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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Johnson College -
January 28, 2010
Johnson College Green Team Announces New Initiative
This month, the Johnson College Green Team announced its latest sustainability initiative. The College is teaming up with TerraCycle to help reduce waste by repurposing items normally considered garbage. TerraCycle makes eco-friendly products by upcycling various non-recyclable waste materials. While recycling breaks the exi... Read more
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Ecofunctional -
January 28, 2010
The Write Way to Get Green: Recycled Pens from TerraCycle
How many times have you purchased a new refillable pen, only to lose it within days, forced to buy a new one? Writing instruments are all too easy to misplace, and disposable pens and markers are still a big source of waste. We may not have an easy (and non-dorky) fix for losing pens, but we can give them a second life – than... Read more
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Green (Living) Review -
January 28, 2010
Sharpie®, Paper Mate® & EXPO® Brands Partner With TerraCycle™ to Launch First-E...
Jan. 2010: Sharpie®, Paper Mate® and EXPO®, three of the world's most recognized writing and marking brands, today announced a new partnership with TerraCycle™, the pioneering upcycling company that finds new ways to repurpose otherwise throwaway items. The partnership will create the world's first program to collect and reus... Read more
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Beauty News NYC -
January 28, 2010
Yak Paks Take Advertising to a Whole New Level!
You can’t avoid advertising. Even if you try and tune your brain out to ubiquitous commercials, taglines and billboards, it’s impossible for your brain to avoid being assaulted by the advertising industry’s attack on your senses. Yak Pak, the New York-based bag company, has found a way to make discarded advertising fashionabl... Read more
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Parents Pages Magazine -
January 28, 2010
TerraCycle Accessories
What could be sweeter than a notebook with a candy wrapper cover? Knowing that you are giving a gift that keeps one more piece of trash out of the landfill. TerraCycle products include jewelry boxes, sketchpads, photo frames, messenger bags and mini backpacks. -Sold at Toys "R" US -Cost; $6.99 and up Read more
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The News-Sentinel -
January 27, 2010
Canterbury project a boon for school, planet. Recycling juice pouches brings i...
By Ashley Smith The planet is in bad shape, Canterbury students say, so they are doing their part to clean it up. Canterbury's elementary and middle school students have teamed up with a company called TerraCycle to reuse juice pouches, such as those from Capri Sun drinks. The school gets 2 cents per pouch and TerraCycle ... Read more
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The Green Skeptic -
January 27, 2010
TerraCycle Upcycling Your Sharpie
Sharpie, Paper Mate and EXPO have formed a partnership with TerraCycle to repurpose used pens, markers and other writing instruments. Terracycle is a New Jersey-based "upcycling" company that finds new ways to repurpose otherwise throwaway items like juice pouches, chip bags and the like. According to the company, the partn... Read more
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Sustainable Business -
January 27, 2010
Terracycle Launches First Upcycling Program for Pens and Markers
Upcycling company TerraCycle has launched what it says is the world's first program to collect and reuse pens and markers. Collection centers called "Writing Instrument Brigades" will be set up at participating locales, primarily in large corporations and schools where writing instruments are used most. For every writing in... Read more
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