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Leaf Green
Terracycle the Upcycler (August 27, 2008)
Terracycle, a New Jersey based company, is starting to develop something different from their normal cleaning products. They are creating tote bags, pouches, binders and more out of wrappers from candy, energy bars, juice packs, etc.
It’s really cool stuff. i just wanted to make you aware of it as a teaser to the Terracycle review which, I’ll have for you guys shortly....
EcoFrenzy
Broke and trying to grow better pot: two ingredients for world class eco-innovation (August 27, 2008)
Tom Szaky was a freshman at Princeton when he and some friends stumbled upon a killer fertilizer: worm poop. “We were trying to grow better pot and it turned out worm poop did the trick” Tom told me matter-of-factly at the start of our conversation. At the time they were just trying to improve their homegrown plants, but Tom knew this find had broader implications. And furthermore, he was inspired that their fertilizer was made from garbage. Rather than stick it out in college a full four years, Tom waved goodbye to campus life and said hello to the life of an eco-entrepreneur. His goal is to run the world’s most environmentally friendly company, TerraCycle. “I was not a huge environmentalist, I just wanted to use waste as an economic driver,” Tom said. In bringing this first product...
WisInfo.com
'Green' options growing for back-to-school shoppers (August 27, 2008)
Moms and dads can buy eco-friendly school supplies for their kids, but they'll have to pay a little more for them.
Representatives of Shopko, which is carrying eco-friendly school supplies for the first time, said they hope to supply more "green" options as consumer demand grows.
"We recognize that a consumer is more frequently now looking for options that are Earth-friendly," said Stephanie Juarie, electronics division vice president....
The Good Human
Terracycle: Upcycling Plastic Bottles Into New Products. (August 27, 2008)
About a month ago or so, the people from Terracycle sent me a box full of their products to try out. I have written about Terracycle before when talking about the lack of plastic recycling here in town, and I have always been envious that I had not thought of their idea - upcycling plastic soda/water bottles and milk jugs into 2-liter bird feeders and new packaging for worm poop compost or household cleaners. What a brilliant concept - take what most of us throw away and use it to your advantage to both A. reduce the amount of plastic going into the waste stream and B. reduce the amount of new materials needed to make your packaging. It really is a win-win situation, and I wish I had come up with the idea! The package they sent me was in a recycled cardboard box, which is great, and had a few...
Just Means
Broke and trying to grow better pot: two ingredients for world class eco-innovation (August 26, 2008)
Tom Szaky was a freshman at Princeton when he and some friends stumbled upon a killer fertilizer: worm poop. “We were trying to grow better pot and it turned out worm poop did the trick” Tom told me matter-of-factly at the start of our conversation. At the time they were just trying to improve their homegrown plants, but Tom knew this find had broader implications. And furthermore, he was inspired that their fertilizer was made from garbage. Rather than stick it out in college a full four years, Tom waved goodbye to campus life and said hello to the life of an eco-entrepreneur. His goal is to run the world’s most environmentally friendly company, TerraCycle. “I was not a huge environmentalist, I just wanted to use waste as an economic driver,” Tom said. In bringing this first...
The Daily Democrat
FM ShopKo goes ecofriendly (August 22, 2008)
The ShopKo Store in Fort Madison is carrying
a new line of eco-friendly back to
school items in response to the growing
demand for more affordable, sustainable
products. The products, manufactured by
TerraCycle, Inc., are made entirely from
waste: used kid’s drink pouches. Schools
and charities can earn money by helping
collect used drink pouches and earn two
cents for every one they collect. The finished
products are bright, shiny and colorful,
plus they are good for the environment
and good for the community.
The production and sale of the products
is mutually beneficial to everyone involved.
Drink pouches are non-recyclable and over
five billion a year go to landfills. This material
is rescued from a landfill, local schools
earn much needed funding and kids...
EcoPreneurist
How to Recycle the Unrecyclable - Terracycle shows the way (August 22, 2008)
It’s encouraging to see the increasingly wide assortment and availability of products made from recycled materials, but there’s a problem on the other end: A lot of things aren’t accepted for recycling by curbside collection services, at least not in the US.
As this recent article in Fast Company details, it’s not currently profitable for recyclers to take much beyond the most common, high volume items, like aluminum, paper, and a select few types of plastic. You can forget about candy and snack wrappers. Too many comingled materials, too difficult to create a consistent, usable result on the other end....
Mind Body Green
How to Recycle the Unrecyclable - Terracycle shows the way (August 22, 2008)
Ever noticed how many things are "unrecyclable" ? Thanks to Terracycle and companies like mega food producer Kraft Foods teaming up, that's changing, on a potentially huge scale....
Detroit Free Press
It's easy being green (August 22, 2008)
The Yak's favorite back-to-school color this year is green. Not as in Spartan green football jerseys and lime green T-shirts -- although both of those options sound perfectly fashionable.
Advertisement
Today, the Yak is thinking about green, Earth-friendly school supplies....
The Alternative Consumer
Great Green Giveaway - terracycle’s tote bags (August 22, 2008)
This week’s Great Green Giveaway is sponsored by hip upcycler, terracycle.net. They keep waste from winding up in landfills, and make useful stuff out of it instead. 3 lucky people will each receive an eye-catching tote bag fashioned from recycled Capri Sun drink pouches....
Green Festival
Terracycle Transforms Middle Age Cynic into Youthful Idealist (August 22, 2008)
One of the humbling things about straddling the line between the Baby Boomers and Generation X isn’t getting older. After all as far as we’ve understood that’s the only option unless you have a real hankering to become worm food. No the humbling part is coming to realize that so many of those things your mother told you over and over and over again were true.
Things like, “Brush your teeth or you’ll be sorry!” Or “Save your money for a rainy day” not to mention the even more timely “Better to rip up your credit cards than use them,” or the oft repeated “Youth is wasted on the young” ...
Eco-Cide
How to Recycle the Unrecyclable - Terracycle shows the way (August 22, 2008)
It’s encouraging to see the increasingly wide assortment and availability of products made from recycled materials, but there’s a problem on the other end: A lot of things aren’t accepted for recycling by curbside collection services, at least not in the US.
As this recent article in Fast Company details, it’s not currently profitable for recyclers to take much beyond the most common, high volume items, like aluminum, paper, and a select few types of plastic. You can forget about candy and snack wrappers. Too many comingled materials, too difficult to create a consistent, usable result on the other end....
Redding Record Searchlight
ShopKo helps schools (August 21, 2008)
ShopKo in Redding is carrying a new line of eco-friendly back-to-school items.
The products, manufactured by TerraCycle Inc., are made entirely from used children’s drink pouches.
Schools and charities can earn money by helping collect used drink pouches and earn two cents for every one they collect. The finished products are bright, shiny and colorful and they are good for the environment and good for the community, according to ShopKo officials....
TimesUnion.Com
Products needed (and not) for back-to-school (August 21, 2008)
Portable flash drives, foldable rulers, scratch-and-sniff book covers and backpack locks are among the items catching kids' eyes as parents troll the aisles during the height of back-to-school buying season.
According to the 2008 Staples Back-to-School Survey, parents surveyed ranked getting school supplies as one of the most high-stress shopping occasions, second only to selecting holiday gifts....
Green Bay Gazette
Green' options growing for back-to-school shoppers (August 18, 2008)
Moms and dads can buy eco-friendly school supplies for their kids, but they'll have to pay a little more for them.
Representatives of Shopko, which is carrying eco-friendly school supplies for the first time, said they hope to supply more "green" options as consumer demand grows.
"We recognize that a consumer is more frequently now looking for options that are Earth-friendly," said Stephanie Juarie, electronics division vice president.
TerraCycle makes the eco-friendly school supplies, which include pencil cases and folders made from used drink pouches and binders made of 100 percent recycled cardboard and 90 percent recycled metal rings...
The EcoChic
Back to School with TerraCycle and GIVEAWAY!!! (August 18, 2008)
My little 5 yr old (ok..he’s a big boy now) will be starting school this week. The start date of school is suppose to be Tuesday BUT that might change with Tropical Storm/Hurricane Faye headed towards Florida. His school supply list was pretty basic this year; nothing too extravagant. Mostly just paper, pencils, pencil box, glue, etc. On my trip to Wal-Mart I only spent $5 on the whole list of supplies. How can you make your kids school supplies a little more green?
Look for recycled paper and recycled folders. Look for pencils that are either refillable or made from rainforest free trees. TerraCycle even offers some unique and quirky back to school supplies. They have a cute pencil bag, lunch box, and backpack all made from juice pouches. I actually saw the pencil bag...
Savannah Now.com
The new school supplies (August 18, 2008)
**FOR USE WITH AP LIFESTYLES** This undated image provided by TerraCycle, Inc. shows the Terracycle pencil pouches made out of used drink pouches. Long home to an unchanging bunch of yellow No. 2 pencils and thick pink erasers, the pencil case has gotten a makeover. Thanks to the onslaught of kid-focused marketing and the growing presence of technology in children's lives, those perennial favorites have become so last semester. (AP Photo/TerraCycle, Inc. VIA Target) **NO SALES** (Photo: Anonymous)...
Now Magazine
Born again trash (August 18, 2008)
It’s garbage day. The reckoning. What will you drag to the curb? Your Will & Grace box set? Broken baby toys? Leftover packaging from last night’s microwave dinner? It all leaves a sloppy archaeological trail, one that should nicely signal to future generations just how we choked – and what vinyl couch finally blocked the collective trachea.
But hold up. Forward-thinking minds are saying we might just be able to have our trash and eat it, too. That’s right, kids, a zero-waste world may be closer than you think. Especially if we can turn our discarded office chairs and Britney CDs into fuel for nothing short of the next industrial revolution....
Business Finance & Economy
KRAFT FOODS & TERRACYCLE, INC. PARTNER ON WORLD’S FIRST SPONSO... (August 18, 2008)
Kraft Foods, the number one food and beverage company in North America, today announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upstart upcycling company that takes packages and materials that are challenging to recycle and turns them into affordable, high quality goods.
The partnership will greatly expand the number of collection sites TerraCycle has available across the country and will help prevent a significant amount of packaging waste from going into landfills....
Small Business Trends
KRAFT FOODS & TERRACYCLE, INC. PARTNER ON WORLD’S FIRST SPONSORED WASTE PROGRAMS (August 18, 2008)
Kraft Foods, the number one food and beverage company in North America, today announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upstart upcycling company that takes packages and materials that are challenging to recycle and turns them into affordable, high quality goods. The partnership will greatly expand the number of collection sites TerraCycle has available across the country and will help prevent a significant amount of packaging waste from going into landfills.
Kraft will become the first major multi-category corporation to fund the collection of used packaging associated with its products. Several Kraft brands, including Balance bars and South Beach Living bars, Capri Sun beverages, and Chips Ahoy! and Oreo cookies, are now the lead sponsors of TerraCycle Brigades. These nationwide...
Planet Green
G-Word Upcycling (August 15, 2008)
Through an innovative school recycling program, earth friendly company, Terracycle creates a tote bag made of recycled drink pouches....
Roseville News
Recycle for charity (August 14, 2008)
TerraCycle Inc. is seeking schools, youth groups and places of worship to join in a free recycling fundraiser.
Used juice drink pouches can be sent to TerraCycle in prepaid shipping bags. For each pouch collected, the organization donates 2 cents to the school or charity of choice....
Hugg
Interview with Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle (August 14, 2008)
You asked Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle, all your trashy questions (ha ha ha, I'm so funny). And he answered them!
In a nutshell, TerraCycle takes what others call trash, upcycles those materials, and turn them into brand-spanking new products. Who thought you could make a hot little tote bag from KoolAid containers or a sweet homework folder from Capri Sun juice packs?...
Current
Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, lets you in on the secret of eco-capitalism (August 13, 2008)
TerraCycle is a brilliant little company (although they're not so little anymore). They started out by selling "plant food" made from waste products -- worm poop bottled in old soda bottles. Today, they make everything from tote bags made from Capri Sun packages to rain barrels made from old wine barrels.
In this interview, the founder and CEO Tom Szaky talks about how they got where they are, how they come up with product design, how they make money, and how they started working with big players like Kraft and Wal-Mart....
The Gateline.com
TerraCycling for a trash-free planet (August 7, 2008)
TerraCycle strives to hit two birds with one stone. The company manufactures useful products for everyday use such as garden items, tote bags and school supplies with a slight twist — everything is made from recycled materials. Soda bottles are fashioned into bird feeders and milk bottles are used for plant food.
Brightly colored flower pots are created from 100 percent post-consumer waste, or “e-waste,” using plastic materials from such items like computers and fax machines that otherwise would have ended up in a landfill....
Green Home
Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, gets trashy (August 6, 2008)
You asked Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle, all your trashy questions (ha ha ha, I'm so funny). And he answered them!
In a nutshell, TerraCycle takes what others call trash, upcycles those materials, and turn them into brand-spanking new products. Who thought you could make a hot little tote bag from KoolAid containers or a sweet homework folder from Capri Sun juice packs?...
The Street
New Ways to Make Money Off Recycling (August 6, 2008)
If you'd like to earn money for charity by recycling things that usually get tossed in the garbage, sign up for one of Terracycle's wrapper or drink pouch brigades. Terracycle will "upcycle" -- turn waste into useful products -- your trash by turning wrappers and drink pouches into tote bags, backpacks, pencil cases and homework folders.
Terracycle makes your part easy. Just sign up for one of the brigades on the Terracycle website. You'll receive four prepaid collection bags. When you've filled the appropriate bag with at least 50 cookie wrappers, 100 drink pouches or 200 energy bar wrappers, seal it and drop it off at the nearest UPS(UPS - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) location. Corporate sponsors will donate two cents per wrapper to the charity of your choice. ...
Csmonitor.com
Kraft Foods has announced a partnership with TerraCycle (August 5, 2008)
a New Jersey company that converts hard-to-recycle materials into consumer goods. Brigades will collect used Kraft food wrappers and drink pouches so they can be turned into backpacks, umbrellas, shower curtains, and other products....
Kiwi
Waste Not (August 1, 2008)
Not every company feeds its employees garbage and expects them to make gold, but TerraCycle (www.terracycle.net) has adopted this business model. The manufacturer of lawn and garden products enlists worms to do its dirty work. In the Process, TerraCycle turns garbage into fertilizer, making a healthy profit at the same time....
American Recycler
Kraft Foods and Terracycle sponsor recycling program (August 1, 2008)
Kraft Foods announced a partnership with TerraCycle, a company that takes packages and materials that are challenging to recycle and turns them into affordable, high quality goods.
The partnership will expand the number of collection sites TerraCycle has available across the country and will help prevent a significant amount of packaging waste from going into landfills. ...
Green Talk
TerraCycle Partners with OfficeMax to Take Recycling to a New Level (August 1, 2008)
Want to win a free eco-binder or cleaning products? See details below.
As the lazy days of August start, I am reminded that I have to get my children ready for school. This include shopping for clothes, school supplies, and doctor appointments. ...
American Waste
Kraft Foods & Terracycle, Inc. Partner on World's First Sponsored Waste Programs (August 1, 2008)
Kraft Foods, the number one food and beverage company in North American, announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upstart upcycling company that takes packages and materials that are challenging to recycle and turns them into affordable, high quality goods. The partnership will greatly expand the number of collection sites TerraCycle has available across the country and will help prevent a significant amount of packaging waste from going into landfills.
Kraft will become the first major multi-category corporation to fund the collection of used packaging associated with its products. Several Kraft brands including Balance bars and South Beach Living bars, Capri Sun beverages, and Chips Ahoy! and Oreo cookies,are now the lead sponsors of TerraCycle Brigades. These nationwide...
WFAA.com
Kraft Foods to recycle packaging (July 31, 2008)
Kraft Foods has partnered with TerraCycle in an effort to decrease the amount of packaging waste ending up in the landfill, reports Industry Week.
Kraft will become the first major multi-category corporation to fund the collection of used packaging associated with its products. ...
Triple Pundit
Kraft Foods Offers Money To Customers Depositing Foodwraps At Recycling Centers (July 31, 2008)
A brilliant idea does not necessarily have to be a successful one. In the recycling world this logic is as cut throat as competition is on the high streets; a lot of brilliant ideas and materials still go to waste when they're not backed by the same people who actually gave birth of the landfill problem in the first place.
Kraft Foods, the food company, appears to have understood this problem and has become serious about tackling recycling by taking a refreshingly new approach; finding a niche in the recycling world. Focusing on upcycling, Kraft Foods is going to recycle its own packaging and materials that are known as hard to recycle. Kraft signed an agreement with TerraCycle.net, an upcycling specialist, which creates high quality but affordable items such as umbrellas, backpacks...
The Independent
Smith School Launches Upcycling Brigade Program (July 31, 2008)
Livermore's Emma C. Smith Elementary School recently supplemented the schools fundraising efforts with TerraCycle's free Upcycling Brigade Programs. The school will collect energy bar wrappers, drink pouches and cookie packaging, which TerraCycle upcycles into eco friendly products from the waste....
Reveries
marketing insights + ideas (July 30, 2008)
Kraft, Kellogg and Coca-Cola are among the big-brand marketers now offering logoed merchandise an “unusual alliance” with TerraCycle, reports Gwendolyn Bounds in the Wall Street Journal (7/1/08). TerraCycle is in the business of “upcycling,” meaning that it can take “packaging waste and sew, fuse or weave it into new products such as shower curtains, umbrellas, pencil cases, totes, lunchboxes and backpacks … Many of these items — produced from old Oreo, Kool-Aid and Bear Naked granola packages among others,” are now shipping to retailers including Target, OfficeMax and Walgreen.”
To do this, TerraCycle enlists “nearly 4,000 trash-collecting brigades across the country, mostly from schools, churches and other nonprofit groups. They are paid two cents per wrapper...
Sustainable Industries
Terracycle teams up with Kraft (July 30, 2008)
A new partnership between "upcycler" Terracyle and Kraft Foods (NYSE:KFT) could lead to a reduction in the amount of packaging that ends up in the nation’s landfills. It might also drive Terracycle to profitability by the end of the year.
Terracycle produces consumer good such as tote bags and other containers using packaging from disposable items as its raw material. To collect the yogurt containers, wine corks, energy bar wrappers, soda bottles and other raw materials, the company lets any individual or company sign up online for free to set up a collection station. Participants use pre-paid mailers provided by the company to send the collected materials and receives 2 for each item. Terracycle requires the money be donated to either a school or a nonprofit organization....
Packaging News
'Upcycling' Food Packaging an In-Demand Specialty for N.J. Firm (July 30, 2008)
July 30, 2008 - Is a tote bag forged from old CapriSun pouches fashionable? What about an umbrella constructed of used Chips Ahoy! wrappers?
Each year, billions of food and drink wrappers encasing popular brands end up in landfills because their multilayered materials--which keep products fresh--are tricky and expensive to break down and recycle. This waste has presented a challenge for manufacturers eager to reduce their environmental impact and buff reputations among eco-conscious consumers. ...
News Blaze
Kraft Foods & Terracycle, Inc. Partner on World's First Sponsored Waste Programs (July 29, 2008)
Kraft Foods, the number one food and beverage company in North America, today announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upstart upcycling company that takes packages and materials that are challenging to recycle and turns them into affordable, high quality goods. The partnership will greatly expand the number of collection sites TerraCycle has available across the country and will help prevent a significant amount of packaging waste from going into landfills.
Kraft will become the first major multi-category corporation to fund the collection of used packaging associated with its products. Several Kraft brands, including Balance bars and South Beach Living bars, Capri Sun beverages, and Chips Ahoy! and Oreo cookies, are now the lead sponsors of TerraCycle Brigades. These nationwide...
New Green Basics
TerraCycle: Leaders in Plasticity (July 29, 2008)
I’ve always thought the typical process of plastic recycling was more labor and resource intensive than it needs to be. Apparently, some brilliant students at Princeton thought the same thing and in 2001 launched a poster-child for zero-carbon eco-businesses, known as TerraCycle.
Essentially, they pay consumers and school groups for used bottles or other containers, repurposing the containers without breaking them down. They fill plastic soda bottles, for instance, with natural worm-enhanced fertilizer, stick a colorful sleeve over the bottle as a label, and sell the products online and at stores as diverse as Home Depot, Gardener’s Supply and Whole Foods. ...
Good News Network
Every TerraCycle Product Made From Garbage, Packaged in Garbage (July 29, 2008)
Kraft Foods has joined a list of major corporations, like Coke and Kellogg, to fund the collection of used packaging and consumer leftovers of its products through a partnership with upstart super-recycler, TerraCycle, Inc.
In 2001, Tom Szaky, a Princeton University Freshman, dropped out of school to become an eco-capitalist founding TerraCycle, a company that turns garbage into useful home products. "TerraCycle’s eco-friendly products have received a myriad of social and environmental accolades and are sold at major retailers like The Home Depot, Target, Wal-Mart and Whole Foods Markets."...
Earth 911
Kraft Foods To Recycle Packaging (July 28, 2008)
Kraft Foods has partnered with TerraCycle in an effort to decrease the amount of packaging waste ending up in the landfill, reports Industry Week.
Kraft will become the first major multi-category corporation to fund the collection of used packaging associated with its products....
Things are good
“Upcycling” Gets Corporate Interest (July 28, 2008)
Upcycling takes items that would otherwise be wasted and makes them into useful products. James, who works for Terracycle, wrote to let me know that they have teamed up with Kraft to make some upcycled bags. I wonder how people will react to branded recycling.
Kraft will become the first major multi-category corporation to fund the collection of used packaging associated with its products. Several Kraft brands, including Balance bars and South Beach Living bars, Capri Sun beverages, and Chips Ahoy! and Oreo cookies, are now the lead sponsors of TerraCycle Brigades. These nationwide recycling programs make a donation for every piece of packaging a location collects....
Frugally Green
Terracycle: Recycled Gifts and Products (July 27, 2008)
I came across a website the other day, TerraCycle. They collect wrappers from energy bars, yogurt cups and drink pouches and recycle them into many products. You can shop or you can contribute to their collection.
The company started when 2 students from Princeton University had a vision to "change the way people do business". Now, you can find their products on-line or in select stores....
Sunday Gazette
NJ Company fashions a new life for old wrappers (July 27, 2008)
Is a tote bag forged from CapriSun Pouches fashionable? What about an umbrella constructed of used Chips Ahoy! wrappers?
Each year, billions of food and drink wrappers encasing popular brands end up in landfills because their multilayered materials- which keep products fresh- are tricky and expensive to break down and recycle. This waste has presented a challenge for manufacturers eager to reduce their environmental impact and buff reputations among eco-conscious consumers....
The EcoChic
Join a Brigade (July 26, 2008)
Now even if you are an active recycler most of these items cannot be recycled in traditional ways. Take the drink pouches for example; all those Capri Sun and other brands of juice pouches that the kids love; they just go in the trash. Wouldn’t you like to find a way to recycle or upcycle everything that we consider waste?
Well TerraCycle, Inc can help. I mentioned in my last post that TerraCycle reuses these waste items and turns them into useful products; eliminating the recycling process by upcycling. Now I know you may be thinking; “What can they do with drink pouches?”, or “What can they make from cookie wrappers?” We already know they use the soda bottles to package products such as plant food and household cleaners. How would you like to use a tote bag made...
PNN.Com
Having Your Cookies and Eating Them Too (July 25, 2008)
Want to reduce waste but can't stay away from those Chips Ahoy and Capri Suns? A new partnership between Kraft foods and Terracycle let's you have your cake and eat it, too. Or in this case, have your oreos without contributing to the landfill....
Sustainable Business
Kraft Foods Sponsors Packaging Recycling (July 25, 2008)
Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) has partnered with TerraCycle, an upstart company that takes packages and materials that are challenging to recycle and turns them into handbags, umbrellas and other products.
The partnership will expand the number of collection sites TerraCycle has available across the country and create incentive programs for schools, community groups and other non-profits to collect packaging wast. ...
The Metro Herald
Giant Foods and TerraCycle Offer Eco Friendly Products while giving back to the community (July 23, 2008)
A Startup Company called TerraCycle is paying locla schools and community groups to help collect used packagain such as drink pouches, yogurt cups, energy bar wrappers and more. The company repurposes used packaging and other easte materials to make eco friendly products sold at local Giant Foods. ...
SustainableBusiness.com News
Kraft Foods Sponsors Packaging Recycling (July 23, 2008)
Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) has partnered with TerraCycle, an upstart company that takes packages and materials that are challenging to recycle and turns them into handbags, umbrellas and other products.
The partnership will expand the number of collection sites TerraCycle has available across the country and create incentive programs for schools, community groups and other non-profits to collect packaging wast. ...
Queen Baby Bean
Help turn your kids used fruit juice pouches into a tote bag! (July 21, 2008)
TerraCycle, in cooperation with some big name drink pouch producers, is collecting used drink pouches and turning them into things like pencil cases and tote bags! All you have to do is sign up and they will send you a prepaid envelope to send in your pouches. Capri Sun and Honest Tea will donate $.02 per Capri Sun, Kool Aid and Honest Kids drink pouches and $.01 per other drink pouch you collect to the charity of your choice. If you don't have a charity currently in mind, you may choose from a list of existing charities! There are no signup fees whatsoever. How cool is that??...
Palo Alto Daily
From wrappers to tote bags (July 20, 2008)
This spring, two employees at Whole Travel, a Palo Alto sustainable travel agency, could not come to a consensus over whether the wrappers to energy bars, like Clif and Balance bars, could be recycled.
"He kept putting the wrappers in the recycling bin, and I kept taking them out," said Pam McLeod, Whole Travel's sustainability specialist. "He couldn't believe you couldn't recycle them."
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Business in Development Network
from waste to gold.. (July 18, 2008)
As part of its ongoing mission to "eliminate the idea of waste," as its website puts it, TerraCycle has struck deals with large food and beverage manufacturers to collect the wrappers from their products and "upcycle" them into new, unique accessories.
Terracycle
Through a partnership with Kraft's Capri Sun and Honest Kids juice makers, for example, TerraCycle collects juice pouches from individuals and organizations that have signed up to participate in its "Drink Pouch Brigade." Each time participants send some pouches in to TerraCycle, Capri Sun and Honest Kids donate USD 0.02 per pouch to the charity of the collector's choice (they pay USD 0.01 each for pouches from other juice brands). Nabisco, similarly, has sponsored TerraCycle's cookie wrapper program, while...
www.azstarnet.com
TerraCycle to rebrand waste into neat items (July 17, 2008)
Is a tote bag forged from old Capri Sun pouches fashionable? What about an umbrella constructed of used Chips Ahoy wrappers?
Each year, billions of food and drink wrappers encasing popular brands end up in landfills because their multilayered materials — which keep products fresh — are tricky and expensive to break down and recycle. This waste has presented a challenge for manufacturers eager to reduce their environmental impact and buff reputations among eco-conscious consumers. ...
Green Chemicals
Recycling in Fashion (July 17, 2008)
Here's one tip on how food/beverage and consumer product companies can have the best giveaways in trade shows and conventions. Best of all they're eco-friendly!
Trenton, New Jersey-based startup firm TerraCycle is upcycling used food wrappers, drink pouches, empty yogurt containers, corks and soda bottles into pencil cases, umbrellas, pouches, bags, garbage cans and shower curtains....
IDS
'Eco-Preneur' Steps in to Recycle Wrappers as Accessories (July 17, 2008)
TerraCycle is a US company that achieved a spot on the shelves of Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Target with its eco-fertilizer based on organic waste and worm castings. It has found yet another way to create gold out of garbage, says trend spotting experts Springwise, by turning discarded wrappers and juice pouches into bags, pencil boxes and other accessories.
As part of its ongoing mission to "eliminate the idea of waste," as its website puts it, TerraCycle has struck deals with large food and beverage manufacturers to collect the wrappers from their products and "upcycle" them into new, unique accessories. ...
Courant.com
From Drinks to Pencils (July 17, 2008)
Capri Sun and Honest Kids beverages have teamed up with TerraCycle, an innovative recycling company, to give used drink pouches a new life. The old pouches will be turned into pencil pouches that will be sold in the fall at Target, Walgreens and Office Max stores.
The companies are encouraging families and groups to send the empty pouches to TerraCycle. Also, the Capri Sun & Honest Kids Drink Pouch Brigade program will donate 2 cents for every Capri Sun, Kool Aid and Honest drink pouches and 1 cent for other drink pouches to the charity of the donor's choice....
Hook
Presto change-o: Plowing pouches into purses (July 17, 2008)
A national company that puts worm excrement into gallon milk jugs and sells it as fertilizer has some new ideas for hard-to-recycle items like that lunchbox standard, the drink pouch.
Each year, 4.6 billion drink pouches are manufactured and end up in landfills-- until now....
The EcoChic
Upcycling and TerraCycle (July 17, 2008)
We’ve all heard the term RECYCLING but how many of you have heard the term UPCYCLING? Anyone want to take a guess what the definition of UPCYCLING is?
According to Wikipedia; Upcycling is the use of waste (trash) materials to provide useful products. The main difference between recycling and upcycling is that there is minimal processing involved with upcycling. The waste materials are used in the waste form to create a new and useful product. I’ll give you some examples in a minute....
Cleantech Blog
He’s The Village Upcycle! Everyone Gets A… (July 17, 2008)
What is it?
You might think a tote bag is a tote bag. Not so! This tote is made out of 100% used drink pouches (think CapriSun and Kool-Aid) – and word on the street is most drink pouches are made from “polyester-reverse side printed to aluminum then laminated to polyethylene (a plastic polymer). Unfortunately, this packaging is not recyclable.”
Why is it better?
Let me start by explaining the title of this post. Sure, sure, you know the saying about the village bicycle. But what about upcycling? “To upcycle” is basically to take a waste product and turn it into something useful. Non-recyclable drink pouches are a perfect example. Once your little kiddo drinks the juice…what do you do with the package? Well, mostly those go to the landfill....
ICIS
Recycling in Fashion (July 17, 2008)
Here's one tip on how food/beverage and consumer product companies can have the best giveaways in trade shows and conventions. Best of all they're eco-friendly!
Trenton, New Jersey-based startup firm TerraCycle is upcycling used food wrappers, drink pouches, empty yogurt containers, corks and soda bottles into pencil cases, umbrellas, pouches, bags, garbage cans and shower curtains....
Recycling today Magazine
Kraft and TerraCycle Team Up to Reduce Packaging Waste (July 17, 2008)
Kraft Foods has announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, a Trenton, N.J.-based company that converts difficult-to-recycle materials into a range of consumer goods. The partnership will reduce packaging waste going into landfills by repurposing it for use in the manufacturing of consumer products.
Several Kraft brands, including Balance bars and South Beach Living bars, Capri Sun beverages, and Chips Ahoy! and Oreo cookies are now the lead sponsors of TerraCycle Brigades. Each brigade is a nationwide recycling program that makes a donation for every piece of packaging a location collects....
kippreport.com
'Eco-preneur' steps in to recycle wrappers as accessories (July 16, 2008)
TerraCycle is a US company that achieved a spot on the shelves of Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Target with its eco-fertilizer based on organic waste and worm castings. It has found yet another way to create gold out of garbage, says trend spotting experts Springwise, by turning discarded wrappers and juice pouches into bags, pencil boxes and other accessories.
As part of its ongoing mission to "eliminate the idea of waste," as its website puts it, TerraCycle has struck deals with large food and beverage manufacturers to collect the wrappers from their products and "upcycle" them into new, unique accessories. ...
Nature Repurposed
Upcycling Waste: Hidden Potential in the Garbage Can (July 16, 2008)
Calling themselves eco-friendly innovators, TerraCycle is taking on the challenge of recycling random waste singlehandedly. As they collect so-called "junk" - cookie wrappers, soda bottles, corks, yogurt containers and more - they create fun and interesting products.
TerraCycle is a company with an interesting history. The company first began in 2001 with two college students who saw the value in creating a company that followed eco-friendly, sustainable principles. Calling it eco-capitalism, they created their first product, TerraCycle plant food. The plant food is made from actual worm poop and then packaged in reused soda bottles....
AllDayBuffet
Ashes to ashes and plastic forever (July 15, 2008)
Read Bic’s perfect foil (and markedly clever business model) Terra Cycle, which creates products out of trash. The concept is the ultimate ‘duh’ and what started with their flagship worm-poop fertilizer re-packaged in old soda bottles, is now expanding into a team-up with Kraft to bring us fashionable bags made of Capri Sun wrappers–clever, eco-friendly AND nostalgic… oh you’re good.
It’s ideas like this that will (and need to) succeed in the new market place. We agree with PSFK that “this idea of creating products with an extremely limited life cycle, or made in a way that doesn’t allow for easy recycling seems hopelessly dated and out of touch with current realities.”...
Consumer Goods Technology
TerraCycle Turns Waste into Wonder (July 14, 2008)
The emerging concept of "eco-capitalism" holds that organizations must be accountable for their performance in the consumption and production of natural capital, an economic term for the goods and services available from nature.
TerraCycle is arguably the first-ever eco-capitalist corporation as the company not only limits its consumption of natural capital and minimizes waste; it actually reverses the entire process. ...
Springwise
Garbage into gold, now via discarded wrappers (July 14, 2008)
We've already written about TerraCycle, the company that achieved a spot on the shelves of Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Target with its eco-fertilizer based on organic waste and worm castings. Now TerraCycle has found yet another way to create gold out of garbage by turning discarded wrappers and juice pouches into bags, pencil boxes and other accessories.
As part of its ongoing mission to "eliminate the idea of waste," as its website puts it, TerraCycle has struck deals with large food and beverage manufacturers to collect the wrappers from their products and "upcycle" them into new, unique accessories. Through a partnership with Kraft's Capri Sun and Honest Kids juice makers, for example, TerraCycle collects juice pouches from individuals and organizations that have signed up to participate...
KYW NewsRadio 1060 Philadelphia
NJ Firm TerraCycle Launches Eco-Capitalism Campaign (July 12, 2008)
Don't throw out those wrappers from cookie pouches or drink pouches. A local firm has come up with a way to recycle them into usable items.
TerraCycle, Inc., based in Trenton, NJ, recently unveiled the Cookie Brigade. Spokesman James Artis says Nabisco cookie wrappers and Capri Sun juice pouches are being recycled into trendy accessories:...
Internet Redux
Garbage into gold, now via discarded wrappers (July 12, 2008)
We’ve already written about TerraCycle, the company that achieved a spot on the shelves of Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Target with its eco-fertilizer based on organic waste and worm castings. Now TerraCycle has found yet another way to create gold out of garbage by turning discarded wrappers and juice pouches into bags, pencil boxes and other accessories.
As part of its ongoing mission to “eliminate the idea of waste,” as its website puts it, TerraCycle has struck deals with large food and beverage manufacturers to collect the wrappers from their products and “upcycle” them into new, unique accessories. Through a partnership with Kraft’s Capri Sun and Honest Kids juice makers, for example, TerraCycle collects juice pouches from individuals and organizations that have signed...
The Grist
Here comes the Capri Sun (July 11, 2008)
The fertile minds at TerraCycle are partnering with Kraft to turn junk-food wrappers into fashion-forward bags, umbrellas, and shower curtains. Next up: Worm-poop Uggs? You know we'd wear 'em, Tom....
Baltimoresun.com
Make some money and save Earth (July 10, 2008)
TerraCycle has been getting all kinds of good press lately so I'm sure it needs no help from us. But really, I just want to jump on the fan bandwagon because it's pretty cool what this little New Jersey company is doing.
Two Princeton grads had a simple plan: take waste, process it, and turn it into a useful product. They now make totes out of Capri Sun juice pouches, bags out of plastic grocery bags, and shower curtains out of Oreo cookie wrappers. Their fertilizer made out of worm poop (ha. poop!) is sold at Home Depot. I found their totes on Target's Web site. ...
Sustainable Is Good
TerraCycle Turns Kraft Packaging into New Products (July 10, 2008)
Kraft Foods recently announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upstart upcycling company that takes packages and materials that are challenging to recycle and turns them into affordable, high quality goods.
The partnership will greatly expand the number of collection sites TerraCycle has available across the country and will help prevent a significant amount of packaging waste from going into landfills....
TRASHformations
TerraCycle Fashions a New Life for Old Wrappers (July 7, 2008)
Is a tote bag forged from old CapriSun pouches fashionable? What about an umbrella constructed of used Chips Ahoy! wrappers?
Each year, billions of food and drink wrappers encasing popular brands end up in landfills because their multilayered materials -- which keep products fresh -- are tricky and expensive to break down and recycle. This waste has presented a challenge for manufacturers eager to reduce their environmental impact and buff reputations among eco-conscious consumers....
CSR info
Businees idea: umbrellas from cookies wrappers (July 7, 2008)
[03.07.2008] Greenbiz reported that TerraCycle in partnership with Kraft Foods will "upcycle" used wrappers from cookies, energy bars and drink pouches into purses, backpacks and umbrellas.
This new cooperation will divert waste from landfills and provide a major coup for upstart TerraCycle. ...
ABCnews
Holiday Bargains (July 4, 2008)
Good Morning America: Wendy Bounds on Kraft Partnership...
GreenBiz.com
A Second Life for Cookie Wrappers (July 3, 2008)
NORTHFIELD, Ill. -- TerraCycle Inc. has joined forces with Kraft Foods to "upcycle" used wrappers from cookies, energy bars and drink pouches into purses, backpacks and umbrellas.
The partnership stands to divert millions of pounds of waste from landfills and provide a major coup for upstart TerraCycle, which made its name by transforming worm poop into fertilizer.
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IncBizNet.com
Totes From Trash (July 3, 2008)
A New Jersey-based eco-friendly plant food company has struck a deal with Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) to turn its used packaging into purses, backpacks and other merchandise, company officials announced this week.
Under the partnership, TerraCycle, which already packages its own worm-waste fertilizer in recycled plastic bottles, will expand its waste collection sites to include Kraft brands such as Capri Sun, Chips Ahoy! and Oreo cookies. The companies will also sponsor teams to collect trash and will donate two cents per item to local community groups and schools....
GreenerDesign
A Second Life for Cookie Wrappers (July 3, 2008)
TerraCycle Inc. has joined forces with Kraft Foods to "upcycle" used wrappers from cookies, energy bars and drink pouches into purses, backpacks and umbrellas.
The partnership stands to divert millions of pounds of waste from landfills and provide a major coup for upstart TerraCycle, which made its name by transforming worm poop into fertilizer. ...
The Star-Ledger
TerraCycle has deal for Kraft's trash (July 2, 2008)
It's pretty much what you'd expect from TerraCycle: The Trenton company that makes plant food out of worm poop also is turning Oreo cookie wrappers into shower curtains.
Kraft Foods yesterday announced a recycling partnership with TerraCycle in which schools and community groups college wrappers from Balance energy bars, Oreos and Chips Ahoy1...
The Trentonian
A Deal for the Future (July 2, 2008)
TRENTON -- City recycling innovators, Terracycle, yesterday announced a new partnership with Kraft Foods in which discarded cookie and energy bar wrappers will be transformed into everything from purses and backpacks to umbrellas and shower curtains.
TerraCycle's Drink Pouch Brigade first introduced the company to Kraft. Through Capri Sun, which is owned by Kraft, TerraCycle was able to show how used drunk pouches can be sewn into tote bags and handbags and ten be sold for profit to area retailers, said Albe Zakes, a spokesperson for TerraCycle. ...
Wall Street Journal
TerraCycle Fashions a New Life (July 1, 2008)
Company Turns Trash
Into Totes, Backpacks
And Other Products
Is a tote bag forged from old CapriSun pouches fashionable? What about an umbrella constructed of used Chips Ahoy! wrappers?
Each year, billions of food and drink wrappers encasing popular brands end up in landfills because their multilayered materials -- which keep products fresh -- are tricky and expensive to break down and recycle. This waste has presented a challenge for manufacturers eager to reduce their environmental impact and buff reputations among eco-conscious consumers....
Earth 911
Company Profile: TerraCycle (June 30, 2008)
Who says dropping out of Princeton is a foolhardy move? Not Tom Szaky, who in 2001, along with co-founder Jon Beyer, had a vision for a new kind of product created completely from waste. In fact, their moment of inspiration came while visiting friends who were successfully using vermacompost (worm poop) to grow thriving plants.
Szaky and Beyer founded TerraCycle in 2002, and the company has grown exponentially since its humble beginnings in a Princeton dorm room. Szaky recently discussed TerraCycle’s successful eco-capitalistic business model, which is based on the idea that there really is no such thing as garbage....
Green Daily
Join the Wrapper Brigade (June 30, 2008)
When you're finished with your Oreos or Fig Newtons, you toss the packaging, right? So do hundreds of millions of other people.
Instead, why not sign up for the Wrapper Brigade? It's a partnership between TerraCycle and Nabisco that collects used food wrappers and in turn, donates from 1 to 5 cents (depending on the item) to the school or charity of your choosing. The process started out collecting plastic drink pouches, and then evolved into collecting everything from yogurt containers to wine corks.The process is simple: sign up on the site for the Brigade to which you'd like to contribute, and Terracycle will send you four prepaid "collection envelopes." Just load your used wrappers into the bags, and when you reached the designated amount, dump the bag at a UPS drop-off spot....
The Ohio Review
Pathways leads to greater independence (June 29, 2008)
LISBON - Opportunity Homes recently opened a new facility for its residents in an effort to place them on a more productive path for learning work and life skills.
Known as Pathways, the new workshop for people with mental retardation and developmental disabilities stands just a short distance from the 22-bed residential care facility located at 7891, state Route 45, Lisbon - so short a distance that plans call for constructing a pathway between the two buildings.
Opportunity Homes Executive Director Mary Jane Jones said they noticed the building for rent just a couple doors down at 7941 state Route 45 and decided to start their own workshop to give some of their residents an alternative to the facility operated by Columbiana County MRDD....
Daily Dose
WANTED: Used Drink Pouches (June 28, 2008)
If you have kids, chances are you buy drink pouches, such as Capri Sun, Honest Kids, and Kool Aid. Gwen and I are collecting used drink pouches to be recycled into fashion bags, tote bags, and pencil cases for kids and adults....
Hive Thrive
Rising Oil Prices Reveal Competitive Potential of Green and Local Businesses (June 27, 2008)
Products that are identified chiefly as green, organic, or locally produced have sometimes risked falling into what one might call the LOHAS Trap. To the extent that LOHAS, an acronym for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability, is regarded as a relatively affluent, well-educated market segment, products that are aimed at that segment are likely to remain “alternatives.” In that case, for most consumers, the default choice will be the “mainstream” product, e.g. Palmolive, rather than Seventh Generation. A company such as Seventh Generation may earn a profit by charging a premium to those affluent consumers who are especially concerned about the environmental impact of detergents. However, environmental progress will be limited if the offerings of such companies continue to be premium...
Looking 4 Stuff
CapriSun Tote by TerraCycle (June 27, 2008)
Think back and you can probably fondly recall at least one childhood memory of yourself drinking a CapriSun juice pack. There was just something about CapriSun that made it way cooler than the average juice box. Maybe it was poking the straw into the opening on the side of the package rather than the top or watching the foil pouch deflate as your sucked back your juice, then blowing air back into it and popping the foil.
As it turns out TerraCycle actually has a better purpose for used CapriSun pouches then exploding them (and subsequently sending juice flying across your mother's spotless kitchen). The company actually creates funky, reusable tote bags from the pouches, which is a great way to keep them from ending up in a landfill since the pouches actually aren't recyclable. Not only...
Super Fresh
CapriSun Tote by TerraCycle (June 27, 2008)
Think back and you can probably fondly recall at least one childhood memory of yourself drinking a CapriSun juice pack. There was just something about CapriSun that made it way cooler than the average juice box. Maybe it was poking the straw into the opening on the side of the package rather than the top or watching the foil pouch deflate as your sucked back your juice, then blowing air back into it and popping the foil....
Green Strides
NJ Company Turns Garbage into Gold (June 26, 2008)
Trenton-based TerraCycle’s entire product line is made from and packaged in waste products. How ingenious is that?!
Terracycle became renowned for its natural plant fertilizer made from organic waste from worms. The first step is to have something good for the worms to eat — raw organic matter that is fed into a rotating predigester. After a week, the mixture is ready to be fed to the worms. Several hundred thousand worms live and feed on the garbage and their waste products are then used to make a compost tea. Plants that are fertilized with it can easily soak up all those nutrients quickly and grow healthy, naturally....
Tennesee Women's Journal
Going Green for God’s Glory (June 25, 2008)
With the current trend in green living in full bloom, there is often confusion, hype and cynicism to be weighed in the balance.......
Inform Inc.
TerraCycle™ Inc. - Raising the Bar for Eco-friendly Businesses (June 25, 2008)
In 2006 Americans generated 251 million tons of waste and recycled only 35.2% of those materials (82 million tons), according to the EPA. As landfills fill up and become scarce, efforts to implement effective recycling programs have intensified. TerraCycle™ Inc. has responded to this calling and has become the world's first company to mass produce a product that has a negative ecological footprint. ...
Planet Green
My Eco-Crush of the Week: SuChin Pak falls in love with the king of poo (June 24, 2008)
Ok, so for our new show, G Word, I took a trip out to Trenton, New Jersey the other day to do a story on a pretty amazing company called Terracycle. If you're a gardener, you're probably familiar with the benefits of worms and their poo. Well, Tom Szaky, the 25-year-old CEO of what is now a multi-million dollar company, decided to bottle up this "black gold," as growers call it, and sell it in recycled soda bottles.
When he started the company, he had no money to package his worm poo, so he went around collecting soda bottles and realized that they're uniform and have basically the same size caps, so refilling these containers was totally doable! Now, companies come to him to help them figure out what to do with their waste. ...
Cross Country Skier
Balance Bar Joins Effort to Collect Used Energy Bar Wrappers (June 20, 2008)
Balance Bar has joined Clif Bar and TerraCycle in the Energy Bar Brigade. The Energy Bar Brigade is designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrapper going into landfills while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Two cents will be donated to charity for each wrapper consumers collect and send to TerraCycle.
TerraCycle will upcycle the collected wrappers into backpacks, gym totes and other products. These items are expected to be available at major retailers by early next year....
SportsOneSource
Balance Bar to Recycle Wrappers (June 20, 2008)
Balance Bar is joining the Energy Bar Brigade, which is designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into landfills while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. For each wrapper returned two cents will be donated to charity.
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...
Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog
The Marketing of Worm Poop (June 18, 2008)
Entrepreneurialism is alive and well in America. Just ask Tom Szaky, the founder of TerraCycle. His big idea: a commercialized liquid plant food made from biological waste—or as Szaky calls it “worm poop,” in reused soda bottles from school recycling programs (after making donations for them).
Cleaning the bottles, slapping homey labels on them, and fitting them with trigger sprays other manufacturers couldn’t use, or didn’t want, enabled Szaky to finally bring his product to market. ...
Maine Coast Now
UMA students collect yogurt cups for recycling as flower pots (June 17, 2008)
AUGUSTA — Honors students at the University of Maine at Augusta have been collecting and cleaning plastic yogurt cups for about three months, sending them to New Jersey where they’ll be recycled as flowerpots.
TerraCycle’s recycled yogurt containers look like this when they are cleaned and painted and filled with soil and a blooming flower.
Now, they’re planning to start collecting juice box pouches, which can be turned into pencil cases, and foil cookie wrappers which can be woven into pouches and bags by the same New Jersey company — TerraCycle....
The Budget Ecoist
Everything Becomes School & Office Supplies: Recycle This! (June 16, 2008)
If there is a cooler green company out there right now than TerraCycle, we'd like to hear about it.
TerraCycle recently partnered with Office Max to produce a line of recycled office and school products. The results? One marvelous waste-free future unfolding before us!
...
Soaring Mountains Academy
Office Max & TerraCycle (June 11, 2008)
I forgot to mention that when we were at Office Max yesterday getting file folders, that we found some TerraCycle products. You can read more about the company at their website: http://www.terracycle.net/ We have joined the Drink Pouch Brigade. We are getting Tyler Honest Kids juice. It tastes good, it’s organic and it’s from the makers of Honest Tea (their website is here http://www.honest-kids.com/). So now we are recycling the drink pouches instead of just throwing them away....
The Green Ninja
Upcycling?? (June 11, 2008)
So you’ve got your local recycling system down pat — but what about all the other stuff your city won’t accept? If the growing piles of plastic wine corks or Clif Bar wrappers are getting you down, check out these fun recycling programs. They’re custom made for the environmentalist who likes to sweat the small stuff!...
Small Business Trends
David Partners with Goliath (June 5, 2008)
OfficeMax® Incorporated, a leader in office products and services, announced today that it has partnered with TerraCycle™, Inc., an eco-capitalist company, to bring a new line of “green” office products to OfficeMax customers.
OfficeMax is featuring seven new TerraCycle products; including innovative binders, pencil cases, trash cans and cleaners. TerraCycle manufactures and packages products entirely from
waste and reduces the amount of garbage going to landfills....
Green Paige
Green Idea: Recycle for Charity (June 4, 2008)
Did you know that you could earn money for your neighborhood school by recycling? Here are a few organizations that can help you save the planet and give back to your community.
TerraCycle has teamed up with various companies including Stonyfield Farm and Nabisco to collect used yogurt containers, wrappers, drink pouches, corks and plastic bottles. The collected materials are then recycled into planting pots. Schools or your favorite charity can get as much as 5 cents per yogurt container depending on it’s size. ...
Los Angeles Times
TerraCycle turns juice pouches into pencil cases (June 1, 2008)
Recycling odd small items brings out two camps: The "Why're you wasting time with small meaningless things when we've got big problems" crowd, and the "Finally -- a solution for my mini quandary" crowd. This post's for the people in the latter granola group....
Brand Packaging
Spinning Garbage into Gold (June 1, 2008)
Green companies think they can charge premium prices,” says TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky. And though he could probably have an easier time of it if his own eco-conscious company followed suit, Szaky says the tendency for competitors to keep green products at the high end of the price range is, in fact, helping him. “Since we’re not doing it,” he says, “we’re gaining a lot.”
Szaky launched TerraCycle as a college student in 2002, when he came up with the idea of commercializing liquid plant food made from biological waste—what he described as “worm poop”—and then poured in used soda bottles because he couldn’t afford conventional packaging. ...
Progressive Grocer
GROCERY: Back-to-school: Liquid assets (June 1, 2008)
There’s been a definite shift in how America's kids are quenching their thirst, and trends indicate that they'll be taking those new habits -- and beverage products -- back to school with them.
New York-based market research firm Packaged Facts foresees strong growth ahead for the children's beverage segment, expecting it to reach $5.8 billion by 2012. This reflects the industry's rush to offer more items with a healthy slant....
Education Works
Making Trenton Green (June 1, 2008)
Throughout the spring, students in the EducationWorks' after school programs at the Woodrow Wilson School worked to make a greener Trenton. Seventeen Wilson 4th and 5th graders studied the problems of pollution and advocated an increase in recycling and reusing trash....
Daily Chronicle
How green is your valley? (May 28, 2008)
On Earth Day at Target, I bought a tote made of recycled Kool-Aid and Capri Sun juice packs. New Jersey-based TerraCycle Inc. partnered with Honest Kids to sell these bags (mine was $10) that turn waste into revenue. Billions of these juice packs are discarded each year.
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The Mount Airy News
Recycling options a top priority for sixth graders (May 26, 2008)
Carriker then told the students about a company called TerraCycle, which buys recyclable waste from schools and other areas and turns it into a variety of products such as potting mix in a milk jug container, soda bottle plant food, and a 2-liter bird feeder. The company pays six cents per plastic bottle. They also accept plastic cookie wrappers, drink pouches (i.e. Capri Sun), energy bar wrappers and yogurt containers. TerraCycle will purchase those items for two cents each.
...
Sustainable Rays
Terracycle recycles (May 25, 2008)
In the latest edition of Sierra Magazine I just discovered a (transitional, in my opinion) solution to all these non-biodegradable candy wrappers. A new company called Terracycle has figured out a way to collect and reuse plastic bottles, juice wrappers and candy wrappers, working with the companies that package their products in them.
For example, here is how you can help recycle those Clif's Bar wrappers into a purse, as in the illustration from their website:...
Ecopreneurist
Terracycle + Office Max = Innovative Green Office/School Supplies (May 22, 2008)
Terracycle is most known for their reuse of plastic soda bottles as packaging for their Worm Poop gardening products. While these initial products are definitely to be commended, it’s their recent move into office and school products in conjunction with Office Max that stands to make an even more profound impact....
Gabbing about Green
TerraCycle & Office Max Team Up! (May 21, 2008)
Well, now you can find their goods inside Office Max. They are starting with a pencil case made from drink pouches. They'll also have a 3-ring eco-binder made from 90% recycled steel and 100% recycled paper. When you have squeezed the life from it again, simply send it back to TerraCycle. What a deal!...
Eco Street
Join the recycling brigade (May 21, 2008)
For our US readers, here’s how you can recycle, support eco-capitalism, and make a little cash on the side. TerraCycle are paying 2 cents per cookie wrapper or drinks pouch, so that they can continue to make really cool stuff out of rubbish. You collect the wrappers and pouches and Terracycle delivers free shipping collection bags right to your door. To become part of TerraCycle’s recycling brigade, sign up now. Spots are limited!...
All Business
The World’s First Company to Make Everything out of Trash (May 21, 2008)
There’s a great feature over at the NYT, profiling a few different green companies, and introducing us to the concept of Green II, a term used to describe companies that are green, while still being consumer-friendly and profitable.
What really jumped out at me though was the profile on Terracycle, a fertilizer manufacturer that makes everything from trash, but not just recycled trash, because that requires melting the plastic, they just wash stuff off. Their fertilizer is sold in washed, relabeled pop bottles. They also make a bird feeder from pop bottles and a purse out of old drink pouches. ...
The New York Times
The Goal Is to Do the Right Thing (May 21, 2008)
TERRACYCLE’S fertilizer is priced the same as its competitors’. It is on the same store shelves, from Home Depot to Wal-Mart. But comparisons stop there. The company prides itself on making a product that its co-founder, Tom Szaky, calls “green to the extreme”: its base ingredient is made by feeding trash to worms and collecting their nutrient-rich wastes, a process that he perfected using dining-hall refuse as a student at Princeton University.
The product is packaged in used soda bottles, which instead of being recycled — requiring melting the plastic — are cleaned and relabeled. TerraCycle’s other products are likewise “upcycled” — a compost from an old wine barrel, a handbag from drink pouches and a bird feeder that is an upside-down two-liter soda bottle. This month,...
Eco Street
Join the recycling brigade (May 21, 2008)
For our US readers, here’s how you can recycle, support eco-capitalism, and make a little cash on the side. TerraCycle are paying 2 cents per cookie wrapper or drinks pouch, so that they can continue to make really cool stuff out of rubbish. You collect the wrappers and pouches and Terracycle delivers free shipping collection bags right to your door. To become part of TerraCycle’s recycling brigade, sign up now. Spots are limited!...
Prozy Utza
TerraCycle & OfficeMax: Eco-Friendly Office Products (May 20, 2008)
TerraCycle has partnered up with OfficeMax to sell a line of eco-friendly office products. To start they are going to be selling recycled pencil cases, binders and trash cans but plan to roll out more soon. The Pencil cases are my favorite. TerraCycle runs the Drink Pouch Brigade, where schools collect these traditionally un-recyclable pouches and send them to TerraCycle. TerraCycle pays them $0.02 per pouch then turns them into the pencil pouches among other products. This is a great way for schools to raise money and we love products that are conspicuously made from recycled materials. They are eco-chic, plus it raises awareness for recycling and upcycling....
Lucky Blog
Proof Positive? (May 20, 2008)
We can’t stop working to turn the Earth’s health around. We have to continue recycling, reducing and reusing. We have to find new ways every day to minimize our carbon footprint. There are opportunities everywhere. Take, for example, the Clif Bar you’re currently munching. TerraCycle is now offering 2 cents for every Clif Bar wrapper you collect (you have to sign up first), so that they can turn them into funky eco-cessories, reducing the amount of wrappers that end up in landfills each year. And they aren’t stopping at Clif Bars; Nature Valley and PowerBar wrappers are accepted as well. If you don’t eat energy bars but gobble up tubs of yogurt and gallons of juice, TerraCycle is collecting yogurt containers and drink pouches. Sounds good, and easy, to me....
Office World
OfficeMax, TerraCycle Partner On Green Office Products (May 20, 2008)
Binders made from 100 percent recycled cardboard covers and 90 percent recycled steel rings will be among the products available at OfficeMax stores as a result of a partnership between the company and TerraCycle, which manufactures products entirely from recycled materials, which, in turn, helps reduce some of the country’s largest waste streams....
NJ BIZ
Turning Trash into Everyday Office Products (May 19, 2008)
TerraCycle Inc., known best for its Worm Poop brand plant food, is teaming with OfficeMax Inc. to turn trash into office supplies. The Trenton-based company this month began providing OfficeMax with binders, pencil cases and trash cans made from recycled materials. The products went on sale May 1 at 900 OfficeMax stores across the country, opening a new market for TerraCycle.
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Packaging Digest
TerraCycle teams up with OfficeMax on 'green' line (May 19, 2008)
A city-based company that built its business on selling fertilizer made from worm poop now wants to diversify into products made from recycled materials. TerraCycle has formed a partnership with OfficeMax to market a line of "green" products to customers of the office products company....
Atlanta In Town
Recycle Drink Pouches & Earn Cash (May 17, 2008)
Fruit drink pouches are a staple in American schools' cafeterias. According to the Container Recycling Institute, 3.6 billion drink pouches are produced each year. Because the material used to make these pouches is non-recyclable, virtually every single one is sent to a landfill. To help combat this huge loss of resources, TerraCycle, Capri Sun, and Honest Tea banded together to create a program called the Drink Pouch Brigade. This program allows schools, houses of worship, and others to reuse these previously non-recyclable items. In the program, locations are sent collections bags which hold 100 pouches and have prepaid shipping labels already attached!...
FM News
OfficeMax to offer TerraCycle's first "made from waste" office products (May 16, 2008)
OfficeMax, provider of office products and services, recently partnered with TerraCycle, an eco-capitalist company, to bring a new line of "green" office products to OfficeMax customers. OfficeMax is featuring seven new TerraCycle products that TerraCycle manufactures and...
Earth Rated Products
TerraCycle Products (May 15, 2008)
Terra cycle is a relatively new little company that allows you to recycle items that are normally not recyclable. Terra cycle will either reuse your donated items (bottles for their Worm Poop fertilizer) or create new products from your donated items (totes, shopping bags, office supplies). Just imagine - your kids’ giant pile of juice pouches transformed into a pencil box, homework folder, or tote. You’ve got 2 out of the 3 Rs right there! To top it all off, they’ll even kick back donations to your favorite charity in exchange for your donations! How’s that for a win-win-win?? While Terra Cycle’s recycle and reuse program continues to evolve, the current list of items they accept includes: cookie wrappers, drink pouches,energy bar wrappers, yogurt containers, and soda bottles. Go...
Sustinable Life Media
OfficeMax to Offer New Products Line Made Entirely from Waste (May 14, 2008)
May 5, 2008 - A month after catching flak from environmental groups on its paper sourcing policy, OfficeMax has signed on to carry Terracycle's new range of green office products made from recovered waste materials. The new TerraCycle products range from binders to trashcans to nontoxic cleaners. The binders are made from 100% recycled cardboard covers and 90% recycled steel rings, and include a return program for used binders. Terracycle's line of natural, nontoxic cleaners is packaged directly in used soda bottles. And the company is salvaging and converting mixed plastic waste into its new 100% recycled-content trashcans and recycling bins....
Greener Computing
TerraCycle: Worm Poop and So Much More (May 14, 2008)
What we do is we go in and work with companies like Honest Tea, Capri Sun, Kool-Aid -- these all became our sponsors -- and enabled them to help us run a nationwide collection program. So, today, if you have kids, and they're drinking Capri Sun or Honest Tea juice pouches, and you'd like to get paid to reuse them, you go to our website, you sign up, and for free, we send you collection boxes. You send them back, and then we donate $0.02 per pouch to any organization you want. Typically, it's like your school or something. And that's where it begins. ...
Climate Biz
TerraCycle: Worm Poop and So Much More (May 14, 2008)
Although it seems an unlikely success story, TerraCycle -- the company famous for turning worm poop into a household name -- points the way to success in how we address many of our environmental issues....
Retailing Today
TerraCycle launches 'green' products at OfficeMax (May 13, 2008)
OfficeMax has partnered with TerraCycle—an eco-capitalist company started up by 25-year-old entrepreneur and Princeton University dropout Tom Szaky—for a new line of "green" office products....
News RX
Medical News Article on OfficeMax; TerraCycle (May 13, 2008)
OfficeMax(R) Incorporated, a leader in office products and services, announced that it has partnered with TerraCycle(TM), Inc., an eco-capitalist company, to bring a new line of "green" office products to OfficeMax customers. OfficeMax is featuring seven new TerraCycle products, including innovative binders, pencil cases, trashcans and cleaners. TerraCycle manufactures and packages products entirely from waste and reduces the amount of garbage going to landfills....
Copies Magazine
Green Office Products (May 13, 2008)
Binders made from 100 percent recycled cardboard covers and 90 percent recycled steel rings will be among the products available at OfficeMax stores as a result of a partnership between the company and TerraCycle, which manufactures products entirely from recycled materials, which, in turn, helps reduce some of the country’s largest waste streams.The binders come with the world’s first return program for used binders and will be available along with TerraCycle’s plant-based, non-toxic and biodegradable Natural Cleaner line of products that are packaged directly in used 1-liter soda bottles, like the ones their bird feeders are made of....
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....
Proxyutza
Green Office Products (May 9, 2008)
Binders made from 100 percent recycled cardboard covers and 90 percent recycled steel rings will be among the products available at OfficeMax stores as a result of a partnership between the company and TerraCycle, which manufactures products entirely from recycled materials, which, in turn, helps reduce some of the country’s largest waste streams.The binders come with the world’s first return program for used binders and will be available along with TerraCycle’s plant-based, non-toxic and biodegradable Natural Cleaner line of products that are packaged directly in used 1-liter soda bottles, like the ones their bird feeders are made of....
The NJ Times
Growth industry (May 9, 2008)
Trenton-based TerraCycle (terracycle.net) fills empty soda bottles with natural cleaning products for office products retailer OfficeMax (officemax.com). "Our customers want to buy environmentally preferable products. We hear that all the time," OfficeMax spokeswoman Jennifer Rook said....
Smart Briefs
OfficeMax to offer green office items (May 9, 2008)
OfficeMax has partnered with TerraCycle to sell filing supplies, pencil holders, waste paper baskets and cleaning fluids made completely from recycled materials. This is TerraCycle's first foray into the office-supply market. Display & Design Ideas...
INC Magazine
OfficeMax, TerraCycle Offer Green Office Products (May 8, 2008)
The trashcans and recycling bins are made from 100 percent recycled plastic. TerraCycle salvages thousands of tons of plastic from a variety of applications and turns it into environmentally friendly products. The binders are made from 100 percent recycled cardboard for the covers and 90 percent recycled steel for the rings. The binders also come with a return program for used binders....
Australian Newsagency
Green office products (May 8, 2008)
OfficeMax in the US has announced that they will carry a range of “green” office products from Terra Cycle. Made from recycled materials, these products are as good for the OfficeMax image as they are for the environment. The story of getting good media attention in the US....
The Change Report
OfficeMax Unveils TerraCycle Products (May 7, 2008)
OfficeMax is offering new yet familiar products created by TerraCycle. The newest products is a pencil case made from discarded containers of Capri Sun juice. TerraCycle, a company that strives to innovate products from "waste stream" materials will be providing a whole line for OfficeMax - other products include binders made from 100 percent reused cardboard, trash cans made from recycled e-waste plastic and non-toxic cleaning products packaged in old soda bottles. ...
Is Guide
OfficeMax to stock TerraCycle's green products (May 5, 2008)
OfficeMax stores will now stock a range of green office products from TerraCycle thanks to a partnership between the two American firms. TerraCycle manufactures products entirely from recycled materials. Binders made from 100 percent recycled cardboard covers and 90 percent recycled steel rings will be among the products available. The binders come with the world’s first return program for used binders and will be available along with TerraCycle’s plant-based, non-toxic and biodegradable Natural Cleaner line of products that are packaged directly in used 1-liter soda bottles....
Newark Examiner
OfficeMax and TerraCycle Partner to Introduce Innovative Office Product Line (May 4, 2008)
OfficeMax(R) Incorporated, a leader in office products and services, announced today that it has partnered with TerraCycle(TM), Inc., an eco-capitalist company, to bring a new line of "green" office products to OfficeMax customers. OfficeMax is featuring seven new TerraCycle products, including innovative binders, pencil cases, trashcans and cleaners. TerraCycle manufactures and packages products entirely from waste and reduces the amount of garbage going to landfills....
Denver Post
TerraCycle and OfficeMax (May 4, 2008)
The new line with OfficeMax will be TerraCycle's first line of office products and features items for kids and adults. The design of these products helps to reduce some of the country's largest waste streams....
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...
Environmental Leader
OfficeMax, TerraCycle Partner On Green Office Products (May 3, 2008)
Binders made from 100 percent recycled cardboard covers and 90 percent recycled steel rings will be among the products available at OfficeMax stores as a result of a partnership between the company and TerraCycle, which manufactures products entirely from recycled materials, which, in turn, helps reduce some of the country’s largest waste streams....
Green Biz
OfficeMax Unveils Line of TerraCycle's Made-from-Waste Office Products (May 2, 2008)
The pencil cases in OfficeMax's newest retail offerings may look surprisingly familiar, even nostalgic to some shoppers. The cases are made from discarded containers of Capri Sun, the juice pouch more frequently seen on playgrounds than on end-caps....
Suddenly Frugal
Waste Not, I Want That (May 2, 2008)
All of this should bode well for the newly announced partnership between TerraCycle (a company grown from worm poop, literally) and OfficeMax. Together, they will be offer office and school supplies made from recycled materials. Some of the first of these products to hit Office Max shelves include binders made from recycled goods (below) and pencil cases made from recycled juice pouches (above)....
Spike TV
OfficeMax goes green with TerraCycle (May 2, 2008)
OfficeMax will be TerraCycle's first line of office products and features items for kids and adults. The design of these products helps to reduce some of the country's largest waste streams....
Greener Design
OfficeMax Unveils Line of TerraCycle's Made-from-Waste Office Products (May 2, 2008)
In addition to diverting materials from the waste stream, TerraCycle's products also aim to give back to the community as well as the environment. The Capri Sun pouches used in the pencil cases, for instance, are collected as fundraisers at schools; TerraCycle pays the schools two cents per pouch, and then turns what would otherwise be garbage into a new product....
Street Insider.com
OfficeMax and TerraCycle (May 1, 2008)
The TerraCycle Natural Cleaner(TM) line will be OfficeMax's first line of all-natural cleaners packaged directly in used soda bottles. The line includes the Natural All-Purpose, Natural Window and Natural Degreaser packaged directly in used 1 liter bottles. Over 80 billion plastic bottles are discarded and end up in landfills every year. The cleaners are all plant based, non-toxic and biodegradable. Certifications include the Canadian Government's EcoLogo, one the strictest certifications given by the Canadian Government....
Symphony Magazine
Snap, Click, Zoom - Crinkle (May 1, 2008)
In the second half she emerged wearing a special gown crafted by fashion designer Nina Valenti from 6,000 reused drink pouches. ...
A Green World
Join the Drink Pouch Brigade! (April 28, 2008)
I couldn’t believe my eyes! Did I just see this recycled Capri Sun bag at Target? In amongst the pretty floral and pleather handbags, there they were, in all their green-crafted glory…recycled Capri Sun tote bags - at Target! Wow, green craft is really going mainstream. I had a vision of a young indie crafter, sitting on a mountain of money, drunk on Capri Sun, tied to her sewing machine cranking these bad-boys out. After some research though, I learned the real story and how we can help. TerraCycle, Capri Sun and Honest Kids have teamed up to help prevent the billions of juice packs that Americans drink each year from ending up in a land fill....
Kansascity.com
You have no excuse for refusing to go green (April 26, 2008)
On Earth Day at Target, I bought a tote made of recycled Kool-Aid and Capri Sun juice packs. New Jersey-based TerraCycle Inc. partnered with Honest Kids to sell these bags (mine was $10) that turn waste into revenue. Billions of these juice packs are discarded each year....
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....
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....
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!...
The Cedar Springs Post
Recycle and earn money, too (April 17, 2008)
According to the container recycling institute 4.6 billion drink pouches are ...
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....
Heritage Newspaper
Green Co. pays for used juice pouches (April 14, 2008)
To help combat this growing problem, TerraCycle, Inc. has partnered with Capri Sun and Honest Tea for a recycling program that is truly revolutionary....
Rutland Herald
TerraCycle's recycling brigades raise money and eco awareness (April 13, 2008)
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