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 8yr old received the Yak Pak Backpack
Would you believe Yak Paks <http://www.terracycle.net/products/77-Yak-Pak-Backpack> are made of recycled billboards? Every one of these is an original one of a kind backpack. Because it's made of vinyl, it's water resistant and can handle everyday wear and tear. Some of the features include an integrated protective sleeve for laptop computers with screens up to 15.6" and adjustable straps.
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.
The BP oil brief has zero upon a hundreds of miles of rubbish floating in a Atlantic Ocean, as well as a bigger sibling, a Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a plastic-soup in a Pacific Ocean estimated to camber a distance of a continental U.S. Our oceans have been a landfills, a actuality which nags during me with each take-out enclosure as well as alternative square of rabble we draw up of in my kitchen. I’m usually a single chairman creation all this trash, as well as my internal-dialogue right away sounds similar to a hitchhiker lady in Five Easy Pieces: “Pretty shortly there won’t be room for anyone!”
The BP oil brief has zero upon a hundreds of miles of rubbish floating in a Atlantic Ocean, as well as a bigger sibling, a Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a plastic-soup in a Pacific Ocean estimated to camber a distance of a continental U.S. Our oceans have been a landfills, a actuality which nags during me with each take-out enclosure as well as alternative square of rabble we draw up of in my kitchen. I’m usually a single chairman creation all this trash, as well as my internal-dialogue right away sounds similar to a hitchhiker lady in Five Easy Pieces: “Pretty shortly there won’t be room for anyone!”
The Terracycle is playing a vital role in the cleaning of the Gulf of Mexico and the company’s employees are cleaning up the mess caused by oil spill. The CEO of the company will appear on a show on National Geographic channel, the show airs tonight and a lot of people will be watching the show. Tom Szaky, the CEO of the Terracycle will show that how the trash can be used to make very cool useable things and instead of throwing away the trash we can make use of it. You should go and watch the new show on the National Geographic channel as Tom will teach many new things and will also encourage the people to become environmental friends.
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.
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.
8/7c National Geographic
This new docu-reality series follows an ingenious group of eco-capitalists at TerraCycle, Inc., a green business that creates and sells products made from non-recyclable waste materials. In the first episode of a three-hour marathon, Pedigree challenges the TerraCycle crew to develop a line of pet products. With a strict two-week deadline, the participants quickly get to work, collecting hundreds of old dog-food bags and using them to make a variety of products, from leashes and collars to dog toys and rain gear. The other episodes’ tasks: build a garbage can from potato chip wrappers, design fishing lures from old CDs and make a suit jacket out of Target shopping bags. — Karen Andzejewicz
