Tom Szaky
New Jersey, USA
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Tom Szaky was born in Budapest in the early 1980s during a time of communism and economic hardship. After the nuclear power reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine, exploded in 1986, Tom’s family was able to escape Hungary and move to Germany, then Holland, and finally settle in Canada.
The economic contrast of communist Hungary to that of North American capitalism brought about the realization of the vast value that we improperly discard in our country’s waste system. During the early 1990s on their many scavenging trips through dumpers, Tom and his dad found working color televisions (something which they never had access to in Budapest), stereos, couches, entire vinyl record collections, and other valuable goods.
It was this fascination with discarded value in combination with Tom’s love of entrepreneurship that led him to found TerraCycle (www.terracycle.com) during his freshman year at Princeton University.
Tom has personally won more than 100 awards for entrepreneurship; he blogs for the New York Times, Treehugger, the Huffington Post, and a number of other major websites; and in 2007 he published his first book, Revolution in a Bottle. Tom is also the star of the National Geographic Channel TV show Garbage Moguls.
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