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: 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

Forget “Jersey Shore” or the “Housewives of New Jersey”, the “trashiest” show to come out of New Jersey yet will be showed on the National Geographic channel on August 21. “Garbage Moguls” will be a three episode special that will take an inside look into how  TerraCycle, a New Jersey based recycling company, works. The company specializes in making consumer products from recycled material and trash, such as making backpacks from Capri-Sun packages. The company was founded in 2001 and since then has become one of the top 100 most innovative companies.

So what can you win? Well a fabulous package mailed from our friends at Terracycle. You know I love terracycle and my alarm is set to go off so I do not miss a second of this weekends fabulous reality TV show Garbae moguls on National Geographics so when they said they would provide me with a prize I just about lost it. What will the winner of Stashbusting September win a fabulous messanger bag made out of a billboard :

If you are like me you want to know what the wonderful Stashbusting September prizes are and how you can win them. What is Stashbusting September you ask? A chance to bust through your stash of crafting goodness while pledging to not buy any new crafting materials. A  bunch of bloggers <http://www.thetshirtdiaries.com/2010/08/stashbusting-september-giveaway.html#>  are jumping on board and I know you are next (yes you reading this saying, but I can't not shop at GW).  So sign up now for Stashbusting September <http://www.thetshirtdiaries.com/2010/08/stashbusting-september-blogs.html>  .

Terracycle makes a fantastic water-resistant messenger bag ($17.99 <http://www.dwellsmart.com/Products/TerraCycle-Bags/TerraCycle-Billboard-Chic-Messenger-Bag> ) crafted from a piece of billboard vinyl and reclaimed seatbelt. These bags are one-of-a-kind, so your kids will feel like they're making a personal statement.

New Jersey-based TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net>  has gained a well-earned reputation for turning garbage into great new products. On Saturday, August 21st, National Geographic <http://www.natgeo.com>  will feature this amazingly innovative company in their new series, Garbage Moguls <http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/garbage-moguls-4314/facts> .

The gang at TerraCycle <http://www.TerraCycle.net>  will be staring in their own reality series!   To celebrate they will be having an online premiere party. Garbage Moguls <http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/garbage-moguls-4314/Overview>  will premiere on the National Geographic channel <http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel>  this Saturday, August 21, starting at 8pm EST.  To celebrate, they will be giving away prizes during the show on their Facebook Fan <http://www.facebook.com/#%21/TerraCycle?ref=ts>  page and some of these prizes will be the actual prototypes made during the show!! Each question will have something to do with the show and the answer will be found while you are watching.

Recycling has become second nature for most green living families It is no longer difficult to find products that contain recycled materials and  recycling centers are becoming pretty popular. I wanted to invite you into the mind of a business that takes recycling one step further. Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net>  is a group of imaginative, green living warriors, who spend their days inventing ways to upcycle everyday trash, into cool, usable items. I have personal experience with their gardening products and school supplies. I also save our own recyclables for a local group that takes part in their recycling program.

National Geographic Channel's "Garbage Moguls" isn't your typical New Jersey-based reality series. Instead of peddling trashy behavior like "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" or even trashier outfits like Snooki and her gang, "Garbage Moguls" star and TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky deals with actually, literal garbage.

I was contacted today by someone who had read my Examiner column (which I haven’t updated in months due to the time I’m spending on Five Seed) and who wanted me to write about a TV program called Garbage Moguls airing on National Geographic on Saturday, August 21st. I did a little research on it and it looks pretty legit – and interesting. I decided to post about it here rather than on Examiner for reasons I won’t bore you with here.