From Wallet-Size to Shopping Tote in 3.6 Seconds!
Zipsacks Reusable Shopping Totes
From your purse to a full-size grocery bags in seconds!
What is Precycling?
Precycle before you recycle!
Precycling is trying to reduce waste by "pre-thinking" our purchases. While recycling is, of course, a positive thing, it still requires energy to transport the materials, melt them down and then re-manufacture items. Precycling tries to avoid the amount of stuff that gets chucked into landfills AND the recycling bin to begin with. Here are some tips:
Buy in bulk. Avoid individually wrapped items.
Buy items that come in recyclable packaging
instead of non-recyclable.
Avoid junk mail.
Use a computer instead of "real" magazines and newspapers.
Bring your own utensils with you instead of using plastic ones.
Use cloth handkerchiefs and napkins.
And of course, reduce and reuse as much as you can, first!
from Green Daily
More Reusable Bags from Wrapsacks
Hand-dyed batik bags to make your precycling easier!
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Wrapsacks Reusable Greeting Cards and Gift Card Holders
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How many beautiful gift cards are purchased each year ... and end up in the dump? What about the little cardboard gift card holders? Sure, the paper can be reused and recycled, but what if we could reduce the number of greeting cards produced and the...
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Wrapsacks Hand-Dyed Batik Cloth Gift Bags: Reusable, Regiftable, Recyclable!
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Tossing $5 billion worth of gift wrap in the trash each year is a poor way of celebrating anything. Instead choose to "precycle" by giving your gifts in beautiful Wrapsacks reusable cloth gift bags - a double gift to your friend, and a doub...
About Wrapsacks
Founders: Kathryn Hapke & Michael Miner
Inspired by world travels and practical parenting experiences, Wrapsacks, Inc. founders Kathryn Hapke and Michael Miner developed reusable gift wrap. With innovation and good value, the team is enabling the masses to lead a more sustainable lifestyle. Wrapsacks, Inc. offers planet-friendly alternatives to disposable items like gift wrap, greeting cards, and shopping bags in an effort to reduce the waste produced from traditional gift wrapping materials. More Recycling and Precycling Options!
Creative ways for recycling and reducing waste.
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What Can You Do With ... Elephant Poo?
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What CAN you do with elephant poo? As it turns out, you can recycle it into a useful, interesting, and - yes - beautiful product!
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Recycle Old Books, DVDs, and CDs ... And Get New Ones FREE!
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There is always a secondhand store somewhere. But the pittance they pay for used items may not cover the cost of gas to get there, and the selection of items for sale is limited, at best. The exchange rate is discouraging too; the trade value of four...
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Compassionate Christian Conservation, Earth Day and Every Day
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Heaven is My throne; the earth is My footstool. Do you drop trash on a friend's floor? Then why would you drop it on God's footstool? While Christian conservation doesn't necessarily mean wholesale buy-in of the ecological scare-du-jour, it...
What Do You Think of Zipsacks?
Do you have a use for a wallet-size shopping bag?
More Reusable Shopping Bags!
100% cotton canvas shopping tote bags
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Bible Bags - Flaunt Your Faith with Reusable Cloth Bags!
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No paper, no plastic, no thank you! Reusable shopping bags are the way to bag it - and now you can flaunt your faith at the same time! These roomy, stylish 100% cotton canvas tote bags have plenty of room to carry everything you need when you are o...
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Reduce, Reuse, REBAG!
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No paper, no plastic, no thank you! Reusable shopping bags are the way to bag it now! These roomy, stylish 100% cotton canvas tote bags have plenty of room to carry everything you need when you are on the go! Reusable shopping bags with cute, origin...
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Zipsacks by Wrapsacks on Squidoo
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- Frankster Frankster Sep 22, 2009 @ 1:34 pm
- Great idea. I forget my bags frequently. ;-( Thanks for sharing. Lensrolled to my Plastic Bag Alternatives lens. Bear hugs, Frankster
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- sandyspider sandyspider Sep 22, 2009 @ 10:16 am
- More goodies! Love it!
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- Treasures-By-Brenda Treasures-By-Brenda Sep 22, 2009 @ 6:56 am
- Another great lens, blessed & lensrolled to Ban Paper Coffee Cups.
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- stargazer00 stargazer00 Sep 20, 2009 @ 8:30 pm
- I love the Zipsack Tote Bags. I think it would be very handy to have one of these in my purse. I love the colorful fabrics too!
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- Joan4 Joan4 Sep 20, 2009 @ 5:49 pm
- These would make excellent Christmas gifts, too!
Recycle Your Old Books, DVDs, & CDs
Exchange your used books, DVDs, & CDs for new-to-you - FREE by mail!
Cloth Bags
Who's twittering about cloth bags?
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- myfunny
- Ladies Bag - A bag is a non-rigid mostly semi-rigid container, made of paper, cloth, plastic, leather, or some ot http://ow.ly/166cmZ
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- wysiwipe
- http://twitpic.com/rwrmc - Wysi for the golfers on your list a great idea the offical cloth of the PGA bc. perfect for the bag
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- joannepuckett
- @charmedimsure a friend gave me a bag full of cloth diapers but V's dr did some wacky cranial manipulation to reduce spitting up & it works!
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- mikeschreiner
- On my way to Queen's Park w/ cloth bag full of LFP certified Ontario canned tomatoes to donate to the QP food drive and holiday party #gpo
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- CanaryMotion
- No Toothbrush, No Wash Cloth *sigh* I need to start takin an overnight bag with me everywhere I go!
News on Cloth Tote Bags
Reusable cloth shopping totes in the news
- How to green your lunch … it's not too late to start and it's easy!
- Cool Totes are insulated lunch bags with a variety of fabric choices that are very well constructed. I've had one of their bags for years and it still ...
- They're there for crime victims in area
- Comfort Kit supplies such as sweat suit sets in medium and large sizes, slippers, blank journals and cloth tote bags to put them in. ...
- Black Friday workout
- Put your purchases in the large, cloth totes and your back pack. Once they are filled, walk as briskly as you can to the car and unload your purchases. ...
- An out-of-the-ordinary gift shop
- In tote bag, messenger bag and laptop bag sizes, they are lined and colorful. Teapots, floating candles, incense, vases, pearl jewelry, shell pill boxes and ...
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