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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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!!
I love the backpacks, it’s amazing how we can reuse all these items to make BACKPACKS!!!! I love to recycle everything. It is really fun and saving the world is alot to me!
It is so incredible how we are saving the Earth by not simply just throwing the trash like the Oreo wrapper away but people are making art with them. I really like the bag personally the most and the pencil pouch is great. I like them all!!
I am famous but I love these bags
ok I realy like these bags ok plese do more interesthing thigs and I love the backpack and dont forget kisses for the echology