25 Years of Recycling the Unrecyclable: Turning Worm Matter Into a $43M Global Empire with Tom Szaky

Who Red is Rock today, Fire Nation, JLD here, and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by High Level, the all-in-one sales and marketing platform. Today we'll be breaking down twenty-five years of recycling the unrecyclable, how to turn worm matter into a 43 million dollar global empire. And to drop these value bombs, I brought Tom Zackey in the EOFIR Studios. Tom is founder and CEO of Terracycle, a global recycling leader operating in 20 countries, working with major brands and retailers to recycle complex waste streams. He also created Loop, a circular reuse platform. And today we talk about worm poop to global business recycling. the unrecyclable, opening the door to everyday investors, the vape waste challenge, making sustainability work and oh so much more. And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Tom and our sponsors. If you are building a real business, you need real infrastructure. Highlevel gives you website hosting, funnels, email marketing, automation, calendar booking, payments, and course hosting all on one platform, plus award winning 247 supports. Get a 30-day free trial and my full bonus stack that includes a 15-minute private call with me and much more at highlevelfire.com.

High level fire. Dot com. Tom, say what's up to Fire Nation, and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with. Absolutely. Well, uh hello to Fire Nation. It's a real pleasure uh to be here. Thanks for having me. You know, I think What comes to my mind is

That in entrepreneurship and you know it it's fundamentally how we approach the idea of failure. You know, we read about successful entrepreneurs after all the success has happened. Um, but of course, I think the more innovative someone is, the more failure they're inevitably going to face. And I think what it really comes down to is how do we look at that. I, you know, for me, A real unlocking. uh force in how to approach failure has been to approach it like tuition, you know, because it's sort of pretty similar to tuition. You spend a lot of money to produce nothing that changes the world. Failure is somewhat like that. And so the question is what do we learn? How do we adapt? And how do we make sure we don't repeat those things so we can really bring about

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