Capri Drink Pouches
Terracycle makes cool things by reusing the pouches.
Terracycle makes cool things by reusing the pouches.
The Wall Street Journal featured three start-up companies with plastics connections over the weekend: e-book company Plastic Logic, recycler TerraCycle Inc., and plastic wine closure maker Nomacorc LLC.
In his book: “Revolution in a Bottle,” Tom Szaky shares how he took “unwanted molecules of industry and created a whole new venture.” In simple terms, someone’s trash became his treasure. In 2002 Szaky dropped out of Princeton to head … Continue reading
Most impressive was the display from Middlebrook School, Wilton’s middle school, where recycling is part of every student’s day. As teacher Janet Nobles explained, every trash can in the school has an adjacent recycling bin for glass and plastic. Further, … Continue reading
TerraCycle Inc. aims to make money by reusing the hard-to-recycle trash the U.S. produces each year—but it first needs to find out if Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other retailers think there’s enough demand for its products.
A company called TerraCycle pays 2 cents for every pouch sent in. Carter wasn’t sure how much juice Sand Pine students drank, but she was about to find out.
I have a great website that I started working with about a year ago. It is called terracycle. It’s almost like recycling, but better.