Great Green Giveaway - terracycle’s tote bags
by Maureen @ 9:46 am 170 comments »
UPDATE August 28, (8:30pm, ET ) THIS GIVEAWAY HAS DRAWN TO A CLOSE.
It’s Official — 3 WINNERS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED BY EMAIL: Beth Shepherd, Michelle Mulrain, and Ali Gutierrez - Congratulations!
This week’s Great Green Giveaway is sponsored by hip upcycler, terracycle.net. They keep waste from winding up in landfills, and make useful stuff out of it instead. 3 lucky people will each receive an eye-catching tote bag fashioned from recycled Capri Sun drink pouches.
You will love this bag — it’s a traffic stopper. Wherever I go, people stop me in the street to ogle my kitschy tote.
To Enter: visit terracycle.net and review their amazing line of upcycled goods. Return to this post and leave a comment telling us what stuff you personally, either like or dislike to recycle. Then enter the following address in your address book: m at AlternativeConsumer.com.
3 prizewinners are selected at random. Each winner will be notified by email, around midnight, (EST), Wednesday, August 27, 2008.
It’s easy as 1, 2, 3 –so start clicking — good luck! And hey, grab our RSS to stay in touch.
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I like recycling plastic lids into drip catcher under my houseplants.
Neat site! I love how it has information on where and how to recycle. The pencil holder and homework folders I thought were really neat.
I love these sooooo much!!!!
I always recycle paper, cans and bottles. But I never thought about what one could do with Capri Sun packets. Cool!
I like recycling cans(money,money money) lol
love them all
I like that corks are being recycled!
Anything that can be recycled-glass, plastics, paper, clothes, furniture–keep it all out of the landfills.
I’ve saved all my corks for about 8 years, now I finally have someone to give them to
that’s such a great idea! hey, the less we keep out of the landfills, the better!
CARPRI
hope I win thanks.
OMG…there is nothing I don’t like about this site. Everything they use, how the make and what they create is absolutely amazing…I would so love to win, so Please enter me in this giveaway!!!!
I wish I had kept all my corks through the years…believe me, there would be thousands! Great idea.
I recycle paper, cans, and plastic bags. I reuse plastic bottles for several things. I think this is an amazing idea. It is wonderful how much that can be recycled
That is such a cool idea
I love the idea of these!!
How fantastic.
Would love to have one, thanks!
anything that can be recycled we try. like doing the magazines to hospitals, nursing homes and the basics..there is a place htat reuses milk jugs forchemicals for planting/garening/really cool. I tend to try to reuse and reuse here to the point it drives the family nuts
How totally cool! Love the bags!
the juice boxes into pencil cases are great.
my main recycling item is paper, however.
Thank you for the website. I am pro-recycling, but what I appreciate the most is the internship opportunity:
TerraCycle 2008 Intern Program
I will check it out!
I like to recycle used fabric softer sheets on my swiffer sweeper. It really works!!!
Wow, what great ideas some people come up with. I loved all the capri sun products. My daughter works at a daycare center so all my empty cardboard rolls, yogurt and cottage cheese containers, water bottles end up as art!
great site. very helpful.
Cool!….count me in.
I like recycling christmas/birthday/etc cards into little boxes to store things in. Thanks for the chance.
Hope I win, it’s a fun prize.
I love these tote bags, they are awesome.
I like to recycle the grocery/drug store plastic bags. I try to take my own bag when I can but not always able to…
I also recycle greeting cards into postcards. Great way to use the side not written on.
Thanks for the giveaway.
What a clever idea - I’d love to have one of these.
Cute Cute Bags! I love to recycle cans and I do reuse plastic bottles.
I’d love to win either of these bags. They’re so colorful and distinctive.
cool like to win it
I love recycled products I kind of consider it recycled pop art and love the Caprisuns designs
My kids and grandchildren have drunk a ton of Capri Sun. This is wonderful. It would be great for my daughter to carry back and forth to school. She is a teacher and what a great way to show children what can be done. blackford56@yahoo.com
I love finding fresh new ideas for recycling..and making recycling fashionably chic, fantastic.
I would love to win and show my Girl Scouts another use for Capri Suns! We have used the empty containers and made bracelets out of them!
I’ve never heard of this before. What a great idea. I would like to recycle cookie wrappers. My husband is a cookie monster, so this could be lucrative.
I’ve been really good with recycling food scraps in my composter!
Good luck to me!
I love to recycle scraps of fabric and papers for crafts, versus tossing them.
i really liked the capri sun tote.
love to be able to make something like this. I have some bags by littlearth made from old licence plates and rubber, very cool
I love everything! I also love to recycle pop cans and use the $$ to buy things.
These are really nice and it just goes to show you how great recycling can be!
An eye opener, even for those that recycle anyway. I love the capri sun totes.
cans
Love these bags
We recycle cans, plastic, and paper.
I like to recycle plastic, cans, paper.
Thank you!
janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com
I think glass can be difficult to recycle. But I like to save old packaging and reuse it when I mail things.
I don’t recycle much (no pick up and no car or bike to take stuff in) so I try to focus on reducing/reusing instead.
What a wonderful site. I recycle whenever I can!
I like recycling as much as I can. I am not particularly fond of cleaning up tin cans and all but hey, we all do our part.
When my children were small we would always cut up used greeting cards to make new ones, they loved making their own cards. Love these bags.
Very cool website! I like to recycle plastic grocery bags–I cut them into strips and crochet new, sturdier bags out of the strips. Thanks for the contest!
I wish I knew how to make these! We go through tons of juice pouches and boxes in my house. I recycle them.
Great recycling product, we try to recycle everything we can,cans bottles,plastics,etc
Thanks for the contest
recycle often
I like to use moisturizer containers or face cream containers as pots for flowers. I also use them to store office items like paperclips or pens. Another fun thing is to use old calendar pages for wrapping paper!
I LOVE what this site is doing! There’s no recycling center close to me, so the option to do it online is great!
THANK YOU GOD BLESS
recycle everything that I can.
What a great site! I recycle Christmas cards into postcards and cans & bottles of course. We have a compost that we use for fertilizer for our gardens.
Superb!
Terracycle is an awesome site! Thanks for sharing it with everybody!
I love to recycle most of our food waste. We just add it to the compost pile and when spring comes we get to use it as multch.
Pick me. We recycle whatever we can.
Thank you for having this contest. I really appreciate it.
Great product! I would so love to win this!
I love recycling I use both sids of paper and save them for the kids to color on. I even bring home papers from work to recycle since the cleaning people throw them in the dumpster. Cool bags.
Sweet bag!!! and i can feel good…it’s green
It is just amazing at everything they have done with recycled goods. I am impressed.
I don’t recycle much (ducking) but I’m trying to do more.
I think it’s cool that corks can be recycled!! Love these bags, very cool! purposedrivenlife4you(at)gmail(dot)com
I like recycling newspapers.
Great recycling idea that should inspire others.
My kids and I like to recycle items (bottle tops, etc) by reusing them to do art projects or bringing them to school to use.
I have been holding a school supply drive for our town - so I love the school supply stuff - esp the pencil boxes
Thanks for the contest
We recycle cans,paper,plastic,glass.
We recycle bottles and cans here in Maine due to the deposits-I also recycle the big plastics (laundry soap containers etc…) and newspaper & magazines
micaela6955 at msn dot com
Love it! I use it with my budweiser can hat if I can find it.
I like to recycle plastic grocery bags
I try to recycle as many materials I can through curbside recycling and take the rest down to the central recycling center. What a creative and useful way to recycle the Capri-Sun juice packages!
Wow! This is an incredible site. I would have never thought of recycling things like this. Very Cool
This is such a creative way to use empty juice containers, love the idea and the end product. I recycle everything, well, almost everything; cardboard, plastic, metal, glass; and I try to find other uses for empty containers, i.e. I cut off the top of plastic water bottles and use them for funnels.
Oh, where to begin??
I like recycling tee shirts into dust rags and also into reusable tote bags. Just sew the bottom closed and cut off the arms. The shoulders become the handles and the neck is the top. Plus jersey material doesn’t fray so you don’t even need to hem it!
I don’t like recycling soup cans — I have trouble getting them clean and often will cut myself on them
I do like recycling toilet paper rolls though - they are handy for crafts and as cord keepers!
We recycle everything we can but don’t really re-use anything. We do have more recycle than trash tho.
i like to recycle.
Great idea! Love recycling
I like to recycle as much as possible. I hate that in my area we can only recycle #1 and #2 plastics. I really need to think of a good project for using the others!
Recycle everything you can (newspapers, junk mail, cans, etc) to keep it out of the landfills.
Those are great looking totes! I’d love to have one.
These bags are sooooo cute! We recycle aluminum products through a church and they use the money to buy food for those who need it. We are in a county that has mandatory recycling for paper, plastic, glass…. and we buy useable things at garage sales and donate things we no longer need to charities so that someone else will get good from them.
We just starting recycling a few months ago and it is so much easier than I thought it would be.
I’ve recycled for years before it was hip! I get thirsty just looking at it!
Magazines are our favorite items to recycle. Schools love to get them, especially the art teachers. And, craft directors for day camps, nursing homes and children’s hospital found them useful as well.
How neat,,,enter me to win please
Enter me please!
I like to recycle old clothes. We turn them into purses, toys and new clothes.
We recycle everything cans,boxes,bottles,paper etc. I send in all my empty ink cartridges to be recycled. Love the bags those are such a great idea! Thank you so much!
great looking totes
I like the 2 ring Eco Binder . I have my coupons sorted in clear baseball card pages and this is the perfect binder. I am proud to be green and cheap !
Great site, thanks for the contest.
Thanks for the great website.
I recycle everything possible, donate usable goods to others, and love the idea of a bag made from Capri Sun wrappers!
lots of ideas available.
I sure could use this bag.
I love to recycle all boxes
herry123_us@live.com
I like recycling soda bottles and cans. I didn’t even know cookie wrappers were recyclable until I saw it on their site. I don’t have them often but I’ll start recycling those when I buy them. Interesting!
I try to recycle as much as I can! Old dishes and clothes go to the homeless shelter, I use old tote bags to carry groceries and I compost all of our scraps to make compost for our garden, just to name a few!
These are so cool. hope I win thanks.
That is cool! We recycle the few plastic grocery bags we still end up with (we usually buy more than what fits in our canvas totes) for cleaning out cat boxes.
We send empty egg cartons to school for them to re-use for painting bins or crafts.
I love how they are starting to recycle so many things now - all kinds of wrappers and boxes. My favorite thing to recycle personally is still cans - it is the easiest for me to do!
What a great idea!
Thank you for having this! These are so beautiful and just plain smart thing to do. We try to recycle just about everything we can. I think the only thing we dont recycle is dirty diapers
My least favorite part about recycling is seperating all the different kinds and then trucking the 5 large trash cans to the recycling center once a week. Thank you! I would love to win this!
Really cute bags!
I like to recycle our glass. Unfortunately, our local place has just announced they won’t take it anymore. I’m supposed to throw it away with the regular garbage. So not happy about that!
I love them all!
I’ve saved all my corks for about 8 years,
I like recycling magazines and plastic. I hate recycling corrugated cardboard because they make you tear down the box flat, then it needs to be smaller than 2′ square so it can take alot of time if you’re recycling larger boxes.
Great stuff. We recycle plastic bags and cans.
I like recycling everything I can. I turn newspaper into wrapping paper, and arizona tea glass bottles into vases with help of some glue and tissue paper.
i send clean colorful plastic bags to the gandocas (at the sea turtle conservation project). They make pocketbooks with them!
I hope that I win!!!
count me in
I recycle Birthday, Christmas, Thank You, etc. cards and make Christmas ornaments, unique cards, bag tags, & scrapbooking materials out of them. I recycle plastic containers as my “tupperware”.
what a great idea!
Reeeeaallly cute bag.
i like recycling most things, except stuff that has food in it that takes so much time to clean beforehand. great giveaway!
I love that you can recycle batteries. I always feel great when I take a big load and turn them in at the recycle center. At home I use supermarket plastic bags as wastebasket liners, so I don’t need to buy those at all any more. Of course, now I’m taking my reusable tote to the grocery store and not getting plastic bags, but my stash should last a long time!
I use cloth bags for shopping
The whole site is great - but my favorite are the Terracycle Bags. What a neat idea, and they are so pretty!
I love to recycle cans, glass bottles, plastic containers and all kinds of paper and cardboard. I just saw that you could recycle CapriSun pouches via TerraCycle…and that is awesome! I might just sign up!
These bags are so cute.
Love the Drink Pouch Backpack!
I’ve been recycling for years. And don’t throw it away—give it away.
Corks are my least favorite. Because with the way I drink it would take me a year to get 2 of them. LOL…
we recycle the usual cans and bottles, we also recycle clothes by giving them to goodwill!
I recycle everything I can from newpapers to CRV plastic bottles and I want to win.
My daughter took Capri Sun to school each day and so did my son as a drink with their lunch.
My daughter is 30 years old and my son is 33 and my daughter continues to buy those pouches of capri sun and every now and then I drink one
My danghter would die for one of these totes
Shannon would be a great spokes= person for Capri-Sun.
Thank you this is so wonderful.
I forgot to add I recycle aluminum and have for 18 years and have purchased many appliances from the money I recieved from the sale.I love doing this and that is why after 18 years I still recycle aluminum cans.
I TRY TO RECYCLE EVERYTHING I CAN.
I recycle yard waste and some food scraps in a compost.
Very cool site and products too. I love seeing products from creative people!
I like to recycle clothing into new items
i like to recycle what ever i can.
like recycling cans
I like the ideas in the blog on what to recycle. I usually try to find new ways to recycle things
These are so cute and recyclable too!!!!
we recycle plastic,glass and newspaper
we get a lot of packages so we turn the packing material into art since most of that stuff doesn’t biodegrade , it’s a lot of fun!
We recycle and reuse everything we can. Once hand me down clothes are too tired to be worn, they are used as rags for cleaning or in the garage. Milk jugs are great ‘toys’ for horses when hung the right way in stalls. Food scraps are always taken to my friends piggies. Kids can a make a few extra bucks and cut down on the litter thrown out down our streets by collecting cans.
Recycling is rewarding in more ways than one!
Great looking bag! I try and recycle as much as I can. Newspapers and plastic are done weekly. Coffee grounds go in my vegetable garden and bread for the birds. We recycle clothes also - wearable ones are given to charity and all others are made into rags that I use around the house for cleaning and outside for projects.
Thank you for the nice giveaway.
I love all the great ideas on how to recycle!
I have a papermaking kit with deckle screens and I chop up junk mail in an old blender and make new paper with it. Sometimes I put in food coloring or flower petals to make the paper look even cooler.
Thank you for the contest. I love the Capri Sun tote.
That is so cool that they are accepting items from people to turn into new stuff!
I don’t mind recycling everything we can. Plus, I buy a lot of our stuff second hand so it’s saved from being in the trash!
We try to recycle as many materials we can through curbside recycling. I smash aluminum cans and take them to the recycle center in exchange for cash. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!
I recycle everything that the city will take, and some things that they won’t take, I reuse in various ways around the house.
I saw these bags and absolutely fell in love with them. I love to recycle my milk jugs & cans!
These are so neat!
i love to recycle what i can. ty 4 the great contest.
These bags are really neat!
I know you can “buy” reusable totes for grocery shopping, but take a look at some of the shopping bags from the Department stores that you have tucked away. Most of them are quite heavy-duty and can withstand many shopping trips. Bird Seed bags (the large ones) make great leaf/yard waste bags - one less to purchase and they are really strong. Bread bags are great for “poop patrol” disposal.
What a groovy idea, makes me think of the 60’s and volkswagon buses and the whole nine yards, thanks for helping the environment!
I like the seed starter kit.
Very interesting…I’m thinking about signing up for the Capri Sun collection…my kids drink Capri Sun.
I’d like to win something this cool.
I liked the drink pouch lunch box. This is such a terrific site it gives all of us ideas and shows us what inovations can be made from trash.I recycle like all I try to do more all the time. Once I did braid & sew together plastic trash bags for a kitchen rug. I really liked the idea of reuseing fax machines and computers to make trash cans. Thank you for the opportunity to win this really cool bag! I lost one of my grocery store bags and if I go many places I have to dump my grocerys on the floor of the car, so as to not use any plastic bags. Winning one of these bags would sure help my problem. Thank you again!
I like to recycle aluminum cans
Wow! Thank you for choosing me! These are absolutely fantastic!
Thank you for having this! I was one of the very lucky winners. I have received my tote and I love it! Thank you so much!!