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TerraCycle (recycler for food packaging, etc!)
Organization: "Green" ResourceFacility Type: Open Business*
Status: Open
Address:
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Main/General Business Number: 609.393.4252
Website: http://www.terracycle.net/
Mission: from the website:
TerraCycle makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials. With over 50 products available at major retailers like Walmart, Target, The Home Depot, OfficeMax, Petco and Whole Foods Market, TerraCycle is one of the fastest growing eco-friendly manufacturers in the world. Our hope is to eliminate the idea of waste by finding innovative, unique uses for materials others deem garbage.
Founded in 2001 by a 19 year old Princeton University freshman named Tom Szaky, TerraCycle started as an organic fertilizer company and has grown into a multi-category, eco-friendly powerhouse. Tom’s dream was to find way a new, more responsible way of doing doing business that would be good for the planet, good for people and good for the bottom line! TerraCycle has won many awards and accolades for its environmentally responsible business model from Inc. Magazine, Red Herring, The Home Depot, The Environmental Business Journal, The Social Venture Network, Zerofootprint and many other highly regarded organizations.
TerraCycle also runs free national collection programs that pay non-profits and schools TerraCycle has exclusive partnerships with major CPG companies such as Kraft Foods, Frito Lay (Pepsi), Stonyfield Farm, Mars Wrigley and many more. The partnerships create free collection programs that pay schools and non-profits nationwide to collect used packaging such as drink pouches, energy bar wrappers, yogurt cups, cookie wrappers, chip bags and more! The collected materials are upcycled into affordable, high quality products ranging from tote bags and purses to shower curtains and kites. In addition, TerraCycle works with these partners to find innovative uses for all of their waste streams and, by making products from these various waste streams, TerraCycle prevents 1000’s of tons of waste from going to landfills.
You can be a part of our eco-revolution, just sign up for one of our FREE Brigades or look for TerraCycle products at your local retailer.
This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary
Notes:
Local groups (Brigages) collect the trash and send to TerraCycle, who then sends back 2 cents per whatever (bag, toothpaste tube, etc) and takes the items and makes stuff that it then sells: shopping bags, fence posts, cleaning liquids, etc.
To see the products that they make from candy wrappers, pens, etc:
http://www.terracycle.net/products
Info Source/Changes:Created At: Wed Oct 13 22:46:15 +0000 2010
Updated At: Wed Oct 13 22:52:43 +0000 2010
Updated By: tfri
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