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Princeton Packet
Princeton students open a can of worms on the organic fertilizer business (October 7, 2003)
Rarely do you hear about fertilizer's positive effects on the environment, but a small Princeton company has...
Laurel Leader
College kids' startup firm attracts $1 million investor (May 22, 2003)
Feeding tons of garbage to thousands of worms, then making a plant fertilizer from their manure doesn't exactly fit the image of life in the Ivy League. But for Jon Beyer — a West Laurel native studying computer science at Princeton University — it's a sideline that might soon snag...
Princeton.edu
A winning plan (May 12, 2003)
TerraCycle, a startup company devised by sophomore Tom Szaky recently won the grand prize in the Carrot Capital Business Plan Challenge...
CNBC PowerLunch Interview
(April 2003)
We'll talk about TerraCycle International, from Princeton University. The company is the grand prize winner of the 2003 Carrot Capital Business Plan Competition...
Daily Princetonian
Szaky '05 takes big prize for company (April 30, 2003)
Tom Szaky '05 and his company TerraCycle came out on top of a competition featuring 2000 students, 750 teams and several million dollars in prize money this past weekend. TerraCycle, the company Szaky founded as a freshman, won the grand prize in the 2003 Carrot Capital Competition, and will receive...
Daily Princetonian
Beyond the Gate: Royce Flippin '56 (April 30, 2003)
Royce Flippin Jr. '56 has molded his life around the basic principle of helping meet the needs of others. From leading a consulting firm, working with the University and even as warden for his local church, this idea is reflected in every path Flippin has pursued. "The most rewarding thing in life...
NASDAQ Opening
Carrot Capital Education Foundation's Business Plan Challenge Winners Opened the NASDAQ Stock Market (April 29, 2003)
In support of today's entrepreneurs and tomorrow's business leaders, the NASDAQ Stock Market is proud to congratulate and welcome the Grand Prize Winning Team of the 2003 Carrot Capital Business Plan Challenge to the Market Open. The year's team is TerraCycle International of Princeton University...
BIOCYCLE
University Student Launches Vermicomposting Enterprise (April 2003)
We first heard about TerraCycle International from the director of the New Jersey Solid Waste Policy Group who told us of plans to have vermicompost tea produced and applied to various crops and ornamentals. She gave us contact information for Tom Szaky, a Princeton University student who developed...
The Princeton University Weekly
In the News: Students Pitch Capital Ideas (March 30, 2003)
On Alumni Day, a classroom in the Friend Engineering Center had the electric charge of a sports arena, but the competitors were all business. Finalists in the Fifth Annual Princeton University Business Plan Contest were sprinting to the finish with fast and furioius PowerPoint presentations...
The Trenton Times
Aquaculture project catches Burlco's fancy (March 12, 2003)
In keeping with the facility's recycling goal, fish waste is filtered out of the tanks, taken to a composting drum and mixed with manure from a local dairy farmer and the remnants of old tomato plants, said Kelly Slocum, a specialist with the composting company TerraCycle of Princeton Borough...
Princeton Alumni Weekly
Student start-ups: from business plan to the real world (February 2003)
Student entrepreneurs at Princeton are learning what it takes to start a company in the post-Internet boom days. In its fifth year, the Princeton Business Plan contest gives enterprising students the resources to take an idea and develop it into a full-fledged business plan. Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs...
The Town Topics
Princeton University Students Combine Worms and Technology To Recycle (January 29, 2003)
It all began two years ago when Princeton University freshman classmates Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer were having dinner at a friend's house in Montreal. While washing the dishes, Mr. Szaky noticed a worm box under the kitchen sink used to recycle food. The traditional way to recycle food waste is called...
Daily Princetonian
From the ground up: Student entrepreneurs create new compost (December 13, 2002)
University students are responsible for approximately four tons of food waste daily. While most of the waste goes to a pig farm, Tom Szaky '05 and his company TerraCycle have a better idea for its use. TerraCycle recently signed a contract through which it will receive 130 tons of food waste daily from clients...
Inc. Magazine
Talking Trash (November 2002)
The Pitch: Tom Szaky is working with some pretty slimy partners in his new venture, TerraCycle International Inc. Worms, he believes, can be marketed as "a global waste-management solution." Using a gin built by six unpaid employees at a cost of $20,000, Szaky is angling to win waste-management contracts from...
1450 AM WCTC interview
Radio Interview (.mp3) (August 2002)
New York Times
Garbage In, Garbage Out. A Princeton Sucess Story (July 28, 2002)
Bookworms may no longer be Princeton's only larval export. By October Thomas Szaky, a sophomore from Canada who is majoring in economics, hopes to have his worm-based waste management business, TerraCycle International Inc., meet a goal of disposing of 15 tons to 30 tons of organic waste a day in Princeton Township...
Trenton Times
Garbage Diet May Fatten Wallets (July 17, 2002)
Tom Szaky's idea of a high-flying business venture used to be some sort of Internet startup. That was before last year, when the budding Princeton University entrepreneur got to thinking about down-to-earth things like garbage, worms and soil. So Szaky and a group of fellow Princeton students hatched...
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TIME — Meet four people whose innovations promise to make the world richer - or at least a lot cleaner, garbage maven Tom Szaky |
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