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.

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.

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.

A team of "eco-capitalists" at TerraCycle try to turn trash into treasure on "Garbage Moguls" (National Geographic Channel at 8, 9 and 10), including products for pets from recycled bags.

The BP oil spill has nothing on the hundreds of miles of garbage floating in the Atlantic Ocean , and its bigger sibling, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , a plastic-soup in the Pacific Ocean estimated to span the size of the continental U.S. Our oceans are our landfills, a fact that nags at me with every take-out container and other piece of trash I dispose of in my kitchen. I’m just one person making all this trash, and my internal-dialogue now sounds like the hitchhiker woman in Five Easy Pieces : “Pretty soon there won’t be room for anyone!” I admit that these three horesemen of the enviornmental apocolypse have me seriously considering the possibility of reincarnation.

The BP oil spill has nothing on the hundreds of miles of garbage floating in the Atlantic Ocean <http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0820/Huge-Atlantic-garbage-patch-still-holds-mysteries> , and its bigger sibling, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch> , a plastic-soup in the Pacific Ocean estimated to span the size of the continental U.S. Our oceans are our landfills, a fact that nags at me with every take-out container and other piece of trash I dispose of in my kitchen <http://gardenwindmill.brighterplanet.org/garden-windmill/the-garden-windmill/andrea-chalupa-garbage-moguls-god-bless-the-eco-capitalists#> . I’m just one person making all this trash, and my internal-dialogue now sounds like the hitchhiker woman in Five Easy Pieces: “Pretty soon there won’t be room for anyone!”

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.

If you are looking for something fun to watch tonight, check out the first episode of Garbage Moguls, a reality show that challenges the eco-moguls at TerraCycle, Inc. to turn trash into treasure. Tonight’s challenge is for the Terracycle employees to develop a line of pet products from recycled materials in two weeks. For viewing times and more information on where you can view the series, check its official site <http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/garbage-moguls-4314/Overview> .

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.

TerraCycle is one of the coolest companies around, taking trash and turning it into cool, funky treasures, all while raising funds for schools and other charities.  They sponsored a giveaway <http://ourdailygreenlife.blogspot.com/2010/06/independence-from-trash-green.html>  last month on my blog and tonight the company will be showcased on the reality show, Garbage Moguls. Set your DVR if you cannot tune in. During the show they will be posting trivia questions on their Facebook page <http://www.facebook.com/kurig?success=1#%21/TerraCycle?ref=ts>  for prizes.