Whether or not you are an avid crafter, you've probably noticed a recent surge in upcycled online craft projects. Many objects thrown out each year have no place in the traditional google_protectAndRun("ads_core.google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad); <http://ads.associatedcontent.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a14de4a9&cb=1125377693> recycling <http://www.associatedcontent.com/theme/607/recycling.html>  stream; and skilled artisans are learning the value of those disposed of items as craft materials. Crafters make upcycled jewelry <http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1685907/creating_green_jewelry_turn_a_target.html?cat=7> , upcycled handbags and hats <http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5579250/upcycling_plastic_bags_into_marketable.html?cat=24> , upcycled clothing and more. The upcycling process adds value to objects that would have eventually found their way into a trash heap.

Terracycle, a New Jersey-based startup that upcycles trash into useful everyday items, has popped up on our radar many times over the past year. Because really, how can you not pay attention to a company that turns Frito Lay chip bags into speakers <http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/terracycle-upcycles-frito-lay-bags-tasty-speakers>  and makes kites out of Oreo packaging? Apparently, we aren’t the only ones with an eye on Terracycle. The company’s latest antics will be available for a national audience beginning tonight, when Season 2 of Garbage Moguls premieres on the National Geographic Channel.

Terracycle, a New Jersey-based startup that upcycles trash into useful everyday items, has popped up on our radar many times over the past year. Because really, how can you not pay attention to a company that turns Frito Lay chip bags into speakers <http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/terracycle-upcycles-frito-lay-bags-tasty-speakers>  and makes kites out of Oreo packaging? Apparently, we aren’t the only ones with an eye on Terracycle. The company’s latest antics will be available for a national audience beginning tonight, when Season 2 of Garbage Moguls premieres on the National Geographic Channel.

TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based startup that upcycles trash into useful everyday items, has popped up on our radar many times over the past year. Because really, how can you not pay attention to a company that turns Frito Lay chip bags into speakers <http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-schwartz/sustainability/terracycle-upcycles-frito-lay-bags-tasty-speakers>  and makes kites out of Oreo packaging? Apparently, we aren't the only ones with an eye on TerraCycle. The company's latest antics will be available for a national audience beginning tonight, when Season 2 of Garbage Moguls premieres on the National Geographic Channel.

There are so many people who are still concerned about the environment and Terracycle is the company being appreciated. The company is considered to be the innovative company. It recycles the products and makes the environment eco-friendly. National Geographic Channel aired the show in its prime time regarding Terracycle.

New eco-friendly 32 gallons garbage cans are made out of recycled chip bags and scraps of rubber elastic trimming leftovers, from the disposable diapers' production. The promoters of this kind of recycling are the same that made out of Cheetos bags, a New Jersey-based recycling company named TerraCycle.

We flipped past it then came back and saw this ignorant pair making fishing lures. While I respect their upcycle practices I had to stop my boyfriend from going into a tirade of how this was possibly the dumbest thing he has ever seen. But why? They’re upcycling!  That’s like recycling and it’s good for the environment that the CD’s aren’t in a landfill!

Ladies & gents, we know we don’t need to tell you, again, how we frigging love scooping up goods that would have otherwise lived in the trash, and then turn them into ridiculously cool merch <http://whiteapplethreads.etsy.com> . We know you already know.  Instead, today we’re giving a shout out to another rad group of folks who also take some trash and turn it into treasure….

The biggest recycling challenge for the world's largest coffee shop chain is convincing mills to accept more paper coffee cups, which most places put in landfill and a handful -- including Seattle and Bellingham-- recycle or compost. Starbucks' goal is to have all the communities where it owns shops communities be able to recycle coffee cups by 2015 -- a very big deal for a company that goes through 3 billion paper cups (and 1 billion plastic ones) a year.

Paul Smith wrote a series of articles about Terracyle <http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/28/home-depot-and-petco-targeted-for-terracycles-newest-recycling-efforts/>  last year.  Founded by Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer in 2001 while students at Princeton, Terra Cycle <http://www.terracycle.net/bb/>  started as a way to spread the benefits of vermicomposting (that is, composting <http://kellibestoliver.greenoptions.com/wiki/composting>  with worms) to a larger audience. Szaky and Beyer were eventually able to earn startup funds, and by 2004, Home Depot <http://www.homedepot.com/>  was carrying Terra Cycle <http://www.terracycle.net/bb/>  Plant Food <http://www.terracycle.net/products.htm>  on their website.