GreenAnswers.com November 09, 2010
When it comes to eco-mindedness, throwing anything away can be an anxiety riddled experience. Every product is rigorously analyzed guaranteeing the trashcan is the only option. In steps Tom Szaky, an innovate man with an earth changing idea, Sponsored Waste. Tom Szaky started TerraCycle in 2001 as a Princeton University freshman, with the hopes of winning the Princeton Business Plan Contest. His idea was to address the environmental issue of trash by using worms to eat organic waste thus producing fertilizer.