By Ted Mininni
Entrepreneurialism is alive and well in America. Just ask Tom Szaky, the founder of TerraCycle.
His big idea: a commercialized liquid plant food made from biological waste—or as Szaky calls it “worm poop”, in reused soda bottles from school recycling programs, after making donations for them. Cleaning the bottles, slapping homey labels on them, and fitting them with trigger sprays other manufacturers couldn’t use, or didn’t want, enabled Szaky to finally bring his product to market.
