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Ask what you can do for your customers (November 20, 2008)
What’s a good way to expand your product or service line? Consider simply asking your customers what they want to see.
In this article on Inc.com, Tom Szaky, founder of TerraCycle, based in Trenton, N.J., explains how this strategy helped him sell more to OfficeMax, one of his biggest customers.
Though OfficeMax was already carrying seven of TerraCycle’s eco-friendly office products, the company wanted to expand that relationship. But TerraCycle was fairly new to the office products industry (they started out making plant food). So instead of just pitching OfficeMax new product ideas, they approached OfficeMax’s category managers and merchandising experts and asked them what products they needed. ...
Sphere Trending
From Wrappers into Fashion (November 18, 2008)
The TerraCycle story is a tale of ultimate Eco-Capitalism. It all started in 2001 when two Princeton University students set out to change the way people do business. Inspired by a box of worms, these students had a dream: a company could be financially successful while being ecologically and socially responsible.
This is a perfect way for schools, organizations and charities to make extra money, and in these tough economic times, maybe even the average consumer will be willing to send in their cookie wrappers. TerraCycle then turns the collected wrappers and containers into saleable, unique merchandise including shower curtains, hand bags, school supplies and packaging for the companies plant food and sprays....
Better World Blog
Green Business Conference 2008, San Francisco Edition (November 17, 2008)
I had the pleasure of speaking to the 2008 Green Business Conference yesterday in my lovely home city of San Francisco. I was on a panel that addressed the way businesses and financial institutions were handled the crazy financial times we’re in. Let me tell you, people could not be more optimistic. With the lost credibilty of the world of high finance and greed, people are hungering for something more real and authentic. The Green Business community provides this in spades.
I would like to claim that I stole the show, but that honor goes hands down to Tom Szaky of Terracycle. In a true show of audacity, he proposed the elimination of the concept of waste in favor of “upcycling”. In his company, Caprisun pouches are turned into tote bags and old floppy disks into jot pads....
The San Diego Union Tribune
PUT A CORK IN TRASH (November 17, 2008)
A glass of red wine at night is said to be good for your health, but all the wine corks that end up in landfills from those once-a-night nips are bad for the health of the planet.
TerraCycle is willing to take those corks off your hands and out of landfills and it's willing to help pay for it. The maker of eco-friendly products is collecting wine corks for corkboards it manufactures and sells at OfficeMax. ...
Really Natural
TerraCycle has Done it Again! Eco-Friendly School and Office Supplies (November 17, 2008)
We love TerraCycle! Not only does this company create amazing products from upcycled goods, they also make them available in large retailers making them easily accessible to all consumers. TerraCycle has done it again! Available at Office Max, TerraCycle is offering eco-friendly school and office supplies. From pencil cases made from recycled juice pouches to colored pencils made from used newspapers, these products are of high quality and super eco-friendly (except for the manufacture in China). My favorite TerraCycle office product is Banana Paper....
Springleaf Adventures
Green office supplies - a business case (November 4, 2008)
Did you know that Office Max has green office supplies? In 2008, Office Max partnered with TerraCycle to provide office and school supplies with recycled materials. TerraCycle specializes in reducing the planet's waste stream by developing eco-friendly manufacturing processes for a wide range (and ever-expanding) line of products.
The company started with green cleaners and eco-friendly lawn/plant products. After identifying the opportunity in the office supply market, TerraCycle moved in through a strategic partnership with Office Max...
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EcoZebra
TerraCycle - Taking your garbage and giving you cash! (November 3, 2008)
I have been using TerraCycle products for several years now (starting with the worm poop fertilizer) and I just realized that I have never posted about them. So what is up with that? Well, it is a special thanks to this post over at Low Impact Living for getting me off my butt with an announcement of TerraCycles latest products.
So what is so great about TerraCycle? The products are made from garbage, packaged in garbage and shipped in garbage. The products re-use waste that would otherwise clog our landfills and to top it all off, you can collect the garbage through your schools, groups, or charitable organizations and GET PAID to send that garbage to TerraCycle....
Low Impact Living
Terracycle Turns Trash into Green Office Supplies (October 31, 2008)
What does worm poop have in common with a pencil? Both are products made by an eco-company called Terracycle — and both are made from waste!
Terracycle’s a company that made its name with zero-waste eco-fertilizer, feeding organic waste to worms, then selling the resulting nutrient-rich fertilizer in used plastic bottles at mainstream stores nationwide. Now, Terracycle’s applied the same zero-waste philosophy to office products — and is bringing them to the general public through a partnership with OfficeMax!...
SmartBrief
Why TerraCycle opted to ask, not pitch (October 28, 2008)
Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, decided to shake up the traditional retailer-manufacturer relationship. Instead of just pitching his company's green products to OfficeMax, he approached the retailer's category managers and asked what they wanted. The results were unusual: paper made from coffee leaves, straw and banana peels; biodegradable pens made from corn; pencils made from old newspapers and computer bags made from billboard vinyl. Inc.com (10/22)
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Organic Grocery Deals
Free Target tote when you mail in 5 Target bags! (October 28, 2008)
Design for All.
Renew, reinvent, recycle!
Send up your used plastic Target bags, and you'll get a coupon for a free Retote bag in January.
It's easy:
1. Remove the cover from the October 27 issue of People magazine.
2. Fold cover inside out, then tape the sides to create an envelope.
3. Fill the pouch with five plastic Target bags.
4. Seal all sides and drop in any U.S. Postal Mail Box by 11/30/08.
Target*:*Retote Offer...
Eco Street
Eco-review: TerraCycle recycled products (October 27, 2008)
Using TerraCycle’s products made out of recycled drink pouches took me right back to my childhood days. Back then I loved the idea of using drink and food packets for other things, little did I know that it would be one of the most important principles to live by – RECYCLING!
The TerraCycle pencil case and homework folder that I have are both made out of recycled Kool-Aid drink pouches. The drink pouches are sewn together very well, and are very hardy. ...
Rethink and Reuse
Cork boards: make your own or help TerraCycle in their efforts... (October 27, 2008)
Everyone's got a few wine corks lying around from an evening of fun, or relaxation... Well Heather's figured out an easy way to reuse them and keep the kitchen organized.
Objects:I am using corks and old wooden posts that are possibly from a fence.
Project: First I custom built a frame with the wood, and then I added the corks to make a cork board for the kitchen....
Sweet Tea And Coffee
People Magazine + Terra Cyle + Target = Free Tote (October 24, 2008)
Basically, you use the cover as an envelope, send in five plastic Target bags, and get a coupon for a free Target tote. I love that you don’t even have to pay for the stamp ~ Target and TerraCycle (company that made the “Retote” bag back in April with Newsweek) already paid the postage.
If you don't read People magazine, you are still able to get your free tote by mailing 5 plastic Target bags in an 8 ½” x 11” envelope to: (You fit the postage bill, if you choose this option)...
Inc.
A More Civil Union! (October 23, 2008)
In May, TerraCycle launched a line of school and office products, birthed from the same made-from-waste mantra as our other products. OfficeMax was our clear choice for a retailer, as they already had in place many environmentally responsible plans and support Adopt-a-Classroom, a non-profit TerraCycle fully supports as well.
After the initial launch of seven products, TerraCycle and OfficeMax forged a very unique and mutually beneficial relationship that I believe serves as an incredible model for manufacturer/retailer relationships.
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Inform
Eco-Friendly and Affordable make for the Ideal School and Office Product Line (October 23, 2008)
September 8, 2008, Trenton, NJ - TerraCycle, Inc., the ultimate eco-friendly brand, is expanding its school and office line to include several upcycled solutions to some of the most wasteful products used in education and business. To make these affordable products widely available, TerraCycle sells the line through leading office product retailer, OfficeMax. The eco-affordable line is available at OfficeMax stores nationwide.
Tree Free Paper: Four billion trees are cut down each year for paper production. TerraCycle offers three alternatives, made from Banana Peels, Straw, or Coffee Leaves. For those who would like to try them all, a Variety Pack is also available. These papers are compatible with all laser and ink-jet printers, as well as copy machines. They are made from 100%...
Inform
TerraCycle Launches Sustainable Versions of Major Office and School Products (October 23, 2008)
Trenton, NJ September 9th – TerraCycle, Inc., a young eco-capitalist company is proud to announce that it will more then double the number of ‘Made from Waste’ products it sells at OfficeMax stores nationwide. The two companies worked together for months to develop environmentally responsible alternatives where they were needed most. The new eco-friendly end-cap will be set in stores in early September. The end cap will feature a wide range of products including computer bags, pens, pencils, paper, cork boards and much more all made from waste!
TerraCycle and OfficeMax first partnered in May 2008, bringing a unique line of products to an office retailers shelves for the first time. Never before had a major office supply retailer offered product made entirely from waste! The...
Coupon Craving
Target: Free Reusable Tote Bag (October 22, 2008)
Target has launched an innovative promotion with People magazine to give away reusable tote bags. Just remove the cover of the October 27 issue of People. Fold it inside out and tape the sides to create a postage paid envelope. Fill the envelope with five plastic Target bags. Seal all sides and mail by November 30, 2008. You’ll receive a coupon in the mail for a free reusable tote bag in early January.
If you don’t have the October 27 issue of People, simply put five plastic Target bags in an 8 ½” x 11” envelope. Affix postage and mail to:
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FM Link
TerraCycle brand includes tree-free paper, biodegradable pens (October 21, 2008)
October 15, 2008 – Eco-friendly TerraCycle, Inc., is expanding its school and office line to include several upcycled solutions to some of the most wasteful products used in education and business. To make these affordable products widely available, TerraCycle sells the line through leading office product retailer OfficeMax.
The line now includes tree-free paper made from banana peels, straw or coffee leaves; pens made from recycled paper or plastic; pencils made from used newspaper; and pens that are biodegradable....
The Alternative Consumer
TerraCycle + OfficeMax Make the Grade (October 21, 2008)
The beginning of every school year starts with buying new school supplies. As environmentally conscious students, we always opt for recycled paper, but when it comes to the rest of our school supplies, it’s nearly impossible to find sustainable alternatives. But the landscape is changing — eco-capitalist company, TerraCycle, recognizing students’ need for eco-friendly alternatives, has teamed up with OfficeMax to launch more school and office products, all upcycled from waste!
The environmentally responsible line features a wide range of products, from pencils and binders, to folders and tree-free papers. In fact, thousands of the millions of tons of plastic thrown away each year in America are transformed into TerraCycle’s trashcans and recycling bins. Corn and scrap...
Natural Home
For Filing Important Papers (October 16, 2008)
TerraCycle has eco- binders made of 100% recycled paper and 90% recycled steel. www.TerraCycle.net ...
The Clothes Line
Recycle Wine Corks (October 16, 2008)
Here is green option for all you wine enthusiasts: you no longer have to throw your natural or synthetic corks in the trash. Instead, mail them to Trenton, NJ-based TerraCycle Inc., which turns them into new products. I learned about this company via the blog, 365 Days of Trash.
The company tells you how many stamps are needed to mail corks: for up to 10 corks use two stamps; up to 30 corks use four stamps. Address your mailing bag or envelope to: TerraCycle Cork Brigade, 121 New York Ave., Trenton, NJ 08638.
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PNN.Com
Zero Waste Office Supplies (October 15, 2008)
What do you get when you combine banana peels, elephant poop, wine corks and coffee grounds? The Terracycle expanded line of zero footprint office and school supplies at OfficeMax! The products include computer bags, pens, pencils, paper, cork boards and more, all made from recycled materials that would ordinarily be waste.
The new TerraCycle pencils are made from 100% reused newspaper, and the new Tree Free paper lines will be made from elephant poop, banana leaves, coffee grinds and straw. Kinda gross and kinda cool!...
My Library Ideas
* Home * About * Marketing Office Max and Recycling: My weaknesses combined (October 10, 2008)
So I’m at Office Max tonight and I am minding my own business trying to not spend money I don’t have, and BAM! There is an amazing display of all things office supply made by a company called Terracycle. Through the miracles of modern science, the good people of Terracycle have managed to learn to recycle just about everything, or so it seems. And of course, I succumbed to the amazingness and bought
Okay, so here’s my next thought. I was going to tell you that you should all consider using these cool Terracycle products in your libraries because that would bring you that much closer to having a sustainable building/library. And you were going to say “At $5.99 for a pack of four pens, you are clearly insane. Stop sniffing glue at work!”...
The Californian
Wine Corkboard coming to OfficeMax this year (October 7, 2008)
TerraCycle Inc. is introducing the Wine Corkboard, made from used wine bottle corks. Its 16-by-16-inch Wine Corkboard is available in OfficeMax this fall. TerraCycle uses corks collected by its nationwide "Cork Brigade." The corkboard is assembled in the United States using corks collected by the Cork Brigade...
Office Professional Upgrade
Officemax Going Green (October 7, 2008)
In spring 2008 OfficeMax started to sell recycled products for a company called TerraCycle. As of right now OfficeMax carries trash and recycling cans (made from computer cases), Eco binders (made from 100% recycled cardboard and paper), natural all purpose and window cleaners (made from old 1 liter soda bottles and non-toxic cleaners using a plant based formula) and pencil cases (made from Kool-Aid and Capri Sun pouches). The products and packaging are made entirely from waste, reducing the amount of garbage going to landfills. OfficeMax offers and stocks more than 1,700 products with recycled content....
Ribbons Of Red
Terracycle Caprisun/Kool-Aid: A drink pouch pencil case! (October 7, 2008)
I don’t know about all of you, but when I was a kid, I lived off juice boxes. Caprisun, Kool-Aid, Juicy Juice… mmmm! I still love those drinks to this day!
As we all know, all the cool kids are being “green” these days. There is even a television station devoted to anything and everything environmentally friendly. So can you imagine my excitement when I found a whole basket of recycled Caprisun and Kool-Aid pouches turned into pencil bags! What a cool little oddity for a designer like me! You have no idea how many colored sharpies I own....
Small Business Trends
TerraCycle Launches Sustainable Office and School Products (October 2, 2008)
TerraCycle, Inc., a young eco-capitalist company is proud to announce that it will more then double the number of ‘Made from Waste’ products it sells at OfficeMax stores nationwide. The two companies worked together for months to develop environmentally responsible alternatives where they were needed most. The new eco-friendly end-cap will be set in stores in early September. The end cap will feature a wide range of products including computer bags, pens, pencils, paper, cork boards and much more all made from waste!
TerraCycle and OfficeMax first partnered in May 2008, bringing a unique line of products to an office retailers shelves for the first time. Never before had a major office supply retailer offered product made entirely from waste! The original line featured all-natural...
Business Finance & Economy
TerraCycle Launches Sustainable Office and School Products (October 2, 2008)
TerraCycle, Inc., a young eco-capitalist company is proud to announce that it will more then double the number of ‘Made from Waste’ products it sells at OfficeMax stores nationwide.
The two companies worked together for months to develop environmentally responsible alternatives where they were needed most....
The Good Human
The Great Eco-Friendly Giveaway Has Arrived! (October 2, 2008)
A messenger bag from Terracycle. You will win either the bag made from 100% used drink pouches collected by the drink pouch brigade or the bag made from Oreo waste wrappers collected by the cookie wrapper brigade. Bag choice will be made by Terracycle depending on what is available at time of shipping....
The Thrifty Mommy
I am all about recycling (September 29, 2008)
Did you know that juice pouches are not recyclable!! So when I saw this I thought this was the coolest thing ever......Look what TerraCycle makes out of recycled juice boxes!!!
-Pencil Cases
-Book bags
-Lunchboxes...just to name a few!!
And the best part is they donate 2 cents per drink pouch that was donated to a local charity!! They also turn many other hard-to-recycle items into great usable items as well!!...
Off The Rack
Chic Trash (September 29, 2008)
Check out this piece that ran this week in The New York Times. It touches on the concept of taking trash and turning it trendy — something that I learned a bit about when talking last week to one of the owners of Green Goods in Southern Pines. (That store, which sells items like this umbrella made of recycled trash, was mentioned in the Off the Rack column on Saturday.)
Anyway, The New York Times piece is about Tom Szaky, one of the founders of a company called TerraCycle, which The Times said “is aiming to make billions by collecting used plastic bags, juice pouches, cookie wrappers and other items that cannot be recycled and fusing them into everyday items like tote bags, pencil cases and messenger bags to be sold at some of the country’s biggest retailers.”
“The...
The Boston Globe
Juice-drink pouches (September 29, 2008)
A combination of plastic and aluminum, the lunchbox staples are difficult to recycle. But a company called TerraCycle (terracycle.net) is collecting the pouches and, depending on the juice brand, will donate 1 or 2 cents per pouch to a charity you choose. It then turns the waste into tote bags and pencil cases....
SmartBrief
How to turn garbage into $8 million in sales (September 25, 2008)
Tom Szaky has a thing about garbage. He co-founded a company called TerraCycle in 2001 that turns used plastic bags, cookie wrappers and other tossed-out items into messenger bags, pencil cases and other retail-friendly products. Szaky expects sales to hit $8 million this year....
Peekaboo Picks Magazine
TerraCycle’s Eco-Binder (September 5, 2008)
TerraCycle’s Eco-Binder is made from 100% recycled paper and 90% recycled steel. Available at Office Max....
EcoFrenzy
Green Business Innovators/Interview with Tom Szaky (September 5, 2008)
I recently started working with a great site called Green Business Innovators. I will be doing interviews with top sustainable business leaders and environmental thinkers and posting podcasts and other pieces on this site a few times a month. I will keep ecofrenzy updated on these happenings.
I recently posted the transcript to my interview with Tom Szaky, CEO and founder of TerraCycle to Green Business Innovators. Below is the intro for the transcript. Take a look!
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Leaf Green
Terracycle the Upcycler (August 27, 2008)
Terracycle, a New Jersey based company, is starting to develop something different from their normal cleaning products. They are creating tote bags, pouches, binders and more out of wrappers from candy, energy bars, juice packs, etc.
It’s really cool stuff. i just wanted to make you aware of it as a teaser to the Terracycle review which, I’ll have for you guys shortly....
WisInfo.com
'Green' options growing for back-to-school shoppers (August 27, 2008)
Moms and dads can buy eco-friendly school supplies for their kids, but they'll have to pay a little more for them.
Representatives of Shopko, which is carrying eco-friendly school supplies for the first time, said they hope to supply more "green" options as consumer demand grows.
"We recognize that a consumer is more frequently now looking for options that are Earth-friendly," said Stephanie Juarie, electronics division vice president....
Green Bay Gazette
Green' options growing for back-to-school shoppers (August 18, 2008)
Moms and dads can buy eco-friendly school supplies for their kids, but they'll have to pay a little more for them.
Representatives of Shopko, which is carrying eco-friendly school supplies for the first time, said they hope to supply more "green" options as consumer demand grows.
"We recognize that a consumer is more frequently now looking for options that are Earth-friendly," said Stephanie Juarie, electronics division vice president.
TerraCycle makes the eco-friendly school supplies, which include pencil cases and folders made from used drink pouches and binders made of 100 percent recycled cardboard and 90 percent recycled metal rings...
Got2BeGreen
Eco-Friendly School Supplies (August 18, 2008)
With the new school year quickly approaching, these new eco-friendly binders caught our eye. The binders are from TerraCycle who has teamed up with OfficeMax. TerraCycle creates their products by gathering items that would normally end up in landfills and uses these wastes as the raw materials for their products. For example, the binders are made from 100% recycled cardboard and 90% recycled metal rings. OfficeMax will carry TerraCycle’s line of eco-friendly office/school supplies which in addition to the binders will include eco pencil holders, all purpose cleaner, window cleaner, degreaser, trash cans and recycling bins.
TerraCycle decided to team with OfficeMax because according Tom Szaky CEO and Founder of TerraCycle “At TerraCycle, we believe that OfficeMax is the ideal...
Shared Reviews.Com
Terracycle Plant Food from worm poop you say? (August 18, 2008)
I must say that I really can't stand what this particular product is actually made of simply because I can't stand creepy crawlers, but that aside, I love everything else about the product and the Company's very responsible stance.
Terracycle Inc is a company that was founded by two Princeton students who believed that it was possible to not only build a successful business but build one that was ecologically, environmentally and recycle conscious and responsible....
Green Link Central
TerraCycle Partners with OfficeMax to Take Recycling to a New Level (August 11, 2008)
Want to win a free eco-binder or cleaning products? See details below.
As the lazy days of August start, I am reminded that I have to get my children ready for school. This include shopping for clothes, school supplies, and doctor appointments. ...
Montgomery
Graffiti festival emphasizes community, ecology (August 6, 2008)
College student Dana Jackel, of Maple Glen, is helping to organize a New Jersey recycling-based company's annual graffiti and urban arts festival this weekend in Trenton.
Jackel, an intern for TerraCycle and a senior at Cornell University, is helping plan the event. Jackel said through holding the event TerraCycle is promoting a constructive and positive image of urban art in an effort to bring the company and local community together. ...
Green Home
Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, gets trashy (August 6, 2008)
You asked Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle, all your trashy questions (ha ha ha, I'm so funny). And he answered them!
In a nutshell, TerraCycle takes what others call trash, upcycles those materials, and turn them into brand-spanking new products. Who thought you could make a hot little tote bag from KoolAid containers or a sweet homework folder from Capri Sun juice packs?...
Earth 911
Company Profile: TerraCycle (June 30, 2008)
Who says dropping out of Princeton is a foolhardy move? Not Tom Szaky, who in 2001, along with co-founder Jon Beyer, had a vision for a new kind of product created completely from waste. In fact, their moment of inspiration came while visiting friends who were successfully using vermacompost (worm poop) to grow thriving plants.
Szaky and Beyer founded TerraCycle in 2002, and the company has grown exponentially since its humble beginnings in a Princeton dorm room. Szaky recently discussed TerraCycle’s successful eco-capitalistic business model, which is based on the idea that there really is no such thing as garbage....
Earth 911
OfficeMax Offers Recycled Paper at Self-Serve Copy Machines (June 26, 2008)
Customers can now choose 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper when making self-serve copies at OfficeMax.
Copy machines sport “Think in Green” stickers to encourage customers to choose the recycled paper. Customers can upgrade from 30 percent to 100 percent post-consumer paper for no charge for a limited time.
OfficeMax has made other efforts to help consumers make greener choices. Last month, it worked with TerraCycle to stock its shelves with seven new products made entirely from waste. TerraCycle products include binders, pencil cases, trashcans and cleaners....
Green Strides
NJ Company Turns Garbage into Gold (June 26, 2008)
Trenton-based TerraCycle’s entire product line is made from and packaged in waste products. How ingenious is that?!
Terracycle became renowned for its natural plant fertilizer made from organic waste from worms. The first step is to have something good for the worms to eat — raw organic matter that is fed into a rotating predigester. After a week, the mixture is ready to be fed to the worms. Several hundred thousand worms live and feed on the garbage and their waste products are then used to make a compost tea. Plants that are fertilized with it can easily soak up all those nutrients quickly and grow healthy, naturally....
Planet Green
My Eco-Crush of the Week: SuChin Pak falls in love with the king of poo (June 24, 2008)
Ok, so for our new show, G Word, I took a trip out to Trenton, New Jersey the other day to do a story on a pretty amazing company called Terracycle. If you're a gardener, you're probably familiar with the benefits of worms and their poo. Well, Tom Szaky, the 25-year-old CEO of what is now a multi-million dollar company, decided to bottle up this "black gold," as growers call it, and sell it in recycled soda bottles.
When he started the company, he had no money to package his worm poo, so he went around collecting soda bottles and realized that they're uniform and have basically the same size caps, so refilling these containers was totally doable! Now, companies come to him to help them figure out what to do with their waste. ...
The Wall Street Journal
Green Products Gain From New Price Equation (June 24, 2008)
Consumers typically have paid a premium for environmentally friendly products. But with soaring energy prices pushing up the price of mainstream goods, green products are becoming just as -- or even more -- affordable these days.
The reason is that environmentally friendly products usually have less fossil-fuel content than competing nongreen brands. Their manufacture also tends to consume less oil, since green entrepreneurs favor renewable-energy and energy-saving practices....
Blog Her
Three green binders for recycled organization (June 23, 2008)
Summer's usually not a time when people go shopping for school or office supplies, but I always get binders at the beginning of the summer -- to clean up the mess I've created during the school year. Now's when I collect all the loose sheets of paper piled, filed, and randomly shoved between books and put them in some semblance of order. For those who do the same, pick from these green eco-binder options and avoid the junky vinyl crap:...
The Budget Ecoist
Everything Becomes School & Office Supplies: Recycle This! (June 16, 2008)
If there is a cooler green company out there right now than TerraCycle, we'd like to hear about it.
TerraCycle recently partnered with Office Max to produce a line of recycled office and school products. The results? One marvelous waste-free future unfolding before us!
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Soaring Mountains Academy
Office Max & TerraCycle (June 11, 2008)
I forgot to mention that when we were at Office Max yesterday getting file folders, that we found some TerraCycle products. You can read more about the company at their website: http://www.terracycle.net/ We have joined the Drink Pouch Brigade. We are getting Tyler Honest Kids juice. It tastes good, it’s organic and it’s from the makers of Honest Tea (their website is here http://www.honest-kids.com/). So now we are recycling the drink pouches instead of just throwing them away....
EnviroHumanImpact
A Huge Worm Dump! Awesome! (June 10, 2008)
You know that feeling after a worm takes a huge dump? Awesome!
Actually, let’s talk about many many worms pooping lots of little bits to make a product called, “Worm Poop.” Disgusting? Look for it at your Home Depot!
TerraCycle is a young company started by two Princeton dropouts, Co-founders Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer, one of whom, while visiting a friend, found his collection of worms making compost in a plastic container in his kitchen (after a night of drinking). Fascinated at his friend’s method of getting soil for some “plants in his basement,” (watch the video!), he began thinking of a way to make a company that could make and market composted organic waste for gardening....
PackWorld.com
TerraCycle - style sustainability arrives at OfficeMax (June 6, 2008)
In this approximate 8-minute interview with Packaging World editor Rick Lingle, TerraCycle "eco revolutionary" and public relations manager Albe Zakes discusses TerraCycle's new line of office products sold at OfficeMax.
The line includes cleaners bottled in recovered containers and pencil cases made from recovered drink pouches collected in a program supported by Kraft Foods. ...
Grand Haven Tribune
New Jersey company turning wrappers into school supplies (June 5, 2008)
An innovative startup company is partnering with big brand names like Nabisco and Capri Sun to recycle wrappers and containers that would likely otherwise land in a dump.
New Jersey-based Terracycle then transforms the trash into make products like backpacks, pencil boxes and change purses. ...
Small Business Trends
David Partners with Goliath (June 5, 2008)
OfficeMax® Incorporated, a leader in office products and services, announced today that it has partnered with TerraCycle™, Inc., an eco-capitalist company, to bring a new line of “green” office products to OfficeMax customers.
OfficeMax is featuring seven new TerraCycle products; including innovative binders, pencil cases, trash cans and cleaners. TerraCycle manufactures and packages products entirely from
waste and reduces the amount of garbage going to landfills....
Iggy Uncensored
Found TerraCycle cleaning products at local OfficeMax (June 4, 2008)
This evening after dinner and avoiding one of the people mentioned in my Al Gore article at The Corner we stopped at the OfficeMax down the street. I knew from my previous research that TerraCycle now had a distribution agreement with OfficeMax to carry the new TerraCycle cleaning products.
At first we did not see any TerraCycle product in the store. There was no advertising within the store announcing this new product option. However towards the back of the store just before the furniture selection Cheryl spotted the familiar TerraCycle packaging in the middle of an aisle....
Life Made Easier
TerraCycle Expands.... (June 4, 2008)
Last year, I purchased a bottle of TerraCycle All Natural Liquid Fertilizer made from worm poop for the summer garden. Created from recycled material, Terracycle's products are beyond eco-friendly. They are down right genius in my opinion. Warning: I also think silly putty and the Magic Eight Ball are genius so you might not want to put too much stock in the next few lines.
Seriously though, as an individual I have made a personal commitment in recent years to reduce the amount of waste I produce. I heart nature: hiking, gardening, picnicking, swimming, fishing etc. I have never been one to take such things for granted and have no plans to start doing so anytime soon which is why I love companies like TerraCycle....
Wine Spectator
Unfiltered: Sex and the City Characters Drink Wine From the Country (June 4, 2008)
Speaking of environmental initiatives … California wine giant Kendall-Jackson goes through more than its share of oak barrels to produce their signature Chardonnays. In an attempt to dispose of retired barrels in an eco-friendly manner, they've teamed up with TerraCycle, a company that turns trash into treasure.
The company is now repurposing the barrels into spinning compost barrels and rain collection drums, available in a handful of houseware retail chains for around $100 apiece. In addition, TerraCycle recently launched a wine cork program, in which bars' and restaurants' expelled wine corks are collected, sanitized and used to make cork boards for use in schools, homes and offices....
Brand Packaging
Spinning Garbage into Gold (June 1, 2008)
Green companies think they can charge premium prices,” says TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky. And though he could probably have an easier time of it if his own eco-conscious company followed suit, Szaky says the tendency for competitors to keep green products at the high end of the price range is, in fact, helping him. “Since we’re not doing it,” he says, “we’re gaining a lot.”
Szaky launched TerraCycle as a college student in 2002, when he came up with the idea of commercializing liquid plant food made from biological waste—what he described as “worm poop”—and then poured in used soda bottles because he couldn’t afford conventional packaging. ...
Ecopreneurist
Terracycle + Office Max = Innovative Green Office/School Supplies (May 22, 2008)
Terracycle is most known for their reuse of plastic soda bottles as packaging for their Worm Poop gardening products. While these initial products are definitely to be commended, it’s their recent move into office and school products in conjunction with Office Max that stands to make an even more profound impact....
Gabbing about Green
TerraCycle & Office Max Team Up! (May 21, 2008)
Well, now you can find their goods inside Office Max. They are starting with a pencil case made from drink pouches. They'll also have a 3-ring eco-binder made from 90% recycled steel and 100% recycled paper. When you have squeezed the life from it again, simply send it back to TerraCycle. What a deal!...
All Business
The World’s First Company to Make Everything out of Trash (May 21, 2008)
There’s a great feature over at the NYT, profiling a few different green companies, and introducing us to the concept of Green II, a term used to describe companies that are green, while still being consumer-friendly and profitable.
What really jumped out at me though was the profile on Terracycle, a fertilizer manufacturer that makes everything from trash, but not just recycled trash, because that requires melting the plastic, they just wash stuff off. Their fertilizer is sold in washed, relabeled pop bottles. They also make a bird feeder from pop bottles and a purse out of old drink pouches. ...
Prozy Utza
TerraCycle & OfficeMax: Eco-Friendly Office Products (May 20, 2008)
TerraCycle has partnered up with OfficeMax to sell a line of eco-friendly office products. To start they are going to be selling recycled pencil cases, binders and trash cans but plan to roll out more soon. The Pencil cases are my favorite. TerraCycle runs the Drink Pouch Brigade, where schools collect these traditionally un-recyclable pouches and send them to TerraCycle. TerraCycle pays them $0.02 per pouch then turns them into the pencil pouches among other products. This is a great way for schools to raise money and we love products that are conspicuously made from recycled materials. They are eco-chic, plus it raises awareness for recycling and upcycling....
Office World
OfficeMax, TerraCycle Partner On Green Office Products (May 20, 2008)
Binders made from 100 percent recycled cardboard covers and 90 percent recycled steel rings will be among the products available at OfficeMax stores as a result of a partnership between the company and TerraCycle, which manufactures products entirely from recycled materials, which, in turn, helps reduce some of the country’s largest waste streams....
NJ BIZ
Turning Trash into Everyday Office Products (May 19, 2008)
TerraCycle Inc., known best for its Worm Poop brand plant food, is teaming with OfficeMax Inc. to turn trash into office supplies. The Trenton-based company this month began providing OfficeMax with binders, pencil cases and trash cans made from recycled materials. The products went on sale May 1 at 900 OfficeMax stores across the country, opening a new market for TerraCycle.
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Packaging Digest
TerraCycle teams up with OfficeMax on 'green' line (May 19, 2008)
A city-based company that built its business on selling fertilizer made from worm poop now wants to diversify into products made from recycled materials. TerraCycle has formed a partnership with OfficeMax to market a line of "green" products to customers of the office products company....
FM News
OfficeMax to offer TerraCycle's first "made from waste" office products (May 16, 2008)
OfficeMax, provider of office products and services, recently partnered with TerraCycle, an eco-capitalist company, to bring a new line of "green" office products to OfficeMax customers. OfficeMax is featuring seven new TerraCycle products that TerraCycle manufactures and...
Sustinable Life Media
OfficeMax to Offer New Products Line Made Entirely from Waste (May 14, 2008)
May 5, 2008 - A month after catching flak from environmental groups on its paper sourcing policy, OfficeMax has signed on to carry Terracycle's new range of green office products made from recovered waste materials. The new TerraCycle products range from binders to trashcans to nontoxic cleaners. The binders are made from 100% recycled cardboard covers and 90% recycled steel rings, and include a return program for used binders. Terracycle's line of natural, nontoxic cleaners is packaged directly in used soda bottles. And the company is salvaging and converting mixed plastic waste into its new 100% recycled-content trashcans and recycling bins....
Greener Computing
TerraCycle: Worm Poop and So Much More (May 14, 2008)
What we do is we go in and work with companies like Honest Tea, Capri Sun, Kool-Aid -- these all became our sponsors -- and enabled them to help us run a nationwide collection program. So, today, if you have kids, and they're drinking Capri Sun or Honest Tea juice pouches, and you'd like to get paid to reuse them, you go to our website, you sign up, and for free, we send you collection boxes. You send them back, and then we donate $0.02 per pouch to any organization you want. Typically, it's like your school or something. And that's where it begins. ...
Climate Biz
TerraCycle: Worm Poop and So Much More (May 14, 2008)
Although it seems an unlikely success story, TerraCycle -- the company famous for turning worm poop into a household name -- points the way to success in how we address many of our environmental issues....
Retailing Today
TerraCycle launches 'green' products at OfficeMax (May 13, 2008)
OfficeMax has partnered with TerraCycle—an eco-capitalist company started up by 25-year-old entrepreneur and Princeton University dropout Tom Szaky—for a new line of "green" office products....
News RX
Medical News Article on OfficeMax; TerraCycle (May 13, 2008)
OfficeMax(R) Incorporated, a leader in office products and services, announced that it has partnered with TerraCycle(TM), Inc., an eco-capitalist company, to bring a new line of "green" office products to OfficeMax customers. OfficeMax is featuring seven new TerraCycle products, including innovative binders, pencil cases, trashcans and cleaners. TerraCycle manufactures and packages products entirely from waste and reduces the amount of garbage going to landfills....
Copies Magazine
Green Office Products (May 13, 2008)
Binders made from 100 percent recycled cardboard covers and 90 percent recycled steel rings will be among the products available at OfficeMax stores as a result of a partnership between the company and TerraCycle, which manufactures products entirely from recycled materials, which, in turn, helps reduce some of the country’s largest waste streams.The binders come with the world’s first return program for used binders and will be available along with TerraCycle’s plant-based, non-toxic and biodegradable Natural Cleaner line of products that are packaged directly in used 1-liter soda bottles, like the ones their bird feeders are made of....
Proxyutza
Green Office Products (May 9, 2008)
Binders made from 100 percent recycled cardboard covers and 90 percent recycled steel rings will be among the products available at OfficeMax stores as a result of a partnership between the company and TerraCycle, which manufactures products entirely from recycled materials, which, in turn, helps reduce some of the country’s largest waste streams.The binders come with the world’s first return program for used binders and will be available along with TerraCycle’s plant-based, non-toxic and biodegradable Natural Cleaner line of products that are packaged directly in used 1-liter soda bottles, like the ones their bird feeders are made of....
The NJ Times
Growth industry (May 9, 2008)
Trenton-based TerraCycle (terracycle.net) fills empty soda bottles with natural cleaning products for office products retailer OfficeMax (officemax.com). "Our customers want to buy environmentally preferable products. We hear that all the time," OfficeMax spokeswoman Jennifer Rook said....
Smart Briefs
OfficeMax to offer green office items (May 9, 2008)
OfficeMax has partnered with TerraCycle to sell filing supplies, pencil holders, waste paper baskets and cleaning fluids made completely from recycled materials. This is TerraCycle's first foray into the office-supply market. Display & Design Ideas...
INC Magazine
OfficeMax, TerraCycle Offer Green Office Products (May 8, 2008)
The trashcans and recycling bins are made from 100 percent recycled plastic. TerraCycle salvages thousands of tons of plastic from a variety of applications and turns it into environmentally friendly products. The binders are made from 100 percent recycled cardboard for the covers and 90 percent recycled steel for the rings. The binders also come with a return program for used binders....
Australian Newsagency
Green office products (May 8, 2008)
OfficeMax in the US has announced that they will carry a range of “green” office products from Terra Cycle. Made from recycled materials, these products are as good for the OfficeMax image as they are for the environment. The story of getting good media attention in the US....
The Change Report
OfficeMax Unveils TerraCycle Products (May 7, 2008)
OfficeMax is offering new yet familiar products created by TerraCycle. The newest products is a pencil case made from discarded containers of Capri Sun juice. TerraCycle, a company that strives to innovate products from "waste stream" materials will be providing a whole line for OfficeMax - other products include binders made from 100 percent reused cardboard, trash cans made from recycled e-waste plastic and non-toxic cleaning products packaged in old soda bottles. ...
Is Guide
OfficeMax to stock TerraCycle's green products (May 5, 2008)
OfficeMax stores will now stock a range of green office products from TerraCycle thanks to a partnership between the two American firms. TerraCycle manufactures products entirely from recycled materials. Binders made from 100 percent recycled cardboard covers and 90 percent recycled steel rings will be among the products available. The binders come with the world’s first return program for used binders and will be available along with TerraCycle’s plant-based, non-toxic and biodegradable Natural Cleaner line of products that are packaged directly in used 1-liter soda bottles....
Newark Examiner
OfficeMax and TerraCycle Partner to Introduce Innovative Office Product Line (May 4, 2008)
OfficeMax(R) Incorporated, a leader in office products and services, announced today that it has partnered with TerraCycle(TM), Inc., an eco-capitalist company, to bring a new line of "green" office products to OfficeMax customers. OfficeMax is featuring seven new TerraCycle products, including innovative binders, pencil cases, trashcans and cleaners. TerraCycle manufactures and packages products entirely from waste and reduces the amount of garbage going to landfills....
Denver Post
TerraCycle and OfficeMax (May 4, 2008)
The new line with OfficeMax will be TerraCycle's first line of office products and features items for kids and adults. The design of these products helps to reduce some of the country's largest waste streams....
Environmental Leader
OfficeMax, TerraCycle Partner On Green Office Products (May 3, 2008)
Binders made from 100 percent recycled cardboard covers and 90 percent recycled steel rings will be among the products available at OfficeMax stores as a result of a partnership between the company and TerraCycle, which manufactures products entirely from recycled materials, which, in turn, helps reduce some of the country’s largest waste streams....
Green Biz
OfficeMax Unveils Line of TerraCycle's Made-from-Waste Office Products (May 2, 2008)
The pencil cases in OfficeMax's newest retail offerings may look surprisingly familiar, even nostalgic to some shoppers. The cases are made from discarded containers of Capri Sun, the juice pouch more frequently seen on playgrounds than on end-caps....
Suddenly Frugal
Waste Not, I Want That (May 2, 2008)
All of this should bode well for the newly announced partnership between TerraCycle (a company grown from worm poop, literally) and OfficeMax. Together, they will be offer office and school supplies made from recycled materials. Some of the first of these products to hit Office Max shelves include binders made from recycled goods (below) and pencil cases made from recycled juice pouches (above)....
Spike TV
OfficeMax goes green with TerraCycle (May 2, 2008)
OfficeMax will be TerraCycle's first line of office products and features items for kids and adults. The design of these products helps to reduce some of the country's largest waste streams....
Greener Design
OfficeMax Unveils Line of TerraCycle's Made-from-Waste Office Products (May 2, 2008)
In addition to diverting materials from the waste stream, TerraCycle's products also aim to give back to the community as well as the environment. The Capri Sun pouches used in the pencil cases, for instance, are collected as fundraisers at schools; TerraCycle pays the schools two cents per pouch, and then turns what would otherwise be garbage into a new product....
Street Insider.com
OfficeMax and TerraCycle (May 1, 2008)
The TerraCycle Natural Cleaner(TM) line will be OfficeMax's first line of all-natural cleaners packaged directly in used soda bottles. The line includes the Natural All-Purpose, Natural Window and Natural Degreaser packaged directly in used 1 liter bottles. Over 80 billion plastic bottles are discarded and end up in landfills every year. The cleaners are all plant based, non-toxic and biodegradable. Certifications include the Canadian Government's EcoLogo, one the strictest certifications given by the Canadian Government....
NJ My Way
Here’s the Poop (March 25, 2008)
We predict in a few months you or your kids will want a handbag made out of Capri Sun juice bags. How do we know this? Because we saw hundreds of them being assembled at TerraCycle (www.terracycle.net), the upstart Trenton company that finds creative uses for the things we know as garbage. ...
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Haine's Garden Center
296 Route 130 N
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