Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle is Redefining Green Business

(Portfolio Press) As a Princeton freshman, author Tom Szaky co-founded a company that recycles garbage into worm poop, liquefies it, then packages it in used soda bottles. Less than five years later, this all-natural fertilizer was available in every Home Depot, Target, Wal-Mart, and more than 3,000 other locations. In this entrepreneurial success story, Szaky argues for “eco-capitalism,” in which business should aspire to be good for people, good for the environment, and good for profits.  Szaky is CEO of TerraCycle, producer of the world’s first products that are made entirely from and packaged entirely in waste. 

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PAW's July/August 2025 issue cover, featuring a photo of people dressed in orange and black, marching in the P-rade, and the headline: Reunions, Back in Orange & Black.
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July 2025

On the cover: Wilton Virgo ’00 and his classmates celebrate during the P-rade.