Terracycle – Recycling 1 Million Pounds of ‘Hard to Recycle’ Materials Each Week

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Terracycle is back, and this time we have its CEO, Tom Szaky. Terracycle has rapidly become an innovative recycling company and global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste.
From recycling #7 plastic to traditionally “un-recyclable” materials (juice pouches), Terracycle has been able to reduce landfill waste as well as provide reliable and useable source materials for manufacturers.
Tom's aim is to eliminate the concept of waste altogether. His vision has been a driving force in recycling 1 Million Pounds of waste per week, making Terracycle a leader in the “Circular Economy”. They have introduced world’s first recycling database that helps people identify where they can go to recycle almost any household product.
Terracycle now serves 21 countries around the world with a vision to reduce landfill use globally.
The biggest challenge in the waste / recycling process is to cover the direct and indirect costs while generating profit. In order to tackle this, they try and ensure recycled materials meet manufacturer's requirements and are recycled on demand.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
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0:25.4	Hi this is Richard Jacobs from Future Tech Podcast. Today I have a guest that I've
0:30.7	wanted to interview for a long time a hero of mine for many years
0:34.4	Tom Saki, founder and CEO of Terra Cycle.
0:38.6	Terra Cycle specializes in recycling extremely hard to normally recycle composite materials like juice pouches and I believe number seven plastics.
0:50.0	Is that right Tom?
0:51.0	Absolutely. Well, thanks for having me.
0:52.0	Yeah, yeah, Terrecycle today where in the... right Tom? Absolutely. Well, thanks for having me.
0:53.0	Yeah, I know, terrible today, we're in, gosh, I think 21 countries around the world and we recycle
0:57.3	hundreds of waste streams.
0:59.3	Everything from things like juice pouches, cigarette butts, some hygiene products.
1:03.3	I mean, you name it, anything that you can't put in your recycling bin,
1:05.7	we typically have some answer for.
1:08.0	You know, I read, I think your first book years ago,
1:10.7	and I believe you started out trying to do an Earthworm project.
1:14.3	You know, tell listeners how you first got involved in thinking about recycling.
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