
TerraCycle Proves Sustainability Works After 20 Years
While critics declare green business dead, TerraCycle's Tom Szaky just proved them spectacularly wrong. The company that started by selling worm poop fertilizer is now thriving two decades later.
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While critics declare green business dead, TerraCycle's Tom Szaky just proved them spectacularly wrong. The company that started by selling worm poop fertilizer is now thriving two decades later.

A 33-year-old entrepreneur left his New York finance job to recycle "impossible" plastic waste into trendy sunglasses. His company Ashaya is turning chip packets and other multi-layered plastics into fashionable eyewear while empowering waste pickers.

Fourteen innovative small businesses in Tanzania just received over $400,000 in grants to transform forestry into sustainable jobs and eco-friendly products. The Finland-backed GreenCatalyst Initiative is turning rural forest communities into hubs of green innovation.