This year, bringing green into the fall and winter is easy. While packing lunches as kids head back to school, options for staying eco-friendly and keeping lunch tasty are at your fingertips. TerraCycle, a pioneering recycling and upcycling company, offers … Continue reading
This year, bringing green into the fall and winter is easy. While packing lunches as kids head back to school, options for staying eco-friendly and keeping lunch tasty are at your fingertips. TerraCycle, a pioneering recycling and upcycling company, offers … Continue reading
The Guerillapps team quickly realized that in order to maintain Trash Tycoon’s fun, social landscape but ultimately change consumers’ environmental outlook, they would have to take the game outside of the virtual and into the real world. The first step? … Continue reading
“Be flexible in your business model but not in your ideals, and harbor determination.” Szaky founded TerraCycle when he was just a 19-year-old Princeton freshman. The company made worm refuse into fertilizer and packaged it in recycled bottles. Now, TerraCycle … Continue reading
A new social game for Facebook is putting the fun into cleaning up trash and recycling. The green themed social game challenges players to find and recycle trash that can be turned into new products. The ‘Trash Tycoon’ game was … Continue reading
As the online community dives into game play with Trash Tycoon via Facebook, they take on the role of recycling entrepreneurs by collecting litter in a trash-strewn city and upcycling waste into higher-quality, environmentally friendly products. Upcycling, a process in … Continue reading
VentureBeat has highlighted yet another new Facebook game title called Trash Tycoon from Guerillapps . The game seeks to teach the concepts of “upcycling” as users clean up trash around a virtual community and try to transform it into a … Continue reading
ReNual CEO Alicia Korten interviews Albe Zakes from Terracycle on how the company is turning garbage into gold
FAIRFIELD — Take a peek behind the bright orange, green or yellow wrapping of some colorful potted kalanchoes at the local Raley’s grocery store and you’ll find a butter container. It’s Raley’s — and its sister stores, Nob Hill and … Continue reading
Trash Tycoon is a green-themed game for Facebook from social gaming startup Guerillapps. The game, which launched this week, teaches players about environmental issues and sustainability while they compete. Trash Tycoon highlights upcycling, the concept of converting trash into new … Continue reading