It’s that time of year again – children across America are going back to school!  While many of us make the extra effort to ensure our children are healthy and living a green life at home; what are our schools doing?  Check out Eco Chic Parties and the #HealthyBack2School Twitter Party <http://ecochicparties.theecochic.com./healthyback2school-with-ecomom-com-dr-alan-greene/>  on 8/26/10 to learn more tips about going back to school with EcoMom.com and Dr. Alan Greene.

“Send us your trash – we’ll make it into cool products.” That's the simple premise and promise of New Jersey-based startup TerraCycle, a green recycler founded by two former Princeton University classmates who dreamed up the idea in 2001 for a business plan contest. Now full-time "eco-capitalists," they're making good business from trash by partnering with brands to create recycling campaigns for their products, and a halo effect for their affiliates.

“Send us your trash – we’ll make it into cool products.” That's the simple premise and promise aof New Jersey-based startup TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> , a green recycler founded by two former Princeton University classmates who dreamed up the idea in 2001 for a business plan contest.

Teracycle is a private business founded in 2001 by two freshmen of Princeton University, Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer. It specializes in making consumer products from used and discarded materials. The green company is working to save the planet earth and setting an example for the rest of the world to follow. It started of its operations by creating a continuous flow process to take garbage from several areas and have it processed by the worms into fertilizer. It later expanded its span of operation and diversified its production into ‘up-cycling’; producing a range of consumer products from post-consumer content such as making children’s backpacks from used Capri-Sun drink pouches.

National Geographic Channel’s “Garbage Moguls” isn’t your conventional New Jersey-based reality series. Instead <http://jodiyoung.blog.com/>  of peddling trashy <http://jodiyoung.blog.com/>  behavior twin “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” or even trashier outfits <http://jodiyoung.blog.com/>  feel favourably impressed <http://healthquestions.blog.com/>  by Snooki and her gang, “Garbage Moguls” celebrity and TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky deals with actual, unvarnished garbage. “There’s a unchanging <http://worldhealthlife.weebly.com/3/post/2010/01/the-health-supplements-are-now-getting-mountainous-popularity-among-the-youths-and-adults.html>  affable of irony <http://everxjen84.tigblog.org/post/1933197>  there,” Szaky tells The News. “Our show wasn’t picked up because it’s based in New Jersey, but it’s an terrifying synchrony that just as Jersey is getting big in the sphere of genuineness TV, our show is trying to make a regulate for it.

What do you do when you run out of rich, money hungry media whores to cast for a reality show, or even better yet, guidos and guidettes running the town with the poofs and pecks? You pick the next best thing, garbage men. Or in this case, garbage moguls, who take to heart that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure.

It’s always great to hear about companies like Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> because they make eco-friendly products and recycling is always a great way to give back. But what makes Terracycle unique is that they take non-recyclable products to make new products that other people would see as garbage. Terracycle is one of the fastest growing eco-friendly companies in the world. This of course is because of good reason!

While flipping through the channels tonight, we found a show on National Geographic (NatGeo) Channel called Garbage Moguls featuring Terracycle, a company I previously highlighted in the blog. http://peaceloveplanet.blogspot.com/2010/04/time-has-come.html The show takes you behind the scenes to show how they take garbage and make it into products...and that is the key, being able to recycle things into products that are affordable, and a worthwhile product that someone would want to buy.  On the show I watched, Pedigree Dog Food contacted them and challenged them to use their dog food bags, and dog food pouches (trash that would otherwise end up in the garbage) to design usable pet products.  They have designed and sold many other products made from chip bags, cookie wrappers, Capri Sun bags, and much more.  Check out their cool lunch box made from Capri Sun bags.

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.

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> .