It’s back-to-school time, so make sure the young people in your life are equipped with a backpack that helps preserve the future for them – and looks cool too. TerraCycle’s durable “Billboard Amped Backpack” ($24) which is made of used billboard vinyl (and a reclaimed seat belt), helps advertise that they care about the planet. It’s also water-resistant, comes with a lifetime warranty, and is made in El Salvador. Since each pack is unique, however, you won’t know which color you’ll get until you get it.
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 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.
Are you tired of every child in the school having the same back pack? Would you like for your child to have something different and unique this year? Would you also like to help the environment by diverting trash from our nation's landfills?
The obvious choice is Back To School with TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> . They have many back to school items all made from recycled materials. My 8yr old received the Yak Pak Backpack
Would you believe Yak Paks <http://www.terracycle.net/products/77-Yak-Pak-Backpack> are made of recycled billboards? Every one of these is an original one of a kind backpack. Because it's made of vinyl, it's water resistant and can handle everyday wear and tear. Some of the features include an integrated protective sleeve for laptop computers with screens up to 15.6" and adjustable straps.
“Send us your trash – we’ll make it into cool products.” That's the simple premise and promise aof New Jersey-based startup TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> , a green recycler founded by two former Princeton University classmates who dreamed up the idea in 2001 for a business plan contest.
Reality shows have taken over television, like a virus or a breath of fresh air, depending on your perspective. And we're about to add to that mix with Garbage Moguls.
But first, I'd like to pay homage to Planet Green. Love it or lump it, it has done more, earlier than any other media outlet to bring green thinking, living and acting to the masses. Rather than consign green minded TV to the dusty DVD collections of hippies low budget environmentalist skewed programs, Planet Green took the lead to make it appealing, useful, relevant and yes, sexy. Nothing wrong with a little sex appeal to grease the gears, I say!
Alter Eco is a prime example. Adrian Grenier (of Entourage fame) has proven to be a visible, committed advocate of living greener, and this show sees him with a team of people doing both lifestyle and home makeovers. Sure, for some of you that's eye roll inducing. For many others, it speaks their language and gets them in the conversation, which is the point here.
An eco-friendly company named Terracycle is literally turning trash into treasure. The New Jersey company, founded by a Princeton University dropout named Tom Szaky, collects product packaging that would normally end up in a landfill and creates products that are not only friendly to the environment, but also good for the schools and non-profit organizations that receive donations from Terracycle as a result.
The BP oil brief has zero upon a hundreds of miles of rubbish floating in a Atlantic Ocean, as well as a bigger sibling, a Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a plastic-soup in a Pacific Ocean estimated to camber a distance of a continental U.S. Our oceans have been a landfills, a actuality which nags during me with each take-out enclosure as well as alternative square of rabble we draw up of in my kitchen. I’m usually a single chairman creation all this trash, as well as my internal-dialogue right away sounds similar to a hitchhiker lady in Five Easy Pieces: “Pretty shortly there won’t be room for anyone!”
The BP oil brief has zero upon a hundreds of miles of rubbish floating in a Atlantic Ocean, as well as a bigger sibling, a Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a plastic-soup in a Pacific Ocean estimated to camber a distance of a continental U.S. Our oceans have been a landfills, a actuality which nags during me with each take-out enclosure as well as alternative square of rabble we draw up of in my kitchen. I’m usually a single chairman creation all this trash, as well as my internal-dialogue right away sounds similar to a hitchhiker lady in Five Easy Pieces: “Pretty shortly there won’t be room for anyone!”
The Terracycle is playing a vital role in the cleaning of the Gulf of Mexico and the company’s employees are cleaning up the mess caused by oil spill. The CEO of the company will appear on a show on National Geographic channel, the show airs tonight and a lot of people will be watching the show. Tom Szaky, the CEO of the Terracycle will show that how the trash can be used to make very cool useable things and instead of throwing away the trash we can make use of it. You should go and watch the new show on the National Geographic channel as Tom will teach many new things and will also encourage the people to become environmental friends.
