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VES Student Coordinates Recyclable Brigade for TerraCycle

TerraCycle Include USA GoGoSqueeze
Many of us wonder if there is more we can do to help the environment. But Owen Zacherau, a fourth grader at Village Elementary School (VES), put his concern into action by running a GoGo Squeez Brigade throughout last school year. He collected over 1000 of the snack pouches and sent them to TerraCycle to be recycled into other products. And with the credits he earned, he donated to charities which help the environment and other schoolchildren. TerraCycle was started by Tom Szaky in 2002 while he was a freshman at Princeton University. The company's first office was at 20 Nassau Street. Two years later, it relocated to Trenton to be closer to Bordentown, where Rutgers University's EcoComplex conducts research on "green" business development and alternative energy innovation.