WASTE OUTPACED: At 19, Tom Szaky ’05 began a grass-roots empire built on worm poop. Szaky’s fertilizer, made from worm waste and packaged in used soda bottles, led Trenton-based TerraCycle to enter the global recycling industry. TerraCycle estimates that since 2007 it has kept almost 4 billion pieces of waste from landfills worldwide, primarily by finding ways to convert garbage into plastic pellets that can be used to make things like park benches and playgrounds.
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