TerraCycle, Inc. was founded in 2001 by then 20-year-old Tom Szaky who produced organic fertilizer by packaging liquefied worm poop in used soda bottles. “Along the way, we developed into this totally different company of recycling the unrecyclable,” Taylor explained. “We haven’t found anything yet that we can’t recycle.” The company takes products like plastic gloves, used coffee filters or empty deodorant tubes and recycles them into materials used to make backpacks, coasters, benches and more.