GreenSmart, Yes They Are! - Review & Giveaway
Ok, I am seriously so excited to announce that I have at least 3 more giveaways happening in the next 3 weeks! Woohoo!
The first of which is from a company called GreenSmart. There are so many things I love about this company I hardly even know where to start.
First is the fact that the company was started by 2 California natives Debbie and Tom, gotta love a local success story!
Second is the incredible materials they use to make their products. One of which is recycled PET water bottles, you know I love that!
They make 3 products out of 100% post-consumer (super good & green) water bottles; laptop sleeves, laptop jackets and briefs.
According to GreenSmart “In the United States alone, 230 bottles per person go to landfill per year. That is enough crushed bottles to fill the Rose Bowl Stadium in California every two weeks.” That's just crazy! But GreenSmart has found a way to put all that waste to work.
They sent me a (free) GreenSmart Bottles 2 Bags laptop sleeve to try out (and giveaway!) to see what a bag made from bottles is like.
Two things caught my eye right away; 1) how very thick it was and 2) these little loops on the top and side of it.
At first I couldn't figure out what the purpose of the loops was....and then I slid the sleeve into my carrying case. The loops are there to make it nice and easy to pull the sleeve back out of the case. Which, it turns out is what it says on the tag that was attached to it. Hehe
I also liked how snuggly my laptop fit inside the sleeve. You definitely don't want wiggle room when trying to protect something that contains your life. Ok, maybe that's a slight exaggeration. No, no it's not.
I have the large size sleeve which took 8 16 oz. PET bottles to make. And according to the little tag, saved 5,517 Btus of energy, compared to one made without recycled materials, which is enough to power your laptop for 65 hours. Sweet!
One of my favorite statements on the whole site is “Polluting the planet for profit is a short sighted business model that serves no one." Instead they believe in "creating a better product and a better planet.” I don't know, i just like that.
Ok, enough gushing, onto the part you've been waiting for; the giveaway!
But before I do, did I forget to mention that GreenSmart is hosting the second giveaway as well? Silly me. Be sure to stop by Thursday for the next GreenSmart giveaway!
Ok, now onto the giveaway!
One lucky reader will win a GreenSmart Bottles 2 Bags laptop sleeve. The contest will run from Monday January 25, 2010 thru Monday February 1, 2010 at 11:59 pm PST. Sorry, but the contest is only open to US residents.
For the main entry go to GreenSmart and leave a comment here about how a bottle becomes a bag. This one must be done before any additional entries will count.
For additional entries:
Follow @easyecotogo on Twitter and leave your @name (1 entry)
Follow @begreensmart on Twitter and leave your @name (1 entry)
Write a blog about the contest or email 3 friends & cc me on the email easyecotogo at gmail.com (3 entries, please leave 3 comments)
Tweet about the contest (RT @easyecotogo Stop by enter the @begreensmart #giveaway for a bottles 2 bags laptop sleeve! http://bit.ly/4ww3K2) (1 entry, can be done once a day)
Follow my blog (1 entry)
Subscribe to Easy Eco To Go (1 entry)
Add my button to your blog (leave your site with your comment so I can stop by and say hi!) (2 entries, please leave 2 comments)
Separate comments must be left here for each additional entry!!
Also, please include your email with comments or if you’d rather, after you leave your main entry comment, email me at easyecotogo(at)gmail(dot)com so I will have a way of contacting you if you win.
And as always the boys will help me pick a winner which will be announced Tuesday the 2nd.
21 comments:
Bottles are sorted, ground into flakes. Washed and put through a machine to make them into a fiber. Then put through another machine to make them into material, and WHALLA! Bags. or anything else they wanna make!
here is a step in the process:
PET fibers are separated by size and fed into yarn twisting machinery. The process of converting fibers to yarns has changed little over the centuries except to become more automated. Depending on fiber size. Fibers of specific size determine the size (denier) of the resulting yarns. These yarns are then spooled for use in weaving.
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As I was reading your article I was wondering just how the bottles were made into bags, so I'm glad you pointed us to the process. It really is rather complex..first sorting bottles, removing one that don't match content/quality, processing the bottles into flakes, washing, spinning into thread and woven into fiber. Really interesting.
I'd love to win one of their bags!
Crazy! One bale of 6000 bottles is ground into PET flakes, an alternative to petroleum-based polyester!
following both @easyecotogo on twitter as @morosego
and i follow @begreensmart as @morosego on twitter!
It is pretty amazing that plastic bottles can end up as bags... interesting info and thanks for the giveaway!
I already subscribe to your feed and check it a few times a week. :)
Amazed that it only takes 18 of the 16oz bottles to make a yard of fabric! We recycle or compost everything that comes into our house. I would love to win this giveaway!
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Bottles are hand-sorted to remove non-PET plastics and other impurities, which results in less refinement later on.
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@RandSlipe tweeted about the contest
After washing, the highest quality ground flakes are chemically separated from impurities and converted to PET chips through a process known as de-polymerizing and re-polymerizing. Once complete, the resulting fibers can be woven into yarns.
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I'm following Green Smart
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