Terracycle: 27-Year-Old Turns Stinky Trash into Serious Cash

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There's an old saying that goes, "One man's trash is another man's treasure."

Nobody has proved that more true than Tom Szaky.

Szaky went from being a political refugee to a Princeton college student to the head of a rapidly growing company called TerraCycle, an "upcycling" company that turns garbage into new products. And he's only 27 years old.

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