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 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!