How to Find the Right Partnerships
We just did something that some would say is crazy. We -- the company best known for making "worm poop" gardening products bottled in what were previously... Read story
Name Your Own Price!
We just made what some may consider either a stupid move or a brilliant move, but it's definitely an interesting one -- we've opened a retail store. But t... Read story
Going Global: Risky or Necessary?
TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky on creating a tradition-breaking business where doing the most environmentally and socially responsible things drives profit. Read story
Making Sustainability Sustainable
When you think of socially responsible, sustainable food companies, which come to mind? Ben & Jerry's? Stonyfield Farm? New Belgium? How about Read story
When Does Partnering Make Sense?
What are you good at as a company? What are you not? Though we at TerraCycle (and I imagine you too) like to think we can do anything we set our minds to,... Read story
Go Big or Go Home?
As entrepreneurs, we all know the value and necessity of forming partnerships. Little would get done in the business world without a solid network to help... Read story
Revolution in a Bottle
My book, Revolution in a Bottle , hit the streets this week. It is a quick read that is meant to flow more like a novel, less like a business book... Read story
Would You Pay More to Go Green?
As I've written in this blog previously, I believe the "green premium" works against green businesses, limiting their growth and thus their collective imp... Read story
Will the Down Economy Hurt Quality?
I'm noticing a recurring direction of today's retailers in light of the economic downturn we currently find ourselves in. People are addicted to consumpti... Read story
Will the Recession Kill Green Business?
We are arguably in the midst of the biggest boom the green-business movement has ever seen, with all those who have been paving the way for more than two ... Read story
Are Trade Shows Worth the Waste?
Did you know the trade show industry is second only to the construction industry in the amount of waste it generates? The garbage comes from packaging, sa... Read story
Where Did All the Money Go?
Are you thinking of raising capital right now? Already in the process? We are. As a quick background, we've raised over $11.5 million since our company's ... Read story
A More Civil Union!
In May, TerraCycle launched a line of school and office products, birthed from the same made-from-waste mantra as our other products. OfficeMax was our cl... Read story
Is the Green Bubble a Good Thing?
Lately, I have heard lots of talk about the "Green Bubble" as the next looming boom and bust on the horizon. It is true that far too much loosely invested... Read story
Upcycling vs. Recycling: What's Better?
I recently got a note from my friend Eric Hudson at Recycline. By way of background, Recycline is an amazing compa... Read story
How Do We Know You Aren't Just Green Washing?
As the CEO of a company that proudly touts its products as eco-friendly, I am often asked by reporters, investors, and others, "How do we know you aren't ... Read story
Don't Blame Bottled Water!
In launching TerraCycle's lines of liquid fertilizer, cleaners, repellents, etc., I realized something: Almost all products that are sold as liquid in a b... Read story
Should Green Products Be Priced Higher?
Here's a real world quandary. At TerraCycle we recently launched a line of ultimate eco-friendly cleaner... Read story
The IP Rights of Waste (and how to avoid getting sued)
It is clear that it is uncool to copy the trademarked and patented Coca-Cola plastic 20-ounce bottle and fill it with some form of beverage. It's uncool (... Read story
Solving the Plastic Bag Problem
Six months ago the folks at Target asked us to solve two problems. They wanted to solve the plastic bag problem and they wanted a new designer bag to sell... Read story
Is Carbon the Only Thing That Matters?
Our entire "green" economic transition is based on carbon credits and global warming. Unfortunately that is ALL people seem to care about. While global wa... Read story
How Green Is That Product Really?
With hundreds of authorities out there purporting to measure how green products actually are, how do we know the authenticity of a green product? What doe... Read story
Is Competition Good for Green Business?
I was recently asked that question by someone at Office Max (as a quick background we just launched a major Read story
Will Your Customers Pay to Go Green?
Take a simple paradigm: plastic bottles. The cheapest way to make a plastic bottle is to use 100 percent virgin plastic (the worst thing for the environme... Read story
When Is a Product Green?
Businesses across America are facing increased pressure to go green. To face this challenge, many companies are attempting to find some way to do somethin... Read story
The Secret Formula for Generating Crazy Amounts of PR.
This is an ironic title since this blog is, in fact, a press hit that will
go into our ever growing press kit. That kit that has more than 1,000
The Happy Economics of Making Products from Waste
We are used to thinking of waste as a physical thing. For example, and most typically, what is thrown out in our garbage cans and ends up in ... Read story
A Solution for "Sponsored" Waste
The amazing thing about eco-capitalism is that you can create business models where everyone truly wins: the environment, the consumer, the big bus... Read story
A Solution for "Sponsored" Waste
The amazing thing about eco-capitalism is that you can create business models where everyone truly wins: the environment, the consumer, the big bus... Read story
Introducing a New Blog from the CEO of TerraCycle
The concept of TerraCycle came up when my friends and I were trying to figure out how to grow "better tomatoes" in our basement and figured out that worm ... Read story
Introducing a New Blog from the CEO of TerraCycle
The concept of TerraCycle came up when my friends and I were trying to figure out how to grow "better tomatoes" in our basement and figured out that worm ... Read story
Re-making Succes: TerraCycle at the Inc. 500
Tom Szaky's plant food can be found on the shelves of retailers nationwide. So how did this 25-year-old tame Wal-Mart and Home Depot? Watch video
