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　　(2016·海口高考模拟)When Tom Szaky sees a juice container thrown away, he doesn't see rubbish, but he sees a pencil case. Sweet wrappers? A beautiful kite! But these are not the imaginings of a dreamer. For the 28­year­old CEO of Trenton, New Jersey­based TerraCycle, they're a business model.

　　The fast­talking Szaky is leading the new industry of upcycling (升级改造). Instead of recycling, TerraCycle takes packaging headed for landfills (废物填埋地) and reuses it — more or less whole. TerraCycle's 85 employees make nearly 200 products, sold at shops such as Petco, Kmart, Whole Foods Market, and Target.

　　Szaky's $7.4 million company, now also moving ahead in Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom and Brazil, is quite different from the business he founded with his classmate Jon Beyer in 2002 as a freshman at Princeton University. The two entered a business competition with a plan to sell organic plant fertilizers made from worm waste. They lost the competition, but started the business anyway.

　　With their goal — to make products entirely out of rubbish — suddenly clear, Szaky knew the time was right to drop out of Princeton.

　　TerraCycle's first product used dining­hall waste to feed the worms and thrown­away bottles to package the fertilizer. The result: a cheap, green breakthrough. Word spread, and in 2004, Home Depot began carrying the fertilizer in its Canadian stores.

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