Garbage Moguls on Nat Geo, August 21st, features TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky and the company's mission to make eco-friendly products out of ordinarily unrecycled and unrecyclable products.

Did you know that billions of drink pouches are thrown out each year, filling up landfills and dumpsters across the country? TerraCycle represents a new generation of company, putting as much emphasis on its social and environmental impact as its profits. In 2001, college freshman Tom Szaky founded TerraCycle in hopes of building a new, more responsible way of doing business, by creating an eco-capitalist company built on waste. Since then, TerraCycle has revolutionized the industry by making eco-friendly and affordable products from waste materials. Seven years later, TerraCycle’s eco-friendly products have received a myriad of social and environmental accolades and are available at major retail stores.

TRENTON -- Three new episodes of "Garbage Moguls," a National Geographic Channel reality show about the Trenton recycling firm TerraCycle, will be broadcast on Saturday night. The program features TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky and other employees of the New York Avenue company as they take different waste streams and work to convert them into new products.

By Charlie Jane Anders And here's the rest of this week's television listings... Saturday: The National Geographic Channel is having a marathon of new episodes of a show called Garbage Moguls from 8 PM to 11 PM, which is certainly one alternative to going out on Saturday night.

Today’s the first day of school for Dylan, Tyler actually started last week, crazy I know. I still have a hard time with school starting in August.  When I was a kid school didn’t start until after Labor Day.  Oh my heck, did I really just say, “When I was kid”?  Ugh, I think that officially makes me old. Ok, moving on.  Being the green loving family that I force us to be we are, I tried to keep our purchases down or at least pretty green.

Many people begin their eco-endeavors during their college years. Tom Szaky took advantage of feedback from friends and readily available materials for compost and reusable materials when he launched Terracycle <http://earth911.com/news/2008/06/30/no-such-thing-as-garbage/>  while at Princeton.

Last year I was honored to receive a DVD preview  <http://overcoffee822.blogspot.com/search?q=Garbage+Moguls> of Terracycle's TV series Garbage Moguls <http://overcoffee822.blogspot.com/search?q=Garbage+Moguls> . It was a great way to put faces to the names and learn a little bit more about the people behind this innovative company.

A truck trailer parked in the back courtyard of the TerraCycle plant in Trenton, NJ, gets a new paint job at the Saturday, Aug. 14th, graffiti jam.

Princeton University students Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer drew inspiration for their company from a box of worms. They started small -- first demonstrating the feasibility of their idea by reprocessing solid waste from dining halls at Princeton University -- before tackling bigger challenges. Today, TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> is a case study of eco-capitalism success and demonstrates that "a company [can] be financially successful while being ecologically and socially responsible."

TerraCycle is a company that is on a mission to eliminate waste and they are achieving this goal by enlisting the help of kids and their parents all across America through their "trash for cash" collection programs, called Brigades. TerraCycle currently has 27 different Brigades and each one represents a different type of waste you can sign up to collect and send to the company, such as Capri Sun juice pouches, Colgate oral care products, Chip Bags, Pens, Wine Corks, and more!