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Gardening How-To
TerraCycle Lawn Fertilizer (June 1, 2008)
TerraCycle Lawn Fertilizer is an organic feritlizer made from concentrated, liquefied worm poop for use on any turf....
Green Fertility
REVIEW: Terracycle Plant Food (May 14, 2008)
Plus, the stuff works. I even had a live worm in my Terrcycle potting soil that had been outside all winter. When I lived in NYC, I desperately tried growing stuff in my tiny window and I wish I had this. The food kept my herbs happy all winter long and I even coaxed a berry out of my dormant strawberry plant....
Yahoo
Grow your own money (May 13, 2008)
For example, enterprising Princeton classmates Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer started their own worm gin, which produces a potent organic fertilizer from worm waste. Their company, TerraCycle, now sells its products to Home Depot and Wal-Mart....
The Alternative Consumer
Creating an Upcycle Generation (May 12, 2008)
Gotta love a company who’s reaching out to kids and teaching them how to upcycle. TerraCycle, the makers of that fine organic fertilizer, Worm Poop, has hooked up with both Capri Sun and Honest Tea in an effort to encourage kids to participate in recycling their drink pouches and help transform the otherwise landfill-bound material into handbags, pencil cases and totes. At the end of their use, these purchased items can be sent back to Terracycle to continue the process....
Eco Life
Terracycle Fertilizer (May 10, 2008)
For those who don’t have the time, inclination or stomach for worm farming, there’s a product that provides all the benefits without the effort. The fabulous people at Terracycle are worm poop farmers on a grand scale - producing fertilizers from worm casings that are completely organic. Terracycle offers a wide variety of products online; I’ve also found a few at my local Home Depot. And bonus - this magic elixir is packaged in recycled soda bottles....
Jenotopia
Taking vermicomposting to another level: TerraCycle’s eco-capitalism (May 9, 2008)
Vermicomposting has become so popular that is finally earning the attention of business folk as a potentially lucrative market. TerraCycle is a fresh, young company bringing some long-overdue earth-friendly business practices into play with vermiculture ~ and making a great gardening product in the process....
Matter Network
Contains Liquefied Worm Poop (May 5, 2008)
TerraCycle, a company specializing in the reuse of waste: among other things, it makes pencil cases out of Capri Sun drink packages and binders out of reused cardboard. Office Max is now planning to stock these used-to-be-trash products, and is teaming up with TerraCycle to develop more office supplies....
Ecoesty
Eco Tip Of The Week: Save That Trash! (May 4, 2008)
TerraCycle is trying to eliminate the idea of waste. To do so, we must find great uses for objects that used to be considered waste. And best of all, you can raise funds for your favorite charity by helping us collect waste. It's easy and shipping is free. TerraCycle will pay...
Natural Health News
Get Out and Green Your Garden (May 4, 2008)
Sound like a twisted fourth-grade boy's concoction for messing with his sister? Not quite. Rather, it is TerraCycle's formula for success in the growing, if messy, organic fertilizer business.
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Denver Daily News
RECYCLE THOSE WRAPPERS (April 29, 2008)
Clif Bar is launching a program to recycle its energy bar wrappers and turn them into backpacks and other products by fusing the wrappers and weaving them into material. TerraCycle will supervise the recycling efforts, and people can sign up for free at www.terracycle.net/brigades. Those who sign up will receive four collection bags that hold up to 200 wrappers each, and then they can donate the full bags to the charity of their choice....
Community Earth
A Green Tie Gala (April 27, 2008)
This thriving sustainable business model manufactures affordable, potent, organic products that are not only made from waste, but are also packaged entirely in waste! The process begins by feeding premium organic waste to millions of worms. The worm poop is then liquified into a powerful organic plant food and bottled directly in used soda bottles. The company also has an innovative program that pays school and community groups to collect the reusable container they use for their packaging. Learn more. ...
co-op America
Clif Bar Partners with Terra-Cycle to recycle Wrappers (April 25, 2008)
Clif Bar is furthering their sustainability commitments by teaming up with Terra-Cycle to collect Clif Bar wrappers that will be woven into material for backpacks, tote bags and other products. Individuals and businesses can sign-up for the Wrapper Brigade and will receive collection bags that can be used to collect and send back to TerraCycle. Products are expected in stores in 2009....
Pretty Tough
Wrapper Brigade! (April 24, 2008)
April 24, 2008 - Do you snack on cookies? Drink juice pouches? Eat energy bars? Did you know that every year BILLIONS of drink pouches and food wrappers end up in dumpsters and landfills across America? Well, TerraCycle has teamed up with Clif Bar, Oreos, Capri Sun and others to reduce the amount of packaging going into our landfills. They will donate two cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. The collected waste will be fused and woven into a strong material, which will then be used to make backpacks, gym totes and other products....
Sierraclub Magazine
Foiled Again (April 24, 2008)
Energy bars are convenient, sure, but what about the 800 million wrappers discarded each year? Now they and other selected junk can be sent to a company that's making big business out of household garbage. The plastic/foil composite wrappers, along with empty juice pouches, will be reincarnated as bags and backpacks on the shelves of Target. Next, old plastic yogurt containers will reappear at Home Depot as planter pots. The formula belongs to TerraCycle, which entices schools and others to collect castoffs in return for a charity donation, then refashions the items for sale in big-box stores. terracycle.net...
Low Impact Living
The Straight Poop: TerraCycle Plant Foods (April 23, 2008)
I love to tinker in my garden, and I’m an especially big fan of this company TerraCycle and their gardening products. The reason for the title of this blog is that TerraCycle fertilizers are made from worm poop! The company also has some very interesting recycled packaging. I had the good fortune to interview TerraCycle’s CEO, Tom Szaky, about chemical-free gardening and the TerraCycle story....
The Philly Burbs
What can I do for earth day? (April 22, 2008)
Help spread the idea of “Eco-capitialism,” and raise money for your favorite charity at the same time by giving Trenton’s TerraCycle your unwanted soda bottles, yougurt containers, cookie wrappers and more. Learn more about this company - if your daily commute includes crossing the river on Rt. 1, you drive right past their funky, grafitti-strewn HQ every day - here....
RandMark
Local garden clubs gearing up for spring (April 22, 2008)
To keep up on what should be done and when, Kranz also suggests subscribing to the club's free newsletter (at the club's website www.bgc.terracycle.net), which features a "Timely Reminders" section. The newsletter, edited by Jerry LeBeda, former club president, also contains club news, gardening tips and other articles of interest....
Kearney Hub
Don’t pitch that wrapper in the trash (April 22, 2008)
A Kearney organization has joined a national effort to reuse waste materials while raising money for a local charity. Becky Skrdla of Kearney, a Mid-America Bicycle Club member, read about the Clif Bar Wrapper Brigade when she was flipping through a biking newsletter....
Petoskey News Review
Area schools teach students how to be environmental stewards (April 19, 2008)
In addition to area recycling facilities, TerraCycle Inc. runs four nationwide upcycling programs for schools, community groups and nonprofits. The programs collect four materials: 20 ounce soda bottles, kid's drink pouches, yogurt containers and energy and granola bar wrappers (regardless of brand). In return, they donate several cents per piece to a school or nonprofit that the location chooses....
Taunton Daily Gazette
One person’s trash is another’s recycled treasure (April 19, 2008)
A local environmentalist takes the mantra “reduce, reuse, recycle” to the next level and turns trash into treasure by joining a national movement called the TerraCycle Brigades. “It’s all about taking what we have and using it efficiently,” said LeeAnn Tavares, recycling coordinator for the town of Seekonk and secretary for the Conservation Commission in Wrentham....
Smithsonian Magazine
Expand Your Eco-Influence (April 18, 2008)
Another idea revolves around the concept of “sponsored waste” as created by TerraCycle, those folks who came up with organic fertilizer made from worm poop and sold in reclaimed containers (yes, it’s real, and it’s spectacular!) TerraCycle now pays schools, non-profits and community groups to collect packaging from partner companies like Capri Sun, Stonyfield Farm and Clif Bar. TerraCycle then upcycles the drink pouches into tote bags and pencil cases, and the yogurt containers into planters. Clif Bar wrappers are molded into a new material to be used to make backpacks and gym totes. Schools can earn from 2 to 5 cents for each container sent in. What a great way to “close the loop”, and get paid doing it!...
Low Impact Living
Expand Your Eco-Influence (April 17, 2008)
Another idea revolves around the concept of “sponsored waste” as created by TerraCycle, those folks who came up with organic fertilizer made from worm poop and sold in reclaimed containers (yes, it’s real, and it’s spectacular!) TerraCycle now pays schools, non-profits and community groups to collect packaging from partner companies like Capri Sun, Stonyfield Farm and Clif Bar. TerraCycle then upcycles the drink pouches into tote bags and pencil cases, and the yogurt containers into planters. Clif Bar wrappers are molded into a new material to be used to make backpacks and gym totes. Schools can earn from 2 to 5 cents for each container sent in. What a great way to “close the loop”, and get paid doing it!...
Capital City News
TerraCycle products hit Alaska shelves (April 16, 2008)
TerraCycle is leading the way for companies trying to take eco-friendly and organic products and make them more affordable and accessible so that the average consumer may become a green consumer....
The Township Times
National Program aims to acquire schools' waste (April 16, 2008)
Countless businesses have jumped on the "green" bandwagon. Now schools can do the same....
Pro Cyclng News
Accessorize with Clif Bar (April 15, 2008)
Clif Bar will take all energy bar wrappers (that's right, ALL of them) at their booth, number 227 to later be converted into useful objects like tote bags and purses. The environmentally conscious Clif Bar & Co., in partnership with Terracycle, will be unveiling its new energy bar wrapper-recycling program, called the Wrapper Brigade at Sea Otter. For a look at the final product or just to learn more about the Wrapper Brigade, go here....
The Ithaca Journal
Saving the planet, 1 wrapper at a time (April 15, 2008)
CLIF BAR & Company, an all-natural organic food and drink company and TerraCycle, Inc., an eco-friendly company that makes plant food and other products, are teaming up together this Earth Day to create the Wrapper Brigade, the nation's first program designed to reduce the waste going into landfills by collecting energy bar wrappers....
Rutland Herald
TerraCycle's recycling brigades raise money and eco awareness (April 13, 2008)
Reduce, reuse, recycle. It's a mantra of the 21st century. Separating our newspapers and cardboard, junk mail and office paper, magazines and catalogs, bottles and cans, and plastic bottles from the rest of our garbage has become part of our daily routines....
The Salt Lake Tribune
Things to do this week and beyond (April 10, 2008)
CLIF BAR LAUNCHES FIRST COLLECTION PROGRAM CLIF BAR wants your used energy bar wrappers for the Wrapper Brigade, where they will donate 2 cents to charity for every wrapper collected and woven into material. For more information, visit www.clifbar.com....
Sandy Post
Waste products worm their way to Sandy (April 10, 2008)
Liquefied worm dung in a used soda bottle isn’t exactly something most people would think to purchase. But challenging conventional thinking about waste and recycling is exactly what New Jersey-based TerraCycle, Inc. wants to do....
Fox Business
Young Guns: Go Behind the Scenes With America's Young Entrepreneurs (April 9, 2008)
Meet Tom Szaky, the 26-year-old founder of Terracycle, whose company's products and packaging are made entirely from waste. From turning down $1 million in seed capital to getting sued by MiracleGro, this fledgling fertilizer firm, which started in 2001, is already making its mark in the business world....
Bioneers Community
Sponsored Waste- Closing the Loop on food packaging (April 9, 2008)
Which brigade would you like to join??? The Yogurt Brigade! The Energy Wrapper Brigade! The Drink Pouch Brigade! or the Bottle Brigade! Which ever one you chose, you won't be disappointed. Hello everyone- thanks for reading. My name is Liz and I work here at the Headwaters Bioneers- bringing together the young people in the Bioneers community! But, I also do some field marketing for a wonderful company called Clif Bar- attending athletic and music events, handing out various Clif Bar product....
Herald Tribune
Cash for your trash (April 8, 2008)
Your used (clean!) yogurt cups, energy-bar wrappers, drink pouches or soda bottles can earn your favorite charity some cash thanks to TerraCycle, a maker of all-natural home and garden products.
Yogurt cups will turn into planting pots, drink pouches and energy-bar wrappers will become accessories such as tote bags and soda bottles will become packaging for a variety of TerraCycle products, according to the company’s Web site.
In cooperation with Capri Sun, Honest Tea, Stonyfield Farm and Clif Bar, TerraCycle will give your charity anywhere between 1 cent and 5 cents for each empty item.
Just sign up online and pack up your empty containers in the free shipping boxes delivered to your door.
www.terracycle.net...
Memoirs of a Vagabond
TerraCycle turns what others leave behind into fertilizers and fashion (April 8, 2008)
Of earthworms Charles Darwin wrote, “It may be doubted if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world as these lowly organized creatures.” With the help of a talented social entrepreneur, hard work, and good luck, earthworms are making history again at TerraCycle Inc. in Trenton, N.J. The eco-friendly gardening supply company, which turns worm castings into organic liquid plant fertilizer, is growing faster than a wonga wonga vine (Pandorea pandorana) in springtime. It’s also affirming the green movement’s place in mainstream business....
Truth Needs No Ally
Recycling in Pink (April 5, 2008)
Or that Clif Bar, based in Berkeley, CA, has partnered with TerraCycle to reuse its energy bar wrappers? Their joint initiative, called the Wrapper Brigade, is one of many that TerraCylce has created to reuse recyclable materials and, in the process, donate to charities....
Inside Texas Running
Recycled your used energy bar wrappers (April 4, 2008)
Clif Bar, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce...
Common Ground
Catch and Release (April 3, 2008)
Much media ado has been made over TerraCycle — the ingeniously eco-forward company that uses worms to turn organic trash into potent fertilizer sold in reclaimed (hey! Even better than recycled!) pop bottles on superstore shelves. Now TerraCycle is partnering with Stonyfield Farms, Clif Bar and Honest Tea to close the loop on food packaging — a concept they’re calling “ Sponsored Waste.” The plan is to enlist schools, nonprofits and community groups to set up neighborhood packaging collection drives. Participating locations will earn two cents for every pouch, small yogurt container or energy bar wrapper and five cents for each large yogurt container or 20 oz. bottle they send back, with donations made to the nonprofit of the location’s choice. TerraCycle will then “ upcycle ”...
The Green Parent
Raise Money For Your Favorite School or Charity with this Eco-Friendly Fundraiser (April 3, 2008)
With a motto of "Turning Garbage Into Gold," New Jersey-based TerraCycle is making it their mission to "eliminate the idea of waste" by creating products that are made from and packaged in garbage. To date they've kept over one million plastic soda bottles out of the landfill by using the bottles to package their cleaning agents and organic garden supplies. It's a unique concept, and one that can really help to change the way products are currently made and used....
Empire Press
Worms, pots and business (April 3, 2008)
We had a phone call the other morning about a guy who wanted to talk about worm poop and urban artists who decorated pots....
El Neuvodia
Abono empresarial (April 2, 2008)
Hace seis años, Tom Szaky tuvo que tolerar la burlas cuando salió a pedir dinero para desarrollar un producto al que llamaba “Worm Poop” (caca de lombriz). Hoy, esos mismos inversionistas están fascinados con su “eco-capitalismo” y su compañía, TerraCycle, ha sido proclamada “la empresa incipiente más 'cool' en América”, según la revista Inc....
Gardening How-To
TerraCycle Fertilizers (April 1, 2008)
TerraCycle Garden is an organic fertilizer made of concentrated, liquefied worm poop for use on outdoor plants, shrubs, and vegetables. All-natural ingredients will not burn plants....
Handy Magazine
Homegrown Green (April 1, 2008)
Growing and mowing - another resource at your display is garbage. Kitchen scraps (such as vegetable peels, eggshells and coffee grounds), grass clippings and leaves can greatly enrich the soil and nurture a greener landscape....
V Magazine
Juicy Couture (April 1, 2008)
Our bread and butter is fertilizer made from worm poop and then packaged in old soda bottles said Albe Zakes, marketing director at eco-gardening company TerraCycle. We aren't used to considering our work in relation to the world of high fashion...
Seattle Triathlon Team
Wrapper Brigade (April 1, 2008)
CLIF BAR is sponsoring the program and TerraCycle is providing product collection and reuse expertise. Both partners recognize that millions of energy bar wrappers are discarded each year. Together they want to help make reuse rather than disposal the norm for used wrappers....
Herald Net
Soda Bottles for Worm Poop; Drink Pouches for Handbags (April 1, 2008)
The eco-friendly company TerraCycle is dedicated to being a “zero waste” operation, and so packages its worm poop fertilizer in used soda bottles. A year and a half ago, the company created its National Bottle Brigade to collect the bottles, to give kids an opportunity to make a difference through recycling, and to help schools and nonprofit organizations raise money....
The Hillsboro Argus
Fred Meyer carrying innovative, eco-friendly products (April 1, 2008)
PORTLAND - Fred Meyer Stores is carrying a new line of eco-friendly garden products in response to the growing demands for more sustainable, organic products. The products, manufactured by TerraCycle, Inc., are made entirely from waste and school kids can earn money by helping collect some of the waste items used to make the products. TerraCycle's mission is to provide organic and eco-friendly products without charging a premium. The products will be available at Fred Meyer locations throughout Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Idaho....
Schools, community groups challenged to join recycling fundraisers nationwide
The Hillsboro Argus (April 1, 2008)
Schools and other groups are being challenged to start collecting used soda bottles, yogurt containers, energy bar wrappers and used drink pouches as part of a nationwide program. The programs allow schools to fundraise while teaching their students about recycling and the environment. Anyone can sign up for this free and easy program and start earning donations for a school or local nonprofit. TerraCycle has teamed with Honest Tea and Stonyfield Farm to create two programs called the Drink Pouch Brigade and the Yogurt Brigade. These programs allow schools, houses of worship and other community groups to collect previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle items in return for cash. ...
Homemakers Journal
TerraCycle's Rotary Composter + Solid Fertilizer (April 1, 2008)
is not only handsome. It's a great reuse for used oak wine barrels from California. And Organic Fertilizer packaged in reused milk jugs....
Container Recycling Institute
Schools, community groups challenged to join recycling fundraisers nationwide (April 1, 2008)
Schools and other groups are being challenged to start collecting used soda bottles, yogurt containers, energy bar wrappers and used drink pouches as part of a nationwide program. The programs allow schools to fundraise while teaching their students about recycling and the environment. Anyone can sign up for this free and easy program and start earning donations for a school or local nonprofit.
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Liberty Sports
Energy Bar Wrapper Recycling Program (April 1, 2008)
Eat Energy Bars? Most of us do, and that equals millions of wrappers...
Readers Digest
Fast Grass From Hard Working Worms (April 1, 2008)
Listen up lawn lovers: No more rueing the less-than-stellar performance of so many organic fertilizers....
Homemakers Magazine
The Best for last (April 1, 2008)
Your garden will be good to grow with our roundup of great gear that goes easy on the environment...
Herald News
Fred Meyer carries TerraCycle (March 31, 2008)
Fred Meyer in Everett is carrying the TerraCycle line of environmentally friendly gardening products. The products include Worm Poop plant foods and fertilizers. TerraCycle packages its products in recycled beverage and yogurt containers, some of which are collected by children during fundraisers. For information on its recycling program, go to www.terracycle.net/brigades.
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Brigton Blues
TerraCycle Brigades (March 31, 2008)
TerraCycle is trying to eliminate the idea of waste. To do so, we must find great uses for objects that used to be considered waste. We manufacture affordable, potent, organic products that are not only made from waste, but are also packaged entirely in waste!Best of all, you can help raise funds for a local charity, Caring for Christ's Creatures Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary, by helping us collect waste. The sanctuary is collecting the following empty (rinsed) containers:
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Metrosports DC
Recycle Your Wrappers (March 26, 2008)
Clif Bar, makers of all-natural and organic energy bars, has launched the nation’s first collection program for used energy bar wrappers called the Wrapper Brigade.
The program was developed in partnership with TerraCycle, which manufactures products from recycled waste materials. Through this program, two cents will be donated to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. ...
Recycling Today Magazine
Clif Bar Launches Nation’s First Collection Program for Used Energy Bar Wrappers (March 26, 2008)
Clif Bar, an all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle have announced the nation’s first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials, according to a company press release. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. Clif Bar is sponsoring the program and TerraCycle is providing product collection and reuse expertise. ...
Palo Alto Online
FYI (March 26, 2008)
Eco-capitalists TerraCycle — best known for their eco-friendly "Worm Poop" fertilizer — have teamed up with energy-bar maker Clif Bar to establish energy-bar wrapper recycling locations across the country. The goal is to keep the wrappers out of landfills, but the campaign serves other purposes as well. For starters, TerraCycle donates 2 cents per wrapper to the charity of choice identified by the administrator of each collection location — Palo Alto has two. Second, the wrappers are eventually woven together to create fashion...
Windy City Sports
Recycle Your Wrappers (March 26, 2008)
The program was developed in partnership with TerraCycle, which manufactures products from recycled waste materials. Through this program, two cents will be donated to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
The DC Triathlon Club
CLIF BAR Launches Nation's First Collection Program for Used Wrappers (March 26, 2008)
Partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. Enables Collectors to Trade Wrappers for Cash to Support Non-Profits and Schools
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New England Sports
Recycle Your Wrappers (March 26, 2008)
Clif Bar, makers of all-natural and organic energy bars, has launched the nation’s first collection program for used energy bar wrappers called the Wrapper Brigade.
The program was developed in partnership with TerraCycle, which manufactures products from recycled waste materials. Through this program, two cents will be donated to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. ...
Sandy Post
Waste Products make their way to Sandy (March 26, 2008)
Liquefied worm dung in a soda bottle isn't exactly something most people would think to purchase...
Vitamin Retailer
Waste Not: Stonyfield Farms, Honest Tea, Clif Bar and TerraCycle Unite and Reuse (March 25, 2008)
Four environmentally responsible companies have created an innovative way to collect and reuse product packaging. Three organic food companies—Stonyfield Farm, Honest Tea and Clif Bar—joined forces with TerraCycle to operate four collection efforts to prevent millions of drink pouches, yogurt containers, energy bar wrappers and soda bottles from clogging our nation’s landfills. TerraCycle is then turning this ‘waste’ into eco-friendly, affordable TerraCycle products.
By making or packaging eco-friendly products from used containers, TerraCycle, with the help of Honest Tea, Stonyfield Farm and Clif Bar, hopes to eliminate the idea of waste. This is the first time industry leaders have set up collection programs reclaiming their used packages so it can be upcycled into a new product....
NJ My Way
Here’s the Poop (March 25, 2008)
We predict in a few months you or your kids will want a handbag made out of Capri Sun juice bags. How do we know this? Because we saw hundreds of them being assembled at TerraCycle (www.terracycle.net), the upstart Trenton company that finds creative uses for the things we know as garbage. ...
Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine
Wrapper Trapper (March 23, 2008)
Instead of throwing that CLIF BAR wrapper away, why not turn it into a backpack? The maker of organic energy bars has teamed with TerraCycle to create the Wrapper Brigade, a nation-wide recycling program that collects used CLIF BAR wrappers and weaves them into a strong material which will then be used to make backpacks....
Vitality Magazine
TerraCycle Plant Food for Eco-Friendly Gardeners (March 23, 2008)
TerraCycle Plant Food became the first consumer product to earn the Zerofootprint Seal and now is available to eco-conscious plant-lovers at major hardware and garden centres across Canada and the US. The seal signifies that the materials and manufacturing process used to produce a product have virtually no negative environmental repercussions....
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Company goes mainstream with green ethic (March 22, 2008)
Tom Szaky had an idea five years ago to start a company that is different than most. "The fundamental basis is that we make products out of waste, and our products need to revolve around three very basic criteria: better, cheaper and greener," said Szaky, the CEO and founder of TerraCycle, a company on an environmental crusade that made its first sale in 2004. The philosophy and other strategies have paid off....
Bend Weekly
Bend Fred Meyer store tests products made from waste (March 21, 2008)
BEND, Ore. -- The Bend Fred Meyer store on Highway 97 is carrying a new line of eco-friendly garden products in response to the growing demands for more sustainable, organic products. The products, manufactured by TerraCycle, Inc., are made entirely from waste and school children can earn money by helping collect some of the waste items used to make the products. TerraCycle’s mission is to provide organic and eco-friendly products without charging a premium. The products will be available at Fred Meyer locations throughout Oregon....
The Dallas Morning News
Graffiti for a good cause (March 21, 2008)
When a company's initial offering is liquid fertilizer made from worm poop packaged in used plastic soda bottles, there are bound to be more surprises in store...
Washington Running Report
CLIF BAR Launches Nation's First Collection Program for Used Energy Bar Wrappers (March 17, 2008)
CLIF BAR, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation's first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
Natural Resources Council of Maine
TerraCycle: Yogurt Cups, and More, Help Schools Raise Funds (March 16, 2008)
Schools and other community groups might want to check out an eco-friendly company that makes products out of reused materials. Called TerraCycle Inc., the company was started in 2001 by Princeton students Tom Szaky and John Bayer....
Maine Today
Yogurt cups, and more, help schools raise funds (March 16, 2008)
School kids and other participants can raise money for their favorite charity or other projects by collecting designated items for TerraCycle, which in turn pays roughly 2 to 5 cents per recycled item collected. Patty Crawford of Montville, a teacher at Islesboro Central School in Islesboro, recently enlisted her 11 fifth graders in three of TerraCycle's collection "Brigades": The "Yogurt Brigade," sponsored by Stonyfield Farm, the "Drink Pouch Brigade" sponsored by Capri SunTM and Honest KidsTM, and the "Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade," sponsored by Clif Bar."...
Herald Mail
Annual garden show offers place for ideas to take root, sprout (March 16, 2008)
The TerraCycle products even come packaged in recycled materials - plastic soda bottles with surplus spray bottle heads, Baker said. ...
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Garden-Variety Revolution: TerraCycle turns what others leave behind into fertilizers and fashion. (March 15, 2008)
Of earthworms Charles Darwin wrote, “It may be doubted if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world as these lowly organized creatures.” With the help of a talented social entrepreneur, hard work, and good luck, earth-worms are making history again at TerraCycle Inc. in Trenton, N.J. The eco-friendly gardening supply com- pany, which turns worm castings into organic liquid plant fertilizer, is growing faster than a wonga wonga vine (Pandorea pandorana) in spring- time. It’s also affirming the green movement’s place in mainstream business.
TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky runs a lean operation, using earthworms, recycled packaging, and low-rent facilities in Trenton, N.J., to make organic garden products. ...
San Diego Tribune
'Green' energy demand means more jobs – conference (March 14, 2008)
In Trenton, New Jersey, a company called TerraCycle turns waste like plastic soda bottles into containers for liquid fertilizer and personal accessories like handbags. “There is so much waste out there that can be upcycled into new products,” said Tom Szaky, 26, the company's chief executive. “It's not garbage anymore. It's just a commodity that has some value behind it.”...
INC magazine
A Solution for "Sponsored" Waste (March 12, 2008)
The amazing thing about eco-capitalism is that you can create business
models where everyone truly wins: the environment, the consumer, the big business, the retailer and your business. In other words, all stakeholders (even the environment) can benefit. What's amazing about this kind of solution is that it creates the opposite of a death spiral -- a growth spiral. That is exactly what happened when we launched what we call "sponsored waste."...
The Mom Squad
Teach Your Kids About Recycling, and Help the Playhouse! (March 6, 2008)
Mom Squad reader, Anna sent me this information about recycling your yogurt containers, from the director of the Children's Playhouse. Anna has 2 children, ages 1-3, and is very environmentally conscious. This is a great lesson to teach our children about reducing trash.
You could also show them what will be done with them, by planting something in one of the containers. It will almost be time to plant lettuce and leafy greens, and start tomatoes and herbs indoors before moving them to outdoor pots or gardens. Chives do well in small containers, and can be used rather quickly after sprouting.
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San Leandro Times
Recycle your energy bar wrappers (March 6, 2008)
The collected wrappers will be fused and woven into a strong material which will then be used to make backpacks...
The Dallas Morning News
All the pretty flowers that will grow here (March 5, 2008)
When a company's initial offering is liquid fertilizer made from earthworm manure and packaged in plastic pop bottles, there are bound to be more surprises in store. New Jersey start-up TerraCycle also produces bird feeders and household cleaners packaged in recycled plastic bottles and zippered bags fashioned from juice pouches. ...
EAT Nutrition
Recycle Your Wrappers (March 3, 2008)
Clif Bar, makers of all-natural and organic energy bars, has launched the nation's first collection program for used energy bar wrappers...
Wingfoot
Join the Wrapper Brigade (March 1, 2008)
Among the things that too frequently end up clogging the nation's landfills are food wrappers, and the runners who consume energy bars contribute their share. In an effort to reduce the number of discarded energy bar wrappers and promote the reuse of "waste" materials, the makers of CLIF energy bars and Terracycle...
South Florida Adventures
Wrapper Brigade (March 1, 2008)
Clif Bar, the popular organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are working together to reduce wrappers going into landfills while educating...
Outdoor Athlete
Trade Energy Bar Wrappers for Cash (February 29, 2008)
CLIF BAR and TerraCycle recently announced the nation’s first program
designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our
landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials.
Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will
donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals
and organizations....
Running Experience
Having the energy to save your wrappers (February 28, 2008)
How many times have you spotted an empty Gu packet or energy bar wrapper discarded on a trail? I recently spotted a press release about a new scheme that recycles this type of trash....
Design at Home
Prepairing for Spring (February 27, 2008)
I’ll be the first to admit that my thumb is not very green. I love flowers and herb gardens, and I’ll even offer to trim the shrubs once in a while. But I’m trying to get better. With winter on its way out, I’m becoming more inspired to get outdoors and work in the dirt. As am investigating the latest products to help my garden grow, I’ve discovered many have harsh and toxic chemicals. Since I’m working to “green” my life, I want an Earth-friendly option for outdoor plantings and landscaping....
Journal of Business and Social Entrepreneur
Kudos to Clif Bars (February 27, 2008)
Clif Bars is one company in the healthy snacking arena that KIND inhabits that I find a very worthy and also admirable player in the space. Here they came up with a very creative and positive contribution against environmental waste. Not sure how far this can get us but it is definitely a step in the right direction, smart marketing, innovative, and beneficial…...
FATRAC
Recycle Energy Bar Wrappers (February 25, 2008)
FATRAC has registerd to participate in a unique recycling program sponsored by Clifbar and TerraCycle!!! Look for bags at our events to collect your wrappers (note about which wrappers qualify: Assorted energy bar wrappers, not Gu or shot-type product, not candy bar wrappers.)...
Fake Plastic Fish
Terracycle & Clif Bar: Shades of Green (February 21, 2008)
Michael called me at work tonight to say he'd just heard that Clif Bar has a new program to take back its plastic energy bar wrappers and "upcycle" them in a partnership with Terracycle, the good folks who got sued by Scotts Miracle Grow for selling worm poop compost in recycled soda bottles and claiming it was better. (I'm sure it is better. Sue me.)...
Green Biz Journal
Clif Bar wraps up recycling deal (February 18, 2008)
Berkeley, Calif.’s Clif Bar Inc. is teaming with recycling firm TerraCycle Inc. on the nation’s first program designed to recycle the wrappers around energy bars. The program, called the Wrapping Brigade, allows companies or people to donate 2 cents per wrapper to nonprofits. Under the program, wrappers will be mailed to Terracycle to be recycled into backpacks and other products, the East Bay Business Times reports....
Business Times
Clif Bar unwraps program to collect, recycle waste (February 15, 2008)
Clif Bar & Co. of Berkeley has joined forces with a New Jersey recycler to start the nation's first large-scale program to keep energy bar wrappers out of landfills.
Called the Wrapping Brigade, the program also has a fundraising component, allowing individuals or organizations to donate and/or raise 2 cents per returned wrapper for nonprofit groups. Empty wrappers collected and mailed to TerraCycle Inc. of Trenton, N.J., will be used to make backpacks, gym totes and other products, the first of which will likely be finished by summer. ...
Telegraph Neighbors
Nashua to be part of nation wide recycling project (February 13, 2008)
Four environmentally responsible companies created an innovative way to collect and reuse product packaging. Three organic food companies, Stonyfield Farm, Honest Tea, and Clif Bar joined forces with TerraCycle to operate four collection efforts to prevent millions of yogurt containers, drink pouches, energy bar wrappers and soda bottles from overflowing our nation’s landfills. TerraCycle is then turning this ‘waste’ into eco-friendly, affordable TerraCycle products.
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Treehugger.com
Terracycle and Sponsored Waste (February 13, 2008)
When it comes right down to it, recycling is a shifting of responsibility from the producer who made a product to the consumers and their governments that use tax money to collect it and deal with it; rarely does it pay for itself. We didn't have a litter or recycling problem when the bottlers had to pay a deposit; that's why they founded Keep America Beautiful- to shift the burden from them to you. That's why we think that there should be producer responsibility, with a deposit on everything from coffee cups to cars....
Wisconsin Cycling Association
Clif Bar Wrappers Worth Cash! (February 13, 2008)
Clif Bar is partnering with TerraCycle to reduce the number of energy bar wrappers in landfills. The Wrapper Brigade program asks us to collect energy bar wrappers (any brand), send them in, and receive 2 cents apiece for a charity that we choose. The collected wrappers will be recycled into outdoor products like backpacks. If you're interested, sign up for Wrapper Brigade by visiting: http://www.terracycle.net/brigades....
TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky
TerraCycle Room 101 (February 12, 2008)
TerraCycle specializes in turning our trash into desirable products....
The New England Runner
Clif Bar Partners in Recycling Initiative (February 12, 2008)
Partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. Enables Collectors to Trade Wrappers for Cash to Support Non-Profits and Schools. CLIF BAR, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation's first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. ...
Lake Ontario Outdoors
CLIF® BAR Launches Nation’s First Collection Program (February 12, 2008)
Partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. Enables Collectors to Trade Wrappers for Cash to Support Non-Profits and Schools CLIFÒ BAR, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation’s first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. The collected wrappers will be fused and woven into a strong material, which will then be used to make backpacks, gym totes and other products. These items are expected to be available at major retailers by early next year. ...
Telegraph Neighbors
Nashua to be part of nation wide recycling project (February 12, 2008)
Four environmentally responsible companies created an innovative way to collect and reuse product packaging. Three organic food companies, Stonyfield Farm, Honest Tea, and Clif Bar joined forces with TerraCycle to operate four collection efforts to prevent millions of yogurt containers, drink pouches, energy bar wrappers and soda bottles from overflowing our nation’s landfills. TerraCycle is then turning this ‘waste’ into eco-friendly, affordable TerraCycle products.
...
Randomly Generated
Wrapper Brigade (February 11, 2008)
Clif Bar and TerraCycle have teamed up to create a unique program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into landfills. Sponsored by Clif Bar, the "Wrapper Brigade" program will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
Kentucky's Online Trailhead
Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade (February 11, 2008)
Check out the TerraCycle & Clif Bar Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade. Sponsored by Clif Bar at http://www.terracycle.net/cbb/cbb.htm
Basically, Cliff Bar will give $ 0.02 for every energy bar wrapper to a charitable organization. Acceptable wrappers:...
Climbing Magazine
Partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. Enables Collectors to Trade Wrappers for Cash to Support (February 8, 2008)
The collected wrappers will be fused and woven into a strong material, which will then be used to make backpacks, gym totes and other products. These items are expected to be available at major retailers by early next year. ...
National Post
RAIN, RAIN, DON'T GO AWAY (February 7, 2008)
TerraCycle is a very cool company -- not only do they re-use milk jugs and pop bottles to package their Worm Poop plant food, they also turn old wine barrels into compost bins and rainwater collecting systems....
The Running Network
CLIF(R) BAR Launches Nation's First Collection Program (February 4, 2008)
CLIF BAR, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation's first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
Herald News
Best Bets - Recycling for Charity (February 2, 2008)
Clif bar, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle, based in Trenton, are sponsoring the nation's first program to reduce the number of energy bar wrappers being dumped in landfills....
Dirt Rag
Clif Bar Sponsors Energy Bar Wrapper Collection Program (February 1, 2008)
Clif Bar and TerraCycle have teamed up to create a unique program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into landfills. Sponsored by Clif Bar, the "Wrapper Brigade" program will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. The wrappers will be fused and woven into a strong material which will be used to make backpacks, gym totes and other products....
Tuscon Home
For the Birds (February 1, 2008)
The folks at TerraCycle have made a name for themselves in the plant-food arena - not only for providing quality organic products for gardners, but for doing so in recycled plastic containers...
This is Green
TerraCycle CEO Interview (January 28, 2008)
This week we interview Tom Szaky, CEO and Co-Founder of Terracycle, Inc. producer of the world's first product made from and packaged in waste. terracycle Plant Food has been recently named the most eco-friendly product in Home Depot, and received a number of awards for business model and environmental stewardship. ...
Competitor Magazine
CLIF® BAR and TerraCycle Launch Nation’s First Collection Program for Used Energy Bar Wrappers (January 27, 2008)
CLIF® BAR, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation’s first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
Green Man Radio
Tom Szaky on Greenman (January 27, 2008)
Things are pretty slow gardening wise this time of year. So I thought this would be the perfect time to let you share my latest interview with Tom Szaky. Tom, as you may remember, is the painfully young CEO of Terra Cycle. ...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
TRYOUT: Company plants recycling seed. (January 26, 2008)
Tom Szaky had an idea five years ago to start a company that is different than most. "The fundamental basis is that we make products out of waste, and our products need to revolve around three very basic criteria: better, cheaper and greener," said Szaky, the CEO and founder of TerraCycle, a company on an environmental crusade that made its first sale in 2004.
The philosophy and other strategies have paid off....
San Mateo County Times
Clif Bar and plant food maker TerraCycle are partnering on a Wrapper Brigade (January 25, 2008)
Berkeley-based Clif Bar and plant food maker TerraCycle are partnering on a Wrapper Brigade program that will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. Sign up at http://www.terracycle.net/brigades. ...
Competitor Magazine
CLIF® BAR Launches First Collection Program for Energy Bar Wrappers (January 25, 2008)
CLIF® BAR, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation’s first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
Startup Toolbox
On Getting Paid to Recycle (January 24, 2008)
Even closer to my heart is Terracycle’s Brigade project. Terracycle’s main business is selling organic fertilizer and pesticides. They package their products in straight-from-the-recycling-center plastic bottles. More recently, they have started projects to collect used yogurt containers, drink pouches and energy bar wrappers. I go through a lot of energy bars, so I’m pleased to have a place to send the wrappers. For each container, $0.02- $0.05 is donated to the charity of the collectors choice. I’m still working through the details, especially what will be done with all the material collected, but I love the idea....
Contra Costa Times
Quick Hits (January 24, 2008)
Berkeley-based Clif Bar and plant food maker TerraCycle are partnering on a Wrapper Brigade program that will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. Sign up at http://www.terracycle.net/brigades....
Bicycle Retailer
Clif Bar Launches Collection Program (January 23, 2008)
BERKELEY, CA (BRAIN)—Clif Bar and TerraCycle have announced the nation's first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials.
Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate two cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
The Trentonian
Clif Bar, TerraCycle launch eco-friendship (January 16, 2008)
TRENTON — Energy bar wrappers may be the next wave of fashion must-haves, as Clif Bar and Trenton-based TerraCycle have formed a partnership to create the Wrapper Brigade.
The Wrapper Brigade is the first program created to collect used energy bar wrappers, thus reducing the amount of wrappers going into America’s landfills. Collected wrappers will be fused into a strong material, which will be used to make gym totes, backpacks and other products....
Good Magazine
Black Gold (January 16, 2008)
If Tom Szaky were a typical 25-year-old college-dropout CEO, he’d probably be running an internet start-up. Instead, he sells worm poop—an excellent fertilizer, as it turns out. TerraCycle, the company he founded in 2001, sold almost $2 million worth of the stuff last year.
The company also boasts one of the most sustainable business models imaginable: they get paid to convert garbage into a consumer product. "What caught my eye was less the fertilizer nature of worm poop, although that was fantastic, but the fact that it started with garbage," Szaky says....
Union Leader
Milk-jug recycling program's a hit (January 16, 2008)
Earlier this year, the Trenton NJ based TerraCycle offered to pay double the market value per pound for one-gallon milk jugs collected by local residents and left at the New Boston Road recycling center. The company plans to use the jugs as containers for its "worm poop" organic fertilizers, which are sold at major chain stores....
NJ.com
Business Briefs (January 15, 2008)
The Wrapper Brigade program will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected. Ter raCycle said the used wrappers will be fused and woven into material that will be used to make items such as backpacks and gym totes that will be sold at participating re tailers later this year.
People who sign up for the program at TerraCycle's Web site will receive collection bags that can hold up to 200 wrappers. Participants who mail their collection bags back to TerraCycle can designate what charity they want to support.
The Web site is www.terracycle.net/brigades. ...
Good Magazine
Black Good (January 11, 2008)
If Tom Szaky were a typical 25-year old college dropout CEO, he'd probably be running an internet start-up. Instead, he sells worm poop - an excellent fertilizer, as it turns out....
Green Profit
TerraCycle Lawn Fertilizer (January 5, 2008)
TerraCycel Lawn Fertilizer is an effective, all-natural fertilizer made from worm poop and packaged in used soda bottles....
Chapel Hill News
Program gives food containers new life (January 1, 2008)
Don't throw out your used yogurt containers just yet. A new program in some local schools and preschools is accepting the containers along with drink pouches, neither of which is included in the county's local recycling program. A private company, TerraCycle of New Jersey, is paying the schools 2 cents for each small yogurt container and a nickel for large containers, along with 2 cents for each drink pouch. The company plans to turn the cups into plant containers and the drink pouches into handbags that it hopes will be sold by retailers across the country starting next year....
Seattle Magazine
Pop Art (January 1, 2008)
With empty plastic bottles littering hte land and sea, one company has figured out how to keep them out of the landfill. Since 2001, NJ based TerraCycle has produced organic plant food from waste in waste. ...
Green Profit
TerraCycle Lawn Fertilizer (January 1, 2008)
TerraCycle's lawn fertilizer is an effective, all-natural fertilizer made from worm poop and packaged in used soda bottles....
Courier News
Local schools to recycle yogurt cups, drink pouches (December 31, 2007)
Those crusty, empty yogurt cups and drink pouches, when finished and cleaned, could soon yield cash for local schools and nonprofit organizations.
TerraCycle, a Trenton-based company that got its start selling organic fertilizer in recycled soda bottles, has begun two new incentive programs for schools and community groups to collect yogurt containers and used drink pouches -- items often trashed instead of recycled -- for cash, said Albe Zakes, a TerraCycle spokesman.
Hunterdon Central Regional High School and First Baptist Preschool in Somerville already have registered, he said.
The Drink Pouch Brigade and the Yogurt Brigade are free programs. Groups can earn 2 cents per used drink pouch collected. In the Yogurt Brigade, schools will earn 2 cents for 6-ounce yogurt containers and...
Chattanooga Christian Family News
Join the Drink Pouch Brigade (December 30, 2007)
Fruit drink pouches are a staple in school cafeterias. According to the container recycling institute, 3.6 billion drink pouches are produced each year, and because they are non-recyclable, virtually every single one is sent to a landfill....
The Independent Weekly
Finally, a way to dispose of yogurt containers (December 26, 2007)
The bane of local recycling: There's no place to take your leaning tower of yogurt containers or sacks of plastic drink pouches. But a new statewide reuse program is encouraging schools and community groups to collect those items for fundraising. After signing up at www.terracycle.net/brigades, organizations can earn 1 cent for every drink pouch or 2 cents for Honest Kids drink pouches. Yogurt containers fetch 2 cents for six-ounce cups, and 5 cents for 32-ounce versions. All yogurt containers must be cleaned....
American Way Magazine
Dirty Business (December 21, 2007)
Tom Szaky is convinced that he's found miracle substance that will both make him millions and save the world: worm poop...
Plastics News
Reusing seldom-recycled containers (December 20, 2007)
Is this for real? A Trenton, N.J.-based company called TerraCycle Inc. is reusing plastic containers to package worm poop (which it sells as a plant food), as well as products like bird feeders. The company even takes rarely recycled plastic containers like yogurt tubs and drink pouches....
Trenton Downtowner
What do Worm Poop and Trenton have in common? (December 15, 2007)
It all started with a quest for beer. I came down to New Jersey from Canada to go to Princeton University. I quickly found that I was no longer able to buy alcohol....
Thompson Villager
Recycling program aims to help children do their part (December 13, 2007)
Recycling is a habit that all Americans should get into, especially with all the environmental changes that have been taking place over the last several years due to pollution and other factors...
The Times
TerraCycle gets a little help from its friends (December 13, 2007)
Worm poop today - planters and pencil cases tomorrow.
Trenton-based TerraCycle is famous for inspiring young people to collect empty soda bottles the company then washes and reuses as containers for its liquid organic plant fertilizer, which is made from worm excrement....
Haywood County News
Waynesville groups can raise money recycling (December 11, 2007)
WAYNESVILLE — Schools and other community groups in Waynesville can raise money by collecting used items for recycling through two programs offered across the state. The Drink Pouch Brigade and the Yogurt Brigade allow groups to ship out used drink pouches and yogurt containers free of charge to be recycled in exchange for cash. The New Jersey-based recycling company TerraCycle is sponsoring the program, in partnership with Stonyfield Farms and Honest Tea, companies that produce yogurt and drink containers. ...
Community Paper
Local schools challenged to take part in recycling program (December 9, 2007)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities in Virginia, including Pearsiburg. Schools are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches as part of a nationwide program...
In The Village
TerraCycle Recycling (December 7, 2007)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities across North Carolina, including Hatteras Schools and other community groups which are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches...
American Way Magazine
Dirty Business (December 3, 2007)
Tom Szaky is convinced that he’s found a miracle substance that will both make him millions and save the world: worm poop. Yes, it may sound laughable, but don’t be too hasty to judge. Szaky, a scruffy 25-year-old Princeton dropout who founded TerraCycle, a small company based in Trenton, New Jersey, that makes organic plant food by using worm excrement (known as castings) as the key ingredient, can weave a pretty compelling case.
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The Star Ledger
TerraCycel gets a little help from its friends (December 3, 2007)
Worm poop today - planters and pencil cases tomorrow. Trenton-based TerraCycle is famous for inspiring young people to collect empty soda bottles the company then washes and reuses as containers for its liquid organic plant fertilizer, which is made from worm excrement. It's a business model straight out of summer camp. Now, TerraCycle is diversifying into a variation of recycling known as "sponsored waste"...
Parenting Magazine
A Site We Love (December 3, 2007)
TerraCycle makes recycling easy and lets kids actually see the fruit of their labor. Go to terracycle.net/brigades and sign up to collect soda bottles, yogurt containers, or drink pouches...
The Monterey Herald
Entrepreneur uses compost-producing red wigglers to break down garbage — and his idea has caught fire (December 1, 2007)
Has a brilliant idea ever had such a birth? It was 2001. Tom Szaky took some freshman buddies from Princeton University to visit a friend in Montreal. While there, he discovered his pal's gonzo marijuana plants.
How'd you do that? Szaky asked. Easy. Worms eating table scraps in a makeshift compost bin were producing mineral- and nutrient-rich feces, which in turn became cheap fertilizer for the pot plants. ...
Bangor Daily News
Shopping for the gardener on your list (November 24, 2007)
Because nothing says love like a bottle of liquefied worm castings. TerraCycle Plant Food is about as Earth-friendly as gardening gets. First, a gazillion worms are fed "premium organic waste," according to the bottle label. And then the worms do what worms do: They "create worm poop." That is turned into liquid fertilizer and packaged in a reused soda bottle, which the company collects by running community and school fundraisers.
I found my 20-ounce bottle — with its little bottle-cap ring still around its neck — last weekend at Tillson True Value in Dexter where I was shopping for LED Christmas lights — also an excellent way to be kind to the world and your electric bill. The all-purpose fertilizer was $6.99 and comes with a spray nozzle....
Philadelphia Inquirer
Building a soil team (November 23, 2007)
Organic gardeners have long known the TerraCycle secret. They count on earthworms to improve soil structure, drainage and fertility.
"You want to encourage earthworms in your garden, definitely," says Jackie Ricotta, associate horticulture professor at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown....
The Phillidephia Inquirer
A business built on worm power (November 23, 2007)
Has a brilliant idea ever had such a birth? It was 2001. Tom Szaky took some freshman buddies from Princeton University to visit a friend in Montreal. While there, he discovered his pal's gonzo marijuana plants.
How'd you do that? Szaky asked. Easy. Worms eating table scraps in a makeshift compost bin were producing mineral- and nutrient-rich feces, which in turn became cheap fertilizer for the pot plants.
"I'd never thought of garbage before," says Szaky, who instantly saw dollar signs. In 2002, he dropped out of Princeton to turn liquefied "worm poop" into the centerpiece of a new organic-fertilizer business....
Supermarket News
Earth-Friendly Waste (November 21, 2007)
General Merchandise company TerraCycle here has teamed with Honest Tea, Bethesda Ma., and Stonyfield Farm. Londonderry, NH. to launch two promotional recycling programs called the...
Free Press
Recycling can be used as fundraiser (November 21, 2007)
Schools and other community groups are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches...
Rolling Thunder Express
TERRACYCLE LOCAL RECYCLING PROGRAM (November 20, 2007)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities across
Maine, including Newport. Schools and other community groups are being
challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink
pouches as part of a statewide program that allows schools to raise
funds while teaching their students about recycling and the environment.
Schools and other community groups can sign up for free, pay no
shipping costs, and will earn 1 cent for every drink pouch or 2 cents
for Honest Kids Drink Pouches. In the Yogurt Brigade, schools will
earn 2 cents for 6-ounce yogurt containers, and 5 cents for 32-ounce
yogurt containers. All yogurt containers must be cleaned. To sign up
visit www.terracycle.net/brigades.
The programs are open for any organization or charity to sign up...
Packaging World Magazine
TerraCycle: Packaging with a repurpose (November 19, 2007)
The procurement of retail packaging based on discarded containers won뭪 work well for most products, but it works perfectly for 뱇iquid worm poop�and related plant-food products from TerraCycle, Trenton, NJ. The company뭩 certified organic products are packaged in discarded 1- and 2-L, and 20-oz soda bottles that have been collected and shipped at TerraCycle뭩 expense from around the country...in reused boxes, of course. It also uses 1-gal HDPE containers the company procures from local recyclers for other products. The company sorts, cleans, delabels bottles if needed, then shrink-sleeves, fills, and seals them using discarded sprayers or caps....
The Times Leader
Up and coming business starts with worms (November 18, 2007)
What started as a business plan contest at Princeton University for two students, Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer, has developed into a thriving business....
20/20
Winning: Only in America (November 13, 2007)
Twenty-five-year-old Tom Szaky is the CEO of Terracycle, a company that creates garden products entirely from waste. "I think America by far is one of the best countries for people to come to as an immigrant, especially as an entrepreneur," said Szaky, who was born in Hungary and raised in Canada. Szaky came to the United States to attend college, where he came up with the crazy idea to sell worm waste as a fertilizer for plants. ...
Village Soup
Reduce, reuse, raise money (November 11, 2007)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities across Maine, including Belfast. Schools and other community groups are being challenged to collect used yogurt containers and used drink pouches as part of a statewide program that allows schools to raise funds while teaching students about recycling and the environment. Schools and other community groups may sign up for free, pay no shipping costs, and earn 1 cent for every drink pouch or 2 cents for Honest Kids Drink Pouches.
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Town Talk
Earth Friendly Fundraising Idea for Area Schools (November 10, 2007)
Tow new recycling efforts are taking place in local communities. Schools and other community groups are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches...
Marin Independent Journal
Stop treating worms like dirt (November 9, 2007)
I have good news for those of you who don't have the time, space or guts to build and maintain your own worm bin. Allow me to proudly introduce to you an organic gardener's best friend - Terracycle Worm Poop. Yes, you read that right. Worm poop in a recycled bottle. Now that's American ingenuity!...
The Big Idea
Go Green, Make Millions (November 8, 2007)
And, learn how to turn waste into a business that generates cold hard cash. Tom Szaky is the co-founder and CEO of Terracycle Inc, a company that products made from and packaged in waste. Also tonight, Stonyfield Farm, Eco Hangers, 360 Vodka, Recycline, Josie Maran Cosmetics and G Diaper all share their secrets of how they’ve made millions by going green. Tune in tonight and see if you’ve got a green idea worth millions. ...
Gardening How-To
Test in Progress (November 1, 2007)
TerraCycle Garden is an organic fertilizer made of concentrated, liquefied worm poop for use on outdoor plants, shrubs, and vegetables. Packaged in two 20-ounce reused soda bottles....
Justine
Cash for your favorite charity (November 1, 2007)
It's as easy as drinking a Coke! Every day, over 30 million soda bottles end up in landfills across America. TerraCycle, Inc. is working to change that through the national bottle brigade program. For every 20-ounce soda bottle you collect, they will donate five cents...
The Seattle Times
Staghorn sumacs taking over (October 31, 2007)
Q: Last summer I used a spray called TerraCycle on my container flowers, and they're still blooming in October. The guy at the Home Depot recommended it so highly that even though it was expensive I bought some. Do you think it really helps, or maybe it was the packaged soil I used? I hope to repeat this success next summer.
A: Wouldn't it be great if Home Depot and other big-box stores carried more organic products like TerraCycle so we could shop in their gardening aisles without feeling overwhelmed by poisonous fumes? It seems so wrong for gardening supplies to smell like chemical death, don't you think?...
The Lawrence Ledger
School turning trash into treasure (October 25, 2007)
Over the last 150 years, through the modern industrial revolution to the technological revolution going on today, humanity has made great leaps in how it lives, works and plays. Something as simple as driving from one end of the state to the other once took a whole day. Computers the size of a fist once took up an entire room and only computed simple math equations.
However, progress has a price, and all the coal needed to power those trains in the 1850s, and all the toxic chemicals needed to make those microchips today, have hit the planet hard. But there’s an even more ubiquitous presence in our lives that has had its own negative impact: plastic....
Straus Newspaper
New recycling effort (October 25, 2007)
Sussex County - Schools around New Jersey have a chance to earn money for recycling items not usually associated with recycling programs. Yogurt containers and used drink pouches are recyclable as part of a statewide program that allows schools to raise funds while teaching their students about recycling and the environment.
The initiatives are Yogurt Brigade and Honest Kids Drink Pouches. Schools and other community groups can sign up for free, pay no shipping costs, and will earn a 1 cent for every drink pouch or 2 cents for Honest Kids Drink Pouches. In the Yogurt Brigade schools will earn 2 cents for 6 oz yogurt containers, and 5 cents for 32 ounce yogurt containers. All yogurt containers must be cleaned. To sign up visit: www.terracycle.net/brigades
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Green Talk
TerraCycle, Teaching Our Young through Worm Poop (October 22, 2007)
What does fundraising, soda bottles, yogurt cups, drinking pouches, and worm poop have in common? Give up? I know that is a tough set of words to figure out the correlation. Just ask the innovative folks over at TerraCycle, maker of worm poop fertilizer and other assorted eco-friendly gardening products. They will tell you that it’s their mission to rid the world of waste through creating innovative uses of products that you would ordinarily throw away. Their worm poop product is bottled in recycled soda bottles.
How does this involve our young? What better way to teach this lesson than to create fundraisers involving children to collect items that can be reused? If our young can be taught at an early age to respect the Earth, then when they grow up as adults this thought process...
West Windsor & Plainsboro News
TerraCycle Brigades (October 19, 2007)
Terracycle offers donations to schools and non-profit organizations in exchange for empty yogurt containers and used drink pouches. www.teracycle.net/brigades....
The Inadvertant Gardener
Keep Marion Jones out of the garden (October 17, 2007)
But when we talk about acting locally in the global fight against environmental catastrophe, the one place we all have the most control is in our own yards. We have the choice: use Scotts Miracle-Gro? Or Terracycle? Dump a bunch of chemical fertilizer on the vegetables we plan to eat, and let that leach into the soil and run off into the local water supply, or try a less harmful product? We might lose a little in terms of how big our tomatoes grow, but we gain a long-term benefit that we can’t even quantify yet....
Go Getter
5 innovative environmental business ideas (October 15, 2007)
TerraCycle is a truly innovative company. Their products, fertilizers, are packaged in cleansed pop bottles that each of us use every day. By providing a Pepsi bottle or whatnot, you receive $0.06 along with an ever important contribution to the already 1,098,440 bottles collected to date. This model could be applied to hundreds and thousands of different liquid based products that we use and eliminate the entire process of having to crush, melt, and re-form new bottles....
Packaging World
SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING - Podcast: TerraCycle talks (October 10, 2007)
Packaging World editor Rick Lingle interviews Albe Zakes, "eco-revolutionary" and company spokesman for TerraCycle, makers of plant food made from liquid worm poop that's filled in reused containers. Learn in 10 minutes about the unique challenges and successes for this one-of-a-kind company that reuses discarded 20-oz PET bottles provided by TerraCycle's nationwide Bottle Brigade. ...
Citizens Voice
Eco-friendly company hopes to boost interest in recycling (October 8, 2007)
A company that built its fortune by recycling worm excrement into plant food is hoping to turn on Luzerne County students to the environment. TerraCycle Inc., a New Jersey-based firm that bills itself as "eco-capitalist" and takes pride in creating products entirely out of waste, is offering free bird feeders made of reused 2-liter soda bottles to any local school that wants to participate....
Bennington Banner
Recycling company looks toward Vermont (October 8, 2007)
An eco-friendly company based in New Jersey is looking to partner with Vermont schools and community organizations on two new recycling programs. TerraCycle, a company based out of Trenton, N.J., uses products sent to them by schools, religious organizations and other community groups to make and package eco-friendly and socially responsible products. In return, the schools get paid to recycle. ...
Maine Coast Now
Businesses join forces to encourage recycling (October 8, 2007)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities across Maine. Schools and other community groups are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches as part of a statewide program that allows schools to raise funds while teaching their students about recycling and the environment. Schools and other community groups can sign up for free, pay no shipping costs and will earn 1 cent for every drink pouch or 2 cents for Honest Kids drink pouches. In the Yogurt Brigade schools will earn 2 cents for 6-ounce yogurt containers, and 5 cents for 32-ounce yogurt containers. All yogurt containers must be cleaned. To sign up visit www.terracycle.net/brigades.
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Pike County Courier
School needed for promotion (October 4, 2007)
TerraCycle Inc. is looking for a Milford area school interested in receiving free Bird Feeders and an entire Ornithology curriculum to help teach their students about nature and the importance of protecting wildlife.
In early October a representative from TerraCycle will be presenting the company’s newest eco-friendly product, an entry Bird Feeder packaged in a reused 2-liter soda bottle, at Milford Wal*Mart, For every three Bird Feeders that are purchased at $4.88 each on that day, TerraCycle will donate one Feeder to the school along with the Pennsylvania State Ornithology curriculum to the school....
CSR Wire
Social Venture Network Announces SVN Innovation Award Winners (October 2, 2007)
TerraCycle, Tom Szaky, CEO and Co-Founder (Trenton, NJ): TerraCycle manufactures affordable, organic fertilizer that is not only made from garbage—organic waste composted naturally by worms—but also packaged entirely in garbage—reused soda bottles. Szaky dropped out of Princeton to pursue this idea. TerraCycle started selling its fertilizer through Home Depot in 2004 and collected more than 2 million plastic bottles in its first 18 months through a recycling program called the Bottle Brigade, which generates enthusiasm for recycling among children by allowing them to fundraise for special projects....
Packaging World
The wrap-up: Truly custom packaging (October 1, 2007)
There’s even a “green” twist on customization, from TerraCycle, which uses recycled bottles for many of its plant food products. Starting in November 2006, it began including neck tags in all of its empty boxes sent to its Bottle Brigade members—those who collect and ship the collected used bottles at TerreCycle's expense in boxes. The collectors can sign the tags with their first name and state location. The neck tags hang from bottles sold at select retailers including Target....
Plain Dealer
St. Mark's Lutheran School recycling project (September 27, 2007)
From worm poop to baby-in-backpack hiking, there are plenty of ways to enjoy and improve the diverse environment all around us.
A recycling program at St. Mark's Lutheran School, 4464 Pearl Road, Cleveland, is all about taking plastic out of the waste stream -- and then streaming lique fied worm waste back into the plastic....
Wall Street Journal
When It’s Good to Be Sued (September 27, 2007)
In the annals of David and Goliath battles, the recently settled litigation brought by lawn-care giant Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. against tiny Trenton, N.J.-based fertilizer maker TerraCycle Inc., may go down as a lawsuit that probably helped the defendant a lot more than the plaintiff. Thanks to the Internet and the blogging community, TerraCycle was able to turn the lawsuit from a time and money-sapping nuisance into a publicity advantage.
On March 7, TerraCycle, which makes fertilizer from liquefied worm droppings, was sued by Scotts for, among other things, infringing on the yellow-and-green trade dress of Scotts’s Miracle-Gro brand. Scotts also claimed that TerraCycle was falsely advertising its products as superior to others, including Scotts’s. The settlement calls for TerraCycle...
Pacific Sun
Home: The conqueror worms (September 21, 2007)
I have good news for those of you who don't have the time, space or guts to build and maintain your own worm bin. Who needs more work, anyway? Allow me then to proudly introduce to you an organic gardener's—and diva's—best friend. Drum roll please...ta-da! TerraCycle worm poop! Yup, you read that right. Worm poop in a recycled bottle. Now that's American ingenuity.
It all began back in 2001 in a Princeton University dorm room, after former students and future CEOs Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer witnessed a classmate feeding food scraps to a box of worms. They learned their classmate fed the worms in exchange for their castings, which were loaded with the abundant nutrients he required to support the special plants he was furtively growing in his basement. (I'll let you take a guess.)
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Henrico Citizen
Business New (September 20, 2007)
Kroger stores in Metro Richmond are currently testing an organic plant food manufactured by TerraCycle, Inc., known informally as the “worm poop” plant food, a fertilizer that comes ready to use with no mixing required.
TerraCycle's All-Purpose Plant Food is the first product to be sold at Kroger stores that is not only made from garbage but also packaged in garbage. TerraCycle Plant Foods are made from organic waste that is composted by worms, liquefied and packaged in reused soda bottles.
The used 20-ounce. soda bottles used to package TerraCycle Plant Foods are collected through the TerraCycle Bottle Brigade™, a nationwide recycling program composed of more than 3,600 schools, churches and other community groups that collect used soda bottles. For every bottle they collect TerraCycle...
Scottsdale Independent
Fry's supermarkets carry new plant food (September 19, 2007)
Fry's Food and Drug and Fry's Marketplace locations in North Scottsdale are testing a certified organic plant food manufactured by TerraCycle. TerraCycle Plant Foods are made from organic waste that is composted by worms, liquefied and packaged in reused soda bottles. The plant food is a high quality fertilizer that comes ready to use with no mixing required....
Mother Jones
Worm Poop Threatens Corporate Profits (September 19, 2007)
Some of the nation's biggest corporations have found that baseless lawsuits are often a useful tool for squashing upstart competition. The latest example of this kind of noxious behavior comes from Scotts Miracle-Gro, a $2 billion company that claims 60 percent of the nation's garden-care market. Earlier this year, Scotts sued the tiny New Jersey start-up TerraCycle, which sells fertilizer made from all-natural worm poop, packaged in recycled soda bottles. Scotts alleges that TerraCycle has copied its packaging design and engaged in false advertising.
TerraCycle was started by college students and has never made a profit, but has made in-roads into some of the bigger retail outlets. Apparently Scotts sees the worm poop as a threat. TerraCycle has fought back mainly with PR. They've put up...
BoomerGirl.com
Attack of the worms! (September 19, 2007)
Drum roll please ... Ta-da! Terracycle Worm Poop! Yup, you read that right. Worm poop in a recycled bottle. Now that’s American ingenuity.
A worm compost bin In New Jersey at the TerraCycle greenhouse. It all began back in 2001, in a Princeton University dorm room...
Hartford Courant
Waste Not, Waste Not With TerraCycle (September 14, 2007)
TerraCycle - a Trenton, N.J., company founded by two Princeton University students in 2001 - has reused more than 1 million soda and water bottles to package its plant food, itself the product of recycled garbage and affectionately known as "worm poop."
Now TerraCycle is using recycled bottles as bird feeders as well, already packed with seed and priced at $4.88.
Many of the bottles have been collected by more than 4,000 school groups and charities. TerraCycle spokesman Albe Zakes says the company pays 6 cents per bottle.
A big fan of the "Bottle Brigade" program is Lee Gluck, the library media specialist at Whiting Lane School in West Hartford who previously taught at Wolcott Elementary School for about 12 years, including the past four years teaching fifth-graders....
Daily Advertiser
Government seems to be run by corporations (September 13, 2007)
I have been worried about the way that "corporate America" seems to be getting bigger, more powerful, and pushing their weight around. I feel like our government is controlled by corporations rather than people.
Recently, I read an article about how the Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. is suing a small company, TerraCycle, which bottles "worm poop" in a green bottle. The product is organic, and the bottles are recycled. Miracle-Gro claims that the color is too similar to their packaging color (green) and therefore confusing to the consumer.
So rather than feeling powerless in this chaotic world of corporate scandals and take-overs, I decided to let my purchasing power mean something. No longer will I buy Scotts' products....
East Valley Tribune
More Greenery (September 12, 2007)
Not to ruin appetites, but here is an unusual product available in north East Valley supermarkets.
Manufacturer TerraCycle said it is testing a certified organic plant food at Fry’s stores in Scottsdale and northeast Phoenix. The stores are at 6321 E. Greenway Road, 10450 N. 90th St., 7628 E. Indian School Road, 8900 E. Via Linda, 4842 E. Bell Road and 6080 E. Thomas Road.
The product is made from organic waste that is composted by worms, liquefied and packaged in recycled soda bottles.
TerraCycle claims the “Worm Poop” plant food is the first product sold at Fry’s that is not only made from garbage, but also is packaged in garbage....
Lexington Herald Leader
Let 'em go to worm waste (September 12, 2007)
Instead of throwing away that empty soda bottle, Whitney Schlansky has a better idea: Send it to the worms.
Since June, Lexington's High Street Neighborhood Center, a downtown, nonprofit day care center that serves low-income and at-risk children, has been collecting empty 20-ounce soda bottles. Schlansky and her young assistants then send them to a company called TerraCycle Inc., based in Trenton, N.J., which reuses the bottles to market its line of natural plant foods made from, in the company's own words, liquefied "worm poop."...
Kansas City Star
Gardening entrepreneurs worm their way into business (September 9, 2007)
Two young New Jersey entrepreneurs are busy turning what they affectionately call “worm poop” into usable plant food.
And major players like Kroger and Home Depot are buying.TerraCycle is both made of garbage and packaged in garbage. Organic waste composted by worms is liquefied, then packaged in reused soda bottles.
“We are officially the most eco-friendly product in the country right now,” says 25-year-old Princeton University dropout Tom Szaky, who dreamed of creating an environmentally beneficial business model.
By making products out of waste materials, he theorized, the waste stream could be reversed so that nothing became “trash.”...
Flyer Group
Company offers plant food for the environment (September 7, 2007)
New Jersey's TerraCycle may be one of the most self-contained companies there is. The group is responsible for an organic plant food made from worm poop or, in a more polite term, worm castings. Such fertilizer has been used for years by serious gardeners and eco-minded individuals. "We're not doing anything revolutionary," said Albe Zakes, TerraCycle's public relations directory. "But we're the first company that has made a widespread consumer fertilizer out of worm poop."...
Santana Sun
Organic worm food at Fry's (September 1, 2007)
An organic plant food manufactured by TerraCycle Inc is now available at select Fry's Food and Drug Store locations in Chandler. The plant food is made from organic waste composted by worms, liquefied and packaged in reused soda bottles. Area schools, churches and other community groups wanting to raise money by supplying the used soda bottles should join the Bottle Brigade at www.terracycle.net/bb...
Pacific Sun
Home: Well, mow me down! (August 31, 2007)
For a general fertilizer, I like TerraCycle's organic lawn fertilizer (with "worm poop"). Worm poop is an ideal fertilizer. It's rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
How to fertilize with worm poop:
Step one: Apply lipstick.
Step two: Connect fertilizer attachment to your hose.
Step three: Turn hose on and water your lawn.
I swear, worm poop from a hose is so fun!...
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Bottle Brigade raises money to restore Braddock library (August 30, 2007)
John Hempel doesn't drink soda. But the University of Pittsburgh biologist has helped to collect about 6,500, 20-ounce soda bottles to help the environment and raise money for restoring the Braddock Carnegie Library.
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