Tom Szaky

Tom Szaky is founder and Chief Executive Officer of TerraCycle, a company which enables consumers to collect traditionally non-recyclable waste which is upcycled and recycled into thousands of various consumer products and materials, which are then sold at the world's biggest retailers from Wal-Mart to Target. TerraCycle has been named the producer of most eco-friendly products in America and has won over 100 environmental and social awards including the Home Depot Environmental stewardship award twice. As a freshman, Tom left Princeton University to found TerraCycle, building a company that has doubled in size every year since its inception becoming the 288th fastest growing company in America. Tom has won over 50 awards for entrepreneurship, blogs for Treehugger, the New York Times and Inc Magazine, has recently published a book called Revolution in a Bottle and is the star of National Geographic Channel special, "Garbage Moguls." Today TerraCycle, through partnerships with virtually all major CPG companies from Kimberly-Clark to Kraft Foods, operates in over 13 countries, has over 20 million people engaged in its waste collection programs, has collected over 4 billion pieces of garbage and donated over $2 million dollars to charities to collect that waste. TerraCycle has been featured in virtually every major media outlet from "60 Minutes" to Oprah to the Wall Street Journal (7 times) and is on its way to help eliminate in the idea of waste!