“Garbage Moguls” 8, 11 p.m. (NATGEO) This new docu-reality series follows an ingenious group of eco-capitalists at TerraCycle Inc., a green business that creates and sells products made from non-recyclable waste materials. In the opener, Pedigree challenges the TerraCycle crew to develop a line of pet products, with a strict two-week deadline.
Garbage Moguls
8/7c National Geographic
This new docu-reality series follows an ingenious group of eco-capitalists at TerraCycle, Inc., a green business that creates and sells products made from non-recyclable waste materials. In the first episode of a three-hour marathon, Pedigree challenges the TerraCycle crew to develop a line of pet products. With a strict two-week deadline, the participants quickly get to work, collecting hundreds of old dog-food bags and using them to make a variety of products, from leashes and collars to dog toys and rain gear. The other episodes' tasks: create a garbage can from potato chip wrappers and make a suit jacket out of Target shopping bags.
Back for season two, National Geographic channel's "Garbage Moguls" aims to do more than just turn doggy junk into doggy toys. TerraCycle wants to "upcycle" your mind. Photo: Terracycle
One man’s trash is another man’s … idea for a TV show?
Garbage Moguls, the show where one little company turns trash into “upcycled” consumer goods, is back for season two. Episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4 will air on the National Geographic channel on Saturday, Aug. 21 from 7:00-11 p.m.
GARBAGE MOGULS — After they are approached by the Pedigree company, the young mavericks of TerraCycle stretch their imaginations to create an entire line of pet products fashioned from dog food bags, including toys, leashes and collars, dog beds, and even clothes for canines. After several product designs falter, though, the team is thrown into a last-minute scramble for viable products to pitch. (8 p.m., National Geographic Channel)
Garbage Moguls
8/7c National Geographic
This new docu-reality series follows an ingenious group of eco-capitalists at TerraCycle, Inc., a green business that creates and sells products made from non-recyclable waste materials. In the first episode of a three-hour marathon, Pedigree challenges the TerraCycle crew to develop a line of pet products. With a strict two-week deadline, the participants quickly get to work, collecting hundreds of old dog-food bags and using them to make a variety of products, from leashes and collars to dog toys and rain gear. The other episodes' tasks: build a garbage can from potato chip wrappers, design fishing lures from old CDs and make a suit jacket out of Target shopping bags. — Karen Andzejewicz
Recycling has become second nature for most green living families It is no longer difficult to find products that contain recycled materials and recycling centers are becoming pretty popular.
I wanted to invite you into the mind of a business that takes recycling one step further. Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net> is a group of imaginative, green living warriors, who spend their days inventing ways to upcycle everyday trash, into cool, usable items. I have personal experience with their gardening products and school supplies. I also save our own recyclables for a local group that takes part in their recycling program.
I was contacted today by someone who had read my Examiner column (which I haven’t updated in months due to the time I’m spending on Five Seed) and who wanted me to write about a TV program called Garbage Moguls airing on National Geographic on Saturday, August 21st. I did a little research on it and it looks pretty legit – and interesting. I decided to post about it here rather than on Examiner for reasons I won’t bore you with here.
New Jersey-based
TerraCycle has gained a well-earned reputation for turning garbage into great new products. On Saturday, August 21st,
National Geographic will feature this amazingly innovative company in their new series,
Garbage Moguls.
The show will air three segments in which it follows the team of this innovative “repurposing” industry leader - “the coolest little start-up in American” (
Inc. Magazine) - through their zany creative process to create products made completely out of trash.
