Consumer Goods Technology - July 2008 - (Page 14) F E AT U R E S TO RY operations and reduced warehousing and transportation costs. Burt’s Bees can now consolidate finished goods in one building and meet growth projection without missing deliveries due to inventory issues. Tony Quartararo, executive vice president supply chain for Burt’s Bees, says, “The new Waste to Wonder E C O - C A P I TA L I S T C O M PA N Y T E R R AC Y C L E E X PA N D S I T S P RO D U C T L I N E The emerging concept of “eco-capitalism” holds that organizations must be accountable for their performance in the consumption and production of natural capital, an economic term for the goods and services available from nature. TerraCycle is arguably the first-ever ecocapitalist corporation as the company not only limits its consumption of natural capital and minimizes waste; it actually reverses the entire process. For example, TerraCycle Plant Foods are created by feeding organic waste to worms, liquefying their poop and packaging the liquid in reused soda bottles. “We are creating revolutionary products that have never been created,” says Tom Szaky, CEO, TerraCycle. “What puts an even bigger twist on that is the fact that we are making them from materials that up to this point have been considered to be waste.” WINNING FROM THE BEGINNING TerraCycle was founded in the fall of 2001 in a Princeton University dorm room by Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer when they were | W W W. C O N S U M E R G O O D S . C O M Burt’s Bees sensor-activated motorized drive roller (MDR) conveyer only runs when activated. facility and TCS have increased our efficiency, and we now have short-term and long-term solutions to help ease growing pains. Our customers can continue to expect a quality product delivered on time.” — BY ALARICE CONSUMER GOODS TECHNOLOGY | PA D I L L A J U LY 2 0 0 8 CEO Tom Szaky shows off TerraCycle’s new natural cleaning products at the company’s factory. 14 http://www.terracycle.net http://WWW.CONSUMERGOODS.COM
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