The BP oil spill has nothing on the hundreds of miles of garbage floating in the Atlantic Ocean <http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0820/Huge-Atlantic-garbage-patch-still-holds-mysteries> , and its bigger sibling, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch> , a plastic-soup in the Pacific Ocean estimated to span the size of the continental U.S. Our oceans are our landfills, a fact that nags at me with every take-out container and other piece of trash I dispose of in my kitchen. I’m just one person making all this trash, and my internal-dialogue now sounds like the hitchhiker woman in Five Easy Pieces: “Pretty soon there won’t be room for anyone!”

You read that right, TerraCycle turns all your old, unwanted trash into cool gadgets <http://www.techeblog.com/#>  like clipboards, insulated coolers, fences, and more. In technical terms, TerraCycle "makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials." Videos after the break.

Teracycle is a private business founded in 2001 by two freshmen of Princeton University, Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer. It specializes in making consumer products from used and discarded materials. The green company is working to save the planet earth and setting an example for the rest of the world to follow. It started of its operations by creating a continuous flow process to take garbage from several areas and have it processed by the worms into fertilizer. It later expanded its span of operation and diversified its production into ‘up-cycling’; producing a range of consumer products from post-consumer content such as making children’s backpacks from used Capri-Sun drink pouches.

If you happened to tune into the National Geographic Channel last evening between 8-11 pm, then you would have witnessed what many environmentally friendly individuals are calling the coolest, most innovative company to sprout up in a long time.  The company, Terracycle, is a recycling company with a twist.

TerraCycle Toothpaste Tube Toothbrush Holder Upcycle your toothpaste tubes into this fresh bathroom caddy By: Tiffany Threadgould Materials: 5 empty toothpaste tubes scissors ruler clear tape hole punch ribbon or plastic lanyard binder clips

The consort that overturned Cheetos bags into MP3 speakers is today transforming metropolis Cheetah into 32-gallon substance cans. New Jersey-based recycling consort TerraCycle is teaming up with Pioneer Plastics army to attain heavy-duty belittle cans discover of recycled impressible that was erst defect bags. The cans are 80 proportionality post-consumer–most of the touchable is from defect bags composed by TerraCycle’s Chip Bag Brigade program. About 20 proportionality is from scraps of foam lively cut that are remaining in the creation of useable diapers.

8/7c National Geographic This new docu-reality series follows an ingenious group of eco-capitalists at TerraCycle, Inc., a green business that creates and sells products made from non-recyclable waste materials. In the first episode of a three-hour marathon, Pedigree challenges the TerraCycle crew to develop a line of pet products. With a strict two-week deadline, the participants quickly get to work, collecting hundreds of old dog-food bags and using them to make a variety of products, from leashes and collars to dog toys and rain gear. The other episodes’ tasks: build a garbage can from potato chip wrappers, design fishing lures from old CDs and make a suit jacket out of Target shopping bags. — Karen Andzejewicz

National Geographic Channel’s “Garbage Moguls” isn’t your conventional New Jersey-based reality series. Instead <http://jodiyoung.blog.com/>  of peddling trashy <http://jodiyoung.blog.com/>  behavior twin “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” or even trashier outfits <http://jodiyoung.blog.com/>  feel favourably impressed <http://healthquestions.blog.com/>  by Snooki and her gang, “Garbage Moguls” celebrity and TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky deals with actual, unvarnished garbage. “There’s a unchanging <http://worldhealthlife.weebly.com/3/post/2010/01/the-health-supplements-are-now-getting-mountainous-popularity-among-the-youths-and-adults.html>  affable of irony <http://everxjen84.tigblog.org/post/1933197>  there,” Szaky tells The News. “Our show wasn’t picked up because it’s based in New Jersey, but it’s an terrifying synchrony that just as Jersey is getting big in the sphere of genuineness TV, our show is trying to make a regulate for it.

If you happened to tune into the National Geographic Channel last evening between 8-11 pm, then you would have witnessed what many environmentally friendly individuals are calling the coolest, most innovative company to sprout up in a long time. The company, Terracycle, is a recycling company with a twist. TerraCycle, which was founded back in 2001 by a 19 year old Princeton University student named Tom Szaky works wonders with garbage. The company collects certain products such as potato chip bags, juice packs, gum packages, old cell phones, etc, and turns them into amazing products like recycling bins, coolers, fences, cork boards and more. They actually donate money to charity for people like you and I to send them certain pieces of trash. They even pay for the shipping and handling. Thus far they have collected an estimated 1.8 billion units of trash from over 10 million individuals, and have donated over $1.2 million to charities.

What do you do when you run out of rich, money hungry media whores to cast for a reality show, or even better yet, guidos and guidettes running the town with the poofs and pecks? You pick the next best thing, garbage men. Or in this case, garbage moguls, who take to heart that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure.