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The amazing story of what Inc. calls The coolest little startup in America. While a freshman at Princeton, Tom Szaky co-founded a company that recycles garbage into worm poop, liquefies it, then packages it in used soda bottles, creating TerraCycle Plant Food. Less than five years later, this all-natural, highly effective fertilizer was available in every Home Depot, Target, Wal-Mart, and more than 3000 other locations. It's a thrilling entrepreneurial success story and it's just the beginning of what makes 'Revolution in a Bottle' fascinating. Szaky argues for a new approach to business, an eco-capitalism based on a triple bottom line. Every business, he says, should aspire to be good for people, good for the environment, and (last but definitely not least) good for profits. He shows how the first two goals can (surprisingly) help the third. Of course, eco-capitalism isn't a new idea, and many companies brag about being environmentally-friendly. But no one does it as effectively as TerraCycle. Szaky and his colleagues figured out how to sell a useful, organic, safe product 'without' charging a premium for it. Their big insight was finding value in things that others throw away, from the triggers on spray-bottles to misprinted cardboard boxes. Now they're also reusing garbage to create new products, from bird feeders to tote bags, and even engaging major companies like Kraft and General Mills to sponsor their waste streams. Szaky shows how any business can look at garbage with a fresh eye, and reap the benefits. In the spirit of TerraCycle, this book will be printed on 100% recycled materials.
Fertilizer industry --- Green products --- Organic fertilizers --- Waste products as fertilizer --- TerraCycle Plant Food (Firm)
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Residues from agriculture and the food industry consist of many and varied wastes, in total accounting for over 250 million tonnes of waste per year in the UK alone. Biotechnological processing of these residues would allow these waste products to be used as a resource, with tremendous potential. An extensive range of valuable and usable products can be recovered from what was previously considered waste: including fuels, feeds and pharmaceutical products. In this way Biotechnology can offer many viable alternatives to the disposal of agricultural waste, producing several new products in the process. This book presents up-to-date information on a biotechnology approach for the utilisation of agro-industrial residues, presenting chapters with detailed information on materials and bioconversion technology to obtain products of economic importance: The production of industrial products using agro-industrial residues as substrates The biotechnological potential of agro-industrial residues for bioprocesses Enzymes degrading agro-industrial residues and their production Bioconversion of agro-industrial residues Written by experts in Biotechnological processing of Agro-Industrial Residues, this book will provide useful information for academic researchers and industry scientists working in biotechnology, waste management, agriculture and the food industry.
Agricultural wastes --Recycling. --- Factory and trade waste --Purification. --- Waste products as fertilizer. --- Factory and trade waste --- Agricultural wastes --- Waste products as fertilizer --- Agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Agriculture - General --- Purification --- Recycling --- Recycling. --- Purification. --- Purification of factory and trade waste --- Medicine. --- Biotechnology. --- Microbiology. --- Life sciences. --- Biomedicine. --- Biomedicine general. --- Applied Microbiology. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Fertilizers --- Recycling (Waste, etc.) --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Microorganisms --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Health Workforce --- Biomedicine, general.
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Fertilizers --- Waste products as fertilizer --- Agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Agriculture - General --- Congresses --- 631.86 --- 636.002.68 --- Organic manures in general. Fertilizers of biological origin --- Animal wastes. Animal dung. Animal manure--(as a problem) --- 636.002.68 Animal wastes. Animal dung. Animal manure--(as a problem) --- 631.86 Organic manures in general. Fertilizers of biological origin
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