About Tom Szaky: Tom Szaky is the CEO and founder of TerraCycle, a company that makes consumer products from waste.
The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now.
In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.
