Join the Drink Pouch Brigade!
I couldn’t believe my eyes! Did I just see this recycled Capri Sun bag at Target? In
amongst the pretty floral and pleather handbags, there they were, in
all their green-crafted glory…recycled Capri Sun tote bags - at Target!
Wow, green craft is really going mainstream. I had a vision of a
young indie crafter, sitting on a mountain of money, drunk on Capri
Sun, tied to her sewing machine cranking these bad-boys out. After
some research though, I learned the real story and how we can help. TerraCycle, Capri Sun and Honest Kids have teamed up to help prevent the billions of juice packs that Americans drink each year from ending up in a land fill.
This is how it works:
When you sign up to join the Drink Pouch Brigade, TerraCycle will mail out 4 prepaid collection bags to your address. Once a collection bag is filled at least 100 drink pouches simply drop it off at a UPS drop off location and Honest Tea will donate $.02 per Capri Sun, Kool Aid and Honest Kids drink pouches and $.01 per other drink pouch you collect to the charity of your choice.
If you are feeling a little left out of the crafting process. All you need to do it save 27 of the packs to make your own using these Wiki instructions, then mail the rest in!
(Photo courtesy of TerraCycle.)
Juliet, I think I would have been just as surprised as you were! Honestly, I wish people would stop using the dang things, but I don’t mind at all if major corporations start making their products out of items destined for the landfill instead of new materials.
It’s great to see green products filtering through to the mainstream. I love these recycled bags!
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing the story.
Makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside to see the beginning of our future AKA - recycled/upcycled everything