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Fox Evening News
Fox Evening News (December 27, 2005)
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Philadelphia Inquirer
A business grows, as the worm turns (December 26, 2005)
Tom Szaky is wearing what he calls his "greed hat," turning worm poop into profit. The 23-year-old Princeton dropout set out to be a smart entrepreneur, not an environmental hero. His growing business is built on organic fertilizer made of worm excrement, then bottled in recycled plastic bottles...
Philadelphia Inquirer
It's no time to waste (December 16, 2005)
As we face the buffet table at multiple holiday parties and events, food waste should be on all of our minds. In 2003, the latest year for which statistics are complete, New Jerseyans generated an estimated 1.5 million tons of food waste, of which just more than 220,000 tons - or about 15 percent - was recycled...
AP National Feature
Tom Szaky is wearing what he calls his "greed hat," turning worm excrement into profit. The 23-year-old Princeton dropout set out to be a smart entrepreneur, not an environmental hero. His growing business is built on organic fertilizer made from worm feces, then bottled in recycled plastic bottles...
Canada.com
New Venture Case Series: Strings Attached (December 1, 2005)
TerraCycle, a seven-person start-up with an innovative plan to harvest worm castings from large-scale organic worm composters to make fertilizer — liquid plant food, pellet fertilizer, growth media or sprayable liquids. They're at an early stage, with big, industrial-size prototypes, but no significant money...
Canadian Gardening
On the Market (Winter 2006)
Here's a product that's great for your garden and the environment. TerraCycle Plant Food™ was developed by a couple of Princeton University students in 2001. Company co-founder and CEO Tom Szaky had his curiosity piqued by a friend's vermicomposter. Impressed by how much waste worms could...
Cornell Daily
Entrepreneurs Sell Bottled 'Worm Poop' (November 15, 2005)
Worm poop. If you can sell that, you've got a knack for business. Now package that worm poop in old 20-ounce plastic bottles and convince major stores to carry it on their shelves. Get schools, stadiums, and businesses involved in a nationwide effort to collect those bottles...
Ithaca Journal
From worm waste to fertilizer TerraCycle — making profits grow (November 11, 2005)
It's a company Steve Kurz called 'nuts' and 'genius' in the same breath. When you realize the Cornell University junior is talking about bottling liquefied worm poop in re-used drink bottles, it starts to become clearer why. Yet TerraCycle, the company that makes this fertilizer...
Schulich School of Business
Tom Szaky: Eco-Capitalist, CEO and Worm Boy (October 21, 2005)
Meet Toronto native Tom Szaky who at the age of 23 is already the co-founder and CEO of his own company TerraCycle. The idea is ingenious; a product made from and manufactured in waste. More specifically, organic plant food made from worm poop and packaged...
Money Talk
w/ Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer (October 19, 2005)
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Venture Voice
Podcast (October 4, 2005)
Dropping out of college to start a technology company is almost a cliché. But is technology the only industry that can seduce an ambitious student into entrepreneurship? Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton because he saw an opportunity in trash. At 19, he started...
The Brown and White
Waste Management benefits business (September 29, 2005)
Manufacturing products out of waste can be an environmentally beneficial business practice, Tom Szaky, chief executive officer and cofounder of TerraCycle Inc., said Sept. 22 at Packer Memorial Church. TerraCycle prides itself on being the world's first...
Sustain Lane
Creating a Healthier Garden: TerraCycle's Plant Growth Food (September 27, 2005)
Our plant food is made from and packaged entirely in waste. We feed red worms compost and use their casings as the base for our plant growth food. Then we package the plant food in recycled soda bottles. Essentially we're trying to change the way people...
Profit Magazine
Entrepreneur of the Month - Tom Szaky (September 21, 2005)
"They wanted me to dump my management team," says Tom Szaky, explaining why, at age 19 and with only $750 in the bank, he turned down US $1 milliong in venture capital. No matter — the confident CEO of TerraCycle Inc. has succeeded without it. Four years...
The Trentonian
Home Depot Unveils TerraCycle Plant Food (August 14, 2005)
Home Depot unveiled its unique partnership with TerraCycle Plant Food™ Thursday. TerraCycle Plant Food is an all natural, organic product made from organic waste and packaged in used soda bottles. TerraCycle will be located in all Home Depot stores in New...
Star Ledger
Home Depot gives TerraCycle a look (August 11, 2005)
At TerraCycle, a dozen pool-sized vats brew up an organic liquid fertilizer that is packaged in used, recycled soda bottles for sale to consumers eage to speed the growth of their gardens and houseplants. "I'll bet you've never seen this much worm poop," said...
Bergen Record
Fertilizer may help in the heat (August 4, 2005)
When the growing gets tough, the tough get fertilizing. Now that we're in the dog days of summer, it's as important as ever to make sure your plants are well-nourished, says Ron Binaghi, fifth generation owner of Stokes Farm in Old Tappan. "There is no...
Breakfast Television
TerraCycle Plant Food...you'll never guess how it's made... (July 22, 2005)
Dave Stergon in the AM
TerraCycle, an overnight success in Canada (July 14, 2005)
640 AM News
Worm Pooop in Home Depot and Wal-Mart — who would have thought? (July 10, 2005)
City Centre Moment
Entrepreneur's Earthy Business (June 17, 2005)
Entrepreneur Tom Szaky knows as well as anyone that one man's waste can fuel another man's fortune. The 23-year-old Upper Canada College graduate is the co-founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a company that uses waste in a unique way to create a cheap and environmentally...
Montreal Gazette
Fertile Idea for Growth (June 11, 2005)
It likely wouldn't offend tom Szaky to call him a slimy businessman. After all, he makes a comfortable living selling worm castings — an idea he picked up at a McGill University frat party a few years ago. But since his plant food company produces what...
BioCycle
Food Residuals Recycling in the most Densely Populated State (May 25, 2005)
With funding from the state Department of Environmental Protection, the Solid Waste Policy Group at Rutgers University identifies what it takes to develop a significant support system. Along with its status as being the nation's most densely populated state...
CASE
Creative Cycle Produces Organic Plant Food (May 2, 2005)
TerraCycle has developed an innovative process for creating organic non-toxic fertilizers - the world's first consumer product line that is not only made completely from waste but is also packaged in waste. The company follows ecologically sound, chemically-free methods for delivering a product that assures the superior growth of vegetation. In addition, TerraCycle has created innovative opportunities for local communities such as urban community gardens and school-wide recycling events...
TIME Magazine
Meet four people whose innovations promise to make the world richer - or at least a lot cleaner, garbage maven Tom Szaky (May 2, 2005)
Although he was no environmentalist growing up in Toronto, Tom Szaky is at 23 the energetic ceo of TerraCycle, a company that makes salable products from other firms' waste. At TerraCycle's headquarters in Trenton, New Jersey, the furniture and computers were...
Business Today
Green Money (May 2005)
At the head of recycled fertilizer maker TerraCycle you would expect to find an old ex-hippie who is now flirting with commerce, or perhaps a Birkenstock sandal wearing mad scientist crusading to save the planet. Instead, you'd find 23-year-old CEO Tom Szaky...
New York Times
But the Employees Are Really Spineless (April 10, 2005)
Tom Szaky's freshman friends at Princeton insisted he show them his native Canada, so off they drove to McGill University in Montreal. As it happened, one of Mr. Szaky's acquaintances had a terrarium in which worms ate solid waste and made compost out of it...
Daily Pennsylvanian
Worm poop finds new life in spray bottle (April 8, 2005)
Tom Szaky would be graduating from Princeton this year if he had not dropped out and started a million-dollar business — that relies completely upon worm poop. The 23-year-old wunderkind gave a presentation entitled "Young Entrepreneurship" and answered...
JETRO (Japan)
Venture Business Fron Line: Earthworm Business (April 2005)
BioCycle
Landfill Gives Birth to Eco-Industrial Complex, TerraCycle (March 2005)
Business Week
Innovations: 'Worm poop' and prophylactic yuks (March 21, 2005)
Producing waste rich in nitrogen, earthworms have long been considered friends to the green-thumb set. Now TerraCycle, a Trenton (N.J.) startup, has developed a way to mass-produce what its founder, a Princeton University dropout, bills as "worm poop" plant food...
Retail Traffic Magainze
Taking in the Trash (March 1, 2005)
Wal-Mart has often been accused of selling trashy goods. Now they are doing exactly that. TerraCycle Inc., which creates a plant fertilizer made from and packaged entirely in waste, struck a deal placing its goods on the shelves of all Wal-Mart stores in Canada. TerraCycle...
Trenton Times
Plant Food Company Scores with Wal-Mart (February 17, 2005)
National Post
Student aims to hit paydirt with worm poop (February 10, 2005)
Here's a fairy tale with a happy ending — or happy beginning, if you're 23-year-old Tom Szaky. It goes like this: A young man graduates from Toronto's Upper Canada College and heads south to Princeton University. But at the beginning of his sophomore year, he has...
Michael Vaughan Live
Report on Business (February 8, 2005)
"The second company tonight, is joining us from Toronto. The company is called TerraCycle. They're trying to raise two megabucks. They make and package a plant-growth product made out of waste. Apparently, they've got their first order from Wal-Mart very recently...
Mes Nouvelles
A young 23 year-old Canadian businessman creates a product... (February 8, 2005)
TerraCycle, Inc., the first company to develop a product manufactured and packaged only starting from waste, received its first order of importance of a retailer on great surface, that is to say Wal-Mart Canada. TerraCycle provides that its products will be offered...
The Daily Princetonian
Wal-Mart Canada places largest TerraCycle Order (February 7, 2005)
UPI NewsTrack
Worm poop to be sold in Wal-Mart (February 6, 2005)
CBC Venture
Worm Boy: 22 year-old Princeton drop-out tests his corporate thesis in the real world (February 6, 2005)
Tom Szaky could have been set for life. The son of two Toronto doctors, he was was sent off to Princeton to get an Ivy League education. But soon this whiz kid went from bookworm to ... worms. He dropped out of university and risked everything to start Terracycle - a...
Home News Tribune
Firm employs worms to create its prime product (February 5, 2005)
A Trenton-based organic-fertilizer maker has hit the retail big time. TerraCycle Inc., founded in 2001 by a Princeton University dropout and some classmates, has sealed a deal with Wal-Mart Canada to sell TerraCycle Plant Food™ at 256 of the big-box stores. "This means...
The Globe and Mail
Young entrepreneur wiggles his way into Wal-Mart (February 4, 2005)
Thomas Szaky shocked his parents a few years ago when he decided to drop out of Princeton University to start a business making plant food. To their dismay, he explained that the product came from worm poop. But today, the 23-year-old Canadian is having the last...
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