has begun reusing circuit boards to create new products. TerraCycle Circuit Board Clock is available at Target stores, and retails for $12.99.
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Green Home Huddler
TerraCycle Circuit Board Coasters (February 9, 2009)
TerraCycle's upcycled Circuit Board Coasters are environmentally responsible because they are made from actual circuit boards that would have otherwise ended up in landfills. Every year millions of tons of e-waste are created and only a minuscule portion is recycled. Continuing the Upcycling Revolution, TerraCycle has begun reusing circuit boards to create new products. TerraCycle Circuit Board Coasters come in a six-pack, sold in Target stores for $12.99....
Home Grown Peppers
Germinating Hot Pepper Seeds (February 9, 2009)
Warmth is the biggest key in successfully germinating the chile pepper seeds. If you have a very warm spot in your home, like on a radiator, you may be good to go. For the rest of us, a seed germination mat is the best way to safely and gently warm the soil.
Something else I’ve found very useful, which surprised me in my trials, is using Terracycle. Terracycle is a gentle liquid fertilizer made from worm castings. After I moisten my seed-starting mix normally, I plant my seeds. After lightly covering my seeds with more soil mix, I spray Terracyle on the soil to dampen. Then, I give the soil a spritz every 2 or 3 days, to keep things moist.
Between the heat mat and the Terracycle, I’ve been able to shave time off the normal germination period, between 2 and 7 days....
Lou Upcycles
Terra Cycle hits the general public. Brilliant idea! (February 9, 2009)
Hooray for Terra Cycle! Check out their running brigades. Exactly what I'm doing except I'm not a 7 million dollar company who can donate 2 cents a package...
I was heat treating a bag of oreos the other day when i saw it... Brilliant!
Join a brigade, they will send you a collection bag, receive $0.02 per item collected to be donated to the collecting group (albeit a school, church, scouts, etc.)
I have a tear, I am so proud of our mentors, the littlest worm poop that could.
GO ECO-CAPITALISM!!
please read about them and support their cause! (and any wrappers they aren't collecting, you can send them to me. lol.)...
Green Garden
Top ten tips for greening your yard this fall: (February 9, 2009)
Help your lawn make it through the cold and blustery months by winterizing it with fertilizer. Fertilizers help the lawn store vital nutrients that help root development and results in a fuller growth in the spring. Terracycle has a natural lawn fertilizer made from worm poop (sounds gross but works great).
6. Take some time to consider your spring flower garden. Who doesn’t like tulips, daffodils, and irises? It’s best to plant bulbs in late September so they will root well before the ground freezes.
7. Place some all-natural bird feeders out for our feathered friends. Tie a string on a pinecone, slather the pine cone with peanut butter then roll it in birdseed. Hang from a nearby branch and watch the birds flock to their feast. ...
Courier- Journal
Buckner Elementary students reduce, reuse, recycle (February 9, 2009)
While they couldn't decide who should do the lettering, Matt Wedding and his small group had no problem determining what their poster should say.
"How about 'Please TerraCycle Today'?" Matt, a 7-year-old second-grader, said to his Buckner Elementary classmates.
The class also agreed about the importance of helping their teacher Nicole Walker save the planet — one juice pouch at a time.
Walker has signed up her class to work with TerraCycle Inc., a company that pays groups to collect certain types of waste and then turns the trash into other products....
Entrepreneur Magazine
5 Green Businesses You Can Start at Home (February 9, 2009)
We throw away mountains of garbage every day, but much of this garbage can be converted into new products and given another life. TerraCycle may provide a model for the kind of business others can build by making useful things out of what would otherwise be garbage.
"Garbage is one of the few things we pay people to take away from us," says Tom Szaky, founder of TerraCycle. The company started packaging worm poop fertilizer in used plastic soda bottles, and today it's working with big companies like Target. Target disposable bags are transformed into reusable shopping totes, juice pouches are made into lunch boxes, and granola bags into shower curtains. If they do it, they can show you how, too. This business can start out small at home in your garage, but there's plenty of room...
Denver Mountianeering Examiner
Extreme recycling for climbers continued (February 9, 2009)
My previous column on recycling focused on wrapper recycling. Since then the good folks at Clif Bar contacted me directly and shared information about an exciting wrapper recycling program, called Wrapper Brigade.
Announced last February, the goal of the wrapper-recycling program is to “reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials.” This program goes beyond mere collection and recycling of the wrappers, because for each used wrapper received, two cents will be donated to a non-profit or school of your choice. TerraCycle accepts wrappers from a variety of vendors....
Boys Life
Think Twice Before Tossing (February 9, 2009)
Clif Bar and TerraCycle Have Partnered to reduce the number of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills. The two companies will donate $2 to charity for every wrapper collected and recycled by individuals and organizations. Get details at www.boyslife.org/links/terracycle...
Sweet Tea And Coffee
TerraCycle Review and Giveaway #2 ~ Natural All-Purpose Cleaner (February 9, 2009)
I have been wanting to either purchase or make my own natural cleaners, so I was excited to see an all purpose cleaner in the TerraCyle package. I have a child and a pet, so I am really trying to monitor what products come into our home. This cleaner is made from water, natural minerals, and essential oils (all derived from natural sources) that are extremely effective against dirt, grease, and grime. The cleaner is biodegradable and free of toxic chemicals. It DOES NOT contain bleach, sodium hydroxide, butyl cellusolve, isopropanol, or other flammable and/or toxic components. And it is packaged in a waste stream bottle! Who could ask for more in a cleaner?
Now I have to be honest, I wasn't sure how well this all natural business would work. I just always felt the chemicals were...
Race Wheel Rental
Racewheel (February 5, 2009)
If you’re a bike shop, or sporting goods retailer (actually any retailer), you can signup to help reduce waste at landfills. This program takes all ClifBar, Blance Bar, Nature Valley and other granola-ie things (but not candy bar wrappers) and turns them into other things. In exchange for your collection, they will donate 2 cents to the charity of your choice. Republicans will probably hate this “spreading the wealth” - at least my grandparents would - but if you’re a liberal hippie like me, this makes sense and is a good thing. So, sign up at the link above and start reducing waste!!...
Library Journal
Recycled stories, a directory shortage (February 5, 2009)
“Reading through swaths of current titles in the green business genre, one gets a vague sense of déjà vu. Darlings of the ecobusiness movement—e.g., Patagonia, Interface Inc., General Electric—deservedly get a lot of coverage. Still, this field is relatively fresh, and there's not yet a lot of new business success stories from which to draw. This looks to be changing: TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky's upcoming Revolution in a Bottle (see below) could be an auspicious sign of things to come.”...
David Duchovny, Why Won't you Love Me?
first day of school (February 5, 2009)
And I finally got my mail from Terracycle! What is Terracycle, you ask? Well, it's this movement/organization to collect and then re-purpose energy bar wrappers and other food containers that are not normally recyclable. There are a few different collections, but I'm participating in the one for energy bars. There are only so many Clif Bars that I can eat, so donations of empty wrappers are much appreciated! For each wrapper, Clif Bar and Balance Bar donate 2 cents to a non-profit, such as Second Harvest. What wrappers are acceptable?
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