The BP oil spill has nothing on the hundreds of miles of garbage floating in the Atlantic Ocean <http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0820/Huge-Atlantic-garbage-patch-still-holds-mysteries> , and its bigger sibling, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch> , a plastic-soup in the Pacific Ocean estimated to span the size of the continental U.S. Our oceans are our landfills, a fact that nags at me with every take-out container and other piece of trash I dispose of in my kitchen. I’m just one person making all this trash, and my internal-dialogue now sounds like the hitchhiker woman in Five Easy Pieces: “Pretty soon there won’t be room for anyone!”

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

National Geographic Channel’s “Garbage Moguls” isn’t your conventional New Jersey-based reality series. Instead <http://jodiyoung.blog.com/>  of peddling trashy <http://jodiyoung.blog.com/>  behavior twin “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” or even trashier outfits <http://jodiyoung.blog.com/>  feel favourably impressed <http://healthquestions.blog.com/>  by Snooki and her gang, “Garbage Moguls” celebrity and TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky deals with actual, unvarnished garbage. “There’s a unchanging <http://worldhealthlife.weebly.com/3/post/2010/01/the-health-supplements-are-now-getting-mountainous-popularity-among-the-youths-and-adults.html>  affable of irony <http://everxjen84.tigblog.org/post/1933197>  there,” Szaky tells The News. “Our show wasn’t picked up because it’s based in New Jersey, but it’s an terrifying synchrony that just as Jersey is getting big in the sphere of genuineness TV, our show is trying to make a regulate for it.

What do you do when you run out of rich, money hungry media whores to cast for a reality show, or even better yet, guidos and guidettes running the town with the poofs and pecks? You pick the next best thing, garbage men. Or in this case, garbage moguls, who take to heart that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure.

The BP oil spill has nothing on the hundreds of miles of garbage floating in the Atlantic Ocean , and its bigger sibling, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , a plastic-soup in the Pacific Ocean estimated to span the size of the continental U.S. Our oceans are our landfills, a fact that nags at me with every take-out container and other piece of trash I dispose of in my kitchen. I’m just one person making all this trash, and my internal-dialogue now sounds like the hitchhiker woman in Five Easy Pieces : “Pretty soon there won’t be room for anyone!” I admit that these three horesemen of the enviornmental apocolypse have me seriously considering the possibility of reincarnation.

The BP oil spill has nothing on the hundreds of miles of garbage floating in the Atlantic Ocean <http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0820/Huge-Atlantic-garbage-patch-still-holds-mysteries> , and its bigger sibling, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch> , a plastic-soup in the Pacific Ocean estimated to span the size of the continental U.S. Our oceans are our landfills, a fact that nags at me with every take-out container and other piece of trash I dispose of in my kitchen <http://gardenwindmill.brighterplanet.org/garden-windmill/the-garden-windmill/andrea-chalupa-garbage-moguls-god-bless-the-eco-capitalists#> . I’m just one person making all this trash, and my internal-dialogue now sounds like the hitchhiker woman in Five Easy Pieces: “Pretty soon there won’t be room for anyone!”

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
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.