A unidade de Chocolates da Nestlé anunciou parceria com a TerraCycle, especializada na coleta e reuso de resíduos pós-consumo difíceis de reciclar.

Tom Szaky has built an entire business around the notion  anything can be recycled. "There is no such thing as garbage," said  the 28-year-old Canadian founder and president of TerraCycle Inc.  "The only difference between a soda bottle and a yogourt cup is that  one has a collection and solution system on it already -- the soda  bottle has our Blue Box program -- while the yogourt cup doesn't."

Tom Szaky has built an entire business around the notion  anything can be recycled. "There is no such thing as garbage," said  the 28-year-old Canadian founder and president of TerraCycle Inc.  "The only difference between a soda bottle and a yogourt cup is that  one has a collection and solution system on it already -- the soda  bottle has our Blue Box program -- while the yogourt cup doesn't."

Tom Szaky has built an entire business around the notion  anything can be recycled. "There is no such thing as garbage," said  the 28-year-old Canadian founder and president of TerraCycle Inc.  "The only difference between a soda bottle and a yogourt cup is that  one has a collection and solution system on it already -- the soda  bottle has our Blue Box program -- while the yogourt cup doesn't."

Tom Szaky has built an entire business around the notion  anything can be recycled. "There is no such thing as garbage," said  the 28-year-old Canadian founder and president of TerraCycle Inc.  "The only difference between a soda bottle and a yogourt cup is that  one has a collection and solution system on it already -- the soda  bottle has our Blue Box program -- while the yogourt cup doesn't."

Tom Szaky has built an entire business around the notion  anything can be recycled. "There is no such thing as garbage," said  the 28-year-old Canadian founder and president of TerraCycle Inc.  "The only difference between a soda bottle and a yogourt cup is that  one has a collection and solution system on it already -- the soda  bottle has our Blue Box program -- while the yogourt cup doesn't."

Tom Szaky has built an entire business around the notion  anything can be recycled. "There is no such thing as garbage," said  the 28-year-old Canadian founder and president of TerraCycle Inc.  "The only difference between a soda bottle and a yogourt cup is that  one has a collection and solution system on it already -- the soda  bottle has our Blue Box program -- while the yogourt cup doesn't."

“We hope to wake up one day and become the new version of recycling, where every waste stream has a solution within the TerraCycle system.” It all started with worms. When fed organic waste, worm ‘tea’ is produced through their excrement. One man began to bottle this concoction into used soda bottles as a natural plant food, by taking food scraps from the disposal bin at Princeton Dining Services. That man was Tom Szaky. By the next summer, Tom met his first investor, and TerraCycle was born. As sales of the natural plant food grew, Tom began looking for new ways to reuse. His company began to take the items that nobody else wanted, cigarette butts, toothbrushes, juice cartons, expired pills and food wrappers, and explore ways or reusing anything and everything that was available. “‘We want to be the recycling solution for everything that’s not recyclable today,’ Tom says, ‘But we don’t have all the answers yet.

Tom Szaky wants to be the rag-and-bone man to the world, collecting the  rubbish no one else wants – cigarette butts, razors, expired pills and  plastic food wrappers – and turning an enormous profit by finding new uses  for it. His US-based company TerraCycle already has rubbish collecting and re­cycling  operations in six countries and expects to launch in 11 more (including  Japan, Australia and Sweden) in the next year. He launched TerraCycle in  Britain last September and in Ireland this month. 'We’re just a $40 million company at the moment,’ he says. But he plans to  become the Google of garbage. 'A billion-dollar company doesn’t seem that  big… why not!’