The company that turned Cheetos bags into MP3 speakers <http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10382623-1.html> is now transforming Chester Cheetah into 32-gallon garbage cans.
New Jersey-based recycling company TerraCycle <
http://www.terracycle.net/> is teaming up with Pioneer Plastics USA <
http://www.pioneerplasticsusa.com/> to make heavy-duty trash cans out of recycled polypropylene that was once chip bags.
-- Tonight's installment of "Garbage Moguls" (8 p.m., Saturday, National Geographic) follows the intrepid employees of TerraCycle, innovative recyclers and product designers who fashion new items out of the stuff the rest of us throw away.
Tonight's challenge is to make a line of pet products from discarded dog-food bags.
-- Tonight's installment of "Garbage Moguls" (8 p.m., Saturday, National Geographic) follows the intrepid employees of TerraCycle, innovative recyclers and product designers who fashion new items out of the stuff the rest of us throw away. Tonight's challenge is to make a line of pet products from discarded dog-food bags.
GARBAGE MOGULS — After they are approached by the Pedigree company, the young mavericks of TerraCycle stretch their imaginations to create an entire line of pet products fashioned from dog food bags, including toys, leashes and collars, dog beds, and even clothes for canines. After several product designs falter, though, the team is thrown into a last-minute scramble for viable products to pitch. (8 p.m., National Geographic Channel)
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
Forget “Jersey Shore” or the “Housewives of New Jersey”, the “trashiest” show to come out of New Jersey yet will be showed on the National Geographic channel on August 21. “Garbage Moguls” will be a three episode special that will take an inside look into how TerraCycle, a New Jersey based recycling company, works. The company specializes in making consumer products from recycled material and trash, such as making backpacks from Capri-Sun packages. The company was founded in 2001 and since then has become one of the top 100 most innovative companies.
So what can you win? Well a fabulous package mailed from our friends at Terracycle.
You know I love terracycle and my alarm is set to go off so I do not miss a second of this weekends fabulous reality TV show Garbae moguls on National Geographics so when they said they would provide me with a prize I just about lost it.
What will the winner of Stashbusting September win a fabulous messanger bag made out of a billboard :
