Archive for the ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ Category

Mar22

BIC® ecolutionsTM

bic ecolutions BIC® ecolutionsTM product line is formulated to be green … from using recycled plastic for pen barrels to recycled paper for packaging to water based solutions for the Correction Aqua “white out”.

“ … perform to the same high quality that you’ve come to expect from … BIC products …”

Mar16

These Come From Trees …. Promote Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

These Come From Trees Sticket

I saw this sticker on a paper towel dispenser and wanted to know more about it.  It seems this was a grass roots effort that seems to work.  From their website … " … From our field testing, each sticker deployed saves about a tree’s worth of paper (~100 lbs.) a year. Crazy, isn’t it?" and saves about 29% per year in paper.

Feb08

Kigo Shoes have Small Environmental Footprint

Kigo embraces the reduce, reuse, recycle approach …  Kigo logo

"… aspires to be responsible throughout the entire lifecycle of our shoes so our team and all who wear our shoes can leave a positikigo eco logove…Footprint

Feb06

Green Super Bowl Party Ideas

What makes a Super Bowl (or any party) GREEN ?

Use technology to send invitations (no paper wasted).  Buy local foods (minimize your carbon footprint).  Buy foods that use alternative energy .

For invitations use " …  Evite or MyPunchBowl …"

Feb06

Green Super Bowl Party Ideas

What makes a Super Bowl (or any party) GREEN ?

Use technology to send invitations (no paper wasted).  Buy local foods (minimize your carbon footprint).  Buy foods that use alternative energy .

For invitations use " …  Evite or MyPunchBowl …"

Jan26

Sprint Recycling Program – Reducing e-Waste

Every HOUR 16,000 cell phones are thrown away.  Sprint wants to keeps these out of landfills and has programs that make it easy for everyone to recycle (and not contribute to to e-waste) your cell phone and related accessories

Check out these 2 videos for more information on Sprint’s recycling programs …

Jan25

Naked Juice’s 100% Post Consumer Recycled PET (rPET)

Check out this You Tube video from Naked Juice talking about their reNEWabottle – made from 100% post consumer recycled PET (rPET).

Made with recycled plastic and fully recyclable … helping to reduce energy and reduce landfill waste.

 

 

Via:  Naked Juice LINK

Jan25

Naked® Juice: First Nationally Dstributed Brand w/ 100% post-consumer recycled PET (rPET) bottle

Naked Juice logo

Naked® Juice is the first nationally distributed brand to have a" …100% post-consumer recycled PET (rPET) bottle…"

The new bottles are called the "Naked reNEWabottle" … and in addition to being made with recycled material are 100% recyclable PET (codes as #1).

Jan22

Beach Garbage Hotel – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in Action

Beach Garbage Hotel - Madrid

A "hotel" in Madrid has been built completely from waste materials.

Showing both what can be done to re-purpose items and potentially how dirty beaches are the "… walls of the Beach Garbage Hotel … made of materials found in landfills, the beaches and even flea markets …"

Jan02

Alchemy Goods – Recycling anfd Upcycling

Alchemy Goods logo

Alchemy’s mission "is top turn useless into useful"  They reuse / recycle / up-cycle inner tubes and seat belts to make wallets, belts,  bottle openers and messenger bags. 

They partner with REI and Trek to take back and recycle inner tubes.  You can even take your used inner tubes to REI or more on hte Alchemy logoa Trek store for recycling.