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There's a New Jersey business that's literally turning trash into treasure
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It's happening in New Jersey's capital city, which is appropriate since it's home to the slogan
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Trenton makes the world takes. Fox's Stephanie Brutini shows us what this company is making
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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 So this is made from old billboards and banners So they had pop banners that they wanted to turn into employee giveaways Beyond the creativity and the design department
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there's a science to all this. So here's an example of what TerraCycle does. Take the packaging and
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wrappers from candies or cookies or your kids' juice boxes. They can be turned into plastic
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pellets and then turn into a dog bowl or the structure required for a lunchbox or even
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a toilet seat. We do a lot of material processing and turn it back into a recycled pellet that then
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gets turned into lumber or injection molded products. The office area is decorated in a
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fashion true to the company model. We don't work with things that you can recycle in your
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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
