“Garbage Moguls” 8, 11 p.m. (NATGEO) 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 opener, Pedigree challenges the TerraCycle crew to develop a line of pet products, with a strict two-week deadline.

Here's tonight's lineup of new shows and events (all times Eastern). Check your local TV listings for additional information. Not bad tonight. A CNN update on New Orleans, the premiere of 'Garbage Moguls' and a SyFy Saturday movie with 'Eureka' star Colin Ferguson. 8:00 to 9:00 NatGeo: 'Garbage Moguls'* 9:00 to 10:00 NatGeo: 'Garbage Moguls' 10:00 to 11:00 NatGeo: 'Garbage Moguls' * = Series/Season Premiere

Garbage Moguls 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: create a garbage can from potato chip wrappers and make a suit jacket out of Target shopping bags.

Recycled TV We're not talking the usual copycat concepts, familiar plots and washed up stars here. Garbage Moguls explores a more creative kind of recycling, where smart folks at New Jersey's TerraCycle turn trash like juice packets, dog food bags and old CD's into chic handbags, pet clothers and, ironically, garbage cans.

Back for season two, National Geographic channel's "Garbage Moguls" aims to do more than just turn doggy junk into doggy toys. TerraCycle wants to "upcycle" your mind. Photo: Terracycle One man’s trash is another man’s … idea for a TV show? Garbage  Moguls, the show where one little company turns trash into  “upcycled” consumer goods, is back for season two. Episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4  will air on the National Geographic channel on Saturday, Aug. 21 from  7:00-11 p.m.

The company that turned Cheetos bags into MP3 speakers <http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10382623-1.html>  is now transforming Chester Cheetah into 32-gallon garbage cans. New Jersey-based recycling company TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  is teaming up with Pioneer Plastics USA <http://www.pioneerplasticsusa.com/>  to make heavy-duty trash cans out of recycled polypropylene that was once chip bags.

New Jersey is a popular topic of reality TV these days -- we see Snooki hanging out The Situation in Seaside Heights, Teresa Giudice flipping tables inside of a restaurant, and "Cake Boss <http://www.tlc.com/cake-boss> " Buddy Valastro squabbling with some of his siblings inside of Carlo's Bakery.

-- Tonight's installment of "Garbage Moguls" (8 p.m., Saturday, National Geographic) follows the intrepid employees of TerraCycle, innovative recyclers and product designers who fashion new items out of the stuff the rest of us throw away. 

Tonight's challenge is to make a line of pet products from discarded dog-food bags.

-- Tonight's installment of "Garbage Moguls" (8 p.m., Saturday, National Geographic) follows the intrepid employees of TerraCycle, innovative recyclers and product designers who fashion new items out of the stuff the rest of us throw away. Tonight's challenge is to make a line of pet products from discarded dog-food bags.

GARBAGE MOGULS — After they are approached by the Pedigree company, the young mavericks of TerraCycle stretch their imaginations to create an entire line of pet products fashioned from dog food bags, including toys, leashes and collars, dog beds, and even clothes for canines. After several product designs falter, though, the team is thrown into a last-minute scramble for viable products to pitch. (8 p.m., National Geographic Channel)