TerraCycle is a company known for eco-innovation. They take trash and upcycle it into great, green goods like backpacks, notebooks, folders, tote bags, wallets and pencil cases along with yard and garden products. Now they are creating a line of … Continue reading
With faculty making creative use of interoffice mail to band together for the environment, the staff at Scripps Research Institute is collecting their old wine corks to raise money for The Nature Conservancy. The organization gets 2 cents for each … Continue reading
In 2001, enterprising 19-year-old Princeton student Tom Szaky started TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> to turn out containers of organic fertilizer produced by worms for an entry in the school’s business plan competition. He used old soda bottles to sell the fertilizer, and … Continue reading
Raising money for children with special needs and saving our planet, one cork at a time. UCP of Central Florida, ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, Nomacorc and TerraCycle are saving the planet and raising money for children with special needs, … Continue reading
A program that turns kids’ trash into school cash helped send Truman Benedict Elementary School students to camp last month. Now they’re back and showing off their own trash creations. Fifth-graders at the San Clemente school boxed up Capri Sun … Continue reading
TerraCycle’s business model follows the age-old refrain: one person’s trash is another’s treasure. The company has collected millions of used bottles, cereal boxes and packages, and has converted these materials into shopping bags, backpacks, watches, and pencil pouches. In all, … Continue reading
A program that turns kids’ trash into school cash helped send Truman Benedict Elementary School students to camp last month. Now they’re back and showing off their own trash creations. Fifth-graders at the San Clemente school boxed up Capri Sun … Continue reading
As many great companies do, this one started in a dorm room. Yet the light-bulb idea that emerged from these tight living quarters was… collecting trash? TerraCycle, founded by Tom Szaky, is a company that “upcycles” waste into affordable, eco-friendly … Continue reading
Congrats to Clif Bar and Odwalla Bar for coming up with a great solution to the problem of non-recyclable energy bar wrappers. There is now an alternative to “throwing away” these wrappers and contributing waste to our landfills: Sign up … Continue reading
A program that turns kids’ trash into school cash helped send Truman Benedict Elementary School students to camp last month. Now they’re back and showing off their own trash creations. Fifth-graders at the San Clemente school boxed up Capri Sun … Continue reading