My little 5 yr old (ok..he’s a big boy now) will be starting school this week. The start date of school is suppose to be Tuesday BUT that might change with Tropical Storm/Hurricane Faye headed towards Florida. His school supply list was pretty basic this year; nothing too extravagant. Mostly just paper, pencils, pencil box, glue, etc. On my trip to Wal-Mart I only spent $5 on the whole list of supplies. How can you make your kids school supplies a little more green?
Look for recycled paper and recycled folders. Look for pencils that are either refillable or made from rainforest free trees. TerraCycle even offers some unique and quirky back to school supplies. They have a cute pencil bag, lunch box, and backpack all made from juice pouches. I actually saw the pencil bag at our local Walgreens last week (only about $3). Looking on their website they also offer eco-binders and a drink pouch homework folder.
TerraCycle Bags
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Jeanne R says
August 18, 2008 at 12:35 pmVery cool. At walgreens, huh? Very cool x2! Exciting when this stuff makes it into the main stream.
Jeanne R
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Maja says
August 19, 2008 at 8:50 amVery cool. I like it.
amandasue says
August 19, 2008 at 5:42 pmWow how cute, who would of thought that juice pouches would look so great as a tote bag lol!
israel y says
August 19, 2008 at 9:17 pmgreat prize, making me thirsty already, thanks for the giveaway
Christine says
August 21, 2008 at 8:25 pmI love these products! What an awesome idea for recycling! After finding the CapriSun homework folder & pencil case while looking for school supplies, my 6yr & 4yr old sons are SO exciting to start saving their drink pouches to send to Terracycle 🙂
Brenda S. says
August 22, 2008 at 5:01 pmVery cool. I like it.
Thank you.
Belinda P says
August 23, 2008 at 7:46 amThey look great! I would love one of these pouch drink bags. They are very stylish . Thanks for the great giveaway!
hottmomma_03(at)yahoo.com
Samantha Pruitt says
August 24, 2008 at 3:02 amthis is seriously the cutest thing ever! i really hope i win it, thanks for offering such a great giveaway!
Hetal Gandhi says
August 24, 2008 at 3:51 amI love pouch drink bags. Very fun looking item.
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Sharon Jones says
August 24, 2008 at 6:22 amGreat contest…thanks for entry..
Also…subscribed…thanks 🙂
Sylvia Porter says
August 24, 2008 at 6:35 amthis would be so great to win!
dani says
August 24, 2008 at 9:32 amI love when they reuse items and make something great out of them. THis bag is so great.
Michele Pineda says
August 24, 2008 at 11:43 amthese are so cool! I actually had to check out their website and see they are accepting new drink pouch cookie wrapper collections-I will be sure to let my nonprofit where I work (has childcare section) as well as my daughters afterschool program-they might want to sign up and start collecting those wrappers and pouches! I’d love to win one as well, so I can show them those wonderful things they do with trash to help our environment.
micaela6955 at msn dot com
reeva says
August 24, 2008 at 2:09 pmnow this is cool! I’d love to win this.
Great giveaway! I hope im the lucky winner 🙂
kathy pease says
August 24, 2008 at 2:15 pmPLEASE COUNT ME IN ON THIS AWESOME GIVEAWAY 🙂
Kathy Conley says
August 24, 2008 at 4:22 pmWhat a wonderful recycling idea! These are cute!
Heather C says
August 24, 2008 at 7:03 pmThat’s the coolest recycled bag I’ve ever seen! Thanks for the giveaway!
Alexis Miano says
April 5, 2009 at 9:43 pmI recently purchased the terracyle pencils made of newspaper and they are awesome. They write nice, sharpen nice and are fun to look at.
I love knowing that there is a company out there that understands that recycling is logical and practical. I hope your business is doing great and I’ve recommended these pencils to all my college friends.
Thanks for being the alternative to the norm.
Mark Pappas says
May 8, 2009 at 10:12 pmGot mine at Green Nation Gardens
coraline_fan says
July 20, 2009 at 7:42 ami’ve been looking EVERYWHERE for these!!! i wanted to make my own, but i can’t find a good picture to look at. ‘-‘ i’ve saved up about a bazillion juice pouches and i don’t know what to do with them!!
george polur says
August 14, 2009 at 2:53 pmLOVE the concept of upcycling- GO TERRACYCLE!
Michael says
August 14, 2009 at 2:54 pmWhat a wonderful way to let the kid see what happens to the “trash” that cannot be destroyed.
bubbie says
August 14, 2009 at 2:56 pmAll 8 of my grandchildren are doing more to save the planet than their parents ever did. I couldn’t be more proud of these recycled products.
Arianna says
September 3, 2009 at 1:08 pmlove the Terracycle items!! please send !!