An eco-friendly company named Terracycle is literally turning trash into treasure. The New Jersey company, founded by a Princeton University dropout named Tom Szaky, collects product packaging that would normally end up in a landfill and creates products that are not only friendly to the environment, but also good for the schools and non-profit organizations that receive donations from Terracycle as a result.

If you happened to tune into the National Geographic Channel last evening between 8-11 pm, then you would have witnessed what many environmentally friendly individuals are calling the coolest, most innovative company to sprout up in a long time.  The company, Terracycle, is a recycling company with a twist.

The consort that overturned Cheetos bags into MP3 speakers is today transforming metropolis Cheetah into 32-gallon substance cans. New Jersey-based recycling consort TerraCycle is teaming up with Pioneer Plastics army to attain heavy-duty belittle cans discover of recycled impressible that was erst defect bags. The cans are 80 proportionality post-consumer–most of the touchable is from defect bags composed by TerraCycle’s Chip Bag Brigade program. About 20 proportionality is from scraps of foam lively cut that are remaining in the creation of useable diapers.

If you happened to tune into the National Geographic Channel last evening between 8-11 pm, then you would have witnessed what many environmentally friendly individuals are calling the coolest, most innovative company to sprout up in a long time. The company, Terracycle, is a recycling company with a twist. TerraCycle, which was founded back in 2001 by a 19 year old Princeton University student named Tom Szaky works wonders with garbage. The company collects certain products such as potato chip bags, juice packs, gum packages, old cell phones, etc, and turns them into amazing products like recycling bins, coolers, fences, cork boards and more. They actually donate money to charity for people like you and I to send them certain pieces of trash. They even pay for the shipping and handling. Thus far they have collected an estimated 1.8 billion units of trash from over 10 million individuals, and have donated over $1.2 million to charities.

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!

The company that turned Cheetos bags into MP3 speakers <http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10382623-1.html>  is now transforming Chester Cheetah into 32-gallon garbage cans. New Jersey-based recycling company TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  is teaming up with Pioneer Plastics USA <http://www.pioneerplasticsusa.com/>  to make heavy-duty trash cans out of recycled polypropylene that was once chip bags.

Back for season two, National Geographic channel's "Garbage Moguls" aims to do more than just turn doggy junk into doggy toys. TerraCycle wants to "upcycle" your mind. Photo: Terracycle One man’s trash is another man’s … idea for a TV show? Garbage  Moguls, the show where one little company turns trash into  “upcycled” consumer goods, is back for season two. Episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4  will air on the National Geographic channel on Saturday, Aug. 21 from  7:00-11 p.m.

The company that turned Cheetos bags into MP3 speakers <http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10382623-1.html>  is now transforming Chester Cheetah into 32-gallon garbage cans. New Jersey-based recycling company TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  is teaming up with Pioneer Plastics USA <http://www.pioneerplasticsusa.com/>  to make heavy-duty trash cans out of recycled polypropylene that was once chip bags.

I’m not going to judge you for your obsession with Real Housewives, but if you’d like to tune in to some trashy television of the more guilt-free variety, you won’t want to miss the Garbage Moguls marathon airing this Saturday (starting at 7 pm) on the National Geographic Channel. The show follows the inner workings of one of my favorite eco-minded companies, TerraCycle, as its crew works to transform trash into treasure.

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