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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....
Montgomery
Graffiti festival emphasizes community, ecology (August 6, 2008)
College student Dana Jackel, of Maple Glen, is helping to organize a New Jersey recycling-based company's annual graffiti and urban arts festival this weekend in Trenton.
Jackel, an intern for TerraCycle and a senior at Cornell University, is helping plan the event. Jackel said through holding the event TerraCycle is promoting a constructive and positive image of urban art in an effort to bring the company and local community together. ...
US1
First Worm Poop, Now Graffiti (August 6, 2008)
On Saturday August 9, TerraCycle will open its factory walls to over 50 accomplished graffiti artists from all across the country. The fourth annual Graffiti Jam is organized by TerraCycle and Leon Rainbow, a Trenton-area artist whose work has been shown in Art galleries and exhibitions all over the New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York area.
TerraCycle has made a name for itself by creating a variety of affordable and environmentally responsible products that are made from waste and packaged in waste. The company has exhibited a longstanding commitment to the city of Trenton, employing many of its residents and reusing its garbage....
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?...
Retro Housewife
Product Review: TerraCycle (August 6, 2008)
When I learned TerraCycle wanted to send me green cleaners I got really excited because I LOVE there worm poop. Yes I said worm poop. It's used as a fertilizer, it's totally natural and safe. It works great!!!
Anyway they sent me the all-purpose spray, glass cleaner, bathroom cleaner, and drain cleaner. They all smell a lot like alcohol but it fades very fast and is much better than a toxic smell most cleaners leave. They are all very safe and scent free. They reuse pop bottles and other bottles to fill with the cleaners, it's very cool!!!...
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. ...
Trenton Downtowner
Graffiti Jam attracts urban artists to paint factory (August 1, 2008)
On Saturday Aug. 9th TerraCycle will open its factory walls to over 50 accomplished graffiti artists from across the county.
The fourth annual Graffiti Jam is organized by TerraCycle and Leon Rainbow, a Trenton- area artist, whose work has been shown in the art galleries and exhibitions all over the New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York areas....
The Princeton Packet
The Art Of Graffiti (August 1, 2008)
TerraCycle Will open its factory walls to more than 50 accomplished graffiti artists from across the for the fourth annual Graffiti Jam Aug. 9. The event is organized by TerraCycle and Leon Rainbow, a Trenton-area artist whose work has been shown in art galleries and exhibitions in the New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York areas.
TerraCycle has made a name for itself by creating a variety of affordable and environmentally responsible products which are made from waste and packaged in waste. The company has exhibited a longstanding commitment to Trenton, employing residents and reusing garbage. TerraCycle is furthering its contribution by hosting this event....
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. ...
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. ...
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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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. ...
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. ...
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....
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. ...
The dhlovelife Show
100% FROM WASTE (July 14, 2008)
TerraCycle Eco Capitalism KINGS Video
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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...
LA Daily News
A way to recycle corks (July 13, 2008)
I admit, I'm not a wine drinker. But I do have a few friends who are definitely winos. You know who you are.
If you like a nice bottle of wine or two, I pose this question to you. What do you do with the corks? I'm going to assume you recycle the bottles, but what about those corks? How about joining a cork brigade? ...
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....
About.com
Guide Review - TerraCycle All Purpose Plant Food (July 9, 2008)
The first thing you notice about TerraCycle All Purpose Plant Food (0.03-0.002-0.02) is that under its yellow and green label, it is packaged in a reused 20 ounce soda bottle. The bottle is topped with a simple sprayer.
TerraCycle states that a weekly dose of their All Purpose Plant Food, sprayed on the foliage and soil, will "provide your plants with the primary nutrients for optimal growth" and that it "will not burn your plants" the way synthetics can. ...
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. ...
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....
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...
News Ok
Gardening company uses recyclables (June 26, 2008)
Some companies now make gardening products and packaging from completely recycled materials. Here is some of the best from Terra Cycle.
Slow-release granular fertilizer. Made from worm castings and chicken litter, this fertilizer can feed plants for up to 12 weeks. Not only is the fertilizer made from waste, but it comes packaged in reused gallon jugs.
Eco-friendly cleaners. These cleaners are made from natural plant materials and are biodegradable and nontoxic. They are packaged in reused one liter soda bottles. The line includes a drain cleaner, glass cleaner, bathroom cleaner and an all-purpose cleaner....
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....
Please Sprout Blog
Adventures in Patio Gardening (June 18, 2008)
I know that with a potted garden, it's important to regularly fertilize the plants regularly since the plants will quickly use all the nutrients in the soil. I've been giving my plants some plant food with their daily watering, but I was told by the nursery that I bought it from that it is not a replacement for fertilizer. ...
Green Books
Environmental (Green) Business Listings (June 17, 2008)
TerraCycle Inc. :: www.terracycle.net :: TerraCycle produces a line of home and cleaning products that are completely made and packaged with post-consumer discarded material. These products range from fertilzer, to shopping bags, to home cleaning products....
Iggyz Uncensored
TerraCycle tree and shrub fertilizer spikes (June 16, 2008)
I finally found one of the other TerraCycle products I had been searching for. The Home Depot in Jacksonville, IL had a good supply of TerraCycle tree and shrub fertilizer spikes. I hadn’t been able to find this new product closer to our home....
Money AOL
Money From (Almost) Nothing: Poo Poo, too! (June 13, 2008)
If you don't have a need for bottled urine, perhaps you'd like to purchase some worm poop? According to TerraCycle Inc., worm poop is an ideal, natural fertilizer. That is why they package the naturally occuring waste in used 20 oz. soda bottles and sell it for $6.95 (prices may vary). Proving where there's worm waste and soda drinkers, there's money to be made.
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The Peregrin Pages
From Trash To Treasure - Adaptive Reuse In Business (June 11, 2008)
A while back, I wrote a post on the concept of adaptive reuse. Originally the term was an architectural one and referred to the reuse of buildings and building materials rather than destroying them. Over time however, the term has been absorbed by other industries and even by individuals and has come to mean the practice of finding other uses for products rather than as fodder for our overflowing landfills.
Since that original post, I have been searching for examples of adaptive reuse. I haven’t found very many. In the most recent issue of Yes! Magazine however, there is a small blurb about entrepreneur Tom Szaky that caught my eye and inspired me....
EnviroHumanImpact
A Huge Worm Dump! Awesome! (June 10, 2008)
You know that feeling after a worm takes a huge dump? Awesome!
Actually, let’s talk about many many worms pooping lots of little bits to make a product called, “Worm Poop.” Disgusting? Look for it at your Home Depot!
TerraCycle is a young company started by two Princeton dropouts, Co-founders Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer, one of whom, while visiting a friend, found his collection of worms making compost in a plastic container in his kitchen (after a night of drinking). Fascinated at his friend’s method of getting soil for some “plants in his basement,” (watch the video!), he began thinking of a way to make a company that could make and market composted organic waste for gardening....
LA Times
TerraCycle: Green cleanliness in a waste stream bottle (June 9, 2008)
If you're not ready to make your own green cleaners -- but cringe every time you throw out another plastic spray bottle (into the recycling bin, but still), TerraCycle has a solution for you: Green cleaners packaged in reclaimed soda bottles!
Yep -- The anti-waste people who brought you the eco worm-poop fertilizer in used soda bottles are now packaging eco-cleaning products in the same reclaimed containers. TerraCycle's 5-product line includes all-purpose, window and bathroom cleaners, as well as a degreaser and drain maintainer. All products are non-toxic and biodegradable; they're also free of 1,4-Dioxane, fragrances, and dyes. ...
Homegrown
What does worm poop look like? (June 8, 2008)
Only a gardener could get excited by a call to test out vermicompost, a.k.a., worm poop. Such was the case when James Artis of TerraCycle, makers of the “world’s most eco-friendly products,” offered to send a sample of his company’s products.
Worms create some of the richest fertilizer around and I hadn’t used any since Stacie Johnson suspended her vermicompost business in Robins several years ago....
RePlayGround
TerraCycle - worm poop and more! (June 8, 2008)
If you haven't heard of TerraCycle, well now you have. They're a fast growing eco-powerhouse that produces both eco-friendly products AND packages them in reclaimed materials.
How cool is that? They got their start with Worm Poop and package it in soda bottles collected by students. Students raise money. Students learn about recycling. Terracycle gets inexpensive packaging. AND the bottles stay out of landfills. Brilliant? Yes....
Grand Haven Tribune
New Jersey company turning wrappers into school supplies (June 5, 2008)
An innovative startup company is partnering with big brand names like Nabisco and Capri Sun to recycle wrappers and containers that would likely otherwise land in a dump.
New Jersey-based Terracycle then transforms the trash into make products like backpacks, pencil boxes and change purses. ...
Iggy Uncensored
Found TerraCycle cleaning products at local OfficeMax (June 4, 2008)
This evening after dinner and avoiding one of the people mentioned in my Al Gore article at The Corner we stopped at the OfficeMax down the street. I knew from my previous research that TerraCycle now had a distribution agreement with OfficeMax to carry the new TerraCycle cleaning products.
At first we did not see any TerraCycle product in the store. There was no advertising within the store announcing this new product option. However towards the back of the store just before the furniture selection Cheryl spotted the familiar TerraCycle packaging in the middle of an aisle....
Life Made Easier
TerraCycle Expands.... (June 4, 2008)
Last year, I purchased a bottle of TerraCycle All Natural Liquid Fertilizer made from worm poop for the summer garden. Created from recycled material, Terracycle's products are beyond eco-friendly. They are down right genius in my opinion. Warning: I also think silly putty and the Magic Eight Ball are genius so you might not want to put too much stock in the next few lines.
Seriously though, as an individual I have made a personal commitment in recent years to reduce the amount of waste I produce. I heart nature: hiking, gardening, picnicking, swimming, fishing etc. I have never been one to take such things for granted and have no plans to start doing so anytime soon which is why I love companies like TerraCycle....
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....
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. ...
Alaska Business Montly
Fred Meyer Sells Edo-Friendly Garden Products (June 1, 2008)
Fred Meyer stores in Alaska now sell a new line of eco-friendly garden products in response to customer demand for more sustainable, organic products. TerraCycle Inc.'s products are made from waste and recycled products....
The Green Journal
terracycle’s goal: eliminate waste (May 26, 2008)
Even if you haven't picked up a bottle of woom poop yet, no doubt you've heard of terracycle. It all started in 2001 when two Princeton University students set out to change the way people do business. Inspired by a box of worms, these students had a dream: a company could be financially successful while being ecologically and socially responsible....
Foorprint
Garbage into Gold (May 26, 2008)
Co-founders Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer were determined to turn the worm box concept into a real-life, commercially viable process. That summer, they developed prototype equipment and proved their concept was feasible by reprocessing solid waste from dining halls at Princeton University....
Treehugger in Training
Worm Poop (May 25, 2008)
I know what you're probably thinking; if I have to read one more blog post about worm defacations, I'm going to scream. But bear with me just a bit. We were at the tail end of one of our many trips to various garden centers around town (a trip any guy absolutely loves, as you can imagine) when I asked Mrs THIT "So do we need anything else?". This was intended to be one of those more or less rhetorical questions which actually meant "So can we finally leave?"...
Donna Reed Wannabe
Gardening & Environmentalism (May 23, 2008)
Oh, hey, I almost forgot the whole reason for writing this post today. I have found this great product made by an amazing company that I wanted to tell you about. Don't worry, you didn't read through all that for nothing, it relates to what I have been talking about. The company is called Terracycle, you can find them at http://www.terracycle.net/. To quote their website: "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." They do this through all sorts of neat ways, unfortunately if I tried to tell you about all of them you would spend your whole day reading my blog (hmm .... ) so I'm just gonna focus on the one that relates to gardening. Remember I teased you a couple days ago that sometime in the near future...
Statesman Journal
Neighbor to Neighbor - New products (deer) (May 23, 2008)
TerraCycle, the company behind organic and eco-friendly home and garden products stored in plastic bottles, milk jugs and the like, has several new products out, including:...
Iggy Uncensored
TerraCycle worm castings granular all purpose plant food (May 23, 2008)
Here is a picture of one of the newer TerraCycle products. I’ve put the worm castings to use for the first time this year. Using the product on parts of the lawn being patched and around various plants. As you can see this All purpose plant food comes in a recycled milk jug. It’s basically dry worm poo in a jug. For more information on this product and TerraCycle please use the link below....
Earth & Economy
Help Eliminate the Idea of Waste (May 22, 2008)
TerraCycle manufactures affordable, potent, organic products that are not only made from waste, but are also packaged entirely in waste. As an eco-friendly manufacturer of plant foods, TerraCycle is able to make its products with worm poop and then sell them in used soda bottles.
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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,...
Bit Botters
Spotlight On: TerraCycle. Making money from trash. (May 20, 2008)
TerraCycle is a company started by two Princton University students. What’s so unusual about their products is that every single part is made from garbage and waste. Yes, including the bottles and the packaging. The bottle you see on the right is an old, cleaned Pepsi bottle. To save resources, they recycle old soda bottles, and instead of melting it down, they use the bottle as is, even if they’re different shapes — they’re first company to do this....
Think outside the box!
From Princeton dropout to CEO of TerraCycle. (May 19, 2008)
What’s the great product you might ask? It’s worm poop! Why would someone in their right mind give up an Ivy League education at Princeton to pursue worm poop? Well it takes a determined individual to follow through on his/her beliefs to fulfill their dreams. Tom Szaky the founder of TerraCycle discovered the wonders of compost from a friend’s basement. Tom had the foresight to see the potential of the earthly matter after seeing how well it nourished his friend’s plants....
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...
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....
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....
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....
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....
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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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. ...
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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...
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....
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....
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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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...
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...
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. ...
NJ Monthly
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, the upstart Trenton company that finds creative uses for the things we know as garbage.
TerraCyle is already known for its Worm Poop. The ultra rich natural fertilizer packaged in old soda bottles (not recycled, re-used bottles has been hailed as the earthy elixir for your garden. Click here for a video tour of the plant on NJ My Way and watch how the by-product of worms is processed — not as yucky as it sounds....
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...
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.”...
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. ...
Green Work Place
TerraCycle (March 3, 2008)
Finally, a company that really gets what recycling is all about. TerraCycle is trying to eliminate the idea of waste completely. You provide them packaging... they turn around and put their products in your water bottles, drink pouches, yogurt containers, energy bar wrappers, etc. So what do they sell exactly? Mostly gardening products, bird food, fertilizer and the like. But don't worry, its all natural stuff....
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....
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....
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...
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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...
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....
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....
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 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...
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. ...
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....
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?...
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...
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. ...
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....
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.)
Anyway,...
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.
Hempel sends the bottles to New Jersey-based TerraCycle as part of its Bottle Brigade program. TerraCycle makes and distributes lawn and garden fertilizer -- essentially worm poop, as company publicist Paul D'Eramo puts it....
Debonair Magazine
Terracycle - Poop Salesman Trumps Zuckerberg (August 23, 2007)
When Tom Szaky dropped out of Ivy League Princeton at the age of 19 to start his own business, he had only the two things that would lead to his success, a million plastic bottles and a whole lot of worm poop.
The genius behind Szaky’s product is that it’s completely made from waste. Some say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and in Szaky’s case everyone’s trash has become his millions. Using organic waste digested by worms, TerraCycle brews the poop into a tea and packages it in used, 20oz. soda bottles.
The bottles are collected by school children in a nationwide program called the Bottle Brigade™ campaign. The end result is not only a product which rides the wave of environmental concern that has been dominating the media, but the also provides living proof...
Western Chesterfield Exchange
Natural Fertilizer's Name Might Make You Squirm (August 16, 2007)
The label of the bottle on the shelf declares the product's name in large, bold red words: 'Worm Poop'. You see it, you titter with adolescent laughter, you take a second glance to make sure you read correctly, then you point it out to others … or management, depending on your demeanor.
Whether you have yet to notice, the bottles of liquid organic plant food named Worm Poop have been recently, well, plopping down on store shelves throughout the area. New Jersey based TerraCycle Inc. chose the Midlothian area as one market to test their new ecologically friendly fertilizer product. ...
Progress Plus
Kroger Aids Recycling by Selling "Worm Poop" (August 15, 2007)
The Kroger Stores in Charlottesville are now testing an organic plant food manufactured by TerraCycle, Inc. The "Worm Poop" plant food is a high quality fertilizer that comes ready to use, no mixing required! Unlike many eco-friendly and organic products, TerraCycle comes at no premium, costing only 4 dollars a bottle!...
Intelligencer
Organic Plant Food Available (August 13, 2007)
The Kroger Store on Mt. de Chantal Road in Wheeling is now testing an organic plant food manufactured by TerraCycle Inc. The plant food is a high-quality fertilizer that comes ready to use, no mixing required. Unlike many eco-friendly and organic products, TerraCycle comes with a friendly price.
TerraCycle 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 production of this super eco-friendly product is actually consuming waste.
Kroger will be selling the All-Purpose Plant Food in its Kroger stores to test the eco-friendly product’s appeal to its customers....
Journal Gazette
Business at a Glance (August 12, 2007)
Kroger markets in the Fort Wayne area are now testing a organic plant food manufactured by TerraCycle Inc. The “Worm Poop” organic plant food is a high-quality fertilizer that comes ready to use....
Globe and Mail
The worm turns ... a profit (August 7, 2007)
On the website of Cathy's Crawly Composters is a cartoon titled "Getting Into Heaven in the 21st Century.
In it, St. Peter is querying a would-be entrant on his recycling habits. Did he recycle: "absolutely." How about composting? Well he lived in an apartment. Well what about using composting worms? Well he didn't have a balcony. What about your living room, asks St. Pete. "Worms in my living room? For Pete's sake!" answers our hero—before realizing he's doomed....
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Here's the real poop on recycling (August 7, 2007)
While you're buying your tomatoes, chicken, eggs and dishwashing soap at your favorite Kroger's, you might want to check out the worm poop.
Don't worry, it won't get on your shoes. The worm leavings have been turned into plant food in recycled plastic drink bottles -- at least one Memphis nonprofit is gathering the bottles.
"We're testing the product to see if it will catch on (in supermarkets) and see if their (Kroger) customers are ready to go green," said Mike Avale, a spokesman for TerraCycle, the Trenton, N.J.-based company that makes and sells the product....
Organic or Bust
Testing Organic Fertilizer (August 7, 2007)
The Kroger Store on Hardy Road in Vinton is now testing an organic plant food manufactured by TerraCycle, Inc. The “Worm Poop” plant food is a high quality fertilizer that comes ready to use, with no mixing required. Unlike many eco-friendly and organic products, TerraCycle comes at no premium costing only 4 dollars a bottle.
TerraCycle 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....
Our Valley
Organic product being test marketed in Vinton (August 7, 2007)
The Kroger Store on Hardy Road in Vinton is now testing an organic plant food manufactured by TerraCycle, Inc. The “Worm Poop” plant food is a high quality fertilizer that comes ready to use, with no mixing required. Unlike many eco-friendly and organic products, TerraCycle comes at no premium costing only 4 dollars a bottle.
TerraCycle 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. ...
Fort Collins Now
Worm Poop Hits Shelves (August 4, 2007)
Make room on your shopping list for worm poop.
Colorado-area King Soopers are now selling a new organic fertilizer which essentially is the dirty business of earth crawlers. “Worm Poop,” is a all-purpose plant food manufactured by TerraCycle, a newcomer in the fertilizer business.
Kroger, King Soopers’ parent company, is selling the product to test its eco-friendly appeal to customers. The fertilizer is certified organic by the Organic Materials Review Institute, according to TerraCyle.
Albe Zakes, the director of public relations for TerraCycle and self-described “eco-revolutionist” said the company is hoping to ride the current green trend consumers seem to be on....
NJ Monthly
Splendor in the Grass (May 30, 2007)
At his computer, Tom Szaky is Googling words like peat and fertilizer. Jon Beyer, his business partner, is taking lunch orders. After all, you’ve got to eat before you get your hands dirty in business—particularly this business. In 2003, in Trenton, Szaky and Beyer started TerraCycle, which, among its twelve product offerings, makes all-natural, nontoxic plant food and potting soil as well as liquid fertilizers and deer repellent. Szaky, 25, and Beyer, 23, spend part of their day sifting through mounds of refuse, recovering old soda bottles and picking through the rest, to create clean piles of dirt that they augment with a secret ingredient that they’re both very proud to mention out loud: worm poop. ...
Green Talk
The struggles of my vegetable garden (April 28, 2007)
My favorite finds has to be TerraCycle's seed starter kit. The seed starter mix is made of vericompost, which is worm poop, which every gardner knows is the best type of compost. In addition the seed trays are made out of recycled paper not plastic like most seed starters. Once your seedlings are grown, you can literally tear off the cell and plant it right in the ground. The paper decomposes and there is less stress on the plant. When I try to switch a plant from its pot to the ground, I inevitably lose half of the soil and distrub the roots. As exicited as I was about the worm poop, TerraCycle must have had me in mind with these tearable cells to plant. Go to http://www.terracycle.net/seed_starter.htm to see a video about this product. They also have great fertilizing products too. TerraCyle...
Business Week
(April 23, 2007)
It's a battle over the nation's yards and gardens. Lawn-care giant Scotts Miracle-Gro is suing TerraCycle, an organic plant-food startup with a product line based on earthworms. In TerraCycle's Trenton factory, night crawlers munch on organic waste, and their nutrient-rich droppings are blended into a solution sold in reused soda bottles. TerraCycle sales hit $1.8 million last year, a 300% leap. The green-and-yellow bottles, bedecked with images of vegetables and flowers and designed to allow spraying, are a problem, says Scotts, whose sales are at $2.7 billion (including its competing Organic Choice line, which grew by 200%)...
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Canada.com
Droppings for sale (April 19, 2007)
Worms: What are they good for? Absolutely not as much as they used to be. At least that is one way to interpret the release of a new garden fertilizer made of liquefied worm poop. As I write this, there are two bottles of poop on my desk, compliments of Home Depot and the worm-poop entrepreneurs at TerraCycle. Ours must be a nation of lazy worms, indeed, if the little squirmers need some industrial aid to get the job done. Sadly, one of the poop bottles popped its seal in shipping, so worm poop has dribbled onto my desk, and even worse, my hands. WorkSafe B.C. staffers can look forward to a compensation claim like none they have seen before......
Good Times
Worm Your Way to Healthy Plants (April 5, 2007)
TerraCycle's liquid worm poop is a unique product from a one-of-a-kind company that's trying to worm its way to the top — so to speak — in an effort to make the world a greener place. Their eco-friendly plant food is made from composted waste and is even packaged in waste. It all starts at the TerraCycle plant, where millions of red worms are fed organic garbage. The result? The worms excrete a natural fertilizer — or poop — that's rich in nitrate nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium, which is then liquefied and packaged in ready-to-spray recycled soda bottles. It's nature's fertilizer at its best!......
Kitsap Sun
New Gardening Products (April 5, 2007)
This product is garbage, literally! Garbage is fed to worms whose organic waste (poop actually) is nutrient rich food for plants. The technical term for the process of collecting worm castings (poop) is vermicomposting. The value of worm castings to plants and soil is clearly documented and backed by years of scientific research. TerraCycle's marquis products are plant foods that are all natural, liquid fertilizers that are effective yet safe for the environment and readily available through mass market retailers......
Sierra Vista Herald
Zerofootprint and Earth Day (April 3, 2007)
With Sierra Vista's Earth Day comes a unique opportunity to learn about a company called TerraCycle. It makes a plant food that is the first consumer product to earn the right to carry the Zerofootprint seal. The seal signifies that the materials and manufacturing process used to produce its materials have virtually no negative environmental repercussions. I first learned about TerraCycle, which is made from liquid worm poop and packaged in recycled soda bottles, from Judy Goodenough, who has been farming worms for the past 15 years. Goodenough will bring some of her worms to town and talk about TerraCycle at the farmers market, which is held at the northwest corner of Wilcox Drive and Carmichael Avenue. More than 1,438,125 20-ounce soda bottles have been recycled so far to package TerraCycle...
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