About TerraCycle
TerraCycle is an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling typically hard-to-recycle waste.
Collection Platforms
TerraCycle offers a range of free programmes that are funded by conscientious companies, as well as recycling solutions available for purchase for almost every form of waste.
Free Recycling Programmes
TerraCycle offers free recycling programmes funded by brands, manufacturers, and retailers around the world to help you collect and recycle your hard-to-recycle waste. Simply choose the programmes you’d like to join; start collecting in your home, school, or office; download free shipping labels; and send us your waste to be recycled. You can even earn rewards for your school or favorite non-profit!
To date, over 202 million people are collecting in 21 countries and have collected billions of pieces of waste, raising over 44 million dollars for charities around the world.
Zero Waste Box™ platform (purchase required)
TerraCycle’s Zero Waste Box™ platform allows you to recycle almost any type of waste, from your coffee capsules to complex laboratory waste. Choose the waste stream you’d like to recycle, purchase your preferred box size, collect your waste, and send it to TerraCycle to be repurposed (shipping is included). Zero Waste Boxes are available for purchase via our Zero Waste Box website and many major retailers.
Municipal Programmes
TerraCycle partners with many municipalities around the world to bring zero waste solutions that range from municipal programmes for recycling cigarette butts to kurbside programmes to recycle hard-to-recycle materials.
Industrial waste programmes
TerraCycle partners with many manufacturing facilities around the world to help recycle hard-to-recycle waste at the facility level. Our programmes range from helping to recycle large volumes of packaging scrap to personal safety equipment. We also provide zero waste consulting and closed-loop R&D support.
Regulated waste recycling
TerraCycle`s regulated waste division provides products and services to help you facilitate the effective and compliant management of regulated, universal and hazardous waste. This may include fluorescent lamps, bulbs, batteries, and e-waste as well as organic waste, medical waste and other waste streams that are potentially harmful to the environment.
Event Services
TerraCycle provides comprehensive event services for businesses and organizations. We can assist you in every step of the way, from collection and recycling to promotion and sponsorship. Whatever your needs are, we will work closely with you to provide the best possible recycling solutions for your event. Please contact us at [email protected]for more information.
The TerraCycle solution
TerraCycle reuses, upcycles and recycles waste instead of incinerating or landfilling it. This moves waste from a linear system to a circular one, allowing it to keep cycling in our economy.
In the News
The latest newspaper and magazine articles, blogs, and social content can be found below.
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Meet Plenaire: The Instagrammable Skincare Brand Rivalling Glossier
If cult beauty favourites Glossier and Mario Badescu teamed up, the result would look a lot like new skincare brand, Plenaire. While the name, which means ‘painting in open air’, sounds more at home in a French pharmacy, Plenaire was actually born here … Continue Reading
Refinery29 · Sep 9, 2019Finalist interview: Terracycle CEO discusses shift from single use to multi use
The countdown is on for the live Sustainability Awards 2019 ceremony, where we will unveil the worthy winners of the most prestigious sustainability competition for packaging innovation. In anticipation, we explore the 25 standout solutions that made it to the finals, handpicked … Continue Reading
Packaging Europe - Online · Sep 6, 2019‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish?
An alarm sounds, the blockage is cleared, and the line at Green Recycling in Maldon, Essex, rumbles back into life. A momentous river of garbage rolls down the conveyor: cardboard boxes, splintered skirting board, plastic bottles, crisp packets, DVD cases, … Continue Reading
2LUXURY2.com · Aug 27, 2019History
TerraCycle was founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, then a student at Princeton University, on a mission towards Eliminating the Idea of Waste®. From these humble beginnings TerraCycle has grown into the global leader in collecting and repurposing hard-to-recycle waste: operating in over 20 countries, engaging over 60 million people, and recycling billions of pieces of waste through various innovative platforms.
Awards
TerraCycle has won over 200 awards for social entrepreneurship and sustainable business.
Inside TerraCycle
TerraCycle is like no other waste management company in the world. Our offices around the world are made entirely from upcycled waste, our walls are covered in everchanging graffiti from local artists, and we thrive on a culture of transparency and high energy innovation. To see a day in the life of a TerraCycle employee, tune in to our critically acclaimed TV show, “Human Resources,” on Pivot, or look through our available careers and internships to experience it for yourself.
