Reduce, reuse, upcycle

22.03.2011                      16.Adar ll, 5771

Umwelt:

Reduce, reuse, upcycle

The king of garbage Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, came here this month for the first reuse conference to show us how to recycle everything from chip bags to dirty diapers.

For Tom Szaky, the world is divided into items that can be recycled and items that no one has yet found a way to reuse or recycle. He is determined to find creative ways to reuse all garbage – energy bar wrappers, juice bags, yogurt containers and even dirty diapers.
“A landfill is just a poorly managed warehouse,” Szaky, CEO of US-based TerraCycle, remarked recently to explain his philosophy of reusing garbage in innovative ways to create products and reduce the amount of raw materials which are used up….