Tom Szaky: Recycling the Impossible
Tom Szaky is the founder of
TerraCycle, one of the fastest-growing green companies on the planet. What’s especially amazing about it is its mission: to recycle non-recyclable garbage, from gum to diapers. Find out about how you can help make the impossible possible.
Turn your empty chip bags into a chip bowl with this step-by-step tutorial from our friends at Terracycle.
… unique “green” start up company. TerraCycle’s purpose is to eliminate the idea of waste. Because… if you think about it.. in nature waste does not exist. Those are humans who have created non-recyclable waste. Non-recyclable for nature but recyclable for TerraCycle! TerraCycle –hereafter TC.
How does it work? Basically TC creates waste collection programs, “brigades,” for all kinds of typically non-recyclable waste and turn the collected waste into new products, ranging from recycled park benches or garbage bins to upcycled backpacks, pencil holders or jewelry. Recycled means the waste is reformed into new material but upcycled means that the waste material is reused.
