Meet our friends from Terracycle! Or, rather, what they do. From their website:
“TerraCycle’s purpose is to eliminate the idea of waste. We do this by creating national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste. Anyone can sign up for these programs, called the Brigades, and start sending us waste.
TerraCycle then converts the collected waste into a wide variety of products and materials. With more than 20 million people collecting waste in over 20 countries, TerraCycle has diverted billions of units of waste and used them to create over 1,500 different products available at major retailers ranging from Walmart to Whole Foods Market.
Our goal is to eliminate the idea of waste by creating collection and solution systems for anything that today must be sent to a landfill.
Founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, then a 20-year-old Princeton University freshman, TerraCycle began by producing organic fertilizer, packaging liquid worm poop in used soda bottles. Since then TerraCycle has grown into one of the fastest-growing green companies in the world.”
Terracycle picked up a bunch of shadow boxes from The Resource Exchange, reclaimed from the Walnut Street Theatre’s 2011 production of The Ugly One. They used these boxes to create a museum wall in their Trenton office, to share the company’s history and display samples of the products they’ve created over the years.
Visit Terracycle online, or give them a call at 866.967.6766 for more information about their work! We are excited that we could provide reclaimed materials to an organization with such a great and like-minded mission!
