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The Role of Profit in a Social Business

As I reflected on the end of 2012, I decided to write a letter to our more than a hundred employees around the world to discuss the role profits play at TerraCycle. TerraCycle is a social business, which means that we focus on the so-called triple bottom line: planet, people and profits. For us, this has meant creating a business model that involves capturing nonrecyclable waste — like chip bags or diaper packaging — before it goes to a landfill or incinerator and finding a way to recycle, upcycle or reuse it. Basically, we’re giving garbage a second life by creating a system for otherwise nonrecyclable waste to be recycled.

Webinar: Turning Waste Packaging Into Massive Equity

There is profitability in waste. Join Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, as he shares his thoughts on the state of sustainable packaging and the paths he sees for the CPG industry in the face of the rising costs of resources, packaging taxes and EPR laws. He will tell how TerraCycle has helped hundreds of brands turn wasted packaging into massive brand equity and consumer engagement.

Recycling with TerraCycle helps United Way of the Tri-Valley Area

FARMINGTON — The plastic No. 6 Solo cup that holds an icy cold beverage this summer can become a 10-cent donation to the United Way of the Tri-Valley Area. Through a special summer promotion by TerraCycle's UpCycle recycling program, the local United Way gets donations for each cup. It has already received $62.60 for its first shipment of 626 Solo cups, Lisa Laflin, executive director, said. Normally the cups might bring a cent or two but through August, they are worth 10 cents, she said. When Sarah Martin visited the United Way looking for ways to give back to the community, conversations led to ways to support the organization, Laflin said. Martin is also a member of the Sustainable Coalition at the University of Maine at Farmington. After talking with Laflin and meeting with the coalition, Martin volunteered to organize the recycling program and named the United Way as the beneficiary, Laflin said.

לקראת יום כדור הארץ: שיתוף פעולה בין שטראוס לחברת המחזור העולמית טרהסייקל

חברת המחזור הבינלאומית – טרהסייקל – מגיעה לישראל בכדי למחזר זרמי פסולת בלתי-מתכלים – כגון, שקיות חטיפים – ולייצר מהם מוצרים ידידותיים לסביבה.