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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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  • CNN - January 26, 2007

    Worm poo in plastic bottles: Get rich and save the world

    Add heaps of red worms to mountains of raw, rotting garbage. Then collect the worms' feces, brew it into a liquid, and squeeze it into a used soda bottle. Sound like a twisted fourth-grade boy's concoction for messing with his sister? Not quite. Rather, it is TerraCycle's recipe for success — as a booming, eco-friendly ferti... Read more

  • Allentown Examiner - January 25, 2007

    AHS helps Home Depot help the environment

    What happens to the 30 million soda bottles that Americans waste daily? Well, 500 of them will be reused to package an all-natural plant food in part thanks to Allentown High School. A representative of the high school dropped off 200 used soda bottles at the Eco-Pallet in the Hamilton Home Depot on Route 130 for 5 cents a b... Read more

  • Courier Post - January 22, 2007

    Thingamajigs

    Trenton-based TerraCycle Inc. wants to sell us worm poop. And we're supposed to think this is a good thing? Well, it is, actually. Worm poop, it seems, is good for plants. Lots of master gardeners call it "black gold" (eww). TerraCycle's new line of plant foods and fertilizers harness the power of vermicomposting in ready-to-... Read more

  • House and Garden - January 22, 2007

    The Goods

    TerraCycle plant food is the first mass-produced product to be packaged in reused plastic bottles. The food consists of the liquid castings of red worms, which process garbage that is ordinarily sent to landfills... Read more

  • Garden, Deck and Landscape - January 22, 2007

    The Worm Firm

    There was a small hole — about the size of a pinky — in Tom Szaky's bedroom wall. It hadn't been there a week earlier; the 24-year-old cofounder and CEO of TerraCycle, a Trenton, New Jersey, start-up that specializes in organic plant food, was sure of that. At first, Szaky didn't think much of it. At the time, he was living i... Read more

  • The American Gardener - January 22, 2007

    TerraCycle Partners with AHS

    The AHS is pleased to welcome a new corporate partner that shares the Society's commitment to earth-friendly and sustainable gardening practices. TerraCycle, Inc. is an innovative start-up company founded by Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer, who came up with the concept while students at Princeton University in 2001. Combining functio... Read more

  • Inc Magazine - January 22, 2007

    Practice, Practice

    In Mid-November, it was time once again for Tom Szaky to rehearse his sales presentation. Szaky is the 25-year-old Princeton-dropout CEO of TerraCycle, a garden-products company based in Trenton, New Jersey. Through constantly refining his pitch, he's managed to get his products into Wal-Mart, Target, and Home Depot. Sales is... Read more

  • Plant Therapy - January 20, 2007

    Apartment Therapy

    TerraCycle plant food: (Above) Made from millions of worms on a healthy diet. And the mixture is bottled in recycled soda bottles (see how the bottle outlines are different - cool!). If you visit the TerraCycle website directly you can also read about their recycle drives to collect bottles... Read more