Nine years later, Szaky, now 28, runs one of the fastest-growing eco-friendly manufacturers in the world. TerraCycle Inc. runs collection programs for what are commonly thought of as nonrecyclable waste materials, saving thousands of tons of waste from landfills and making things like picture frames from old bicycle chains, backpacks from cookie wrappers, and tote and messenger bags from drink pouches.

Recycling machines and reverse vending machines are still fairly new -- recently I wrote about a couple of cool ones <http://news.discovery.com/tech/recycling-machines-give-back-to-greenies.html>  arriving at college campuses and other locations around the country. Unlike those, however, the "Store Collection Systems" at Wal-Mart are made by TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> , which runs national waste materials collection programs for schools and nonprofits. The company makes eco-friendly products, including bags, coolers, and kites from materials like discarded energy bar wrappers and yogurt cups. I'm definitely a TerraCycle fan, first hearing about it back in 2007 when a colleague of mine at a short-lived online magazine interviewed founder Tom Skazy. The magazine is gone, but I still have an electronic copy of the Q&A.

Princeton entrepreneur wants to rid the globe of most of its trash The heart of Princeton resident Tom Szaky’s $20-million-a-year business empire is an old printing plant at 121 New York Ave. in Trenton, where most of the company’s 75 employees work, at desks made of old doors, with a computer network cobbled together from other companies’ obsolete hardware, with dividers made of old vinyl hip-hop records and empty soda bottles, and in some cases walking on floor tiles made of processed plastic and aluminum juice pouches.

Gruma Corporation with its Guerrero brand, one of the biggest tortillas and tostadas producers in the United States, has created a partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. to collect and reuse tortillas and tostadas plastic packaging through The Brigade of Tortillas and Tostadas program. This is the first time that a tortillas and tostadas brand, focused in the United States Hispanic market, has developed this kind of campaign.

Elementary school joins nationwide recycling effort MAHOPAC: After seeing a lot of discarded Capri Sun pouches, teachers at Fulmar Road Elementary School signed up to recycle them through a company called TerraCycle. The school earns two cents per pouch. The move is part of a nationwide effort that has just reached the milestone of keeping 50 million pouches out of landfills.

Students at Northern Elementary School, St. Philip’s School and Bemidji Area Schools’ Kids and Company/SummerKids program are collecting items like drink pouches, candy wrappers, chip bags, plastic baggies and plastic containers and earning their schools 2 cents for each piece of waste they send to TerraCycle, a company that makes eco-friendly products from packaging waste.

A set of New Jersey Wal-Mart parking lots now have a way to turn consumer product waste into profits. (Well, a little pocket change, anyway.)  Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  has installed what they call "Store Collection Systems," a 20-foot trailer that accepts all kinds of packaging that can't be recycled in the normal blue bin outside your house. Then they take the mostly plastic waste—like Elmer’s glue bottles, toothpaste tubes, Capri Sun drink pouches—and turn them into products to resell in stores and online. They make mostly bags, pouches and coolers, but a few other items like picture frames and fertilizer, too.

GREEN minded charity groups in Crosby are being offered the chance to raise money and help the environment. Terracycle is working with Danone yoghurts and they have launched a new programme collecting yogurt pots and they are seeking to engage schools and community groups in Crosby.

Det amerikanska miljöföretaget TerraCycle har inlett ett unikt samarbete med Kraft Foods i Sverige. Efter att ha njutit en kopp Gevalia kan konsumenterna skicka in sina Tassimo kaffekapslar som TerraCycle återvinner eller omvandlar till bland annat handväskor och högtalare. Den nästan obefintliga konkurrensen på den Svenska marknaden inom segmentet gynnar bolaget. ”Det som förvånar oss är att det inte finns någon annan som gör som vi”, säger Chris Baker, vd och ansvarig för TerraCycles verksamhet i Europa. ”Vi siktar in oss på det skräp som ingen annan vill ha.”

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