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Media Coverage

Below is a sample of our media coverage. If you know of a story that we have missed, please e-mail it to emilyb@terracycle.net.

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  • The Earth Report - February 17, 2010

    Terra Cycle Turning Waste Into Product

    Terra Cycle is an innovative company that is taking waste and turning it into new consumer products. The company founded by a Princeton college graduate at age 19 in 2001, has become one of the most successful companies at taking waste and turning into products like back packs and messenger bags. Read more

  • Greenopolis - February 17, 2010

    New Recycled Product from Terracycle

    I have been following Terracycle ever since I heard their founder and CEO, Tom Szaky, give an address at a NewImpact event about a year ago. Szaky has found ways to recycle lots of waste stuff, like candy wrappers of juice boxes, that was long considered to be unusable. The site lists 131 separate products available from the ... Read more

  • Fast Company - February 16, 2010

    TerraCycle's Next Venture: Turning Trash Into Trash Cans

    TerraCycle has grown significantly since its inception in 2001. The upcycling company went from selling plant food made from worm waste products to repurposing packaging from brands like Frito-Lay and Wrigley's into everything from cell phone holders to messenger bags. Now the company is getting into more utilitarian products... Read more

  • Green Biz - February 16, 2010

    TerraCycle Turns Pens Into Trash Cans

    Trenton, NJ — Waste upcycler TerraCycle is making a push into creating more non-branded products with its new trashcans created with plastic from used writing items. TerraCycle has partnered with Paper Mate , Sharpie and EX... Read more

  • Packaging Diva - February 12, 2010

    Packaging “Green” for Valentine’s Day

    Ponder how packaging can be integrated into the entire big picture of consumer products. We need to rethink the entire way products are packaged. Yes, many products are overpackaged. But what most consumers don’t understand is that we can’t have products without packaging and what manufactures and CPG’s don’t understand is th... Read more

  • The Courier Times - February 12, 2010

    Got milk? Get recycling

    The district has donated nearly 90,000 plastic milk bottles to a recycling company. Every day at lunchtime, elementary school children drink their milk and toss the containers. In the Centennial School District, they toss their plastic milk bottles into a special box for Terracycle, a company that converts bottles, juice bo... Read more

  • Medill - February 11, 2010

    Chicago schools’ growing environmental options

    Although costs are cited as an impediment toward making schools more environmentally friendly, one program, called Terracycle, is not only free, but will pay the school for recycling. Students collect specific items like drink pouches or potato chip bags and the schools mail them to the company. Terracycle then pays the sch... Read more

  • Greener Package - February 10, 2010

    Writing instruments are latest upcycling project for TerraCycle

    Sharpie, Paper Mate, and EXPO, three of the world’s most recognized writing and marking brands, have announced a new partnership with pioneering upcycler TerraCycle. The partnership will create the world’s first program to collect and reuse pens, markers, and other writing instruments while also helping raise funds for school... Read more