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News articles

Tom Talks to Earth 911 Podcast

In this Sustainability in Your Ear podcast, TerraCycle founder and CEO Tom Szaky explains how he’s turning unrecyclable items, diapers, cigarette butts, composite packaging, into viable recycling streams by making the economics work. He argues that recycling alone isn’t enough and that true progress demands a shift toward reusable systems and designing consumption differently, which led to his work on Loop, a platform for durable, returnable packaging.

Earth 911 · Sep 29, 2025

Tom Szaky on TerraCycle, Loop, and Redesigning Waste for a Circular Future

In the latest Standing on Giants podcast, TerraCycle founder and CEO Tom Szaky challenges the idea that waste is inevitable, framing it instead as a design flaw. He shares how TerraCycle began by recycling the “unrecyclable” and has since expanded to Loop, a global reuse platform reinventing packaging systems. Tom stresses that lasting change requires more than good intentions, calling for systemic solutions, smart regulation, and business models that make sustainability profitable.

Standing On Giants · Sep 24, 2025

ShopRite & TerraCycle Build Dog Park Gear from Recycled Packaging

A pilot program between ShopRite and TerraCycle collected more than 4.6 tons of flexible packaging such as chip bags and pet food pouches and transformed it into colorful play equipment now installed at Essex County’s South Mountain Reservation Dog Park in West Orange, NJ. This project shows how recycling hard to recycle materials can create lasting community benefits.

NJ Biz · Sep 2, 2025