Tom Szaky planted the seed for TerraCycle in his dorm room at Princeton University in 2001. The then-college-freshman discovered the organic fertilizing properties of worm poop, and with it realized a sustainable way to turn waste into a sellable product. Szaky dropped out of Princeton to found TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing eco-companies in the world. TerraCycle is eliminating “the idea of waste” by creating collection and solution systems for traditionally landfill-bound materials. TerraCycle converts their collected waste into a wide variety of products to be sold by major retailers like Walmart and Whole Foods Market. To date, TerraCycle has collected waste from more than 20 million people, diverted billions of units of waste from landfills, and created over 1,500 different upcycled products for sale in the marketplace.