About TerraCycle
TerraCycle is an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste.
Collection Platforms
TerraCycle offers a range of free programs that are funded by conscientious companies, as well as recycling solutions available for purchase for almost every form of waste.
Free recycling programs
TerraCycle offers free recycling programs funded by brands, manufacturers, and retailers around the world to help you collect and recycle your hard-to-recycle waste. Simply choose the programs 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 80 million people in 21 countries have helped to collect and recycle enough waste to raise over 21 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 programs
TerraCycle partners with many municipalities around the world to bring zero waste solutions that range from city-wide programs for recycling cigarette butts to curbside programs to recycle hard-to-recycle materials.
Industrial waste solutions
TerraCycle partners with many manufacturing facilities around the world to help recycle hard-to-recycle waste at the facility level. Our programs 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.
Commercial Services & Route Logistics
TerraCycle's Commercial Services Team partners with mobile, service-based companies to enhance their platforms with our unique recycling programs. TerraCycle can work with your sales team to add value to end clients through our unique recycling services.
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 events.us@terracycle.com 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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TerraCycle Announces the 2018 Recycled Playground Challenge
TerraCycle announces the fourth annual Recycled Playground Challenge, a contest with partners Colgate-Palmolive (“Colgate”) and Meijer, that encourages healthy habits among school children and their communities and awards a recycled playground to a winning school. Running April 22 – June 30, … Continue Reading
May 18, 2018TerraCycle Announces the 2018 Recycled Playground Challenge
TerraCycle announces the fourth annual Recycled Playground Challenge, a contest with partners Colgate-Palmolive (“Colgate”) and Meijer, that encourages healthy habits among school children and their communities and awards a recycled playground to a winning school.
May 17, 2018Trying to recycle everything comes at a high cost | Reduce, Reuse, Rethink
Video: Trying to recycle everything — including hard-to-recycle items like coffee pods and cigarette butts — can come at a high cost. 2:33
May 17, 2018History
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 80 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 ever-changing 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.
