Founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, Terracycle is an award winning international upcycling and recycling company that collects hard to recycle packaging and transforms them into clean, usable materials and products.  Terracycle collects products such as candy wrappers, cigarette butts, chip bags, toothbrushes, old shoes, ewaste, dairy containers and a lot more and then upcycles them into items such as lunchboxes, binders, furniture, notebooks, gift items and more.

I was offered to do review for TerraCycle, a company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and re-purposes the material into affordable, innovative products. Some of the products they make just amazed me, I love the idea of reinventing old unused items, so I was very excited to be able to review these items.

A global upcycling and recycling company called TerraCycle has recently launched onto the New Zealand market. They are already operating in 23 countries, where they run free recycling programmes for more than 75 different difficult-to-recycle rubbish items. In New Zealand, the company will be recycling confectionary wrappers and for each item, two cents will be donated to a school or charity organisation of the collector’s choice.