TerraCycle is a company started by two Princton University students. What’s so unusual about their products is that every single part is made from garbage and waste. Yes, including the bottles and the packaging. The bottle you see on the right is an old, cleaned Pepsi bottle. To save resources, they recycle old soda bottles, [...]
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Spotlight On: TerraCycle. Making money from trash.
May 20, 2008
Your garbage can generate electricity (and more)
May 19, 2008
Some of you may have already heard about landfills across the country utilizing their garbage to generate electricity. It sounds like a great idea. They dump the garbage into the landfill and collect the gases that are created while it’s decomposing. Typically, methane is the gas they look for to generate the power, which varies [...]
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