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Be the Heart Of Your Home
Join TerraCycle And Earn Cash For Wrappers And Packages! (June 26, 2009)
Sign up for free and collect candy wrappers. We will pay $.02 for every candy wrapper you collect. You will receive free shipping collection bags delivered right to your door.
Sign up for free and collect juice pouches. We will pay $0.02 for all Honest Kids, Capri Sun and Kool Aid Drink Pouches and $0.01 for all other brand drink pouches you collect. You will receive free shipping boxes...
Green and Gorgeous
Interview with George W. Chevalier of Terracycle (June 12, 2009)
We've talked before about Terracycle's innovative recycling programs
and their products made of recycled materials in their raw state. George Chevalier will join us to talk about the new partnerships Terracycle has made and what drove the founders to create a company built on trash -- literally....
Today's Facility Manager
Pushback On Packaging (June 3, 2009)
In 2001, Tom Szaky, then a freshman at Princeton University, founded TerraCycle in hopes of building an eco-capitalist company built on waste. The company’s first product was an organic fertilizer (Worm Poop), made from composted ingredients and packaged in a reused one-gallon milk jug. The lawn and garden care line has expanded, and, several years ago, Szaky set his sights on expanding the reuse...
Green Muze
Interview With Tom Szaky (June 1, 2009)
Tom Szaky is rapidly turning into the eco-rock star of the sustainable business movement and it all started with compost. This 27 year old Hungarian native was attending Princeton University when he started rethinking the waste paradigm.
He started by selling compost (Worm Gin) as a high-grade plant fertilizer (rumor has it the compost epiphany came after trying to find a better way to grow...
Go Green Blog
Super Recycling with Terracycle! (May 26, 2009)
Fourth graders at Kramer Lane Elementary School in Bethpage have joined up with www.terracycle.net to start a recycling program which goes above and beyond just recycling paper and plastic. We have been collecting empty wrappers and containers from Capri Sun drink boxes, Oreo and Chips Ahoy cookies, Kashi products, and Frito Lay chip bags over the past three weeks. In return, Terracycle will donate...
Redding Record Searchlight
TerraCycle recycles, reuses and has plans to reuse again (May 11, 2009)
Reducing the amount of non-degradable waste such as complex polymers and plastics is the driving force behind TerraCycle's programs. TerraCycle's created a circular recycling system to combat the problem.
TerraCycle's programs accept widely used, non-recyclable items such as cookie wrappers, granola bags, yogurt containers, energy bar wrappers, even wine bottle corks. The company then uses...
Alternet
Life Among the Eco-Capitalists: A Revolution Takes Hold in New Jersey (May 6, 2009)
Somewhere between California and Hawaii is a big plastic trash dump floating in the ocean. Twice the size of Texas, it's known as the "Pacific Trash Vortex."
Spiral-shaped currents concentrate thousands of acres of non-biodegradable plastic waste. Birds and fish that get tangled up in the mass die with stomachs full of plastic. High-speed, high-tech modern life is not exactly working in...
Natural Living
TerraCycle tackles trash (April 30, 2009)
Recycling company TerraCycle is making it easy for Americans to start trash cleanup projects. Simply sign up at terracycle.net to have collection bags with prepaid return shipping labels mailed to your home or business. Fill them with chip bags, cookie wrappers, drink pouches, and other food-packaging waste and send them back to TerraCycle; the trash will then be “upcycled” into tote bags and pencil...
Russet House Mother
Green Tip of the Day (April 28, 2009)
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, TerraCycle, a company that's making big business out of household garbage.
Olive & Beans
TerraCycle. (April 27, 2009)
Most (hopefully, all!) of us are in the habit of recycling paper, plastic, cans and glass containers. Now we take another step towards reducing waste by registering with TerraCycle, a company which has paired up with a few green retailers in their quest to recycle even more empty packaging which usually ends up in the garbage.
Sign up with TerraCycle to send in your yogurt containers, empty...
Russet House
Green Tip of the Day (April 20, 2009)
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, TerraCycle, a company that's making big business out of household garbage.
* Collect your wrappers, juice pouches, and plastic yogurt containers, send them to TerraCycle and see them reincarnated as purses, backpacks, and planter pots on the...
Denver Post
Recycling: It's not just for paper and bottles (April 20, 2009)
Food packaging including cookie wrappers, drink pouches, potato chip bags, yogurt containers, wine bottle corks and cereal boxes are repurposed by TerraCycle (terracycle.net).
Hard drives from old computers are recycled for a small fee by Back Thru the Future, which also accepts CDs and DVDs for free, and arranges large- scale business recycling. E-mail recycle@backthru thefuture.com. for...
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