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Tom Szaky  |  Trenton, NJ  |  November 16, 2007





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Tom Szaky

Tom Szaky, now 25 years old, showed a serious talent for marketing when he renamed what the agriculture industry has long known as vermicompost and sold it as worm poop. We saw his first worm gin, a series of metal beds for worms, which filter off worm excrement, while continuously feeding them organic waste. It sits unused in his greenhouse lab. Terracycle goes through way too much worm poop to make its own anymore. Now they have worm poop deliveries trucked in, from an agriculture industry supplier. Not everyone would be happy working in a rough neighborhood in Trenton, New Jersey making products out of worm poop, in a factory building filled with garbage. Tom Szaky makes it seem like the end of the rainbow. As he puts it, it's great for society to locate his business in Trenton, since he's providing jobs. But he's doing it because the rent is cheap, and because there’s so much access to labor. And the garbage? It’s all recycled bottles used for packaging, or free raw materials for some of the many new products he's working on. He's a living example of his idea of Eco-capitalism, helping society while making a profit. Also very talented, Tom’s girlfriend Soyeon Lee is a classical pianist and performed the Hadyn track for the spot.


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