I read a lot of magazines. The pile of magazines that builds up on my night stand is much like the leaning tower of Pisa! Sure I recycle them, but what Ecoist does with magazines is pretty unique and fascinating . They turn pre-consumer waste; magazines, newspapers, candy wrappers, soda packaging and even outdated New York City maps into
Beautiful, One-of-a-Kind Handbags!
They collect these materials from factories that discard them due to misprints and overages, instead of having them end up in landfills! In the last 4 years, they have saved more than 15 million candy wrappers from going to landfills, pretty impressive! Taking these materials and repurposing them into a product of higher quality is what they call “Upcycling” , and some of their Upcycling Partners include The Coca-Cola Company, Disney, Mars, Frito Lay, Luna Bar, and AVEDA.
Oh and I should probably mention that for every bag bought Ecoist plants a tree! They work with Trees for the Future and have planted 97,321 trees around the world including India, Uganda, Haiti, Mexico, and the United States. I am in awe of how much one company is doing for our planet. If I understand this correctly, by purchasing an Ecoist Bag I can Support “Upcycling”, Help Eliminate Waste and Preserve the Enviornment by Planting a Tree. I guess there is only one thing left to do, decide which bag to buy!
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http://ecoist.com
My 3 Favorites
The Skinny Envelope Oversized Clutch – Coke Classic
Baquette Size Clutch – M & M’s Candy
The Daily Tote – Olive Seeds
Ecoist is GIVING AWAY the Olive Seeds Bag above!
So please enter my Ecoist Giveaway below!
How to WIN
1. Tell me how you are Living an Eco-Friendly Life
2. Re-tweet my Ecoist Giveaway
This Could be YOU!
Contest ends January 19th 2010, midnight pacific standard time THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED!!
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We recycle everyway possible in our household and we are teaching that to our children. I love it when my 3 year old daughter scolds her father for leaving the water on while brushing his teeth! Love the bag…hope to win!
What a cute bag! I recycle everything I possibly can, use eco friendly cleaners and use reusable totes when I go shopping. They also hold up much better than paper or plastic.
I live an eco-friendly lifestyle by recycling everything possible, reusing lots of products, and purchase products that are packaged (if any) in recyclable materials.
After living in Japan and seeing how recycling can be done easily, we try our hardest to recycle everything we can. (Although, I wish the US was as diligent as some of our neighboring nations). We also make sure to set all appliances to eco-friendly.
Blogging about whole living with style, I’m buying a grass fed cow and I’m considering getting chickens.
I tweeted:
http://twitter.com/unluckymrsmom/status/7918540112
My boyfriend & I try to recycle as much as possible. I cant stand to throw any plastic away. I love these little purses, so cute!
We recycle all our plastic, glass and cardboard. Love the bag. The World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta has lots of great recycled products for sale. I’m dying for one of Kathleen Plate’s necklaces too! http://www.kathleenplate.com/
We recycle as much as we can, use reusable grocery bags, buy in bulk, walk instead of drive whenever possible, wash laundry in cold water, use energy saving light bulbs…
I retweeted your giveaway (username _cmac)
We recycle everything possible at home and at work.
Thanks for a great giveaway.
tweet – http://twitter.com/jtgreenw/status/7928948454
That bag is ultra cute!! @unluckymrsmom
http://twitter.com/unluckymrsmom/status/7948636244
Teaching my kids what it means to be Eco-friendly is the most important step I take to be more kind to our environment. We do this in many ways each day, there is always a teaching moment. One way we have been working on this is removing disposables from our life and replacing them with items such as ToGoWare, PeopleTowels, and reusable water bottles.
tweeted. @amyburba
We cloth diaper and use biodegradable disposables. We use eco-friendly household cleaners and beauty products.
Living in a small town like I do there is not a lot of Eco-friendly places, so my husband and I are now buying as much eco-friendly stuff as we can. We are also using reusable water. tweeted @beeacutie2
It has been lots of fun to share our passion for recycling with our 8 yo who many times seems to know all about it better than we do!
we also love how cute the canvas bags are these days that makes it fun to take them with you to the store!
Thanks for this chance!
We have been a vegan/vegetarian family for over 15 years. We greatly reduce our carbon footprint each day by not eating meat, driving only when necessary, relying mostly on public transportation, using recycled bags when going to the grocery store, composting our scraps, and recycling everything that we can in our daily life. This is our Earth and we have only one chance to leave it behind in a better condition than it is in now for our kids.
We breastfeed, we cloth diaper and do elimination communication, we bring canvas bags when we shop….
We make sure to recycle every article we can in the home and around the apartment complex; toilet paper rolls are used as “play” binoculars and kalidescope for my toddler; we encourage our families to do the same in order to save them money and help the earth
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