It’s easy to swoon over Tom Szaky. He started a company called TerraCycle <http://hypervocal.com/featured-contributors/2010/video-an-interview-with-the-worm-poop-guy/www.terracycle.net> when he was just a 19-year-old freshman at Princeton University. As a pot grower in Canada, Tom had discovered that worm poop was the best fertilizer. He … Continue reading
Members of the Norwell Cub Scouts 66 use 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 2 cents for every … Continue reading
Capri Elementary is one of about 30,000 schools nationwide participating in TerraCycle’s Drink Pouch Brigade program. By collecting, sorting and sending in used drink pouches, such as Capri Sun brand beverages, students across the country are cleaning up their campuses … Continue reading
Capri Elementary is one of about 30,000 schools nationwide participating in TerraCycle’s Drink Pouch Brigade program. By collecting, sorting and sending in used drink pouches, such as Capri Sun brand beverages, students across the country are cleaning up their campuses … Continue reading
Tom was featured live on CNN’s The Big i segment and interviewed by their rising star anchor, Ali Velchey.
Last year students recycled over 7,000 juice pouches through TerraCycle, an international company founded in New Jersey that makes new products from these items. During Tuesday afternoon’s club meeting, kids each guessed how many empty juice pouches the school has … Continue reading
Students at Capri Elementary School in Campbell are learning some very valuable lessons about the environment, hard work and financial opportunity, and they are discovering it all through trash. Capri Elementary is one of about 30,000 schools nationwide participating in … Continue reading
Tom was interviewed for the NPR show, To the Best of Our Knowledge, which airs on 61 local NPR affiliates nationwide throughout the week. You can stream or download the audio file at the link below. Tom’s interview runs from … Continue reading
WILDWOOD — Throwing away an empty Funyuns bag or an old Laffy Taffy wrapper was routine for students at Glenwood Avenue Elementary School. Not anymore. Now, teacher John Fuscellaro and his homeroom students have launched a recycling program that has … Continue reading
All those Capri Sun juice drinks students at Walnut Heights Elementary have been drinking are making money for the school. Walnut Heights is part of TerraCycle’s “Drink Pouch Brigade,” a free fundraising program that pays 2 cents per unit of … Continue reading