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DH Love Life
Exploring Inspirational adnd Cutting-Edge Developments in Green Culture and Lifestyle (July 14, 2008)
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Detroit Free Press
Green garden products (July 14, 2008)
TerraCycle Inc. is recycling Kendall-Jackson wine barrels into composters and rain barrels. The oak barrels are clean and safe for outdoor use, the winemaker says.
The rotary composter holds grass clippings, leaves and other yard waste while they decompose. A roller system makes it easy to load and rotate the barrel, speeding up the process.
The TerraCycle rain barrel captures roof runoff for use in the garden.
Each product has a suggested retail price of $99. They're sold at some Sam's Clubs and some garden centers....
Los Angeles Daily News
A way to recycle corks (July 13, 2008)
I admit, I'm not a wine drinker. But I do have a few friends who are definitely winos. You know who you are.
If you like a nice bottle of wine or two, I pose this question to you. What do you do with the corks? I'm going to assume you recycle the bottles, but what about those corks? How about joining a cork brigade?
A super eco-friendly company named TerraCycle wants your used corks. TerraCycle will be upcycling corks, both natural and synthetic, "into cool products that will be available nationally at major retailers," according to the company's Web site. ...
KYW1060 News Radio
NJ Firm TerraCycle Launches Eco-Capitalism Campaign (July 12, 2008)
Don't throw out those wrappers from cookie pouches or drink pouches. A local firm has come up with a way to recycle them into usable items.
TerraCycle, Inc., based in Trenton, NJ, recently unveiled the Cookie Brigade. Spokesman James Artis says Nabisco cookie wrappers and Capri Sun juice pouches are being recycled into trendy accessories:
"We take drink pouch bags, and we make pencil cases. Pencil cases are actually available at Office Max. The bags are available at Target. And all of our products are very affordable. The wrappers, we're looking into making into purses. Just last week we started production on the Oreo shower curtain."
An umbrella is also in the works. TerraCycle's philosophy is to re-use items so they don't end up in a landfill. For more information, go to www.terracycle.net....
Post Bulletin
Trim work (July 12, 2008)
This is sustainable gardening with class.
TerraCycle Inc. is recycling Kendall-Jackson wine barrels into composters and rain barrels. The oak barrels are clean and safe for outdoor household use, the winemaker says.
The rotary composter holds grass clippings, leaves and other yard waste while they decompose into nutrient-rich compost. A roller system makes it easy to load and rotate the barrel, speeding up the composting process.
The TerraCycle rain barrel captures roof runoff from a downspout for use in the garden.
Each product has a suggested retail price of $99. They're sold at some Sam's Clubs and some garden centers. ...
The Burbank Leader
Energy bar wrappers’ delight (July 11, 2008)
For Burbank resident Sean Barton and his wife, Jamie Barton, lunch is often an energy bar on the run rather than a big sit-down meal.
Between the two of them, they consume at least 10 snack bars a week.
So when Barton heard about an energy bar recycling initiative that reuses energy bar wrappers while raising money for charity, it was something he figured his household could contribute to.
“It fits us both,” he said.
Earlier this year, Barton and his wife began collecting energy bar wrappers as part of the Energy Bar Brigade, one of a handful of recycling initiatives organized by TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company that makes plant fertilizer and prides itself on the sustainability of its products.
Barton doesn’t consider himself a die-hard environmentalist, but this...
About.com
TerraCycle Natural Bathroom Cleaner Review (July 11, 2008)
The Bottom Line
TerraCycle uses the most eco-friendly packaging we've seen to date, and you'll be surprised at just how multipurpose the TerraCycle Bathroom Cleaner is.
From mirrors, to toilets, this bathroom cleaner is perfect for almost any surface. The one catch? You'll probably want to use something else to scrub the tub.
Pros
* Suitable for all Bathroom Surfaces
* Eco-Friendly Production and Packaging
* Non-Toxic, Natural Ingredients
* Satisfaction Guarunteed
Cons
* Not Very Effective as a Bathtub Cleaner...
South Bend Tribune
Great Ideas for House and Home (July 11, 2008)
Oak barrels recycled for home
This is sustainable gardening with class.
TerraCycle Inc. is recycling Kendall-Jackson wine barrels into composters and rain barrels. The oak barrels are clean and safe for outdoor household use, the winemaker says.
The rotary composter holds grass clippings, leaves and other yard waste while they decompose into nutrient-rich compost. A roller system makes it easy to load and rotate the barrel, speeding up the composting process.
The TerraCycle rain barrel captures roof runoff from a downspout for use in the garden.
Each product has a suggested retail price of $99. They're sold at some Sam's Clubs and some garden centers....
The Baltimore Sun
Make some money and save Earth (July 10, 2008)
TerraCycle has been getting all kinds of good press lately so I'm sure it needs no help from us. But really, I just want to jump on the fan bandwagon because it's pretty cool what this little New Jersey company is doing.
Two Princeton grads had a simple plan: take waste, process it, and turn it into a useful product. They now make totes out of Capri Sun juice pouches, bags out of plastic grocery bags, and shower curtains out of Oreo cookie wrappers. Their fertilizer made out of worm poop (ha. poop!) is sold at Home Depot. I found their totes on Target's Web site.
What I like even more is the Bottle Brigade or Wrapper Brigade aspect of this venture. ...
Green Home
TerraCycle Window Cleaner (July 10, 2008)
TerraCycle Window Cleaner
Active Ingredients: Purified water, grease cutters (natural minerals) performance enhancer, essential oils derived from natural sources, utilizing micro penetrating action
TerraCycle Advantages: Effective, Non-Toxic, Planet, People & Pet Safe, No Fragrances, Biodegradable, Never Tested on Animals, Naturally Derived
More information: As our cleaners leave no film or residue, they are considered to be hypo allergenic. Our products go beyond Eco friendly. They are in actual fact Environmentally Responsible. This is because they have been 3rd party laboratory tested and certified by the ECP, an Environment Canada Program for Environment Canada. ...
Sustainable Packaging News
TerraCycle Turns Kraft Packaging into New Products (July 10, 2008)
Kraft Foods recently announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, an upstart upcycling company that takes packages and materials that are challenging to recycle and turns them into affordable, high quality goods.
The partnership will greatly expand the number of collection sites TerraCycle has available across the country and will help prevent a significant amount of packaging waste from going into landfills.
Kraft will become the first major multi-category corporation to fund the collection of used packaging associated with its products. Several Kraft brands, including Balance bars and South Beach Living bars, Capri Sun beverages, and Chips Ahoy! and Oreo cookies, are now the lead sponsors of TerraCycle Brigades. These nationwide recycling programs make a donation for every piece of...
Green Bookmarks
Environmental (Green) Product and Service Reviews: (July 9, 2008)
TerraCycle: All Purpose Cleaner
TerraCycles' All Purpose Cleaner is a great product that goes a few steps beyond most household cleaners in both the quality of the product as well as the packaging. Not only do we feel good about using an all-natural mineral and essential oil based cleaner that effectivly cleans most common spills and grime, but we also love the concept of packaging it in a discarded plastic bottle. Much better in terms of energy demand than actually reprossing the plastic and reforming it, simply putting the cleaner in recovered bottles and using a standard spray top work perfectly. When the bottle is finished, the device could even be resued on another bottle with standard treading. In sum, TerraCycle has produced a great general purpose cleaner with mindful packaging....
About.com
TerraCycle All Purpose Plant Food (July 9, 2008)
TerraCycle All Purpose Plant Food is easy to use, has no odor, and definitely improves overall plant health. The company's efforts toward reducing waste, recycling, and offering eco-friendly products that are easy to use should also be applauded.
Pros
* Completely natural, OMRI listed.
* There was no mixing required.
* TerraCycle is odor-free.
* Better plant health.
Cons
* Application instructions are ambiguous....
Another Green Idea
Terracycle's Window Cleaner (July 8, 2008)
If you have been keeping up with recent posts you know that this holiday weekend found me scrubbing my house from top to bottom. Since I was going to be cleaning anyways I thought it would be a great time to try out some green cleaning products from Terracycle. Their all-purpose cleaner really surprised me with it's effectiveness. Would the window cleaner fare as well?
The short answer is yes, with one small exception. I cleaned all of the exterior surfaces of the windows first and was ecstatic at how well the window cleaner was cutting through all the grime that had built up over the winter and spring (I know I shouldn't have waited so long to clean them). Of course it still took a little bit of elbow grease to get everything off but it certainly didn't take any more work than with...
Chicago Sun Times
A herculean effort (July 8, 2008)
Kraft is getting into the garbage and recycling business. The packaged goods behemoth is paying schools and not-for-profits to collect garbage such as used drink pouches, energy bar wrappers, cookie packaging and other detritus. The collected materials will be upcycled by a firm called TerraCycle and transformed into products such as drink pouch pencil cases, totes, backpacks and umbrellas sold at outlets such as Office Max, Target and Walgreens....
Urban Baby Buzz
Cleaning Crew (July 8, 2008)
Your houseguests were a little messy this weekend. So were the kids. OK, you contributed too.
No need to call Merry Maids just yet. TerraCycle’s new eco-friendly cleaners are non-toxic, hypo-allergenic and environmentally responsible, made with ingredients like purified water and essential oils derived from natural sources. The products, each about the size of a small soda bottle, are recyclable and have the “zero footprint seal.”
The footprint on your carpet is another story.
Available at terracycle.net....
TRASHformations
TerraCycle Fashions a New Life for Old Wrappers (July 7, 2008)
Each year, billions of food and drink wrappers encasing popular brands end up in landfills because their multilayered materials -- which keep products fresh -- are tricky and expensive to break down and recycle. This waste has presented a challenge for manufacturers eager to reduce their environmental impact and buff reputations among eco-conscious consumers.
But that's changing due to an unusual alliance between a growing number of food and beverage bigwigs -- including Kraft Foods Inc., Kellogg Co., Clif Bar & Co. and Coca-Cola Co. -- and a tiny company in Trenton, N.J., named TerraCycle Inc.
In recent months, TerraCycle, which made its mark as a purveyor of fertilizer made from worm castings, has signed deals or is in talks with these and other companies to collect some of their packaging...
The Modesto Bee
Roll out the barrels (July 7, 2008)
This is sustainable gardening with class.
TerraCycle Inc. is recycling Kendall-Jackson wine barrels into composters and rain barrels. The oak barrels are clean and safe for outdoor household use, the winemaker says.
The rotary composter holds grass clippings, leaves and other yard waste while they decompose into nutrient-rich compost. A roller system makes it easy to load and rotate the barrel, speeding up the composting process.
The TerraCycle rain barrel captures roof runoff from a downspout for use in the garden.
Each product has a suggested retail price of $99. They're sold at some garden centers and at www.terracycle.net....
Food Processing
Lessons from the snack packers (July 3, 2008)
Taking a different green approach, Clif Bar & Co. Berkeley, Calif., is sponsoring a program to keep energy bar wrappers out of landfills. Clif Bar has created the initiative, called the Wrapper Brigade, with TerraCycle Inc., Trenton, N.J., which provides wrapper collection and reuse expertise.
Wrapper Brigade participants receive four collection bags that hold 200 energy bar wrappers each. They mail the filled bags back to TerraCycle, designating the charity they want to support with their wrapper donation; the program will donate two cents to charity for every used wrapper. All shipping fees are covered by the program to encourage people to collect as many wrappers as possible.
The collected wrappers will be fused and woven into a material that will be used to make backpacks, gym totes...
Green Biz
A Second Life for Cookie Wrappers (July 3, 2008)
NORTHFIELD, Ill. -- TerraCycle Inc. has joined forces with Kraft Foods to "upcycle" used wrappers from cookies, energy bars and drink pouches into purses, backpacks and umbrellas.
The partnership stands to divert millions of pounds of waste from landfills and provide a major coup for upstart TerraCycle, which made its name by transforming worm poop into fertilizer.
TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky estimates upcycled projects will comprise as much as 30 percent of its 2008 projected revenue of $8 million, the Wall Street Journal Reported. The company predicts that percentage -- and total revenue -- to nearly double in 2009.
Kraft will fund the collection of the packaging waste through TerraCycle's brigades, which will donate between 2 cents and 5 cents per wrapper or drink pouch to participating...
Inc. Magazine
Totes From Trash (July 3, 2008)
A New Jersey-based eco-friendly plant food company has struck a deal with Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) to turn its used packaging into purses, backpacks and other merchandise, company officials announced this week.
Under the partnership, TerraCycle, which already packages its own worm-waste fertilizer in recycled plastic bottles, will expand its waste collection sites to include Kraft brands such as Capri Sun, Chips Ahoy! and Oreo cookies. The companies will also sponsor teams to collect trash and will donate two cents per item to local community groups and schools.
The move is aimed at diverting reusable waste from area landfills and garbage dumps....
The Star-Ledger
TerraCycle has deal for Kraft's trash (July 2, 2008)
It's pretty much what you'd expect from TerraCycle: The Trenton company that makes plant food out of worm poop also is turning Oreo cookie wrappers into shower curtains.
Kraft Foods yesterday announced a recycling partnership with TerraCycle in which schools and community groups college wrappers from Balance energy bars, Oreos and Chips Ahoy1...
The Trentonian Times
A Deal for the Future (July 2, 2008)
TRENTON -- City recycling innovators, Terracycle, yesterday announced a new partnership with Kraft Foods in which discarded cookie and energy bar wrappers will be transformed into everything from purses and backpacks to umbrellas and shower curtains.
TerraCycle's Drink Pouch Brigade first introduced the company to Kraft. Through Capri Sun, which is owned by Kraft, TerraCycle was able to show how used drunk pouches can be sewn into tote bags and handbags and ten be sold for profit to area retailers, said Albe Zakes, a spokesperson for TerraCycle. ...
Food Business Review
Kraft Foods enters into recycling partnership with TerraCycle (July 2, 2008)
In line with this partnership, schools and community groups will collect wrappers from Balance energy bars, Oreos and Chips Ahoy! cookies and Capri Sun beverage pouches.
With financial support from Kraft Foods, TerraCycle will give two cents for each cookie wrapper or drink pouch. The wrappers and pouches thus collected will be used for making umbrellas, shower curtains and purses.
According to Tom Szaky, chief executive of TerraCycle, the partnership with Kraft Foods is expected to generate revenue of $8 million in 2008 and $15 million in 2009....
Wall Street Journal
TerraCycle Fashions a New Life (July 1, 2008)
Company Turns Trash
Into Totes, Backpacks
And Other Products
Is a tote bag forged from old CapriSun pouches fashionable? What about an umbrella constructed of used Chips Ahoy! wrappers?
Each year, billions of food and drink wrappers encasing popular brands end up in landfills because their multilayered materials -- which keep products fresh -- are tricky and expensive to break down and recycle. This waste has presented a challenge for manufacturers eager to reduce their environmental impact and buff reputations among eco-conscious consumers....
Live Science
Where to Mail Your Garbage (July 1, 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. ...
Cool Buzz
TerraCycle: packaging waste upcycled into beautiful umbrellas (July 1, 2008)
As a child I used to love collecting wrappers of chocolate bars. I hid them in my books to make them smell tasty! Of course those often attracted ants and occasionally even a mouse or two, but my fascination for attractive packaging was never dented by the fear of pests. And if you too love you fav brands, then you’ll be really interested to know that recycling giants TerraCycle are now planning on taking packaging waste and ‘upcycling’ it into new products. With household items like shower curtains, umbrellas, lunch boxes, and backpacks already on their upcycled products list, the company also accepts contributions from citizens who can sign up on the company’s site and have their recyclables made into more funky stuff....
Parks and Rec Business
CLIF BAR Launches Collection Program (July 1, 2008)
Berkeley, Calif. -- CLIF BAR, an 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 land fills, while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials....
Associated Content
TerraCycle a Company that Takes Recycling to the Extreme (July 1, 2008)
One of the biggest reasons I am choosing the TerraCycle line of cleaning products now is that they are non-toxic. With a little toddler running around my house, I am constantly worried that she may get into something. I have out all the safety latches and locks up but accidents still happen. It is good to know I have another choice for keeping my daughter safe....
Associated Content
Make Haste to Reuse Waste from Terracycle Products (July 1, 2008)
Terracycle uses solid waste in order to make products that we can use everyday. The company has used everything from worm poop to Capri-Sun juice packages to make things like plant food, backpacks and pencil pouches. Find products for your office, lawn and garden, school; become a little stylish by using environmentally friendly totes make from plastic bags and drink pouches. Terracycle products are used from eliminated waste that is collected by the company and the many recycling programs that you can become personally involved in.
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Cool Business Ideas
TerraCycle Fashions a New Life For Old Wrappers (July 1, 2008)
The Wall Street Journal: TerraCycle has formed deals with large food and beverage makers to collect discarded wrappers and juice pouches and turn them into pencil cases, umbrellas and other accessories.
The small firm offered large companies a solution to their problem -- how to dispose of wrappings that are tricky and costly to break down and recycle.
TerraCycle's products are starting to appear in large retail stores. And the firm expects their sales to help boost revenue....
Product Reviews
TerraCycle Upcycling Alliance: Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Kellogg’s (July 1, 2008)
TerraCycle is an amazing company that started with the world’s first product where every component was made from garbage. Today TerraCycle has started an Upcycling alliance with brands like Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods and Kellogg’s. They will now build a complete range of products from trash and these will be sold in retailers that include Walgreens and Target.
When you see the first product TerraCycle launched (an earth friendly fertilizer) every bottle is different and that’s because they were made from reused soda bottles. Everything is other people’s garbage, the spray tops are left overs from other companies and even the shipping boxes are other company’s misprints. This is all great but the price has to be good or people will not buy and the amazing fact is it is cheaper than...
PSFK
TerraCycle Turns Your Last Bag Of Cookies Into An Umbrella, And More (July 1, 2008)
TerraCycle made a name for themselves producing a line of plant fertilizer products that were organically made by worms and sold in recycled soda bottles. Not content to watch lots of other potentially reusable materials head to the landfill, the company is expanding operations to produce a line of cleaning products, supplies for school and the office, and yes even fashion accessories. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the company has inked deals with a number of companies to collect some of their packaging waste and ‘upcycle’ it into new products. The company is already offering these products for sale at Target and hopes to be shipping to Walmart and Home Depot soon.
TerraCycle is committed to getting consumers involved. They have setup a nationwide collection network...
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....
Green Daily
Join the Wrapper Brigade (June 30, 2008)
When you're finished with your Oreos or Fig Newtons, you toss the packaging, right? So do hundreds of millions of other people.
Instead, why not sign up for the Wrapper Brigade? It's a partnership between TerraCycle and Nabisco that collects used food wrappers and in turn, donates from 1 to 5 cents (depending on the item) to the school or charity of your choosing. The process started out collecting plastic drink pouches, and then evolved into collecting everything from yogurt containers to wine corks.The process is simple: sign up on the site for the Brigade to which you'd like to contribute, and Terracycle will send you four prepaid "collection envelopes." Just load your used wrappers into the bags, and when you reached the designated amount, dump the bag at a UPS drop-off spot....
Epromos
Unique Recycled Bag Promotion (June 30, 2008)
Tom Szaky from TerraCycle reports on a unique promotion done by Newsweek, Target & Terracycle. Basically, the cover of a Newsweek issue was designed to convert into a postage-paid mailer and readers could fill it with plastic bags and send them to TerraCycle, who made them into reusable bags (plastic bag bags, to be precise). With more and more retailers and governments doing something about the volume of plastic bags we use, it's nice to get a reusable shopping bag which is also a recycled tote bag....
Suburban News Publishing
CSG signs on for project that keeps yogurt cups out of cans (June 30, 2008)
The Columbus School for Girls has teamed up with TerraCycle, an Eco-Capitalism company popularizing up-cycling, to preserve what others might consider trash.
TerraCycle sells commercial waste products, such as their flagship product, worm castings, as plant food and packages its products in used milk jugs and soda bottles.
As part of its 2008 Yogurt Brigade program, TerraCycle is recruiting schools to collect used containers and send them to the company. The company pays anywhere from 2 cents to 6 cents each for the cups. Stoneyfield Farm Yogurt pays for the shipping.
"No. 5 plastics are not recyclable," said Molly Rose, senior intern at TerraCycle. "They send them to us -- we have our urban artists paint the cups and they are reused for planting small plants....
The Ohio Review
Pathways leads to greater independence (June 29, 2008)
LISBON - Opportunity Homes recently opened a new facility for its residents in an effort to place them on a more productive path for learning work and life skills.
Known as Pathways, the new workshop for people with mental retardation and developmental disabilities stands just a short distance from the 22-bed residential care facility located at 7891, state Route 45, Lisbon - so short a distance that plans call for constructing a pathway between the two buildings.
Opportunity Homes Executive Director Mary Jane Jones said they noticed the building for rent just a couple doors down at 7941 state Route 45 and decided to start their own workshop to give some of their residents an alternative to the facility operated by Columbiana County MRDD....
Press Connects
Aiming for zero waste (June 29, 2008)
Imagine if you can, a world without that stinky can in the corner of the kitchen. No heaps of refuse at the curb once a week. No bill every month to haul it away.
Imagine: No dumps. No landfills. No garbage trucks. No garbage. Period.
Chris Burger can imagine it. In fact, the Whitney Point computer software engineer and his wife, Cindy, have made a life practice of imagining it. "Basically, we don't buy things that cannot be recycled or composted," he says.
"We bring our own cloth bags and fill up at supermarkets, and also always keep one or two folded up plastic bags in a hip pocket," Burger says. "We reuse them again and again and never need new ones. They fold up very neatly."
The couple always buys in bulk, and while some pharmaceuticals are "a problem," any plastic bottles...
St. Petersburg Times
Wine barrels transformed into rain barrels (June 28, 2008)
Where do old wine barrels go when they die? If you're lucky, they'll become rain barrels in your yard. TerraCycle, a New Jersey manufacturer of eco-friendly home and garden products, is offering refurbished 55-gallon oak barrels from Kendall-Jackson, the California winemaker, transformed into rain barrels and rotary composters.
The rain barrels are hooked up to a downspout to store rainwater, which homeowners tap with a hose to water lawns, gardens or houseplants....
Akron Beacon Journal
Oak barrels recycled for home (June 28, 2008)
This is sustainable gardening with class.
TerraCycle Inc. is recycling Kendall-Jackson wine barrels into composters and rain barrels. The oak barrels are clean and safe for outdoor household use, the winemaker says.
The rotary composter holds grass clippings, leaves and other yard waste while they decompose into nutrient-rich compost. A roller system makes it easy to load and rotate the barrel, speeding up the composting process.
The TerraCycle rain barrel captures roof runoff from a downspout for use in the garden.
Each product has a suggested retail price of $99. They're sold at the Sam's Club in Fairlawn and some garden centers....
Daily Dose
WANTED: Used Drink Pouches (June 28, 2008)
If you have kids, chances are you buy drink pouches, such as Capri Sun, Honest Kids, and Kool Aid. Gwen and I are collecting used drink pouches to be recycled into fashion bags, tote bags, and pencil cases for kids and adults....
Hive Thrive
Rising Oil Prices Reveal Competitive Potential of Green and Local Businesses (June 27, 2008)
Products that are identified chiefly as green, organic, or locally produced have sometimes risked falling into what one might call the LOHAS Trap. To the extent that LOHAS, an acronym for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability, is regarded as a relatively affluent, well-educated market segment, products that are aimed at that segment are likely to remain “alternatives.” In that case, for most consumers, the default choice will be the “mainstream” product, e.g. Palmolive, rather than Seventh Generation. A company such as Seventh Generation may earn a profit by charging a premium to those affluent consumers who are especially concerned about the environmental impact of detergents. However, environmental progress will be limited if the offerings of such companies continue to be premium...
Looking 4 Stuff
CapriSun Tote by TerraCycle (June 27, 2008)
Think back and you can probably fondly recall at least one childhood memory of yourself drinking a CapriSun juice pack. There was just something about CapriSun that made it way cooler than the average juice box. Maybe it was poking the straw into the opening on the side of the package rather than the top or watching the foil pouch deflate as your sucked back your juice, then blowing air back into it and popping the foil.
As it turns out TerraCycle actually has a better purpose for used CapriSun pouches then exploding them (and subsequently sending juice flying across your mother's spotless kitchen). The company actually creates funky, reusable tote bags from the pouches, which is a great way to keep them from ending up in a landfill since the pouches actually aren't recyclable. Not only...
Super Fresh
CapriSun Tote by TerraCycle (June 27, 2008)
Think back and you can probably fondly recall at least one childhood memory of yourself drinking a CapriSun juice pack. There was just something about CapriSun that made it way cooler than the average juice box. Maybe it was poking the straw into the opening on the side of the package rather than the top or watching the foil pouch deflate as your sucked back your juice, then blowing air back into it and popping the foil....
Alexandria Times
Finally, a place for those energy bar wrappers... (June 27, 2008)
A local startup company called TerraCycle is paying Alexandria schools and community groups to help collect used packaging like drink pouches, yogurt cups, energy bar wrappers and the like. The company repurposes used packaging and other waste materials to make eco-friendly products sold at local Giant Foods.
In Alexandria, participants have collected used packaging and donated the money to Alexandria City Public Schools, The SACC (School Age Children Care) Program, and the nationwide program "Adopt-a-Classroom."
"The production and sale of the products is mutually beneficial to everyone involved," a spokesman said. "The non-recyclable packaging is rescued from a landfill, local schools earn much need funding and kids learn how to protect their environment in a fun, easy and most importantly,...
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....
News Ok
Gardening company uses recyclables (June 26, 2008)
Some companies now make gardening products and packaging from completely recycled materials. Here is some of the best from Terra Cycle.
Slow-release granular fertilizer. Made from worm castings and chicken litter, this fertilizer can feed plants for up to 12 weeks. Not only is the fertilizer made from waste, but it comes packaged in reused gallon jugs.
Eco-friendly cleaners. These cleaners are made from natural plant materials and are biodegradable and nontoxic. They are packaged in reused one liter soda bottles. The line includes a drain cleaner, glass cleaner, bathroom cleaner and an all-purpose cleaner....
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....
Philly Eco City
A Green Entrepreneur (June 26, 2008)
Reading and learning about TerraCycle and Tom Szaky, its founder is fascinating for me. I think TerraCycle is a prototype, a lab, a demonstration, a proof of the way a profitable sustainable business can be built on recycling what some people consider… trash. TerraCycle’s story is a proof that what is trash to me is gold to someone else. It is all a matter of point of view, of thinking outside the box. Tom is an amazing guy. TerraCycle is based in Trenton NJ. No need to fly to California to see what the future looks like. Read on.
TerraCycle’s Tom Szaky, A Green Entrepreneur...
Tennesee Women's Journal
Going Green for God’s Glory (June 25, 2008)
With the current trend in green living in full bloom, there is often confusion, hype and cynicism to be weighed in the balance.......
Inform Inc.
TerraCycle™ Inc. - Raising the Bar for Eco-friendly Businesses (June 25, 2008)
In 2006 Americans generated 251 million tons of waste and recycled only 35.2% of those materials (82 million tons), according to the EPA. As landfills fill up and become scarce, efforts to implement effective recycling programs have intensified. TerraCycle™ Inc. has responded to this calling and has become the world's first company to mass produce a product that has a negative ecological footprint. ...
Enviromental Leader
High Energy Prices May Give Green Products Edge (June 25, 2008)
More companies are cashing in on the difference in price between products made with recycled materials and those made with more fossil fuel content, The Wall Street Journal reports.
When there is instability in prices, consumers tend to be open to new sourcing, says Jeff Mendelsohn, founder and CEO of New Leaf Paper. “That’s a general market strategy, not just green,” he says. A mill working with New Leaf uses recycled landfill methane as a power source.
Compostable dinnerware manufacturer Eco-Products expects revenue to jump five-fold this year.
TerraCycle, which makes fertilizer from worm castings, plans to market an artificial fire log this winter made from soy wax. Its main competition makes a petroleum-based log. Since the company’s raw materials aren’t linked to petroleum...
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:...
Cross Country Skier Nordic
Balance Bar Joins Effort to Collect Used Energy Bar Wrappers (June 20, 2008)
Balance Bar has joined Clif Bar and TerraCycle in the Energy Bar Brigade. The Energy Bar Brigade is designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrapper going into landfills while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. Two cents will be donated to charity for each wrapper consumers collect and send to TerraCycle.
TerraCycle will upcycle the collected wrappers into backpacks, gym totes and other products. These items are expected to be available at major retailers by early next year.
The collaboration recognizes that millions of energy bar wrappers are discarded each year. Together, Balance and Clif want to make reuse, not disposal, the standard for used wrappers....
Sports One Source
Balance Bar to Recycle Wrappers (June 20, 2008)
Balance Bar is joining the Energy Bar Brigade, which is designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrappers going into landfills while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. For each wrapper returned two cents will be donated to charity.
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....
Please Sprout Blog
Adventures in Patio Gardening (June 18, 2008)
I know that with a potted garden, it's important to regularly fertilize the plants regularly since the plants will quickly use all the nutrients in the soil. I've been giving my plants some plant food with their daily watering, but I was told by the nursery that I bought it from that it is not a replacement for fertilizer. ...
Maine Coast Now
UMA students collect yogurt cups for recycling as flower pots (June 17, 2008)
AUGUSTA — Honors students at the University of Maine at Augusta have been collecting and cleaning plastic yogurt cups for about three months, sending them to New Jersey where they’ll be recycled as flowerpots.
TerraCycle’s recycled yogurt containers look like this when they are cleaned and painted and filled with soil and a blooming flower.
Now, they’re planning to start collecting juice box pouches, which can be turned into pencil cases, and foil cookie wrappers which can be woven into pouches and bags by the same New Jersey company — TerraCycle....
Green Books
Environmental (Green) Business Listings (June 17, 2008)
TerraCycle Inc. :: www.terracycle.net :: TerraCycle produces a line of home and cleaning products that are completely made and packaged with post-consumer discarded material. These products range from fertilzer, to shopping bags, to home cleaning products....
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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Iggyz Uncensored
TerraCycle tree and shrub fertilizer spikes (June 16, 2008)
I finally found one of the other TerraCycle products I had been searching for. The Home Depot in Jacksonville, IL had a good supply of TerraCycle tree and shrub fertilizer spikes. I hadn’t been able to find this new product closer to our home....
Money AOL
Money From (Almost) Nothing: Poo Poo, too! (June 13, 2008)
If you don't have a need for bottled urine, perhaps you'd like to purchase some worm poop? According to TerraCycle Inc., worm poop is an ideal, natural fertilizer. That is why they package the naturally occuring waste in used 20 oz. soda bottles and sell it for $6.95 (prices may vary). Proving where there's worm waste and soda drinkers, there's money to be made.
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Bicycle Paper
Balance Bar® Joins TerraCycle™ & CLIF® Bar to Collect Used Energy Bar Wrappers (June 12, 2008)
TerraCycle and CLIF BAR are proud to announce that Balance Bar is joining the Energy Bar Brigade™. The Energy Bar Brigade is designed to reduce the amount of energy bar wrapper going into landfills while educating people about the benefits of reusing waste materials. For each wrapper returned two cents will be donated to charity.
As an eco-friendly innovator TerraCycle will upcycle the collected wrappers. They 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....
The Peregrin Pages
From Trash To Treasure - Adaptive Reuse In Business (June 11, 2008)
A while back, I wrote a post on the concept of adaptive reuse. Originally the term was an architectural one and referred to the reuse of buildings and building materials rather than destroying them. Over time however, the term has been absorbed by other industries and even by individuals and has come to mean the practice of finding other uses for products rather than as fodder for our overflowing landfills.
Since that original post, I have been searching for examples of adaptive reuse. I haven’t found very many. In the most recent issue of Yes! Magazine however, there is a small blurb about entrepreneur Tom Szaky that caught my eye and inspired me....
Plenty Magazine
From cask to composter (June 11, 2008)
Wine barrels aren't cheap. Brand new, they can cost anywhere from $300 to $800 and up, so it seems a shame not to use them after they've finished holding all that wine.
Although they've been reused in furniture making and as garden planters, I've never been impressed with the results. But there are a couple of novel ways they're being reused that I can get behind....
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....
The Green Ninja
Upcycling?? (June 11, 2008)
So you’ve got your local recycling system down pat — but what about all the other stuff your city won’t accept? If the growing piles of plastic wine corks or Clif Bar wrappers are getting you down, check out these fun recycling programs. They’re custom made for the environmentalist who likes to sweat the small stuff!...
Green LA Girl
Emerald City: Green cleaning gets greener (June 10, 2008)
TerraCycle: Green cleanliness in a waste stream bottle. If you’re not ready to make your own green cleaners — but cringe every time you throw out another plastic spray bottle (into the recycling bin, but still), TerraCycle has a solution for you: Green cleaners packaged in reclaimed soda bottles!...
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....
LA Times
TerraCycle: Green cleanliness in a waste stream bottle (June 9, 2008)
If you're not ready to make your own green cleaners -- but cringe every time you throw out another plastic spray bottle (into the recycling bin, but still), TerraCycle has a solution for you: Green cleaners packaged in reclaimed soda bottles!
Yep -- The anti-waste people who brought you the eco worm-poop fertilizer in used soda bottles are now packaging eco-cleaning products in the same reclaimed containers. TerraCycle's 5-product line includes all-purpose, window and bathroom cleaners, as well as a degreaser and drain maintainer. All products are non-toxic and biodegradable; they're also free of 1,4-Dioxane, fragrances, and dyes. ...
Homegrown
What does worm poop look like? (June 8, 2008)
Only a gardener could get excited by a call to test out vermicompost, a.k.a., worm poop. Such was the case when James Artis of TerraCycle, makers of the “world’s most eco-friendly products,” offered to send a sample of his company’s products.
Worms create some of the richest fertilizer around and I hadn’t used any since Stacie Johnson suspended her vermicompost business in Robins several years ago....
RePlayGround
TerraCycle - worm poop and more! (June 8, 2008)
If you haven't heard of TerraCycle, well now you have. They're a fast growing eco-powerhouse that produces both eco-friendly products AND packages them in reclaimed materials.
How cool is that? They got their start with Worm Poop and package it in soda bottles collected by students. Students raise money. Students learn about recycling. Terracycle gets inexpensive packaging. AND the bottles stay out of landfills. Brilliant? Yes....
Maine Blog
Raise funds by recycling yogurt containers (June 7, 2008)
Stonyfield Farm, an organic food and environmental pioneer, is partnering with TerraCycle in a program aimed at collecting used yogurt containers and teaching children about recycling while allowing schools and churches to earn extra funding.
“We are always looking for ways to help our consumers who want to recycle or reuse our cups, but have few or no options to do so,” says Stonyfield Farm President and CEO Gary Hirshberg....
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. ...
Rethink and Reuse
From TerraCycle: Reincarnating Wine Barrels (June 6, 2008)
My uncle sent me something interesting not too long ago: an article about reincarnating wine barrels.
A company in Trenton, N.J., called TerraCycle has started recyling beautiful, hand-crafted wine barrels into composters and rain barrels....
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....
Green Paige
Green Idea: Recycle for Charity (June 4, 2008)
Did you know that you could earn money for your neighborhood school by recycling? Here are a few organizations that can help you save the planet and give back to your community.
TerraCycle has teamed up with various companies including Stonyfield Farm and Nabisco to collect used yogurt containers, wrappers, drink pouches, corks and plastic bottles. The collected materials are then recycled into planting pots. Schools or your favorite charity can get as much as 5 cents per yogurt container depending on it’s size. ...
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....
It's The Little Thinks
Green Pot (June 4, 2008)
I bought green pot! Get your mind out of your crazy teenage years. It was for my flowers. We recently bought a gazebo cover for our back patio and to liven up the patio with color I bought some pretty pink flowers (I couldn't find organic ones).
So when searching for pots to put them in I wanted the most environmentally friendly. Earlier this spring we went with wood for our tomatoes and orange tree. But this time I was thinking more on the terms of recycled plastic or clay....
Maine Coast Now
Raise funds by recycling yogurt containers (June 4, 2008)
Stonyfield Farm, an organic food and environmental pioneer, is partnering with TerraCycle in a program aimed at collecting used yogurt containers and teaching children about recycling while allowing schools and churches to earn extra funding.
“We are always looking for ways to help our consumers who want to recycle or reuse our cups, but have few or no options to do so,” says Stonyfield Farm President and CEO Gary Hirshberg....
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....
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....
Los Angeles Times
TerraCycle turns juice pouches into pencil cases (June 1, 2008)
Recycling odd small items brings out two camps: The "Why're you wasting time with small meaningless things when we've got big problems" crowd, and the "Finally -- a solution for my mini quandary" crowd. This post's for the people in the latter granola group....
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. ...
Progressive Grocer
GROCERY: Back-to-school: Liquid assets (June 1, 2008)
There’s been a definite shift in how America's kids are quenching their thirst, and trends indicate that they'll be taking those new habits -- and beverage products -- back to school with them.
New York-based market research firm Packaged Facts foresees strong growth ahead for the children's beverage segment, expecting it to reach $5.8 billion by 2012. This reflects the industry's rush to offer more items with a healthy slant....
Boys' Life Magazine
BL Goes Green Heroes (June 1, 2008)
For the national Bottle Brigade program, Pack 116, Chippewa Falls, Wis., collected more than 7,000 plastic soda bottles, more than any other participating Scout unit. The program is run by TerraCycle, which reuses the bottles to package plant foods (made from worm poop), paying 5 cents per bottle. ...
Education Works
Making Trenton Green (June 1, 2008)
Throughout the spring, students in the EducationWorks' after school programs at the Woodrow Wilson School worked to make a greener Trenton. Seventeen Wilson 4th and 5th graders studied the problems of pollution and advocated an increase in recycling and reusing trash....
Yes! Magazine
One Man's garbage, Another's Revolution (June 1, 2008)
A worm bin in a friend's kitchen helped Princeton student Tom Szaky recognize an opportunity to kepe garbage out of landfills andcreate a successful business.
In 2001, he co-founded TerraCycle, the first company to make all of its products and packaging out of waste. The business sells plant food made from worm poop and packaged in reused plastic bottles. ...
Alaska Business Montly
Fred Meyer Sells Edo-Friendly Garden Products (June 1, 2008)
Fred Meyer stores in Alaska now sell a new line of eco-friendly garden products in response to customer demand for more sustainable, organic products. TerraCycle Inc.'s products are made from waste and recycled products....
CLIF BAR Launches Collection Program (June 1, 2008)
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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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San Francisco Chronicle
Kendall-Jackson barrels get new, green identity (May 27, 2008)
Old wine barrels from the Kendall-Jackson winery in Sonoma County will be taking on an environmentally friendly second life - as rainwater containers and backyard composters.
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The Green Journal
terracycle’s goal: eliminate waste (May 26, 2008)
Even if you haven't picked up a bottle of woom poop yet, no doubt you've heard of terracycle. 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....
The Mount Airy News
Recycling options a top priority for sixth graders (May 26, 2008)
Carriker then told the students about a company called TerraCycle, which buys recyclable waste from schools and other areas and turns it into a variety of products such as potting mix in a milk jug container, soda bottle plant food, and a 2-liter bird feeder. The company pays six cents per plastic bottle. They also accept plastic cookie wrappers, drink pouches (i.e. Capri Sun), energy bar wrappers and yogurt containers. TerraCycle will purchase those items for two cents each.
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Foorprint
Garbage into Gold (May 26, 2008)
Co-founders Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer were determined to turn the worm box concept into a real-life, commercially viable process. That summer, they developed prototype equipment and proved their concept was feasible by reprocessing solid waste from dining halls at Princeton University....
Eco Life
Green Drain Cleaner? It’s Here! (May 25, 2008)
Every household has an issue with this from time to time, some more than others. Stuff of various origin gets stuck in the drain line and stays there. Initially, you don’t know it, but after more stuff gets stuck, there’s a back up. Even a complete clog. What a nightmare this is. For us, our bathroom sink pair have been a recurring problem, and it seemed that the only solution was using caustic chemicals. Not the most savory course of action for the environmentally conscious. Even the chemicals don’t always work. ...
Treehugger in Training
Worm Poop (May 25, 2008)
I know what you're probably thinking; if I have to read one more blog post about worm defacations, I'm going to scream. But bear with me just a bit. We were at the tail end of one of our many trips to various garden centers around town (a trip any guy absolutely loves, as you can imagine) when I asked Mrs THIT "So do we need anything else?". This was intended to be one of those more or less rhetorical questions which actually meant "So can we finally leave?"...
Sustainable Rays
Terracycle recycles (May 25, 2008)
In the latest edition of Sierra Magazine I just discovered a (transitional, in my opinion) solution to all these non-biodegradable candy wrappers. A new company called Terracycle has figured out a way to collect and reuse plastic bottles, juice wrappers and candy wrappers, working with the companies that package their products in them.
For example, here is how you can help recycle those Clif's Bar wrappers into a purse, as in the illustration from their website:...
Ottawa Citizen
Drip by drip (May 24, 2008)
The water slowly drips off the eaves of the house in the silvery-grey light of a storm just passed. Glancing out the window, it would be easy to assume that the roof had shed little more than the few fat drops I see falling. But I'd be wrong. An estimated 4,700 litres of water can pour off my 2,000-square-foot home during a 2.5-centimetre rainfall.
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California Farmer
KJ Wine Barrels Find New Life (May 23, 2008)
Water conservation is a major concern across the country, and now homeowners can capture roof runoff by redirecting rainwater from any downspout into a clean used wine barrel, ready for garden use at a later time. The oak Rain Barrel is a more natural alternative to the typical plastic rainwater storage systems currently on the market. The Rotary Composter is a simple method of turning grass clippings, leaves and other yard waste into garden fertilizer. The Rotary Composter is situated on a roller system, making it easy to load and rotate, thereby speeding up the natural process. ...
Donna Reed Wannabe
Gardening & Environmentalism (May 23, 2008)
Oh, hey, I almost forgot the whole reason for writing this post today. I have found this great product made by an amazing company that I wanted to tell you about. Don't worry, you didn't read through all that for nothing, it relates to what I have been talking about. The company is called Terracycle, you can find them at http://www.terracycle.net/. To quote their website: "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." They do this through all sorts of neat ways, unfortunately if I tried to tell you about all of them you would spend your whole day reading my blog (hmm .... ) so I'm just gonna focus on the one that relates to gardening. Remember I teased you a couple days ago that sometime in the near future...
Statesman Journal
Neighbor to Neighbor - New products (deer) (May 23, 2008)
TerraCycle, the company behind organic and eco-friendly home and garden products stored in plastic bottles, milk jugs and the like, has several new products out, including:...
Iggy Uncensored
TerraCycle worm castings granular all purpose plant food (May 23, 2008)
Here is a picture of one of the newer TerraCycle products. I’ve put the worm castings to use for the first time this year. Using the product on parts of the lawn being patched and around various plants. As you can see this All purpose plant food comes in a recycled milk jug. It’s basically dry worm poo in a jug. For more information on this product and TerraCycle please use the link below....
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....
Earth & Economy
Help Eliminate the Idea of Waste (May 22, 2008)
TerraCycle manufactures affordable, potent, organic products that are not only made from waste, but are also packaged entirely in waste. As an eco-friendly manufacturer of plant foods, TerraCycle is able to make its products with worm poop and then sell them in used soda bottles.
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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!...
Eco Street
Join the recycling brigade (May 21, 2008)
For our US readers, here’s how you can recycle, support eco-capitalism, and make a little cash on the side. TerraCycle are paying 2 cents per cookie wrapper or drinks pouch, so that they can continue to make really cool stuff out of rubbish. You collect the wrappers and pouches and Terracycle delivers free shipping collection bags right to your door. To become part of TerraCycle’s recycling brigade, sign up now. Spots are limited!...
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. ...
The New York Times
The Goal Is to Do the Right Thing (May 21, 2008)
TERRACYCLE’S fertilizer is priced the same as its competitors’. It is on the same store shelves, from Home Depot to Wal-Mart. But comparisons stop there. The company prides itself on making a product that its co-founder, Tom Szaky, calls “green to the extreme”: its base ingredient is made by feeding trash to worms and collecting their nutrient-rich wastes, a process that he perfected using dining-hall refuse as a student at Princeton University.
The product is packaged in used soda bottles, which instead of being recycled — requiring melting the plastic — are cleaned and relabeled. TerraCycle’s other products are likewise “upcycled” — a compost from an old wine barrel, a handbag from drink pouches and a bird feeder that is an upside-down two-liter soda bottle. This month,...
Eco Street
Join the recycling brigade (May 21, 2008)
For our US readers, here’s how you can recycle, support eco-capitalism, and make a little cash on the side. TerraCycle are paying 2 cents per cookie wrapper or drinks pouch, so that they can continue to make really cool stuff out of rubbish. You collect the wrappers and pouches and Terracycle delivers free shipping collection bags right to your door. To become part of TerraCycle’s recycling brigade, sign up now. Spots are limited!...
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....
Bit Botters
Spotlight On: TerraCycle. Making money from trash. (May 20, 2008)
TerraCycle is a company started by two Princton University students. What’s so unusual about their products is that every single part is made from garbage and waste. Yes, including the bottles and the packaging. The bottle you see on the right is an old, cleaned Pepsi bottle. To save resources, they recycle old soda bottles, and instead of melting it down, they use the bottle as is, even if they’re different shapes — they’re first company to do this....
Sustainable is Good
Target's Terracycle Retote (May 20, 2008)
Target has teamed up with Terracycle to produce a new type of reusable bag called Retote. The new bag is made from an entirely different process and is truly unique in the reusable bag arena. ...
Lucky Blog
Proof Positive? (May 20, 2008)
We can’t stop working to turn the Earth’s health around. We have to continue recycling, reducing and reusing. We have to find new ways every day to minimize our carbon footprint. There are opportunities everywhere. Take, for example, the Clif Bar you’re currently munching. TerraCycle is now offering 2 cents for every Clif Bar wrapper you collect (you have to sign up first), so that they can turn them into funky eco-cessories, reducing the amount of wrappers that end up in landfills each year. And they aren’t stopping at Clif Bars; Nature Valley and PowerBar wrappers are accepted as well. If you don’t eat energy bars but gobble up tubs of yogurt and gallons of juice, TerraCycle is collecting yogurt containers and drink pouches. Sounds good, and easy, to me....
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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PR NEWSWIRE
Kendall-Jackson Wine Barrels Find New Life as Rotary Composters and Rainwater Storage (May 19, 2008)
TerraCycle, a New
Jersey-based company known for its unique eco-friendly home products, is
now offering refurbished Kendall-Jackson wine oak barrels, transforming
them into The Rotary Composter(TM) and Rain Barrel(TM) water storage
containers. The wine barrels turned garden tools are made from French or
American oak and are completely clean, safe and perfect for outdoor
household use....
Wine & Vines
Wine Barrels Reincarnated at New Jersey Firm (May 19, 2008)
As an investor in a French stave mill, Sonoma County-based winemaker Kendall-Jackson is dedicated to selecting high-quality white oak, seasoning the staves and toasting the barrels to create high-quality vehicles for aging its popular wines. At many wineries, once these meticulously crafted casks serve their purpose, the barrels are ripped apart, sold as planters or sometimes even ground into sawdust....
Think outside the box!
From Princeton dropout to CEO of TerraCycle. (May 19, 2008)
What’s the great product you might ask? It’s worm poop! Why would someone in their right mind give up an Ivy League education at Princeton to pursue worm poop? Well it takes a determined individual to follow through on his/her beliefs to fulfill their dreams. Tom Szaky the founder of TerraCycle discovered the wonders of compost from a friend’s basement. Tom had the foresight to see the potential of the earthly matter after seeing how well it nourished his friend’s plants....
Yahoo Finance
Kendall-Jackson Wine Barrels Find New Life as Rotary Composters and Rainwater Storage (May 19, 2008)
TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company known for its unique eco-friendly home products, is now offering refurbished Kendall-Jackson wine oak barrels, transforming them into The Rotary Composter(TM) and Rain Barrel(TM) water storage containers. The wine barrels turned garden tools are made from French or American oak and are completely clean, safe and perfect for outdoor household use.
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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....
Digital 50
Kendall-Jackson Wine Barrels Find New Life as Rotary Composters and Rainwater Storage (May 19, 2008)
TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company known for its unique eco-friendly home products, is now offering refurbished Kendall-Jackson wine oak barrels, transforming them into The Rotary Composter(TM) and Rain Barrel(TM) water storage containers. The wine barrels turned garden tools are made from French or American oak and are completely clean, safe and perfect for outdoor household use....
E-lifestyle
Entrepreneur Spotlight: Terracycle (May 18, 2008)
So I was in the crib chillen, wondering when the rain was gonna end. Flipped to the weather channel and to my surprise there was a special on Eco-friendly companies. The company that caught my attention was Terracycle. It's a company who's whole platform is built around trash, and not trash in the sense of those "Got Junk" guys. Terracycle uses recycled bottles and containers to package their "worm poop" fertilizer compost. Now you may ask yourself why were these dudes messing with worm poop as fertilizer anyway...Well originally the two founders tested their compost on some plants they had growing in their basement, yea I think you get the picture....
Atlanta In Town
Recycle Drink Pouches & Earn Cash (May 17, 2008)
Fruit drink pouches are a staple in American schools' cafeterias. 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 non-recyclable items. In the program, locations are sent collections bags which hold 100 pouches and have prepaid shipping labels already attached!...
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...
Earth Rated Products
TerraCycle Products (May 15, 2008)
Terra cycle is a relatively new little company that allows you to recycle items that are normally not recyclable. Terra cycle will either reuse your donated items (bottles for their Worm Poop fertilizer) or create new products from your donated items (totes, shopping bags, office supplies). Just imagine - your kids’ giant pile of juice pouches transformed into a pencil box, homework folder, or tote. You’ve got 2 out of the 3 Rs right there! To top it all off, they’ll even kick back donations to your favorite charity in exchange for your donations! How’s that for a win-win-win?? While Terra Cycle’s recycle and reuse program continues to evolve, the current list of items they accept includes: cookie wrappers, drink pouches,energy bar wrappers, yogurt containers, and soda bottles. Go...
In Store Marketing Magazine
Target Suits Up with Rowley for Summer (May 14, 2008)
In other activity last month, Target introduced a "Retote" reusable shopping bag through a special promotion. Shoppers were encouraged to mail their plastic Target shopping bags to Trenton, NJ-based TerraCycle using the retailer's ad on Newsweek's April 14 cover -- which converted into a prepaid envelope. TerraCycle mailed back a coupon for a free "Retote" bag, which is made by "fusing" the plastic bags together. The bags (which retail for $6) were merchandised on endcaps along with the Newsweek issue....
Green Fertility
REVIEW: Terracycle Plant Food (May 14, 2008)
Plus, the stuff works. I even had a live worm in my Terrcycle potting soil that had been outside all winter. When I lived in NYC, I desperately tried growing stuff in my tiny window and I wish I had this. The food kept my herbs happy all winter long and I even coaxed a berry out of my dormant strawberry plant....
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....
Yahoo
Grow your own money (May 13, 2008)
For example, enterprising Princeton classmates Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer started their own worm gin, which produces a potent organic fertilizer from worm waste. Their company, TerraCycle, now sells its products to Home Depot and Wal-Mart....
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....
The Alternative Consumer
Creating an Upcycle Generation (May 12, 2008)
Gotta love a company who’s reaching out to kids and teaching them how to upcycle. TerraCycle, the makers of that fine organic fertilizer, Worm Poop, has hooked up with both Capri Sun and Honest Tea in an effort to encourage kids to participate in recycling their drink pouches and help transform the otherwise landfill-bound material into handbags, pencil cases and totes. At the end of their use, these purchased items can be sent back to Terracycle to continue the process....
Eco Life
Terracycle Fertilizer (May 10, 2008)
For those who don’t have the time, inclination or stomach for worm farming, there’s a product that provides all the benefits without the effort. The fabulous people at Terracycle are worm poop farmers on a grand scale - producing fertilizers from worm casings that are completely organic. Terracycle offers a wide variety of products online; I’ve also found a few at my local Home Depot. And bonus - this magic elixir is packaged in recycled soda bottles....
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....
Jenotopia
Taking vermicomposting to another level: TerraCycle’s eco-capitalism (May 9, 2008)
Vermicomposting has become so popular that is finally earning the attention of business folk as a potentially lucrative market. TerraCycle is a fresh, young company bringing some long-overdue earth-friendly business practices into play with vermiculture ~ and making a great gardening product in the process....
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....
Green Updater
Target’s Retote Reusable Shopping Bags (May 7, 2008)
Target has teamed up with Newsweek and Terracycle to make Retotes, an interesting reusable bag program. Basically, the Retote is made of used, recycled Target bags that have been returned to the store then Terracycle turns them into reusable shopping bags. If you pick up Newsweeks April 15, 2008 issue, “Environment & Leadership: Who’s the Greenest of Them All?”, you will find that the cover doubles as an envelope that you can use to send in and get a coupon for a free Retote (which retail for $6). Kind of a production to get one reusable bag, but the target label adorned bags are popular and we have to give them credit for the creative promotion. Also, head on over to Terracycle and read about their story, they have some interesting ideas about eco-capitalism....
TerraChoice
TerraCycle Cleaners (May 7, 2008)
OfficeMax had some really cool news out last week. The green-savvy retailer has partnered with the award-winning, green start-up company TerraCycle. OfficeMax is launching the partnership with seven TerraCycle products including a line of EcoLogo-certified, TerraCycle Natural Cleaners. Besides being plant-based, non-toxic and biodegradable, these cleaners are packaged directly in used soda bottles! Talk about innovative recycling....
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....
NOTCOT
Target + Newsweek + Terracycle = Bags! (May 5, 2008)
I think this is the most interesting Reusable Bag story yet… Target teams up with Newsweek and Terracycle to create reusable totes out of fused target plastic bags! Finally - a recycled reusable bag that looks like the bags it came from and is replacing! And that’s not all… the Newsweek aspect is fascinating as well - you rip off the cover of the latest “green” issue, and are taught how to tape up the cover into a prepaid envelope that you can put Target plastic bags in, and mail them in for a coupon to get one of the Terracycle $6 ReTotes for free in a Target Store. Basically the bags end up feeling much like those blue/yellow IKEA bags ~ a bit on the crunchy side, and probably waterproof (with the exception of the seam perhaps. See the press release here....
Matter Network
Contains Liquefied Worm Poop (May 5, 2008)
TerraCycle, a company specializing in the reuse of waste: among other things, it makes pencil cases out of Capri Sun drink packages and binders out of reused cardboard. Office Max is now planning to stock these used-to-be-trash products, and is teaming up with TerraCycle to develop more office supplies....
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 | | |
