Eco This!

June 29, 2008 By 123 Comments



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You could win this eco slim portfolio (color may vary)! Contest ended!

If you love purses and most women do then you have to love the Ecoist! A sassy and sexy site for eco purses, clutches, portfolios, billfolds and more. The company was founded in 2004 with sustainability and fashion in mind. Ecoist recycles candy wrappers, food packages, billboards and all sorts of other recyclable “stuff” and makes the non-biodegradable material into fashionable accessories. All products utilize organic and earth friendly products during the manufacturing process. They’re one of those green companies that put their billfold where their mouth is! Love that!

Want to win a stylish recycled portfolio with a $138 value? I do but I can’t so you’ll have to win one for me. The contest starts today (June 29th) and ends July 5th. Congrats to Shelly for her “Boob Curtain” idea!

◊I will choose one comment that leaves the most creative recycling idea. Yes, just tell me something cool to recycle or a new way of recycling something and you could win. How easy is that?

◊Want two entries just leave a second comment telling me you’ve blogged about this or gave me a stumble, digg, kirtsy or emailed some friends about the contest. I give extra credit because I’m so nice! For more details see the G&CM official rules page.

Don’t be sad if you don’t win—okay, cry and let it all out, I understand. When you’re done shedding the tears be happy because this savvy earth lovin’ company is offering G&CM readers 10% off all purchases with the coupon code: Greenandclean, through the end of July!


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  • sarah woods

    Love the green bag; they are everywhere; in our vehicles; in our offices; and in our homes; so we do not forget them. thanks

  • reeva

    I recycle the water from my shower — Weekly, I put the plants in with me when I take a shower — the soap keeps bugs away and it waters my plants at the same time :)

  • Denise

    I recycle clothing by donating items my family has grown out of to MS for others to wear.

  • kathy pease

    i use coffee grounds in my garden :)

  • Heather C

    Compost food waste, use canvas bags while shopping, recycle just about everything (cans, glass, paper, plastic bags, plastic bottles), donate clothes and shoes to causes, donate packing material to shipping stores – those are the normal things.
    Interesting things? We’ll see: use old socks to clean around the house, place any and all nut shells cracked around the garden to keep cats away, toilet paper rolls saved until Christmas time to make poppers, paste candy wrappers of the same kind around a mat frame for a fun border to a silly picture, etc. Recycling food. :-)

  • dani

    As a teacher almosts all our crafts and presents are made out of what others may consider trash. Winter Gifts. used pantyhose and wire hanger. Reshape hanger tie the leg without holes over. Then make riendeer face and antlers and you have a cute doorknob hanger. I have also used baby jars and packing matierial to make snowglobes. Arizona Tea glass bottles are great to decropage with colored tissue paper. We also wrap all our gifts in newspaper.

  • cat

    we recycle any plastic bags we have. I also flip copier paper over and resue it whenever possible. I have a compost in the yard and return “food scraps” back to the earth

  • Suanne Giddings

    I was overrun with plastic grocery bags before I started using reusable bags. I could never remember to take them to the collection bins for recycling, so I just got more and more. One day I sat down and made “yarn” out of the bags cut into strips and crocheted them with a BIG hook into a rag rug. It was mostly white, but the colored bags I used in the mix added a nice slpash of color here and there. It came out pretty fantastic even if I do say so myself! LOL Thanks for the chance to win!

  • Annie W.

    My cat loves old (clean) pizza boxes–he thinks they are to be used as cat beds. I’m going to start covering the boring white with pretty wrapping paper.

    Newspaper “protectors”–those plastics sleeves– have numerous uses. A pal microwaves baked and sweet potatoes in them. I use them as “armour” when I need to attack poison ivy–I slip a couple over my hand and forearm and I haven’t had a rash using them.

    Old jeans and pantyhose have been used for decades in my family as ties for tomato plants.

    Plastic fast-food drink cups can be used as scoops, to start plants. I drink out of them at home until they break. Mom stacks them in narrow spots as a kitten barrier.

    Chipped dishes can be used as ring bowls by the sink or broken up for mosaic projects.

    I save old jars to start plants (especially avocadoes for friends even though I end up with all of them).

  • Joan Koczon

    I saw a belt made with the tabs from soda cans and have been saving them to crochet together for a belt for myself.. I did start taking the tabs from cat food cans (a little bigger then the soda cans) and have been ‘trying to’ tie them together to make little things to put plants on so they won’t mess up the furniture.

  • Renee

    I am rinsing my dishes outside to also water my lawn and plants.

  • PhyllisG

    Bath water waters my lawn.

  • http://Emes Gary Emes

    I recycle my yogurt cups I use them as little planters.

  • http://n/a A Casson

    I take and use the plastic lids from my nut and margarine container for mini disposable cutting boards. Seems to do the job with less cleanup and the disposable part is the best

  • Diana Lindeman

    Do recycle or am I just cheap? Probably a little bite of both. I really like to shop at Aldi’s because you bring your own bags or use their boxes. I still feel funny dragging around cloth bags.

  • http://saveyourmoneymama.blogspot.com tangie c

    Since I’m a junior high school teacher, I came up with a way to get all of the students (almost 1,000) at my school to start recycling ALL of their plastic drink bottles from lunch and PE. Most of the time, they would toss them into the trash or scatter them around the campus. What I did, is I ask that they bring all plastics to me to recycle, I have a large tub to collect them. At the end of the semester, we use the money from the recycling to have a pizza party!! This way, the kids are excited to see the bottels multiply, and they even pick up bottles other kids have thrown on the floor!! Many pick up recycleables on their way to school!!

  • Cat Hare

    I use a lot of postcards to enter sweepstakes. I started taking cardboard food boxes like cereal boxes, etc. and making postcards from them. I open up the box so it is flat and then run it through my paper cutter. I end up with free, colorful postcards and the boxes are recycled.

  • Joy Venters

    trimming all the beautiful cards I recieve to a postcard size allows me to re-send the greetings – also, the plastic baby food tubs make an excellant “freeze the dab of leftovers” so they can be used later – e.g.dabs of vege’s can be turned into veg. soup

  • Lily Kwan

    I put eggshells in my plants’ potting soil for additional calcium.

  • Lily Kwan

    I emailed some friends about this cool contest!

  • Molly Palmer

    You know those trays meat comes on well don’t throw them away save them. I use them to make cards simple and easy. take the tray and lightly draw ( so you dont poke threw the tray) with a pen or pencil what you want the card to look like. remember the image will be fliped when you punt it on the paper so, letters and such should be drawn backwards so that you can read them when you are done. after you draw your image grab some markers (not sharpies) and color in your image. set aside. pick out the paper you want to use and fold it how you wish. grab a sponge or spray bottle and lightly moisten your paper. then turn the tray over colored side down on the paper. For little kids it’s easier to put the paper on top of the colored image than the other way around. press down and be care full not to move the paper or tray. then pull back evenly and you will have a quick and easy card. You can use this to make pictures and posters and other things as well. try useing a paper bag as your paper and recycle even more!!!!!!!!

  • http://doreens-scrap-wonderland.blogspot.com Doreen

    Store spices in baby food jars!

  • http://doreens-scrap-wonderland.blogspot.com Doreen

    I dugg ya! ;)

    Doreens last blog post..$10 Walgreens gc

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