I recently started working with a great site called Green Business Innovators. I will be doing interviews with top sustainable business leaders and environmental thinkers and posting podcasts and other pieces on this site a few times a month. I will keep ecofrenzy updated on these happenings.
I recently posted the transcript to my interview with Tom Szaky, CEO and founder of TerraCycle to Green Business Innovators. Below is the intro for the transcript. Take a look!
There is more than one road to success. Here is one formula: Dropping out of Princeton + Growing Pot = Potentially the world’s greenest consumer products company. Here’s another formula: Imagination + Things People Don’t Want = $3.5 million company. Yes, we’re talking about Tom Szaky and TerraCycle, a company that develops products made of and packaged from waste and sold at large retail chains.
Since 2001, TerraCycle products have received a Zerofootprint Seal of Approval, and the company has been inundated with a host of other awards. Its products include plant fertilizer, cleaning products, school supplies and bags – all made using trash.
CEO and founder Tom Szaky discusses how it all began, what has been most challenging, what he loves about his job, his views on greenwashing and more.
