This new docuseries - part The Office, part Silicon Valley- follows TerraCycle, a New Jersey start-up that aims to end human waste.

When Tiffany Threadgould moved into her Fairmount apartment in 2012, the first thing she did was trash the place. But for Threadgould, 40, that didn't mean making a mess. On the contrary, it's all about discovering beauty - or at least function - in objects that might otherwise be destined for the landfill.

Discarded butts are being turned into something useful. The first of 50 cigarette butt recycling receptacles was installed downtown Monday. Developers of the program say New Orleans is the first US city to participate in a large-scale recycling effort launched in Canada last year.

Four years ago, Miller implemented the TerraCycle program at Woodrow Wilson in Westminster. TerraCycle is an international upcycling and recycling company that takes difficult-to-recycle packaging and turns it into affordable, innovative products.

TerraCycle, a upcycling and recycling company, makes eco-friendly products from trash items that are normally non-recyclable, including Capri Sun juice pouches, Frito-Lay chip bags, and Mars candy wrappers. Many of the products could make great holiday gifts for crafty types who are also eco-minded.

Harley Hood, Lauryn Dunlap and Keitron Fountain take a break from sorting recyclable items to be sent to TerraCycle. Students and teachers at Mount Vernon Intermediate School (MVIS) are among the top collectors of lunch kits in the Lunch Kit Brigade®, a free, national recycling program.

Students and teachers at Greenwood Christian School are the top collectors of lunch kits in the Lunch Kit Brigade, a free, national recycling program created by Lunchables Lunch Combinations and TerraCycle. By collecting used lunch kits, the school has helped to divert 23,940 units of lunch kit waste from landfills.

According to the experts at TerraCycle, food packaging can be more than just a container. For example, you can clean and save packaging to be recycled for creative DIY projects. MOM Brands cereal has developed a series of engaging ways to recycle your packaging that can keep the family busy until lunch.

Deer Crossing Elementary School students earned more than $700 for their school by reaching the second level in a recycling contest sponsored by TerraCycle and Capri Sun, according to an Aug. 11 news release. Students collected more than 18,000 drink pouches in the free Drink Pouch Brigade program, which rewards people for collecting and sending waste to TerraCycle for recycling or upcycling (taking something no longer needed or wanted and turning it into an item of higher value, like salvaged wood becoming a table).

Fairview High School students and teachers have been recognized for keeping more than 2,000 cereal bags out of landfills. The school recently was named the top state collector in the MOM Brands Cereal Bag Brigade. A partnership between MOM Brands and TerraCycle, the recycling program gives schools points for each unit collected and sent to TerraCycle.