This is why I was so excited to learn about TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> . TerraCycle pays schools, families, and communities to collect non-recyclable waste, which is then upcycled or repurposed to make fun, eco-friendly products like bird feeders, tote bags and cosmetic cases! Things like juice boxes and soda bottles, and now they have two new programs that are more for Moms with little ones - these programs are free fundraisers that pay 2 cents for every used piece of diaper packaging or used baby food pouches! If everyone in your Mom's group was to save these items - which very, very few areas normally recycle, think about how much trash we could save out of the landfills, and you can even make a little money towards projects. It's super easy to sign up for, and when you think about it, saving this packaging for a once a month drop off with your group doesn't take up that much room in our homes. And when Terracycle has collected enough of these materials, they will be upcycling them into unique bibs and diaper bags - how cool is that?

If you don't know who TerraCycle is, they are an awesome company that is doing their part for the earth and non-profit organizations. They collect certain trash items from groups who save and save them. TerraCycle makes new products our of the trash AND pays the groups who collect the trash. It's a win-win situation!

"Fishy Business" <http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/fishy-business-4740/Overview> With shows like Jersey Shore and The Real Housewives of New Jersey as popular as they are, it was only a matter of time before a New Jersey  TV show about ACTUAL trash got made.  Only this time, it's about  Trenton, NJ's TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  and saving the planet one Capri Sun pouch at a time instead of botox, booze and behaving badly.

Are you tired of every child in the school having the same back pack? Would you like for your child to have something different and unique this year? Would you also like to help the environment by diverting trash from our nation's landfills? The obvious choice is Back To School with TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net> . They have many back to school items all made from recycled materials. My daughter received the Yak Pak Backpack

Everyone's trash is TerraCycle, Inc.'s, treasure. Led by 28-year-old CEO Tom Szaky, the ``eco-capitalists'' at the pioneering recycling company make affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of non-recyclable waste materials, including drink pouches, chip bags, vinyl records and bicycle chains. They rummage through trash containers and landfills for materials, conduct brainstorming sessions on how to turn the trash into innovative products ... and hope to make millions. It's an unorthodox creative process, and it's not without plenty of stress, silliness and office politics.

I mentioned last week about a company called TerraCycle and how they will buy trash and use it to produce new products to sell. If you wanna see more - there is a new reality show that will be airing on the National Geographic Channel called Garbage Moguls.  This program will shine some light on the work that TerraCycle is doing with their creative and environmentally conscious business of reusing garbage!

In the spring of 2009, National Geographic ran the pilot of "Garbage Moguls,"  <http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/garbage-moguls-4314/Overview> a show about TerraCycle, in conjunction with Earth Week. This happened right after Tom Szaky visited IC, and I was so excited. Since then, I've become a huge TerraCycle fan, perhaps even slightly obssessed!

Hi there friends of RePlayGround! If you're friends of us, chances are you're friends of TerraCycle, too! I'm excited to announce that TerraCycle's trashy reality show, Garbage Moguls <http://replayground.blogspot.com/2010/08/www.natgeotv.com/garbage> , is  airing this Saturday. And it's not just one episode. It's four trash-packed episodes airing in a eco-marathon. You can catch me in the shows along with the rest of the TerraCycle <http://replayground.blogspot.com/2010/08/www.terracycle.net>  crew.

Garbage Moguls on Nat Geo, August 21st, features TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky and the company's mission to make eco-friendly products out of ordinarily unrecycled and unrecyclable products.