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These 14 New Pouched Foods Will Make Your Camping Trip Tastier

For years, my bulky-but-had-to-have-it backpacking food was a can of tuna fish. I’d dutifully tote it along, eating it straight from the can and relishing its toothsomeness after a few days of freeze-dried chow. It reminded me of when I was a kid and my dad would fry fresh-caught trout over the campfire. Then, about ten years ago, tuna in packets showed up on grocery store shelves. My years of hauling cans and can openers came to an end. “What luxury!” I thought while forking flakes of fish into my mouth at the bottom of Grand Canyon. Little did I know that things were only starting to get good.

From Worm Waste To A Zero-Waste World, The Vision Of Tom Szaky

Do you know what Tom Szaky thinks of everything you own, eat, wear, poop and drive, from the plastic container that contains your hair product to the pricey phone you tuck into your back pocket to the discount drone you use to wage drunken dogfights with your next-door neighbor? It’s garbage. Really. Pick a spot on the space-time continuum, and the material world ultimately becomes junk. If necessity is the mother of invention, this is one inventive mother. “Garbage is such a good topic because everything in the world, one day, will be owned by the garbage industry,” says Szaky, 35, CEO and founder of TerraCycle, a Zen-like startup that specializes in finding the value in processing the most unrecyclable stuff on the planet.