“Send us your trash – we’ll make it into cool products.” That's the simple premise and promise aof New Jersey-based startup TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> , a green recycler founded by two former Princeton University classmates who dreamed up the idea in 2001 for a business plan contest.
Reality shows have taken over television, like a virus or a breath of fresh air, depending on your perspective. And we're about to add to that mix with Garbage Moguls.
But first, I'd like to pay homage to Planet Green. Love it or lump it, it has done more, earlier than any other media outlet to bring green thinking, living and acting to the masses. Rather than consign green minded TV to the dusty DVD collections of hippies low budget environmentalist skewed programs, Planet Green took the lead to make it appealing, useful, relevant and yes, sexy. Nothing wrong with a little sex appeal to grease the gears, I say!
Alter Eco is a prime example. Adrian Grenier (of Entourage fame) has proven to be a visible, committed advocate of living greener, and this show sees him with a team of people doing both lifestyle and home makeovers. Sure, for some of you that's eye roll inducing. For many others, it speaks their language and gets them in the conversation, which is the point here.
An eco-friendly company named Terracycle is literally turning trash into treasure. The New Jersey company, founded by a Princeton University dropout named Tom Szaky, collects product packaging that would normally end up in a landfill and creates products that are not only friendly to the environment, but also good for the schools and non-profit organizations that receive donations from Terracycle as a result.
The BP oil brief has zero upon a hundreds of miles of rubbish floating in a Atlantic Ocean, as well as a bigger sibling, a Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a plastic-soup in a Pacific Ocean estimated to camber a distance of a continental U.S. Our oceans have been a landfills, a actuality which nags during me with each take-out enclosure as well as alternative square of rabble we draw up of in my kitchen. I’m usually a single chairman creation all this trash, as well as my internal-dialogue right away sounds similar to a hitchhiker lady in Five Easy Pieces: “Pretty shortly there won’t be room for anyone!”
The BP oil brief has zero upon a hundreds of miles of rubbish floating in a Atlantic Ocean, as well as a bigger sibling, a Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a plastic-soup in a Pacific Ocean estimated to camber a distance of a continental U.S. Our oceans have been a landfills, a actuality which nags during me with each take-out enclosure as well as alternative square of rabble we draw up of in my kitchen. I’m usually a single chairman creation all this trash, as well as my internal-dialogue right away sounds similar to a hitchhiker lady in Five Easy Pieces: “Pretty shortly there won’t be room for anyone!”
The Terracycle is playing a vital role in the cleaning of the Gulf of Mexico and the company’s employees are cleaning up the mess caused by oil spill. The CEO of the company will appear on a show on National Geographic channel, the show airs tonight and a lot of people will be watching the show. Tom Szaky, the CEO of the Terracycle will show that how the trash can be used to make very cool useable things and instead of throwing away the trash we can make use of it. You should go and watch the new show on the National Geographic channel as Tom will teach many new things and will also encourage the people to become environmental friends.
You read that right, TerraCycle turns all your old, unwanted trash into cool gadgets <http://www.techeblog.com/#> like clipboards, insulated coolers, fences, and more. In technical terms, TerraCycle "makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials." Videos after the break.
Teracycle is a private business founded in 2001 by two freshmen of Princeton University, Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer. It specializes in making consumer products from used and discarded materials.
The green company is working to save the planet earth and setting an example for the rest of the world to follow.
It started of its operations by creating a continuous flow process to take garbage from several areas and have it processed by the worms into fertilizer. It later expanded its span of operation and diversified its production into ‘up-cycling’; producing a range of consumer products from post-consumer content such as making children’s backpacks from used Capri-Sun drink pouches.
If you happened to tune into the National Geographic Channel last evening between 8-11 pm, then you would have witnessed what many environmentally friendly individuals are calling the coolest, most innovative company to sprout up in a long time. The company, Terracycle, is a recycling company with a twist.
