One of my favorite resources in this fascinating world of green innovation is the company TerraCycle. Simply put, founder and Princeton-dropout Tom Szaky recycles the unrecyclable. You can participate by signing up for different recycling collection programs, collecting your waste, and then shipping it back to TerraCycle. Often for free

One of my favorite resources in this fascinating world of green innovation is the company TerraCycle. Simply put, founder and Princeton-dropout Tom Szaky recycles the unrecyclable. You can participate by signing up for different recycling collection programs, collecting your waste, and then shipping it back to TerraCycle. Often for free.

We asked our network: “What does the ‘future of work’ mean to you? What are you doing in your business to prepare for or address that future?” We got responses from dozens of top conscious business leaders. While we could have filled the whole issue with their insights, we decided to bring you just a sample of their predictions, questions, and best practices.

A GH survey recently revealed that readers (like you!) are eager to make sustainable choices, especially when shopping for skincare, baby products and home cleaners. That’s why on November 8, the GH Institute is teaming up with Made Safe, an organization that educates consumers and companies about nontoxic ingredients, to host the second Raise the Green Bar Summit.  

A Sneak Peek of Our 2018 Event

We can’t wait for our exciting lineup of speakers, including entrepreneur and actress Alicia Silverstone, Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle, and other leading industry voices.

Líderes promissores estão construindo novas alternativas na indústria da moda, nos meios de pagamento da África, no mercado de turismo à beira-mar e na coleta de reciclagem

Few certainties come with starting and scaling a business. But there are two that you can almost always count on: Money is the lifeblood of growth, and we rarely have enough of it.

This special report will argue that waste generation is increasing too fast and needs to be decoupled from economic growth and rising living standards. That will require people to throw away less and reuse more—to make economies more “circular”, as campaigners say. This can only happen if people “equate the circular economy with making money”, claims Tom Szaky of Terracycle, which develops technologies to use hard-to-recycle materials. “Take, make, dispose” must now shift to “reduce, reuse, recycle”, he says.  

TerraCycle Founder and CEO Tom Szaky shares news on the upcycling company’s work creating a supply chain for ocean plastics and provides a peek at the upcoming launch of its transformational Loop platform.

Cigarette butts are the worlds most littered item with nearly 4.5 trillion being tossed each year and last year in the United States, it is estimated 1.69 billion pounds of butts ended up as toxic waste. TerraCycle, a world  leader in the collection and repurposing of complex waste streams works with cities and municipalities globally to recycle cigarette butts. Since 2012, when TerraCycle launched its first cigarette recycling program, it has collected hundreds of millions of butts around the world.

TRENTON, N.J., July 31: Cigarette butts are the world's most littered item with nearly 4.5 trillion being tossed each year and last year in the United States, it is estimated 1.69 billion pounds of butts ended up as toxic waste. TerraCycle, the world's leader in the collection and repurposing of complex waste streams works with cities and municipalities globally to recycle cigarette butts. Since 2012, when TerraCycle launched its first cigarette recycling program, it has collected hundreds of millions of butts around the world.