What is upcycling? According to a very cool company, TerraCycle, upcycling is defined as using every aspect of waste as value. Every year billions of drink pouches and candy wrappers and of in dumpsters and landfills across America. Check out these items below and see upcycling in action. See the volunteering section at highschoogle to learn more about how you can be part of TerraCycle’s Brigade movement, by starting a club at your school.
What is upcycling? According to a very cool company, TerraCycle, upcycling is defined as using every aspect of waste as value. Every year billions of drink pouches and candy wrappers and of in dumpsters and landfills across America. Check out these items below and see upcycling in action. See the volunteering section at highschoogle to learn more about how you can be part of TerraCycle’s Brigade movement, by starting a club at your school.
What is upcycling? According to a very cool company, TerraCycle, upcycling is defined as using every aspect of waste as value. Every year billions of drink pouches and candy wrappers and of in dumpsters and landfills across America. Check out these items below and see upcycling in action. See the volunteering section at highschoogle to learn more about how you can be part of TerraCycle’s Brigade movement, by starting a club at your school.
Named the No 1. CEO under thirty by Inc. magazine in 2006 for his innovative approach to fertilizer and recycled goods, in the two years that followed (2007-2009) Tom Szaky went on to write about 30 blogitles for Inc. and a book that surely has more than 30 pages – Revolution in a Bottle.
Now it’s 2011 and he’s still under 30 but he’s worth at least 30 times 30 more than he was at the start of 2006. Tom, a Princeton drop-out, is a man on a mission to run a fully sustainable company. While he was still in his dorm room he was dreaming up TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing private companies named by Inc. magazine in 2009.
TerraCycle donates 2 cents to the school or charity of your choice for every piece of waste collected through its Brigade program. As of July 2010, Brigade participants could earn five times donation credit on their first shipment. That means the first 25 pieces in a large shipment you send is credited at 10 cents each. The rest is credited at the standard rate.
Named the No 1. CEO under thirty by Inc. magazine in 2006 for his innovative approach to fertilizer and recycled goods, in the two years that followed (2007-2009) Tom Szaky went on to write about 30 blogitles for Inc. and a book that surely has more than 30 pages – Revolution in a Bottle.
Now it’s 2011 and he’s still under 30 but he’s worth at least 30 times 30 more than he was at the start of 2006. Tom, a Princeton drop-out, is a man on a mission to run a fully sustainable company. While he was still in his dorm room he was dreaming up TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing private companies named by Inc. magazine in 2009.
Named the No 1. CEO under thirty by Inc. magazine in 2006 for his innovative approach to fertilizer and recycled goods, in the two years that followed (2007-2009) Tom Szaky went on to write about 30 blogitles for Inc. and a book that surely has more than 30 pages – Revolution in a Bottle.
Now it’s 2011 and he’s still under 30 but he’s worth at least 30 times 30 more than he was at the start of 2006. Tom, a Princeton drop-out, is a man on a mission to run a fully sustainable company. While he was still in his dorm room he was dreaming up TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing private companies named by Inc. magazine in 2
A few months ago my mom called me and told me that she nominated me as a mom who makes an environmental difference for a contest that Terracycle was holding. This week I received a phone call from Terracycle saying that I am one of the top 4 nominees, and that the public would vote for the winner. The contest and voting is through Terracycle's facebook page. You can go here to view all 4 nominees:
http://www.facebook.com/TerraCycle?v=app_6009294086. You can go here to vote for your favorite Make A Difference Mom:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C996JST. Of course I would like for you to vote for me, but I would understand if you didn't. It truly is an honor to be one of the top 4 nominees.
On the national level a company called TerraCycle believes in a bold goal of eliminating the very idea of waste. Through an extensive network of collection and manufacturing locations, Terracycle is teaming with organizations to have schoolchildren collect trash products such as Ziploc bags, candy wrappers, chip bags, drink pouches and toothpaste tubes — paying 2 cents per product to the charity of their choice.
These materials, rather than going to a landfill, are diverted into manufacturing to produce products such as coolers, trashcans, benches, and even fences. Started in 2001 by a college student, TerraCycle has already collected more than a billion different waste products and turned them into a range of products that are sold at stores like Walmart and Whole Foods. So far they have yielded more than $1 million for charity, and the numbers continue to grow.
The strategic partners announced today include the upcoming film documenting Muhammed Yunus' To Catch a Dollar, Eileen Fisher, Lifetime Networks, Seventh Generation, Dansko, Terracycle, Mary's Gone Crackers, Step Up Women's Network, and Geena Davis, Julia Ormond, Isobel Coleman and Nicholas Kristof and his best-selling book Half the Sky.
