HC App State also loves Garnier’s commitment to the environment.  Their eco-designed packaging and green partnerships with TerraCycle and EarthShare are just a few of the reasons why we love Garnier.

Nineteen students from the eighth grade at Arcola Intermediate School traveled to the elementary school on Summit Avenue to help the younger children by making lunchtime games, repairing books and re-shelving them in the library and packaging recycled juice bags and salty snack containers for a recycling company.  

Working together with over 110 brands globally and 30 million people in 22 countries, TerraCycle and its supporters collect non-recyclable, post-consumer waste to upcycle and recycle. Today, TerraCycle is considered a leader in waste collection, repurposing it into innovative materials and products. With over 40 billion packages with the TerraCycle logo on it, they’ve diverted over 2.5 billion units of waste from landfills around the globe

Thanks to Chatham Park’s very large first shipment of drink pouches they collected for Trash to Ca$h, we received points from TerraCycle as well as earned multiple entries into the Drink Pouch Brigade Giveaway Contest….and are excited to announce that WE WON

Tom Szaky is the eco-preneur who launched TerraCycle. In his new book, Outsmart Waste, Tom says that to outsmart waste, first we have to understand it, then change how we create it, and finally rethink what we do with it.

Our picks for new and upcoming book releases include a little something for everyone: Modern homesteaders, DIY decorators, seed swappers, tiny house enthusiasts and stain-obsessed neatniks with a sense of humor.

Tom Szaky’s life is rubbish. I mean that in the most positive way – the guy loves the stuff, and he’s making the very best of it, for himself, his business and the rest of us. In his book, Outsmart Waste: The Modern Idea of Garbage and How to Think Our Way Out of It, Szaky lithely divides out the elements of trash and recycles them into useful advice on how we can clean up the planet.

The founder and CEO of TerraCycle combines in this brief work the well-known environmental strategies of consumption reduction and recycling with the newer concept of “upcycling.” Familiar to crafters as the new term for repurposing found or discarded items, Szaky makes upcycling a central part of his overall strategy for outsmarting waste.

It was at my lowest point that I attended a lecture given by Tom Szaky, the founder of an environmental startup called TerraCycle — and gained a new perspective on how to change the world.  He too started out as a Princeton student interested in helping the environment. Tom dropped out of school to found his own company in 2001, with the vision that he could one day “eliminate the idea of waste.” Within a few years, his passion and drive transformed his dream into substantial action.

Documenting the non-stop and deadline-driven world of an innovative New Jersey-based company touted as the "coolest little start-up in America," "TerraCycle" will air 10 half-hour, comedic episodes. "Welcome to Fairfax" is a behind-the scenes look at a vibrant, artistic and unique community that has emerged in the Fairfax area of Los Angeles, as seen through the eyes of some of the young visionaries who inhabit it.