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Below is a sample of our media coverage. If you know of a story that we have missed, please e-mail it to 
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....
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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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...
Keyboard Magazine
Retote Recycled Plastic Shopping Bag Earth Day Promotion a Compelling Collaboration between Target Corporation, TerraCycle Inc. and Newsweek Magazine (May 4, 2008)
While much of the mainstream press in the United States and around the world does at least a competent job reporting on environmental issues, especially global warming, Newsweek magazine set the bar very high in its special April 14, 2008 issue, Environment & Leadership: Who’s the Greenest of Them All? How? Newsweek magazine collaborated with Target Corporation and TerraCycle Inc. to help promote Target Corporation’s Retote recycled plastic shopping bag in a unique way....
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....
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....
Backyard Solutions Magazine
Recycled Bird Feeder (May 1, 2008)
Even the birds will de doing their eco-friendly part when feeding from the TerraCycle Bird Feeder...
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....
Backyard Living Magazine
TerraCycle Graffiti Pots (April 27, 2008)
TerraCycle is a manufacturer of organic and eco-friendly products for the home and garden. Their newest product, the Urban Art Planting Pot, is made from 100% reused plastic, most of which came from Hewlett-Packard. Every one of these unique planting pots is hand painted by inner city artists at TerraCycle headquarters in Trenton, New Jersey. To learn more about TerraCycle and their products, visit their Web site....
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. ...
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....
MSNBC
The plastic bag (April 25, 2008)
TerraCycle, Target, Newsweek and the story of the plastic bag...
co-op America
Clif Bar Partners with Terra-Cycle to recycle Wrappers (April 25, 2008)
Clif Bar is furthering their sustainability commitments by teaming up with Terra-Cycle to collect Clif Bar wrappers that will be woven into material for backpacks, tote bags and other products. Individuals and businesses can sign-up for the Wrapper Brigade and will receive collection bags that can be used to collect and send back to TerraCycle. Products are expected in stores in 2009....
Pretty Tough
Wrapper Brigade! (April 24, 2008)
April 24, 2008 - Do you snack on cookies? Drink juice pouches? Eat energy bars? Did you know that every year BILLIONS of drink pouches and food wrappers end up in dumpsters and landfills across America? Well, TerraCycle has teamed up with Clif Bar, Oreos, Capri Sun and others to reduce the amount of packaging going into our landfills. They will donate two cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. The collected waste will be fused and woven into a strong material, which will then be used to make backpacks, gym totes and other products....
Sierraclub Magazine
Foiled Again (April 24, 2008)
Energy bars are convenient, sure, but what about the 800 million wrappers discarded each year? Now they and other selected junk can be sent to a company that's making big business out of household garbage. The plastic/foil composite wrappers, along with empty juice pouches, will be reincarnated as bags and backpacks on the shelves of Target. Next, old plastic yogurt containers will reappear at Home Depot as planter pots. The formula belongs to TerraCycle, which entices schools and others to collect castoffs in return for a charity donation, then refashions the items for sale in big-box stores. terracycle.net...
Low Impact Living
The Straight Poop: TerraCycle Plant Foods (April 23, 2008)
I love to tinker in my garden, and I’m an especially big fan of this company TerraCycle and their gardening products. The reason for the title of this blog is that TerraCycle fertilizers are made from worm poop! The company also has some very interesting recycled packaging. I had the good fortune to interview TerraCycle’s CEO, Tom Szaky, about chemical-free gardening and the TerraCycle story....
(re)definition
Newsweek, Target, and TerraCycle (April 23, 2008)
I bring all this up because last week's issue of Newsweek had an interesting ad campaign from Target. Inside the front cover of the magazine were instructions of how you could transform your Newsweek magazine into an envelope. Inside the envelope you were to place used Target bags. In exchange, you would receive a certificate for a free reusable Target tote....
The Philly Burbs
What can I do for earth day? (April 22, 2008)
Help spread the idea of “Eco-capitialism,” and raise money for your favorite charity at the same time by giving Trenton’s TerraCycle your unwanted soda bottles, yougurt containers, cookie wrappers and more. Learn more about this company - if your daily commute includes crossing the river on Rt. 1, you drive right past their funky, grafitti-strewn HQ every day - here....
RandMark
Local garden clubs gearing up for spring (April 22, 2008)
To keep up on what should be done and when, Kranz also suggests subscribing to the club's free newsletter (at the club's website www.bgc.terracycle.net), which features a "Timely Reminders" section. The newsletter, edited by Jerry LeBeda, former club president, also contains club news, gardening tips and other articles of interest....
Kearney Hub
Don’t pitch that wrapper in the trash (April 22, 2008)
A Kearney organization has joined a national effort to reuse waste materials while raising money for a local charity. Becky Skrdla of Kearney, a Mid-America Bicycle Club member, read about the Clif Bar Wrapper Brigade when she was flipping through a biking newsletter....
Petoskey News Review
Area schools teach students how to be environmental stewards (April 19, 2008)
In addition to area recycling facilities, TerraCycle Inc. runs four nationwide upcycling programs for schools, community groups and nonprofits. The programs collect four materials: 20 ounce soda bottles, kid's drink pouches, yogurt containers and energy and granola bar wrappers (regardless of brand). In return, they donate several cents per piece to a school or nonprofit that the location chooses....
Frugal Village
Give yogurt containers a second life (April 19, 2008)
COLLECT: TerraCycle has partnered with Stonyfield Farm to collect yogurt containers and reuse them as planting pots to sell to retailers. According to TerraCycle’s Web site, the program will donate two to five cents per container to a charitable organization of the collector’s choice. Visit www.terracycle.net/yb/yb.htm or call (609) 393-4252 for details....
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....
modbee.com
Pet projects go green (April 19, 2008)
Watch the birds come when you hang the TerraCycle Wild Bird Feeder, made from a used soda bottle and a recycled plastic feeding pan. The feeder comes with birdseed and can be refilled.
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The Star
Making every drop count (April 19, 2008)
Home Depot has a new oak rain barrel made by TerraCycle, the clever little company that makes organic gardening products from worm waste, and uses recycled waste material for its packaging (terracycle.net). The barrels are made from oak casks used in the wine industry, the lifespan of which is confined to two or three agings. The TerraCycle barrel should be in select Home Depot stores across the GTA within the next month – in stores that don't carry the product, they'll be available by special order. Cost is $149.99....
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....
Gardening Life
Art Nouveau (April 15, 2008)
Benefiting both Graffiti Artists and the Earth. TerraCycle's flower pots...
Pro Cyclng News
Accessorize with Clif Bar (April 15, 2008)
Clif Bar will take all energy bar wrappers (that's right, ALL of them) at their booth, number 227 to later be converted into useful objects like tote bags and purses. The environmentally conscious Clif Bar & Co., in partnership with Terracycle, will be unveiling its new energy bar wrapper-recycling program, called the Wrapper Brigade at Sea Otter. For a look at the final product or just to learn more about the Wrapper Brigade, go here....
The Ithaca Journal
Saving the planet, 1 wrapper at a time (April 15, 2008)
CLIF BAR & Company, an all-natural organic food and drink company and TerraCycle, Inc., an eco-friendly company that makes plant food and other products, are teaming up together this Earth Day to create the Wrapper Brigade, the nation's first program designed to reduce the waste going into landfills by collecting energy bar wrappers....
Planet Green
Send Your Yogurt Cups, Energy-Bar Wrappers, Bottles to TerraCycle (April 15, 2008)
Don't throw out your yogurt cups, energy-bar wrappers, drink pouches, or soda bottles just yet, TerraCycle is willing to pay a charity of your choice good money (up to six cents per item), in a bid to eliminate the idea of waste....
Environmental Leader
Target Launches First-Class Recycling Campaign (April 14, 2008)
In case you missed this, the April 8 issue of Newsweek, on sale April 8, has a cover that converts into a prepaid envelope for sending Target’s plastic shopping bags to Terracycle where they are manufactured into reTotes, the reusable shopping bags sold by the retailer....
The News Times
Sherman plans cleanup (April 14, 2008)
Plastic yogurt cups No. 5 may be dropped off on the Green. Cups will be sent to TerraCycle and Stoneyfield Farm Yogurt, which are sponsoring this pilot program that will donate 2 cents per cup to Sherman School....
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)
Reduce, reuse, recycle. It's a mantra of the 21st century. Separating our newspapers and cardboard, junk mail and office paper, magazines and catalogs, bottles and cans, and plastic bottles from the rest of our garbage has become part of our daily routines....
The Flint Journal
Drink pouch group lightens landfill load (April 12, 2008)
Now, TerraCycle Partners is joining forces with Capri Sun and Honest Tea to rescue and reuse 1 million drink pouches in the next 12 months - converting them into pencil cases, handbags and school supplies to be sold at Target stores in 2008. ...
The Flint Journal
Drink Pouch Group Lightens Landfill Load (April 12, 2008)
Imagine 4.6 billion fruit drink pouches piled up in landfills....
mlive.com
Recycled juice boxes earn Flint school 2 cents each (April 11, 2008)
Now, TerraCycle Partners is joining forces with Capri Sun and Honest Tea to rescue and reuse one million drink pouches in the next 12 months -- converting them into pencil cases, handbags and school supplies to be sold at Target stores in 2008....
The Salt Lake Tribune
Things to do this week and beyond (April 10, 2008)
CLIF BAR LAUNCHES FIRST COLLECTION PROGRAM CLIF BAR wants your used energy bar wrappers for the Wrapper Brigade, where they will donate 2 cents to charity for every wrapper collected and woven into material. For more information, visit www.clifbar.com....
Sandy Post
Waste products worm their way to Sandy (April 10, 2008)
Liquefied worm dung in a used soda bottle isn’t exactly something most people would think to purchase. But challenging conventional thinking about waste and recycling is exactly what New Jersey-based TerraCycle, Inc. wants to do....
News Times
Sherman plans cleanup (April 10, 2008)
Plastic yogurt cups No. 5 may be dropped off on the Green. Cups will be sent to TerraCycle and Stoneyfield Farm Yogurt, which are sponsoring this pilot program that will donate 2 cents per cup to Sherman School....
Earth is not trash
Newsweek Asks: Who’s the Greenest of Them All? (April 9, 2008)
Then, you open to this unique Target ad. I’ve never seen Target advertise in Newsweek. Target is promoting its reuseable Retote (trademark) bag. According to the ad, tear off the Newsweek cover. Fold as instructed, stuff with Target plastic bags and fill out the return address. Seal and mail. Then you’ll receive your Retote (trademark) bag in the mail....
Calluna
Target Retote (April 9, 2008)
buy Newsweek magazine, take the cover off and make it into a mailing pouch (directions are included), stuff your used Target bags inside, and mail them (postage paid) to TerraCycle, a recycling company that has partnered with Target to turn the bags into totes. In return, you get a coupon in the mail for a free retote!! I can’t wait to make my Target mailer and fold up all my little Target bags to recycle. Sounds like fun, it will help the environment by not having the bags end up in the trash, and I get the tote for free. It’s a win-win....
Fox Business
Young Guns: Go Behind the Scenes With America's Young Entrepreneurs (April 9, 2008)
Meet Tom Szaky, the 26-year-old founder of Terracycle, whose company's products and packaging are made entirely from waste. From turning down $1 million in seed capital to getting sued by MiracleGro, this fledgling fertilizer firm, which started in 2001, is already making its mark in the business world....
Bioneers Community
Sponsored Waste- Closing the Loop on food packaging (April 9, 2008)
Which brigade would you like to join??? The Yogurt Brigade! The Energy Wrapper Brigade! The Drink Pouch Brigade! or the Bottle Brigade! Which ever one you chose, you won't be disappointed. Hello everyone- thanks for reading. My name is Liz and I work here at the Headwaters Bioneers- bringing together the young people in the Bioneers community! But, I also do some field marketing for a wonderful company called Clif Bar- attending athletic and music events, handing out various Clif Bar product....
The Marion Press
TerraCycle Partners with Capri Sun and Honest Tea for Revolutionary Recycling Program (April 9, 2008)
Fruit drink pouches are a staple in American Schools...
Herald Tribune
Cash for your trash (April 8, 2008)
Your used (clean!) yogurt cups, energy-bar wrappers, drink pouches or soda bottles can earn your favorite charity some cash thanks to TerraCycle, a maker of all-natural home and garden products.
Yogurt cups will turn into planting pots, drink pouches and energy-bar wrappers will become accessories such as tote bags and soda bottles will become packaging for a variety of TerraCycle products, according to the company’s Web site.
In cooperation with Capri Sun, Honest Tea, Stonyfield Farm and Clif Bar, TerraCycle will give your charity anywhere between 1 cent and 5 cents for each empty item.
Just sign up online and pack up your empty containers in the free shipping boxes delivered to your door.
www.terracycle.net...
Target Shoppers
NEWSWEEK, Target and TerraCycle Team Up for Innovative Program (April 8, 2008)
Newsweek, Target and TerraCycle, an eco-capitalism company, have teamed up in an innovative project using the magazine cover as an envelope to mail in plastic Target shopping bags which will then be turned into the store's unique Retote bag. After the bags are mailed in, readers will receive a coupon in the mail to
receive a free Retote....
The Wichita Eagle
Reuse yogurt containers to save money, planet (April 8, 2008)
TerraCycle has joined with Stonyfield Farm to collect yogurt containers and reuse them as planting pots to sell to retailers. The program will donate two to five cents per container to a charitable organization of the collector's choice. Visit www.terracycle.net/yb/yb.htm or call 609-393-4252 for details....
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....
Michigan Live
Get fruity for Earth Day (April 8, 2008)
Smith is an eco-publicist for TerraCycle Inc., a New Jersey company that has hooked up with Capri Sun and Honest Tea to create a Drink Pouch Brigade program.
Schools, churches and other groups that want to sign up will be paid 2 cents for each used drink pouch they collect, regardless of the brand.
TerraCycle will take the pouches, which are non-recyclable, and make them into school supplies like pencil cases and handbags that will be sold at Target. ...
Sun Herald News
Target and TerraCycle Team Up for Innovative Program (April 7, 2008)
"We're very excited to be responsible for helping Newsweek reinvent the idea of magazine advertising as well as Target reinvent how we use plastic bags," said Tom Skazy founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a company that produces eco-friendly affordable products from waste....
Truth Needs No Ally
Recycling in Pink (April 5, 2008)
Or that Clif Bar, based in Berkeley, CA, has partnered with TerraCycle to reuse its energy bar wrappers? Their joint initiative, called the Wrapper Brigade, is one of many that TerraCylce has created to reuse recyclable materials and, in the process, donate to charities....
Inside Texas Running
Recycled your used energy bar wrappers (April 4, 2008)
Clif Bar, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce...
Common Ground
Catch and Release (April 3, 2008)
Much media ado has been made over TerraCycle — the ingeniously eco-forward company that uses worms to turn organic trash into potent fertilizer sold in reclaimed (hey! Even better than recycled!) pop bottles on superstore shelves. Now TerraCycle is partnering with Stonyfield Farms, Clif Bar and Honest Tea to close the loop on food packaging — a concept they’re calling “ Sponsored Waste.” The plan is to enlist schools, nonprofits and community groups to set up neighborhood packaging collection drives. Participating locations will earn two cents for every pouch, small yogurt container or energy bar wrapper and five cents for each large yogurt container or 20 oz. bottle they send back, with donations made to the nonprofit of the location’s choice. TerraCycle will then “ upcycle ”...
The Green Parent
Raise Money For Your Favorite School or Charity with this Eco-Friendly Fundraiser (April 3, 2008)
With a motto of "Turning Garbage Into Gold," New Jersey-based TerraCycle is making it their mission to "eliminate the idea of waste" by creating products that are made from and packaged in garbage. To date they've kept over one million plastic soda bottles out of the landfill by using the bottles to package their cleaning agents and organic garden supplies. It's a unique concept, and one that can really help to change the way products are currently made and used....
Empire Press
Worms, pots and business (April 3, 2008)
We had a phone call the other morning about a guy who wanted to talk about worm poop and urban artists who decorated pots....
El Neuvodia
Abono empresarial (April 2, 2008)
Hace seis años, Tom Szaky tuvo que tolerar la burlas cuando salió a pedir dinero para desarrollar un producto al que llamaba “Worm Poop” (caca de lombriz). Hoy, esos mismos inversionistas están fascinados con su “eco-capitalismo” y su compañía, TerraCycle, ha sido proclamada “la empresa incipiente más 'cool' en América”, según la revista Inc....
The Reformer
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ... (April 2, 2008)
Working with TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company that makes products from reused materials, KidsPLAYce officials hope to raise funding by collecting the containers and shipping them to the company for a five cents refund for larger containers and two cents for smaller ones....
Fortune Small Business
Turning garbage into gold (April 2, 2008)
Though still on the south side of 30, Wieder (a pseudonym) is founder and CEO of a successful East Coast green-manufacturing company. Founded in 2001, Wieder's company converts waste materials into hip, desirable, ecologically sound products. His profits have tripled since 2004. He posted $3.5 million in sales in 2007, and expects to grow by 300% this year....
Canadian Gardening
On Tap (April 1, 2008)
Made entirely from waste material - discarded oak wine barrels that would otherwise end up in a landfill - the new TerraCycle rain barrel holds 208 litres of rainwater....
Gardening How-To
TerraCycle Fertilizers (April 1, 2008)
TerraCycle Garden is an organic fertilizer made of concentrated, liquefied worm poop for use on outdoor plants, shrubs, and vegetables. All-natural ingredients will not burn plants....
Handy Magazine
Homegrown Green (April 1, 2008)
Growing and mowing - another resource at your display is garbage. Kitchen scraps (such as vegetable peels, eggshells and coffee grounds), grass clippings and leaves can greatly enrich the soil and nurture a greener landscape....
V Magazine
Juicy Couture (April 1, 2008)
Our bread and butter is fertilizer made from worm poop and then packaged in old soda bottles said Albe Zakes, marketing director at eco-gardening company TerraCycle. We aren't used to considering our work in relation to the world of high fashion...
Seattle Triathlon Team
Wrapper Brigade (April 1, 2008)
CLIF BAR is sponsoring the program and TerraCycle is providing product collection and reuse expertise. Both partners recognize that millions of energy bar wrappers are discarded each year. Together they want to help make reuse rather than disposal the norm for used wrappers....
Herald Net
Soda Bottles for Worm Poop; Drink Pouches for Handbags (April 1, 2008)
The eco-friendly company TerraCycle is dedicated to being a “zero waste” operation, and so packages its worm poop fertilizer in used soda bottles. A year and a half ago, the company created its National Bottle Brigade to collect the bottles, to give kids an opportunity to make a difference through recycling, and to help schools and nonprofit organizations raise money....
The Hillsboro Argus
Fred Meyer carrying innovative, eco-friendly products (April 1, 2008)
PORTLAND - Fred Meyer Stores is carrying a new line of eco-friendly garden products in response to the growing demands for more sustainable, organic products. The products, manufactured by TerraCycle, Inc., are made entirely from waste and school kids can earn money by helping collect some of the waste items used to make the products. TerraCycle's mission is to provide organic and eco-friendly products without charging a premium. The products will be available at Fred Meyer locations throughout Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Idaho....
Schools, community groups challenged to join recycling fundraisers nationwide
The Hillsboro Argus (April 1, 2008)
Schools and other groups are being challenged to start collecting used soda bottles, yogurt containers, energy bar wrappers and used drink pouches as part of a nationwide program. The programs allow schools to fundraise while teaching their students about recycling and the environment. Anyone can sign up for this free and easy program and start earning donations for a school or local nonprofit. TerraCycle has teamed with Honest Tea and Stonyfield Farm to create two programs called the Drink Pouch Brigade and the Yogurt Brigade. These programs allow schools, houses of worship and other community groups to collect previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle items in return for cash. ...
OutFit
Join the Yogurt Brigade! (April 1, 2008)
I just signed up to collect Stonyfield yogurt cups as part of the Yogurt Brigade, a pilot program run through a hip new eco-friendly company called Terracycle. As explained on the website, Terracycle aims to recycle the yogurt cups into planting pots: ...
The Juilliard Journal
From the Trash Can to Fashion: A 'Re!nvention' Concert (April 1, 2008)
This past August, pianist Soyeon Lee was walking around the Princeton University campus. As the recipient of Juilliard’s William Petschek Piano Debut Award in 2004, her life since graduation has been dazzlingly full of opportunities to perform. But on this particular stroll, Soyeon wasn’t thinking about one of her own performances, but rather of the recent Live Earth Concert (held on seven continents on July 7) and what a powerful impact it had had on her. If these musicians were able to convey such a powerful message of sustainability and commitment to change through their music (mainly rock), she reasoned, what was keeping her from giving voice to the same...
Homemakers Journal
TerraCycle's Rotary Composter + Solid Fertilizer (April 1, 2008)
is not only handsome. It's a great reuse for used oak wine barrels from California. And Organic Fertilizer packaged in reused milk jugs....
Container Recycling Institute
Schools, community groups challenged to join recycling fundraisers nationwide (April 1, 2008)
Schools and other groups are being challenged to start collecting used soda bottles, yogurt containers, energy bar wrappers and used drink pouches as part of a nationwide program. The programs allow schools to fundraise while teaching their students about recycling and the environment. Anyone can sign up for this free and easy program and start earning donations for a school or local nonprofit.
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The Juilliard Journal
From the trash can to Fashion: a Re!invention Conert (April 1, 2008)
This past August, pianist Soyeon Lee was walking around the Princeton University campus...
Liberty Sports
Energy Bar Wrapper Recycling Program (April 1, 2008)
Eat Energy Bars? Most of us do, and that equals millions of wrappers...
Readers Digest
Fast Grass From Hard Working Worms (April 1, 2008)
Listen up lawn lovers: No more rueing the less-than-stellar performance of so many organic fertilizers....
Homemakers Magazine
The Best for last (April 1, 2008)
Your garden will be good to grow with our roundup of great gear that goes easy on the environment...
Herald News
Fred Meyer carries TerraCycle (March 31, 2008)
Fred Meyer in Everett is carrying the TerraCycle line of environmentally friendly gardening products. The products include Worm Poop plant foods and fertilizers. TerraCycle packages its products in recycled beverage and yogurt containers, some of which are collected by children during fundraisers. For information on its recycling program, go to www.terracycle.net/brigades.
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Portland Today
Portland to join nation wide recycling program (March 31, 2008)
Portland — Stonyfield Farm, the organic food leader and environmental pioneer, is partnering with TerraCycle in a national program aimed at collecting used yogurt containers and reusing them as YoGro!™ planting pots....
Brigton Blues
TerraCycle Brigades (March 31, 2008)
TerraCycle is trying to eliminate the idea of waste. To do so, we must find great uses for objects that used to be considered waste. We manufacture affordable, potent, organic products that are not only made from waste, but are also packaged entirely in waste!Best of all, you can help raise funds for a local charity, Caring for Christ's Creatures Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary, by helping us collect waste. The sanctuary is collecting the following empty (rinsed) containers:
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Calgary Herald
Gear up for a green spring (March 29, 2008)
Capture the rain with TerraCycle's Premium Oak Rain Barrel under your downspout. Available for $149.99 in select stores or by special order....
The Green Blog
Saving energy while speading the news (March 28, 2008)
Reducing and reusing around their office, by furnishing it with freecycled furniture (check out Freecycle.org), recycling waste paper with Earthworm, Inc., drinking coffee from reusable mugs, commuting via public transportation, on foot, and by bike, and contributing old yogurt containers to TerraCycle & Stonyfield Farm’s Yogurt Brigade, to become pots for plants....
The Providence Journal
Helping Fido go grrrrreen (March 28, 2008)
Why you should sit up: Plastic soda bottles take hundreds of years to decompose in landfills, so why not find another use and feed birds in the process? Why you should roll over: Watch the birds when you hang the TerraCycle Wild Bird Feeder, made from a used soda bottle and a recycled plastic feeding pan. It comes with birdseed and can be refilled. ...
Fast Company Magazines
Fast 50 Honorable Mentions - EAST (March 27, 2008)
Princeton Dropout Turns Poop into Profit ...
Metrosports DC
Recycle Your Wrappers (March 26, 2008)
Clif Bar, makers of all-natural and organic energy bars, has launched the nation’s first collection program for used energy bar wrappers called the Wrapper Brigade.
The program was developed in partnership with TerraCycle, which manufactures products from recycled waste materials. Through this program, two cents will be donated to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. ...
Recycling Today Magazine
Clif Bar Launches Nation’s First Collection Program for Used Energy Bar Wrappers (March 26, 2008)
Clif Bar, an all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle have announced the nation’s first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials, according to a company press release. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. Clif Bar is sponsoring the program and TerraCycle is providing product collection and reuse expertise. ...
Palo Alto Online
FYI (March 26, 2008)
Eco-capitalists TerraCycle — best known for their eco-friendly "Worm Poop" fertilizer — have teamed up with energy-bar maker Clif Bar to establish energy-bar wrapper recycling locations across the country. The goal is to keep the wrappers out of landfills, but the campaign serves other purposes as well. For starters, TerraCycle donates 2 cents per wrapper to the charity of choice identified by the administrator of each collection location — Palo Alto has two. Second, the wrappers are eventually woven together to create fashion...
Windy City Sports
Recycle Your Wrappers (March 26, 2008)
The program was developed in partnership with TerraCycle, which manufactures products from recycled waste materials. Through this program, two cents will be donated to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
The DC Triathlon Club
CLIF BAR Launches Nation's First Collection Program for Used Wrappers (March 26, 2008)
Partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. Enables Collectors to Trade Wrappers for Cash to Support Non-Profits and Schools
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New England Sports
Recycle Your Wrappers (March 26, 2008)
Clif Bar, makers of all-natural and organic energy bars, has launched the nation’s first collection program for used energy bar wrappers called the Wrapper Brigade.
The program was developed in partnership with TerraCycle, which manufactures products from recycled waste materials. Through this program, two cents will be donated to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. ...
Sandy Post
Waste Products make their way to Sandy (March 26, 2008)
Liquefied worm dung in a soda bottle isn't exactly something most people would think to purchase...
News for you
Drink Pouch Brigade seeking help from students (March 26, 2008)
Fruit Drink Pouches are a staple in American School Cafeterias...
PNJ.com
Program aims to recycle drink pouches (March 25, 2008)
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 nonrecyclable items. In the program, locations are sent collections bags which hold 100 pouches and have prepaid shipping labels....
Vitamin Retailer
Waste Not: Stonyfield Farms, Honest Tea, Clif Bar and TerraCycle Unite and Reuse (March 25, 2008)
Four environmentally responsible companies have created an innovative way to collect and reuse product packaging. Three organic food companies—Stonyfield Farm, Honest Tea and Clif Bar—joined forces with TerraCycle to operate four collection efforts to prevent millions of drink pouches, yogurt containers, energy bar wrappers and soda bottles from clogging our nation’s landfills. TerraCycle is then turning this ‘waste’ into eco-friendly, affordable TerraCycle products.
By making or packaging eco-friendly products from used containers, TerraCycle, with the help of Honest Tea, Stonyfield Farm and Clif Bar, hopes to eliminate the idea of waste. This is the first time industry leaders have set up collection programs reclaiming their used packages so it can be upcycled into a new product....
Pet Product News
Bird Feeder (March 24, 2008)
TerraCycle Inc. announces the TerraCycle Bird Feeder, designed for young and entry-level birders. Made from recycled or reused materials, it comes filled with quality seed, according to the company....
Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine
Wrapper Trapper (March 23, 2008)
Instead of throwing that CLIF BAR wrapper away, why not turn it into a backpack? The maker of organic energy bars has teamed with TerraCycle to create the Wrapper Brigade, a nation-wide recycling program that collects used CLIF BAR wrappers and weaves them into a strong material which will then be used to make backpacks....
Vitality Magazine
TerraCycle Plant Food for Eco-Friendly Gardeners (March 23, 2008)
TerraCycle Plant Food became the first consumer product to earn the Zerofootprint Seal and now is available to eco-conscious plant-lovers at major hardware and garden centres across Canada and the US. The seal signifies that the materials and manufacturing process used to produce a product have virtually no negative environmental repercussions....
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Company goes mainstream with green ethic (March 22, 2008)
Tom Szaky had an idea five years ago to start a company that is different than most. "The fundamental basis is that we make products out of waste, and our products need to revolve around three very basic criteria: better, cheaper and greener," said Szaky, the CEO and founder of TerraCycle, a company on an environmental crusade that made its first sale in 2004. The philosophy and other strategies have paid off....
Bend Weekly
Bend Fred Meyer store tests products made from waste (March 21, 2008)
BEND, Ore. -- The Bend Fred Meyer store on Highway 97 is carrying a new line of eco-friendly garden products in response to the growing demands for more sustainable, organic products. The products, manufactured by TerraCycle, Inc., are made entirely from waste and school children can earn money by helping collect some of the waste items used to make the products. TerraCycle’s mission is to provide organic and eco-friendly products without charging a premium. The products will be available at Fred Meyer locations throughout Oregon....
The Dallas Morning News
Graffiti for a good cause (March 21, 2008)
When a company's initial offering is liquid fertilizer made from worm poop packaged in used plastic soda bottles, there are bound to be more surprises in store...
Nest in Style
Wine Barrel Composter (March 20, 2008)
The guys at TerraCycle were ingenious enough to construct a Rotary Composter from wine barrels on their way to the landfills. Oak wine barrels are used to age wine then thrown away after one use. Why compost you say? Making you own compost is the best way to improve your soil and rid your garden of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers forever. Read More…...
Quick & Simple Magazine
TerraCycle Wild Bird Feeder (March 18, 2008)
A TerraCycle wild bird feeder from www.terracycle.net...
Washington Running Report
CLIF BAR Launches Nation's First Collection Program for Used Energy Bar Wrappers (March 17, 2008)
CLIF BAR, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation's first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
Natural Resources Council of Maine
TerraCycle: Yogurt Cups, and More, Help Schools Raise Funds (March 16, 2008)
Schools and other community groups might want to check out an eco-friendly company that makes products out of reused materials. Called TerraCycle Inc., the company was started in 2001 by Princeton students Tom Szaky and John Bayer....
Maine Today
Yogurt cups, and more, help schools raise funds (March 16, 2008)
School kids and other participants can raise money for their favorite charity or other projects by collecting designated items for TerraCycle, which in turn pays roughly 2 to 5 cents per recycled item collected. Patty Crawford of Montville, a teacher at Islesboro Central School in Islesboro, recently enlisted her 11 fifth graders in three of TerraCycle's collection "Brigades": The "Yogurt Brigade," sponsored by Stonyfield Farm, the "Drink Pouch Brigade" sponsored by Capri SunTM and Honest KidsTM, and the "Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade," sponsored by Clif Bar."...
Herald Mail
Annual garden show offers place for ideas to take root, sprout (March 16, 2008)
The TerraCycle products even come packaged in recycled materials - plastic soda bottles with surplus spray bottle heads, Baker said. ...
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Garden-Variety Revolution: TerraCycle turns what others leave behind into fertilizers and fashion. (March 15, 2008)
Of earthworms Charles Darwin wrote, “It may be doubted if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world as these lowly organized creatures.” With the help of a talented social entrepreneur, hard work, and good luck, earth-worms are making history again at TerraCycle Inc. in Trenton, N.J. The eco-friendly gardening supply com- pany, which turns worm castings into organic liquid plant fertilizer, is growing faster than a wonga wonga vine (Pandorea pandorana) in spring- time. It’s also affirming the green movement’s place in mainstream business.
TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky runs a lean operation, using earthworms, recycled packaging, and low-rent facilities in Trenton, N.J., to make organic garden products. ...
Pet Product News
Indoor Line (March 15, 2008)
TerraCycle unveils an all-natural indoor pet product line designed to maintain a clean and safe environment. The line’s flagship product is TerraCycle Odor Control. The ready-to-use formula eliminates pet odor without chemicals and is packaged in a reused 1-liter soda bottle, according to the company....
San Diego Tribune
'Green' energy demand means more jobs – conference (March 14, 2008)
In Trenton, New Jersey, a company called TerraCycle turns waste like plastic soda bottles into containers for liquid fertilizer and personal accessories like handbags. “There is so much waste out there that can be upcycled into new products,” said Tom Szaky, 26, the company's chief executive. “It's not garbage anymore. It's just a commodity that has some value behind it.”...
INC magazine
A Solution for "Sponsored" Waste (March 12, 2008)
The amazing thing about eco-capitalism is that you can create business
models where everyone truly wins: the environment, the consumer, the big business, the retailer and your business. In other words, all stakeholders (even the environment) can benefit. What's amazing about this kind of solution is that it creates the opposite of a death spiral -- a growth spiral. That is exactly what happened when we launched what we call "sponsored waste."...
pyschoPEDIA
Juice Boxes at Carnegie Hall A Pianist and a Designer on a One-of-a-Kind Eco-Dress (March 10, 2008)
Designer Nina Valenti (of Nature vs Future) and classical concert pianist Soyeon Lee didn’t start as eco-revolutionaries. However, sharing a passion for their respective arts, the duo recently paired up for an unprecedented event combining classical music, fashion, eco-awareness, and something called "The Drink Pouch Brigade.” Introduced by Daryl Hannah, an eco-activist herself, Lee appeared on the hallowed stage of Carnegie Hall wearing a Valenti-designed gown made purely of trash – specifically, 6,000 recycled Honest Kids juice pouches, collected from hundreds of school children, in an effort to raise not only eco-awareness, but money for inner city music programs....
INC Magazine
Introducing a New Blog from the CEO of TerraCycle (March 7, 2008)
The concept of TerraCycle came up when my friends and I were trying to figure out how to grow "better tomatoes" in our basement and figured out that worm poop did the trick. The fascinating thing for me was that the worm poop itself was made from waste, a commodity that people are willing to pay you to take. Within six months of that serendipitous moment during my fall break (freshman year at Princeton) I left school to corner the market on worm poop. Inc. magazine wrote about us in 2002, giving our business plan a rating of 4 out 10. Little did anyone know that three years later we would be on the cover as The Coolest Little Startup in America....
Asian Week
Korean pianist Soyeon Lee’s environmental activism (March 7, 2008)
For the young and talented Korean pianist Soyeon Lee, music represents many things: a tool for expression, an instrument of change and a deep spirituality. “Music is very spiritual — you can define it however you want,” Lee said. “Loving, living, all those things between people. Music gets the closest to expressing all those abstract things.”
Praised by The Washington Post for her “stunning command of the keyboard,” the 28-year-old Juilliard graduate and award-winning classical pianist joins the ranks of other critically acclaimed Asian artists, including Japan’s Mitsuko Uchida, China’s Lang Lang and the Korean American Ahn Trio. Lee will perform with the Napa Valley Symphony on March 8 and 9 in a concert that will include Mozart’s dark and brooding Concerto #20 in D...
The Mom Squad
Teach Your Kids About Recycling, and Help the Playhouse! (March 6, 2008)
Mom Squad reader, Anna sent me this information about recycling your yogurt containers, from the director of the Children's Playhouse. Anna has 2 children, ages 1-3, and is very environmentally conscious. This is a great lesson to teach our children about reducing trash.
You could also show them what will be done with them, by planting something in one of the containers. It will almost be time to plant lettuce and leafy greens, and start tomatoes and herbs indoors before moving them to outdoor pots or gardens. Chives do well in small containers, and can be used rather quickly after sprouting.
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San Leandro Times
Recycle your energy bar wrappers (March 6, 2008)
The collected wrappers will be fused and woven into a strong material which will then be used to make backpacks...
The Dallas Morning News
All the pretty flowers that will grow here (March 5, 2008)
When a company's initial offering is liquid fertilizer made from earthworm manure and packaged in plastic pop bottles, there are bound to be more surprises in store. New Jersey start-up TerraCycle also produces bird feeders and household cleaners packaged in recycled plastic bottles and zippered bags fashioned from juice pouches. ...
Wall Street Journal
Wooing Big-Firm Talent: Bring on Perks But Mostly, Promise (March 4, 2008)
But the most notable perks are often psychological: a chance to feel the live-or-die, sink-or-swim instincts they lost amid the bureaucratic shuffle. Or as the CEO of organic plant-food maker TerraCycle Inc. puts it, the deal clincher is getting recruits to “believe in the dream” again of what a company is trying to accomplish....
EAT Nutrition
Recycle Your Wrappers (March 3, 2008)
Clif Bar, makers of all-natural and organic energy bars, has launched the nation's first collection program for used energy bar wrappers...
Wingfoot
Join the Wrapper Brigade (March 1, 2008)
Among the things that too frequently end up clogging the nation's landfills are food wrappers, and the runners who consume energy bars contribute their share. In an effort to reduce the number of discarded energy bar wrappers and promote the reuse of "waste" materials, the makers of CLIF energy bars and Terracycle...
South Florida Adventures
Wrapper Brigade (March 1, 2008)
Clif Bar, the popular organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are working together to reduce wrappers going into landfills while educating...
Outdoor Athlete
Trade Energy Bar Wrappers for Cash (February 29, 2008)
CLIF BAR and TerraCycle recently announced the nation’s first program
designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our
landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials.
Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will
donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals
and organizations....
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....
greenrightnow.com
From The Lunchbox To The Recital Hall (February 27, 2008)
Plenty of classical musicians have used wardrobe to set themselves apart from their peers, from the Versace-ish getups that helped put the Kronos Quartet on the map to the punk haircut of violinist Nigel Kennedy. But a dress made of garbage may be a first — almost certainly at Carnegie Hall. Korean pianist Soyeon Lee, a Juilliard grad who has given recitals from Scottsdale to Spain, took the stage last week in a dress constructed mostly of recycled plastic juice containers. By all accounts the performance was brilliant, but it wasn’t virtuosity that earned Lee a mention in Vogue’s blog: The dress wasn’t just a stunt, but a stunner....
Journal of Business and Social Entrepreneur
Kudos to Clif Bars (February 27, 2008)
Clif Bars is one company in the healthy snacking arena that KIND inhabits that I find a very worthy and also admirable player in the space. Here they came up with a very creative and positive contribution against environmental waste. Not sure how far this can get us but it is definitely a step in the right direction, smart marketing, innovative, and beneficial…...
FATRAC
Recycle Energy Bar Wrappers (February 25, 2008)
FATRAC has registerd to participate in a unique recycling program sponsored by Clifbar and TerraCycle!!! Look for bags at our events to collect your wrappers (note about which wrappers qualify: Assorted energy bar wrappers, not Gu or shot-type product, not candy bar wrappers.)...
Laughing at the pieces
Waltzing Through the Maelstrom (February 25, 2008)
A couple of weeks ago, I was called by a publicist about a piano recital happening at Carnegie Hall. In order to promote recycling and earth-friendly practices, the pianist, Soyeon Lee, would be wearing a gown made from recycled juice pouches. The magazine I work for has a peripheral relation to the outdoors, but this story wouldn’t be up our alley. It was possible that one of our sister, more outdoorsy, magazines would be interested, I said -- though not likely -- and I gave the publicist the appropriate name for a contact. As thanks for pointing him in the right direction, the publicist offered me tickets anyway. So last Tuesday night, Kathy and I went to see an amazing pianist play some terrific music -- and, oh, yes, see her shiny, orchidlike gown. (Which, it turns out, she only wore...
BetterBlog
The Eco-Concert at Carnegie Hall (February 24, 2008)
Earlier this week we were fortunate to attend a ground breaking Eco-Concert at Carnegie Hall, sponsored by BetterWorld customer Honest Tea, TerraCycle, Inc Magazine, Fast Company Magazine, and Rice Restaurant to benefit Inner City Music. World-renowned pianist Soyeon Lee (picture above), performed a solo recital entitled “Re!nvented,” featuring works that have been reused, transcribed, or wholly revisited. Soyeon performed the second half of her recital wearing a designer gown made from over five thousand used Honest Kids drink pouches by designer Nina Valenti. The drink pouches come from the Honest Tea / TerraCycle Drink Pouch brigade, where today students at over 535 schools across America collect used drink pouches to raise money for their schools. The drink pouches will be sewn into...
Herald Tribune
An eco-friendly pianist wears her heart on her sleeveless dress (February 22, 2008)
NEW YORK: Bowing to the protocols of classical music, most female performers give a great deal of attention to selecting a recital dress. But the one the gifted young Korean pianist Soyeon Lee wore during the second half of her recital on Tuesday night at Zankel Hall was almost the center of attention....
Green Sexy
Korean Pianist Turns On the Juice! (February 22, 2008)
On Tuesday, February 19th, Korean pianist Soyeon Lee wore a dress made of 6,000 recycled juice pouches during the second half of her recital at Zankel Hall, New York City. She wore this dress because she wanted to promote the possibilities of recycling. The dress was designed by Nina Valenti and was pieced together from juice pouches collected by hundreds of American schoolchildren. Soyeon Lee also contacted and worked with two companies that helped make her dress a reality. The first company she contacted was TerraCycle, Inc.,which is a company that turns garbage into consumer products. The other company she contacted was Honest Tea, Inc., which makes organic bottled teas and uses recyclable pouches. With TerraCycle's vision and Honest Tea's grape juice pouches, the concept became a...
The York Independent
Local schools and companies invited to be a part of TerraCycle YoGro! program (February 22, 2008)
YORK COUNTY - Organic food company Stonyfield Farm is partnering with TerraCycle in a pilot recycling program aimed at collecting used yogurt containers and reusing them as YoGro!TM planting pots. TerraCycle's pilot Yogurt Brigade will include schools, community groups and others collecting 6 and 32 oz yogurt containers. For every container collected, Stonyfield will donate 2 cents or 5 cents, respectively, to a charitable organization or the school of the collector's choice. ...
Take Part
Pianist Plays Carnegie Hall In Dress Made From Juice Boxes (February 21, 2008)
It’s not every day you get to see a Juilliard-trained pianist give a recital wearing nothing but juice containers. Korean pianist Soyean Lee hit a high note for environmentally friendly high fashion on Tuesday night when she performed the second half of her Carnegie Hall recital dressed in a slinky strapless gown fabricated from 6,000 recycled Honest Tea grape juice pouches....
Refresh
What are you wearing? (February 21, 2008)
Everyone talks about sustainability going mainstream. Well, it’s also going classical. We’re talking about music; specifically, a recital by the eco-friendly Korean pianist, Soyeon Lee (even her name has a heart-healthy, syllabic ring to it). According to a report in The New York Times, Ms. Lee performed the second half of her show at Carnegie Hall wearing a dress made entirely of 6,000 recycled grape juice containers....
Fake Plastic Fish
Terracycle & Clif Bar: Shades of Green (February 21, 2008)
Michael called me at work tonight to say he'd just heard that Clif Bar has a new program to take back its plastic energy bar wrappers and "upcycle" them in a partnership with Terracycle, the good folks who got sued by Scotts Miracle Grow for selling worm poop compost in recycled soda bottles and claiming it was better. (I'm sure it is better. Sue me.)...
New York Times
An Eco-Friendly Pianist Wears Her Heart on Her Sleeveless Dress (February 21, 2008)
Bowing to the protocols of classical music, most female performers give a great deal of attention to selecting a recital dress. But the one the gifted young Korean pianist Soyeon Lee wore during the second half of her recital on Tuesday night at Zankel Hall was almost the center of attention....
EarthSurf
The Drink Pouch Dress (February 21, 2008)
On Tuesday night, gifted young Korean pianist Soyeon Lee wore a dress made of soft-pouch juice containers at her solo recital at Carnegie Hall .
According to the New York Times, "last summer, a few days after attending a Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium, Lee walked through the Princeton University campus, where hundreds of schoolchildren were participating in summer camp programs. She noticed trash bins overflowing with juice pouches. She contacted TerraCycle Inc., a company devoted to making consumer products out of garbage."...
Vogue
The Right Note (February 20, 2008)
World-renowned Korean pianist Soyeon Lee made her debut at Carnegie Hall last night, wowing the audience in Zankel Hall with her extraordinary talent and her original fashion sense. The virtuoso, hailed for her performances by The New York Times, also performed a wardrobe change during intermission. However, unlike the numerous costume changes made by dilettantes working the party circuit, Lee's seamless transition from a black BCBG floor-length frock with ribbon and lace detailing into a dress made entirely out of trash had a very real purpose....
Designers Party
Contemporary Culture (February 20, 2008)
The dress was introduced at the concert, no less, by the film actress and eco-activist Daryl Hannah. all cut into different size squares and mounted on to a silk taffeta lining into different patterns - Nina Valenti of naturevsfuture designed the green gown.
The concert was sponsored by the Concert Artists Guild in collaboration with TerraCycle and Honest Tea, two companies dedicated to doing creative things with consumer waste. Fashion designer Nina Valenti created the gown, turning the pouches into triangles that formed a pleasing, purple-brown pattern. ...
The Concord Insider
Recycle something. Or something. (February 19, 2008)
Stonyfield Farm is partnering with TerraCycle in a pilot program aimed at collecting used yogurt containers and reusing them as YoGro!(tm) planting pots.
TerraCycle will then sell YoGro! to large retailers who currently use black plastic planting pots, millions of which are discarded by consumers every year. ...
Green Biz Journal
Clif Bar wraps up recycling deal (February 18, 2008)
Berkeley, Calif.’s Clif Bar Inc. is teaming with recycling firm TerraCycle Inc. on the nation’s first program designed to recycle the wrappers around energy bars. The program, called the Wrapping Brigade, allows companies or people to donate 2 cents per wrapper to nonprofits. Under the program, wrappers will be mailed to Terracycle to be recycled into backpacks and other products, the East Bay Business Times reports....
Business Times
Clif Bar unwraps program to collect, recycle waste (February 15, 2008)
Clif Bar & Co. of Berkeley has joined forces with a New Jersey recycler to start the nation's first large-scale program to keep energy bar wrappers out of landfills.
Called the Wrapping Brigade, the program also has a fundraising component, allowing individuals or organizations to donate and/or raise 2 cents per returned wrapper for nonprofit groups. Empty wrappers collected and mailed to TerraCycle Inc. of Trenton, N.J., will be used to make backpacks, gym totes and other products, the first of which will likely be finished by summer. ...
New York Times
And What About the Straws? (February 14, 2008)
More than five billion juice pouches are discarded annually by American consumers, said Mr. Szaky, the chief executive of TerraCycle, a company that makes products like plant food and fertilizer from waste. Millions of the pouches have also been sewn into handbags, pencil cases and totes that some of the nation’s largest retailers, including Target, OfficeMax and Walgreens, are to begin selling for $3.99 to $7.99 in April....
Princeton Packet
High Style From Lowly Materials (February 14, 2008)
When pianist Soyeon Lee walks onto the stage of Carnegie Hall next week, all eyes will likely be on her delicious dress - a symmetrical pathwork of luminous pieces that silhouette her petite frame...
The Trentonian
Deep Down Inside (February 14, 2008)
Award-winning pianist Soyeon Lee really gets into her work. In fact, on Tuesday night the 28-year-old Princeton resident will take on the literal meaning of that statement when premiering a new piece of music at the charity event for Honest Tea and Trenton's TerraCycle at Carnegie Hall...
Time Out New York
Think Globally, play locally (February 14, 2008)
Soyeon Lee stands up for recycling and environmental awareness in what she dubbed an "eco-concert" ...
Telegraph Neighbors
Nashua to be part of nation wide recycling project (February 13, 2008)
Four environmentally responsible companies created an innovative way to collect and reuse product packaging. Three organic food companies, Stonyfield Farm, Honest Tea, and Clif Bar joined forces with TerraCycle to operate four collection efforts to prevent millions of yogurt containers, drink pouches, energy bar wrappers and soda bottles from overflowing our nation’s landfills. TerraCycle is then turning this ‘waste’ into eco-friendly, affordable TerraCycle products.
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Treehugger.com
Terracycle and Sponsored Waste (February 13, 2008)
When it comes right down to it, recycling is a shifting of responsibility from the producer who made a product to the consumers and their governments that use tax money to collect it and deal with it; rarely does it pay for itself. We didn't have a litter or recycling problem when the bottlers had to pay a deposit; that's why they founded Keep America Beautiful- to shift the burden from them to you. That's why we think that there should be producer responsibility, with a deposit on everything from coffee cups to cars....
Wisconsin Cycling Association
Clif Bar Wrappers Worth Cash! (February 13, 2008)
Clif Bar is partnering with TerraCycle to reduce the number of energy bar wrappers in landfills. The Wrapper Brigade program asks us to collect energy bar wrappers (any brand), send them in, and receive 2 cents apiece for a charity that we choose. The collected wrappers will be recycled into outdoor products like backpacks. If you're interested, sign up for Wrapper Brigade by visiting: http://www.terracycle.net/brigades....
TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky
TerraCycle Room 101 (February 12, 2008)
TerraCycle specializes in turning our trash into desirable products....
The New England Runner
Clif Bar Partners in Recycling Initiative (February 12, 2008)
Partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. Enables Collectors to Trade Wrappers for Cash to Support Non-Profits and Schools. CLIF BAR, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation's first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. ...
Lake Ontario Outdoors
CLIF® BAR Launches Nation’s First Collection Program (February 12, 2008)
Partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. Enables Collectors to Trade Wrappers for Cash to Support Non-Profits and Schools CLIFÒ BAR, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation’s first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. The collected wrappers will be fused and woven into a strong material, which will then be used to make backpacks, gym totes and other products. These items are expected to be available at major retailers by early next year. ...
Telegraph Neighbors
Nashua to be part of nation wide recycling project (February 12, 2008)
Four environmentally responsible companies created an innovative way to collect and reuse product packaging. Three organic food companies, Stonyfield Farm, Honest Tea, and Clif Bar joined forces with TerraCycle to operate four collection efforts to prevent millions of yogurt containers, drink pouches, energy bar wrappers and soda bottles from overflowing our nation’s landfills. TerraCycle is then turning this ‘waste’ into eco-friendly, affordable TerraCycle products.
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Social Trail Riders
Save your Clif Bar wrappers (February 12, 2008)
BERKELEY, CA (BRAIN)—Clif Bar and TerraCycle have announced the nation's first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate two cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
Randomly Generated
Wrapper Brigade (February 11, 2008)
Clif Bar and TerraCycle have teamed up to create a unique program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into landfills. Sponsored by Clif Bar, the "Wrapper Brigade" program will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
Kentucky's Online Trailhead
Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade (February 11, 2008)
Check out the TerraCycle & Clif Bar Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade. Sponsored by Clif Bar at http://www.terracycle.net/cbb/cbb.htm
Basically, Cliff Bar will give $ 0.02 for every energy bar wrapper to a charitable organization. Acceptable wrappers:...
City Line
TerraCycle Rain Barrel and Composter (February 10, 2008)
This is one of the most innovative new products we've seen at the show so far...
The Fashion Ethic
Carnegie Hall Fashion - Re!nvented (February 8, 2008)
One of our favorite eco-chic designers, Ms. Nina Valenti of naturevsfuture, recently teamed up with TerraCycle to design a stunning concert gown made of...trash....
Climbing Magazine
Partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. Enables Collectors to Trade Wrappers for Cash to Support (February 8, 2008)
The collected wrappers will be fused and woven into a strong material, which will then be used to make backpacks, gym totes and other products. These items are expected to be available at major retailers by early next year. ...
National Post
RAIN, RAIN, DON'T GO AWAY (February 7, 2008)
TerraCycle is a very cool company -- not only do they re-use milk jugs and pop bottles to package their Worm Poop plant food, they also turn old wine barrels into compost bins and rainwater collecting systems....
Green As Thistle
Rain, rain, don’t go away (Day 341)… (February 6, 2008)
TerraCycle is a very cool company — not only do they reuse milk jugs and pop bottles to package their Worm Poop plant food, they also turn old wine barrels into compost bins and rainwater collecting systems....
The Running Network
CLIF(R) BAR Launches Nation's First Collection Program (February 4, 2008)
CLIF BAR, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation's first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
The Times Record
New recycling programs open to participants (February 4, 2008)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities across Maine schools and other community groups are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches as part of a statewide program that allows schools to fundraise while teaching their students about recycling and the environment....
Maine News
Belfast students join nationwide recycling project (February 4, 2008)
Fourth- and fifth-grade students at the Captain Albert Stevens School are working with organic yogurt company Stonyfield Farm on a nationwide recycling project.
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Advertising Age
Coke Takes Stake in Honest Tea (February 2, 2008)
The marketing team has also spearheaded several promotional partnerships in an effort to raise brand awareness. Most recently, the company teamed up with TerraCycle to recycle its Honest Kids drink pouches. The pouches are being repurposed as handbags and clutches and will be sold through mass retailers, including Target and Walgreens beginning later this year. "We are a relatively small, can-do, entrepreneurial company," Mr. Crowell said....
Herald News
Best Bets - Recycling for Charity (February 2, 2008)
Clif bar, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle, based in Trenton, are sponsoring the nation's first program to reduce the number of energy bar wrappers being dumped in landfills....
Good Morning America
TerraCycle and Honest Tea Drink Pouch Brigade (February 2, 2008)
Everyone is going green. Even at fashion week......
Dirt Rag
Clif Bar Sponsors Energy Bar Wrapper Collection Program (February 1, 2008)
Clif Bar and TerraCycle have teamed up to create a unique program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into landfills. Sponsored by Clif Bar, the "Wrapper Brigade" program will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. The wrappers will be fused and woven into a strong material which will be used to make backpacks, gym totes and other products....
The News Transcript
Chamber to host firm's founder (February 1, 2008)
TerraCycle Inc. founder and CEO Tom Szaky will be the featured speaker at the next monthly general meeting of theWesternMonmouth Chamber of Commerce. The event, which also includes a luncheon and networking opportunities, will be held at the Knob Hill Golf Club, Manalapan, on Feb. 13 beginning at 11:30 a.m. TerraCycle is a Trenton-based company founded in 2001. According to its Internet Web site, www.terracycle.net, TerraCycle was named one of the 100 most innovative companies by "Red Herring" magazine and was awarded the Environmental Stewardship Award by Home Depot Canada in 2005. Szaky's mission, as stated in his online biography, "is not to merely save the environment," but "to prove that you can make a lot of money while saving the environment."...
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...
Women in the Outdoors
TerraCycle Bird Feeder (February 1, 2008)
For winter bird feedering: packaged in a recycled soda bottle; complete with birdseed and hanger; $4.99...
Phoenix Home and Garden
Pots from Plastic (February 1, 2008)
Every year, thousands of outdated computers are discarded and end up in landfills. To bring new life to some of this "waste" TerraCycle, a company that makes organic and eco-friendly products. ...
This is Green
TerraCycle CEO Interview (January 28, 2008)
This week we interview Tom Szaky, CEO and Co-Founder of Terracycle, Inc. producer of the world's first product made from and packaged in waste. terracycle Plant Food has been recently named the most eco-friendly product in Home Depot, and received a number of awards for business model and environmental stewardship. ...
Inhabitat
Honest Tea and TerraCycle Juice Pouch Dress (January 27, 2008)
The gown is to be worn by Ms. Soyeon Lee, an accomplished concert pianist, who will don the dress for her eco-themed Carnegie Hall performance, “Re!nvented.” The showcase features musical pieces that have in some way been reused, transcribed, or wholly revisited. It was with that mindset that Soyeon Lee agreed to wear a dress that mirrors these themes....
Competitor Magazine
CLIF® BAR and TerraCycle Launch Nation’s First Collection Program for Used Energy Bar Wrappers (January 27, 2008)
CLIF® BAR, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation’s first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
Green Man Radio
Tom Szaky on Greenman (January 27, 2008)
Things are pretty slow gardening wise this time of year. So I thought this would be the perfect time to let you share my latest interview with Tom Szaky. Tom, as you may remember, is the painfully young CEO of Terra Cycle. ...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
TRYOUT: Company plants recycling seed. (January 26, 2008)
Tom Szaky had an idea five years ago to start a company that is different than most. "The fundamental basis is that we make products out of waste, and our products need to revolve around three very basic criteria: better, cheaper and greener," said Szaky, the CEO and founder of TerraCycle, a company on an environmental crusade that made its first sale in 2004.
The philosophy and other strategies have paid off....
San Mateo County Times
Clif Bar and plant food maker TerraCycle are partnering on a Wrapper Brigade (January 25, 2008)
Berkeley-based Clif Bar and plant food maker TerraCycle are partnering on a Wrapper Brigade program that will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. Sign up at http://www.terracycle.net/brigades. ...
Competitor Magazine
CLIF® BAR Launches First Collection Program for Energy Bar Wrappers (January 25, 2008)
CLIF® BAR, the leading all-natural and organic energy bar, and TerraCycle are proud to announce the nation’s first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
Startup Toolbox
On Getting Paid to Recycle (January 24, 2008)
Even closer to my heart is Terracycle’s Brigade project. Terracycle’s main business is selling organic fertilizer and pesticides. They package their products in straight-from-the-recycling-center plastic bottles. More recently, they have started projects to collect used yogurt containers, drink pouches and energy bar wrappers. I go through a lot of energy bars, so I’m pleased to have a place to send the wrappers. For each container, $0.02- $0.05 is donated to the charity of the collectors choice. I’m still working through the details, especially what will be done with all the material collected, but I love the idea....
Contra Costa Times
Quick Hits (January 24, 2008)
Berkeley-based Clif Bar and plant food maker TerraCycle are partnering on a Wrapper Brigade program that will donate 2 cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations. Sign up at http://www.terracycle.net/brigades....
FashionJunkie.com
Earthly Delights (January 24, 2008)
Fashion designer Nina Valenti’s raison d’être is to minimize waste. So much so, that she recently designed a formal dress made entirely from trash! Created exclusively for world-renowned concert pianist Soyean Lee, during her Carnegie Hall debut in New York this February, this wearable work of art (pictured above) was compiled from over 6,000 recycled juice pouches and took Nina over 2 months to make. Now that’s what I call dedication!...
Bicycle Retailer
Clif Bar Launches Collection Program (January 23, 2008)
BERKELEY, CA (BRAIN)—Clif Bar and TerraCycle have announced the nation's first program designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into our landfills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials.
Together the companies have created the Wrapper Brigade, which will donate two cents to charity for every used wrapper collected by individuals and organizations....
The Star Herald
New Recycling Efforts under way in Maine (January 23, 2008)
Two new recycling efforts are taking place in communities across Maine. Schools and other community groups are being challenged to start collecting used yogurt containers and used drink pouches...
Gardening & Deck Design
Food for thought (January 21, 2008)
TerraCycle's wild bird premium feeders are made out of reused 2-Liter bottles. They come filled with bird seed and can be refilled or recycled....
National Post
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