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Leveraging Innovation & Passion to Change the Environment

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Join us on October 6th for Leveraging Innovation & Passion to Change the Environment, featuring Tom Szaky, CEO and Founder of Terracylewill discuss his quest to eliminate waste and Terryacyle's leveraging of innovation throughout the production and consumption process to try to create a closed circular materials loop. Terracycle is now working with leading consumer goods providers to help educate the public to begin accepting reusable packaging; Terracycle is also engaged with several global enterprises to recover reuse materials previously considered to be non-recyclable.

Tom Szaky was a freshman at Princeton University when he decided to use worms to convert excrement into fertilizer. Selling this fertilizer in soda bottles out of his car, Tom has grown Terracycle into a social enterprise present in 21 countries. Tom is a master innovator and marketer and a highly sought-after inspirational speaker. He has published four books and consistent with his philosophy, and every office of Terracycle is built and decorated with repurposed waste.

Earlier Event: October 2
Black & Brown Founders Presents: CHROMA
Later Event: October 6
Entrepreneurs Roundtable 146 ONLINE