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An all natural personal care brand comes to Tom Szaky and the Terracycle team with a unique challenge: they want to begin to recycle items outside of their own waste stream - broken toys. After a meeting with the brand, Tom lets the staff know that they will be using the current Zero Waste Platform to collect the toys. He puts Rhandi in charge of the upcoming task. But with her department already spread thin, Stephen is assigned to help her reach the goal of determining the best way to process the broken toys. Immediately it becomes apparent that the toys can either ...

In an effort to expand their Zero Waste recycling program to small businesses, Rhandi and Dan work on developing a successful sales strategy. While accompanying them on their pitches, Stephen stumbles upon a potential new waste stream.

Tom is challenged to come up with a creative way to highlight an oral care brand brigade for Earth Day. He suggests that they create a playground out of oral care waste and give it to the local school that can collect the most oral care waste. However, TerraCycle has a difficult challenge ahead: they'll need to determine whether they can make the playground in time for the fast approaching Earth Day. Tom assigns Andrew as Project Manager since they are up against a tough deadline and limited budget. The pressure is on Stephan to find enough oral care waste material, ...

Tom and TerraCycle are close to finalizing a deal for a coffee table book of DIY upcycling ideas but the team first needs to create a sample chapter. In preparation for a meeting with the publisher, Albe asks Dean to work on being more professional.

Tom gathers the staff together and announces that TerraCycle has recently partnered with a sports energy brand. In an effort to promote this new partnership, Terracycle and the brand will be supporting a local race event, Run-a-palooza. Tom tasks Tiff and her Design team with creating an "experience booth" to showcase upcycled products created from the energy brand waste. To further support the partnership, Tom enlists Rhandi and Dan to set-up Zero Waste boxes at the race to help make the event waste-free. Tom puts Tiff in charge of overseeing the whole project from ...

Tom is eager to start a paint-recycling program. Rick and Ernie work on the recycling science, while Dan sets up a pilot program with a local hardware store. Tom enlists Dean to facilitate a staff graffiti contest at the 10th annual Graffiti Jam.