Tom Szaky, Founder, TerraCycle TerraCycle was created when Szaky was a 20 year old student entering the Princeton Business Plan contest. TerraCycle had small beginnings as a worm-based fertilizer company and has since expanded as it tries to reduce consumer waste for hard-to-recycle products. The company now offers upcycled goods, like bags and household items made from everything from food wrappers to e-waste and bicycle chains.

There are a lot of eco-friendly companies out there, but no other company is quite like TerraCycle. This company literally takes your garbage and makes practical products such as plant food, backpacks, frames, toys and more! This company pays schools and non-profit organizations for their trash saving 1000's of tons of waste from going to landfills. For every item return, TerraCycle donates 2 cents to the school or charity. This company is so amazing!

Recycling is great for the planet, saves resources and basically helps clean up our world. Many of us know that we can recycle things like plastic, paper, glass bottles and metals. However, there are many other items that you probably didn't know could be turned in for cash or a tax deduction. Here's a list of a few of them. Trash A company called TerraCycle will pay for your trash. This program works best with schools or other non-profit organizations that can collect a lot of trash. The company will donate money to your cause for every piece of trash you send the organization. According to its website, the company will take everything from empty scotch tape rolls to energy bar wrappers. TerraCycle will even pay the shipping. If you have a cause, charity or school program in need of some extra money, this could be a great way to go about raising some funds.

Recycling is great for the planet, saves resources and basically helps clean up our world. Many of us know that we can recycle things like plastic, paper, glass bottles and metals. However, there are many other items that you probably didn't know could be turned in for cash or a tax deduction. Here's a list of a few of them. Trash A company called TerraCycle will pay for your trash. This program works best with schools or other non-profit organizations that can collect a lot of trash. The company will donate money to your cause for every piece of trash you send the organization. According to its website, the company will take everything from empty scotch tape rolls to energy bar wrappers. TerraCycle will even pay the shipping. If you have a cause, charity or school program in need of some extra money, this could be a great way to go about raising some funds.

Recycling is great for the planet, saves resources and basically helps clean up our world. Many of us know that we can recycle things like plastic, paper, glass bottles and metals. However, there are many other items that you probably didn't know could be turned in for cash or a tax deduction. Here's a list of a few of them. Trash A company called TerraCycle will pay for your trash. This program works best with schools or other non-profit organizations that can collect a lot of trash. The company will donate money to your cause for every piece of trash you send the organization. According to its website, the company will take everything from empty scotch tape rolls to energy bar wrappers. TerraCycle will even pay the shipping. If you have a cause, charity or school program in need of some extra money, this could be a great way to go about raising some funds.

You know those crinkly snack bags? The ones made of foil or other materials that aren't easily recyclable? Well, now someone wants them. And of course it would Tom Szaky and the folks at Trenton-based TerraCycle, who have made a successful business out of taking things no one else wants and turning them into cool products that people will buy.

When we gather together next month in Portland, more than 350 of us will sip, blog, and share the latest and greatest in the world of wine. Throughout the weekend, corks will be “popped” and wines will be poured – leaving a huge number of used closures and empty bottles that might easily be tossed into the nearest trash can. Luckily, you will have better options! Our host hotel, the DoubleTree Portland, is Oregon’s First Green Seal Certified hotel. We will have bottle recycling containers located near our conference area and ask that you help us make sure used bottles get in the proper containers.

Balfour Beauty believes sustainability is a collective responsibility. As a group we want to work together with our customers, suppliers and residents to ensure sustainability is embedded in our daily lives. We are launching to TerraCycle program at Whiteman Air Force Base on Monday, July 23, 2012!

TerraCycling? Is this a new form of bicycling? Something only Lance Armstrong would be interested in? No, but it is a fun and rewarding way to join ‘brigades’ of environmental stewards. TerraCycle is an innovative program where organizations are collecting different types of waste that are typically not recycled and are sending them to a collection station that is turning the waste into new recycled products such as park benches and backpacks.

TerraCycle In nature, waste does not exist.  All materials are reused or recycled through natural processes.  However, modern human society and technology has created a massive waste issue. Now the irrepressible demand for safe, conveniently packaged consumer goods is annually creating billions of tons of non-recyclable or difficult to recycle waste. Enter TerraCycle, the ambitious dream of a college freshman turned sustainable business pioneer, a company that makes eco-friendly, affordable consumer products from waste.  By using the trillions of pieces of packaging that go to landfill every year to build high quality consumer goods, TerraCycle aims to replace the need to create virgin materials, like new plastics and textiles, by showing the world it is more sustainable and more profitable to use waste as a raw material. TerraCycle started in 2001 as a simple organic fertilizer company.  Two college students harvested worm compost, or Worm Poop as it became fondly known, and liquefied it into a completely organic, ultra-effective fertilizer.  However, with no money they could not buy the packaging they needed to start selling their fertilizer.  Undiscouraged, they began to bottle their liquid fertilizer in used soda bottles they collected from recycling bins, unwittingly creating the world’s first product made from AND packaged entirely in waste! Eleven years later TerraCycle has grown from a two-man, dorm room operation to an international leader in the field of ‘eco-capitalism’ and ‘upcycling’ and is starting to prove to the world that you can make a difference and a profit at the same time.  However, it takes more than an army of worms to change the world.  TerraCycle’s founders realized the revolutionary idea they discovered was not Worm Poop, but using waste materials which have no value to make products that are both sustainable and affordable. Today, TerraCycle partners with major consumer goods manufacturers such as Kraft Foods, Frito-Lay, Mars, Kashi, Kimberly-Clark, SC Johnson, Nestle, L’Oreal and many more to run a massive network of individuals, schools and organizations who get paid to help collect and upcycled non-recyclable packaging.  From drink pouches to chip bags to candy wrappers to diaper packaging, TerraCycle and its partners pay two cents per unit of returned packaging and the collected material is combined with other waste streams and upcycled into a wide range of consumer products. TerraCycle is constantly looking for ambitious people to support their Team.