Garbage is irresistible to some of the most devoted eco-entrepreneurs. Already old hat are the many crafts industries producing purses and totes made out of tossed-out potato chip packages and bottle pop tops. Always looking for new notions, recycling firm TerraCycle has a 25,000-square-foot warehouse in New Jersey stuffed with old Skittles bags to fabricate into kites, Capri Sun juice pouches for backpacks and chip bags converted into coolers. The company makes pet toys and garments out of emptied dog food bags and is seeking constructive uses for expired pills, old pill bottles and razor blades.
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IMC Licensing announced a representation agreement with TerraCycle, a green company that collects non-recyclable and difficult-to-recycle materials and then turns the waste into affordable, eco-friendly products.
Under the agreement, IMC Licensing will represent TerraCycle partners’ pre- and post-consumer packaging waste that the company "upcycles" into new products. TerraCycle's current partners include many global brands. As a result of the agreement with IMC Licensing, this packaging waste will be available to licensees to create new consumer products such as bags, gifts, toys and a variety of school, home, office, garden and pet supplies.
IMC Licensing, the nation's leading full-service licensing agency specializing in consumer product brands, announced today that it has entered into a representation agreement with TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing green companies in the world.
TerraCycle provides free collection programs for non-recyclable and difficult-to-recycle materials and then turns the waste into affordable, eco-friendly products. By upcycling and recycling traditionally non-recyclable waste (drink pouches, chip bags, toothbrushes and much more) into various consumer products and materials, the company keeps waste out of landfills and contributes to a cleaner world. TerraCycle products are available at major retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target as well as online.
In CEO Tom Szaky's office, the table are made of recycled dorrs, the walls are built of empty soda bottles, and an arsenal of Nerf weapons is kept close at hand. Shooting wars break out from time to time between the boss and a militia of fresh-faced TerraCyclers.
