While is wasn’t the first crowdfunded startup to trace its origin story to a college dorm room, TerraCycle may be the only one that’s turning our trash into an investment opportunity. The company with its roots in a Princeton college dorm room in 2002 is gaining traction among alternative equity crowdfunding watchers eyeing the low minimum set to invest in TerraCycle stock. TerraCycle has established a network of third-party logistics providers and facilities to convert collected waste into raw materials that are then sold to and used by manufacturers to create new products. It captures the waste streams that most of us contribute to but probably never thought could be turned into profitable raw materials: potato chip bags, coffee capsules, cigarette butts, beauty and oral care disposables, child car seats, disposable contact lenses and packaging. The list is seemingly endless.

While is wasn’t the first crowdfunded startup to trace its origin story to a college dorm room, TerraCycle may be the only one that’s turning our trash into an investment opportunity. The company with its roots in a Princeton college dorm room in 2002 is gaining traction among alternative equity crowdfunding watchers eyeing the low minimum set to invest in TerraCycle stock. TerraCycle has established a network of third-party logistics providers and facilities to convert collected waste into raw materials that are then sold to and used by manufacturers to create new products. It captures the waste streams that most of us contribute to but probably never thought could be turned into profitable raw materials: potato chip bags, coffee capsules, cigarette butts, beauty and oral care disposables, child car seats, disposable contact lenses and packaging. The list is seemingly endless.

While is wasn’t the first crowdfunded startup to trace its origin story to a college dorm room, TerraCycle may be the only one that’s turning our trash into an investment opportunity. The company with its roots in a Princeton college dorm room in 2002 is gaining traction among alternative equity crowdfunding watchers eyeing the low minimum set to invest in TerraCycle stock.

Welcome to Planet for All—a series that will empower you to change our world. This week, we’re teaming up with sustainable thought leaders to unpack five of the biggest threats to our environment and pinpoint accessible, meaningful, and heart-driven action that we can all take to make a huge difference. Today, we’re exploring the massive plastic waste problem with tell-it-like-it-is trailblazer Tom Szaky.

In a statement on April 10, company representatives said in the past 15 months the company was qualified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue shares in its $25 million Regulation A offering, allowing any category of investor to invest in TerraCycle’s U.S. operating company. It had also hired 70 new employees and acquired Air Cycle, a universal waste company based in Chicago.

Shannon Dougherty is absolutely giddy that, on a pole outside the Fishtown bar she owns, there’s a small metal box that’s the latest tool in her personal war on litter.  “There are so many problems in the world right now that are so complicated,” said Dougherty, the owner of Cedar Point Bar & Kitchen. “This just seems like an easy one to fix. The 19-inch rectangular receptacle is called a TerraCycle “zero waste” box. Installed in February by the Fishtown Neighbors Association, the box can hold hundreds of cigarette butts before they’re shipped to New Jersey, where they will be processed and recycled into such things as ashtrays, fence posts, industrial supplies, and park benches.

A  TerraCycle US Inc., subsidiária dos Estados Unidos da TerraCycle, Inc., acaba de contar que a oferta do Regulamento A de US $ 25 milhões foi qualificada pelos U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), permitindo que qualquer um a oportunidade de investir em nossos negócios nos EUA pela primeira vez.

TerraCycle US Inc., a Trenton, New Jersey, company that specializes in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle postconsumer waste, has announced it has acquired Chicago-based Air Cycle Corp., a universal waste recycler for mercury-containing fluorescent bulbs, battery, ballast and electronic waste disposal.

TerraCycle US Inc., a Trenton, New Jersey, company that specializes in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle postconsumer waste, has announced it has acquired Chicago-based Air Cycle Corp., a universal waste recycler for mercury-containing fluorescent bulbs, battery, ballast and electronic waste disposal.

TerraCycle US Inc., a leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste, announced it has acquired Chicago-based Air Cycle Corporation, a leader in universal waste recycling that provides solutions for mercury-containing fluorescent bulbs, battery, ballast and electronic waste disposal.