TerraCycle Reviews

I experienced a very toxic work environment where multiple people were bullied and harassed. Their idea is to constantly hire new staff, demote and/or neglect current staff, provide poor training and resources, expect consultancy level work but provide entry-level pay, all to create an environment based on mutual distrust and anxiety. Avoid working here if you can. Terracycle invests a lot into marketing and PR for their big-name brand partners, but very little into actually doing anything good for the planet. A total scam. Also, they get very defensive over the slightest whiff of a criticism. See their PR responses to the reviews on here - that tells you everything you need to know about this s**t show.

TerraCycle is the definition of greenwashing. Told to sell existing solutions to the marketing departments of large consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies because that department has the money and to avoid procurement and packaging teams completely as they would scrutinise on a technical level and block deals. And rightfully so because very little consumer packaging is ever collected back, it sits in a warehouse for years, and if it ever does get "recycled" it is always very low grade essentially being turned into a different form of garbage. There is never any transparency that you can share with the customer and when hard questions are asked, you simply point to other customers who have bought in and not yet realised they are wasting their money. - Moto is a red flag: To Eliminate The IDEA Of Waste (not actually eliminate waste itself) - KPI: 3-1 (you need to sell 3 times your salary at a minimum to keep your job within 1 year, but buying cycles of CPG's are often much longer than 1 year) - No sales commissions if you are below a manager (this is not standard for sales) - Salary is low - Employees are frustrated, low moral - Overworked for the pay - Median employee tenure is a red flag (low at under 2 years in most regions globally) - Micromanagement from the CEO - Sales decks are 900 slides long (a Tom Szaky special) and all you can do is talk at customers to get through the decks - Programs are to complex for consumers to follow or get involved - Low TerraCycle brand recognition so no one knows about the recycling programs - Collection rates on programs are terrible - Recycling is questionable