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Terracycle DIY Project

TerraCycle Toothpaste Tube Toothbrush Holder Upcycle your toothpaste tubes into this fresh bathroom caddy By: Tiffany Threadgould Materials: 5 empty toothpaste tubes scissors ruler clear tape hole punch ribbon or plastic lanyard binder clips

Cheetos bags, diapers remade into trash cans

The consort that overturned Cheetos bags into MP3 speakers is today transforming metropolis Cheetah into 32-gallon substance cans. New Jersey-based recycling consort TerraCycle is teaming up with Pioneer Plastics army to attain heavy-duty belittle cans discover of recycled impressible that was erst defect bags. The cans are 80 proportionality post-consumer–most of the touchable is from defect bags composed by TerraCycle’s Chip Bag Brigade program. About 20 proportionality is from scraps of foam lively cut that are remaining in the creation of useable diapers.

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

Terracycle. ‘Garbage Moguls,’ New Jersey’s newest Aristotelianism entelechy TV export, is a assortment of baloney

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.

Terracycle, One Cool Green Company

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. TerraCycle, which was founded back in 2001 by a 19 year old Princeton University student named Tom Szaky works wonders with garbage. The company collects certain products such as potato chip bags, juice packs, gum packages, old cell phones, etc, and turns them into amazing products like recycling bins, coolers, fences, cork boards and more. They actually donate money to charity for people like you and I to send them certain pieces of trash. They even pay for the shipping and handling. Thus far they have collected an estimated 1.8 billion units of trash from over 10 million individuals, and have donated over $1.2 million to charities.

Terracycle Review

It’s always great to hear about companies like Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> because they make eco-friendly products and recycling is always a great way to give back. But what makes Terracycle unique is that they take non-recyclable products to make new products that other people would see as garbage. Terracycle is one of the fastest growing eco-friendly companies in the world. This of course is because of good reason!

Andrea Chalupa: Garbage Moguls: God Bless the Eco-Capitalists

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.

Andrea Chalupa: Garbage Moguls: God Bless the Eco-Capitalists

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!”