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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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
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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!