Terra Cycle is a company that takes many average household items and gives them a new purpose rather than allowing them to end up in the landfill. DwellSmart is proud to partner with TerraCycle to provide customers the opportunity to … Continue reading
Nine years later, Szaky, now 28, runs one of the fastest-growing eco-friendly manufacturers in the world. TerraCycle Inc. runs collection programs for what are commonly thought of as nonrecyclable waste materials, saving thousands of tons of waste from landfills and … Continue reading
Recycling machines and reverse vending machines are still fairly new — recently I wrote about a couple of cool ones <http://news.discovery.com/tech/recycling-machines-give-back-to-greenies.html> arriving at college campuses and other locations around the country. Unlike those, however, the “Store Collection Systems” at Wal-Mart … Continue reading
Princeton entrepreneur wants to rid the globe of most of its trash The heart of Princeton resident Tom Szaky’s $20-million-a-year business empire is an old printing plant at 121 New York Ave. in Trenton, where most of the company’s 75 … Continue reading
Gruma Corporation with its Guerrero brand, one of the biggest tortillas and tostadas producers in the United States, has created a partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. to collect and reuse tortillas and tostadas plastic packaging through The Brigade of Tortillas and … Continue reading
Elementary school joins nationwide recycling effort MAHOPAC: After seeing a lot of discarded Capri Sun pouches, teachers at Fulmar Road Elementary School signed up to recycle them through a company called TerraCycle. The school earns two cents per pouch. The … Continue reading
Students at Northern Elementary School, St. Philip’s School and Bemidji Area Schools’ Kids and Company/SummerKids program are collecting items like drink pouches, candy wrappers, chip bags, plastic baggies and plastic containers and earning their schools 2 cents for each piece … Continue reading
A set of New Jersey Wal-Mart parking lots now have a way to turn consumer product waste into profits. (Well, a little pocket change, anyway.) Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> has installed what they call “Store Collection Systems,” a 20-foot trailer that accepts … Continue reading
Like many others, we already loved TerraCycle before reviewing Tom Szaky’s book, Revolution in a Bottle—How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business. Szaky’s little book is incredibly readable and takes you through the ups and downs (there were lots of downs). Starting … Continue reading
The teachers at Delshire Elementary School in Delhi used to see a lot of Capri Sun drink pouches get thrown away. Once they signed up to recycle them through a company called TerraCycle, the school began earning two cents for … Continue reading