Tudo começar com um time de coleta seletiva (formado por uma organização civil, empresa ou mesmo um grupo de vizinhos) que arrecada os materiais indicados no site e enviam gratuitamente para a Terracycle.

O que seria apenas uma empresa de fertilizantes feitos de húmus de minhoca se expandiu para uma companhia internacional que hoje fabrica diversos produtos sustentáveis reutilizando materiais que iriam para o lixo.

If you have someone who is a wine lover and  appreciates environmentally friendly products, this TerraCycle Wine Cork Board is a wonderful choice. This is a great example of style meeting function in a way for the eco conscious consumer! It can be purchased with or without the private vineyard labels on the corks! TerraCycle combines wine corks collected through cork brigades with a wood frame to create a fun way to pin up notes (while lightening the load on our landfills). The dimensions of the wine corkboard are 16″ by 16″. The Terracycle Billboard Fierce Messenger Bag is a unique bag that is truly one of a kind. Since each bag is made from a different billboard, no two are exactly alike. The modern look and eco friendly design is a fabulous gift for anyone on your gift list! The TerraCycle Billboard Fierce Messenger Bag is the ultimate in eco-dialed-bodacity. This sturdy everyday messenger bag brings an eco-friendly twist to vinyl billboard. Each pack is crafted from a unique piece of billboard vinyl and a reclaimed seat belt. Designed with enough room and the strength to carry anything, your one-of-a-kind bag can make a hip green statement as bold as the billboard it came from.

Oooh….we LOVE this product! We can spray it anywhere, including sealed granite countertops, tile floors, bath fixtures, and doors and it works just great on all of them. The “eco-friendly packaging” actually is pretty cute: the product comes in an old soda bottle, which is very clever and gives it a bit of an edge when compared with other natural cleaners on the market (hey: natural clearer and recycled package!).

Arrowhead Elementary School students are reducing their carbon footprint through a recycling project done in conjunction with New Jersey-based recycling company TerraCycle. As part of the program, fifth-graders in Brigit DiPrimo's class have set up bins around the school to collect various items - ranging from empty Capri Sun juice bags to Chips Ahoy packages to Country Crock tubs - for TerraCycle to "up cycle." The process makes eco-friendly products like diaper bags and folders using non-recyclable waste materials.

Playing into the established "reuse is better than recycle" eco-sensibility, TerraCycle takes trash and transforms it into useful eco-products. TerraCycle runs a series of free national brigades, inviting people to send their garbage in exchange for cash to be donated to schools and nonprofits. From a kite made out of Skittles wrappers to an upcycled bike chain picture frame to fire logs made out of recycled cardboard and wax, TerraCycle's 1,500 products range from the quirky to the utilitarian and are available in a wide range of major U.S. retailers, from Whole Foods to Wal-Mart. Founded by a Princeton freshman in 2001, TerraCycle has collected nearly 2 billion waste units to date and raised more than $1.5 million for charity.

Tortilla brands Mission and Guerrero, both run by Gruma Corporation, package their tortillas and tostadas in low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plastic bags. While technically recyclable, LDPE, identified by the #4 resin code, is not commonly collected in recycling programs.  The New Jersey-based upcycling company will take the tortilla packaging and use it to make new tortilla holders and other consumer products. It will also collect packaging from the companies' dips and salsas.

Kraft foods har ett om- fattande globalt samarbete med återvinningsföretaget Terracycle. Nu tar Kraft foods även in Terracycle på den svenska marknaden, där de ska återvinna och ”upcycla” förpackningar som idag inte återvinns. Samarbetet blir det första i sitt slag i Sverige där konsumenter själva deltar i insamlingen av använda livsmedelsför- packningar som blir till nya användbara produkter, sk upcycling. Detta sker till en början genom lanseringen av Tassimo varmdrycksmaskin, som bl a tillhanda- håller Gevalia kaffe och Marabou chok- laddryck, på den svenska marknaden.

Nu uppmanas svenska konsumenter att skicka skräp som inte går att återvinna till producenten. Bärkassar, blomkrukor och väskor kommer ut på andra sidan. Fenomenet kallas upcycling. Av: Martina Frisk Genom ett samarbete med matjätten Kraft Foods vill återvinningsföretaget Terracycle ta flugan upcycling till Sverige. I dagsläget går inte varmdryckskapslarna som bland annat ger kaffe och folieförpackningarna av märket Tassimo att återvinna. Nu uppmanar företagen konsumenter att skicka in sina tomma förpackningar med vanlig post. Företagen står för frankering och 10 öre går till organisationen Rainforest Alliance.

I asked her,"Are those Capri Sun pouches? Did you make that?" She started laughing and telling me how she found this company called TerraCycle that takes recycling to a whole new level. They do what they "upcycle" things like Capri Sun pouches, Frito-Lay potato chip bags, M&M wrappers, and a ton of other things you and I throw out every day and turns them into things like the bag A'Driane has. I was sold, especially after I saw their website. They sell everything you can think of, but what I really think is cool is that not only do they have stuff you can give your kids to use like pencil cases, kites, colored pencils, etc, but their products aren't expensive at all. They even have what they call "Brigades"-which are basically recycling programs that pay you to send them your trash. Capri Sun pouches, yogurt lids, toothbrushes, candy wrappers, you name it, you, your buisness, or kid's school can collect these items and get paid for collecting it while helping reduce waste-pretty incredible.