TerraCycle Inc. founder Tom Szaky stops to talk with workers in a warehouse loaded with trash to be recycled Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, in Trenton, N.J. Founded in 2001 by then-20-year-old Princeton student Szaky, TerraCycle works to collect and transform a range of hard-to-recyle items, from potato chip bags to cigarette butts, into colorful consumer products.