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And in honor of Earth Day, we are highlighting the local business that's creating some new merchandise from recycled products
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Fox 8 Stephanie Bertini shows us how it's turning trash into treasure
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Inside private recycling company TerraCycle, headquartered in Trenton, New Jersey. These are made from vintage U.S. Postal Service bags
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There's a section dedicated to turning garbage into something new. The inspiration for our designs really comes from the garbage itself
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Like, we kind of look at the material and see what is still interesting about it and how we can upcycle it into something new
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Senior Vice President of Design Tiffany Threadgold says her team's visions can be wrapped around a special piece or installation or even a concept
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The recycling company, which operates in several countries, creates for companies like Walmart and Subaru
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And then Verizon. We partnered with them to create tote bags. This is an example of one of the tote bags that we made for them
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So this is made from old billboards and banners. So they had pop-up banners that they wanted to turn into employee giveaways
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Beyond the creativity and the design department, there's a science to all this
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So here's an example of what TerraCycle does. Take the packaging and wrappers from candies or cookies or your kids' juice boxes
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They can be turned into plastic pellets and then turned into a dog bowl or the structure required for a lunchbox or even a toilet seat
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We do a lot of material processing and turn it back into a recycled pellet that then gets turned into lumber or injection molded products
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The office area is decorated in a fashion true to the company model
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We don't work with things that you can recycle in your municipal recycling. We work with all the other things like cigarette butts, potato chip bags
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The company partners with businesses or institutions to collect things that would end up in landfills
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all of it to achieve goals, solutions and ideas with an environmentally friendly focus
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Stephanie Bertini, Fox 5 News
