Tom Szaky is an unabashed capitalist.

“Even for us, profit is king,” Szaky said in a 2007 interview with CNBC, the cable television news network dedicated to covering capitalism.

But Szaky is also committed to do well by doing good and TerraCycle, the company he founded in 2001 after dropping out of Princeton University, makes money by turning wasted into a mind-boggling array of useful new products.

“I’m hoping to get everyone to zero waste,” Szaky told MNN.

TerraCycle is grinding away at the goal to eliminate the idea of waste by creating national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste.