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Office located in Hanger Lane, London
Sustainable waste management company
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Sustainable waste management company
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
Office located in Hanger Lane, London
201-500 employees
To eliminate the idea of waste.
Desirable
TerraCycle is a recycling company focused on waste that normal council systems can't handle. Items like flexible plastics, coffee pods, beauty packaging and cleaning products are often too complex for standard recycling, so they end up in landfill. TerraCycle offers an alternative, with free mail-in programmes funded by brands and paid options like Zero Waste Boxes that let people and businesses collect and send in hard-to-recycle waste.
This is increasingly important as modern packaging becomes more complex and traditional recycling struggles to keep up. TerraCycle creates dedicated routes for these material, often working with brands to take responsibility for their waste. So, by making recycling more accessible and practical, it shows that much of what we thro away can still be reused with the right systems in place.
More recently, the company has focused on growing participation as much as processing. New recycling programmes expand the types of waste it accepts, while initiatives like referral schemes turn customers into advocates. This shows a key shift: scaling recycling depends not just on technology, but on getting more people involved, something TerraCycle is steadily building toward.

Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Dec 2020
$25m
SERIES A
Jan 2020
$6.1m
SEED
North Trenton, Trenton, NJ
Tom Szaky
(Founder & CEO)Tom is a Board Member at the D'Addario Foundation and at Avigail Adam. Studied Economics at Princeton University.
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