"Fishy Business" <http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/fishy-business-4740/Overview> With shows like Jersey Shore and The Real Housewives of New Jersey as popular as they are, it was only a matter of time before a New Jersey  TV show about ACTUAL trash got made.  Only this time, it's about  Trenton, NJ's TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  and saving the planet one Capri Sun pouch at a time instead of botox, booze and behaving badly.

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 daughter received the Yak Pak Backpack

Everyone's trash is TerraCycle, Inc.'s, treasure. Led by 28-year-old CEO Tom Szaky, the ``eco-capitalists'' at the pioneering recycling company make affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of non-recyclable waste materials, including drink pouches, chip bags, vinyl records and bicycle chains. They rummage through trash containers and landfills for materials, conduct brainstorming sessions on how to turn the trash into innovative products ... and hope to make millions. It's an unorthodox creative process, and it's not without plenty of stress, silliness and office politics.

I was recently searching online for a homemade green crafts project and discovered an interesting bathroom caddy made out of toothpaste tubes and thought it might be a fun green crafts project to try. However, once I discovered the silver inside of toothpaste tubes and how durable the material was my homemade green crafts project went in a different direction.

I mentioned last week about a company called TerraCycle and how they will buy trash and use it to produce new products to sell. If you wanna see more - there is a new reality show that will be airing on the National Geographic Channel called Garbage Moguls.  This program will shine some light on the work that TerraCycle is doing with their creative and environmentally conscious business of reusing garbage!

In the spring of 2009, National Geographic ran the pilot of "Garbage Moguls,"  <http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/garbage-moguls-4314/Overview> a show about TerraCycle, in conjunction with Earth Week. This happened right after Tom Szaky visited IC, and I was so excited. Since then, I've become a huge TerraCycle fan, perhaps even slightly obssessed!

Hi there friends of RePlayGround! If you're friends of us, chances are you're friends of TerraCycle, too! I'm excited to announce that TerraCycle's trashy reality show, Garbage Moguls <http://replayground.blogspot.com/2010/08/www.natgeotv.com/garbage> , is  airing this Saturday. And it's not just one episode. It's four trash-packed episodes airing in a eco-marathon. You can catch me in the shows along with the rest of the TerraCycle <http://replayground.blogspot.com/2010/08/www.terracycle.net>  crew.

TerraCycle is an excellent fundraising program that non-profit organizations can sign up to participate in.  If your school is interested in participating log onto http://www.terracycle.net/ there you will find out how to sign up for the program and how to join the different brigades (items you can collect).  TerraCycle pays out $.02 (a few brigades are higher valued but more difficult to collect) for each piece collected, your non-profit sends in their collected items free of charge!  All they need to do is log into their account and print off a shipping label, tape up the box and take it to their local UPS shipping store!  TerraCycle will send out checks in December and June.

Item: TerraCycle Drink Pouch Pencil Case (Large) Price: $3.59 Why we love it: Reuse rocks. Where to buy it: Dwell Smart TerraCycle collects tons of used juice pouches annually and turns them into cool eco products like this generously-sized pencil case. Two cents go to charity for every pouch they collect, so this case helps do good while looking great.