Green is Good (LINK)
February 26th 2008 07:09
Green is getting bigger all the time. Even supermarkets are getting in on the act – finally. In Australia, Woolworths and Coles are going to make the effort in the new stores they’re building to consume 20% to 30% less energy. Sounds good.
Here in New Zealand people have taking up the challenge of remembering to bring their own bags to the supermarkets. Not only do these bags hold a lot more, they save you that sinking feeling of carrying several plastic bags that you know are going to give up the ghost before you’ve got from the car to the front door!
And talking of bags, there’s a company in Melbourne (my home town – have I mentioned this before?) called Haul that’s making old billboards (presumably the paper rather than the wooden stands) into fashion bags, number plates into purses and wallets (I’m wondering how heavy one of those would be in your pocket) and backpacks out of the inner tubes of tyres. Get your rubber-smelling backpack here!
I’ve just checked the site – as I should have done first – and find that they’re using vinyl advertising billboards. Never thought of vinyl ones.
Seems they also make laptop carriers, bean bags, artists’ aprons, dog collars, document satchels, and, in what must be the best buy of all for anyone who wants to fight for the environment, punch bags!
Here in New Zealand people have taking up the challenge of remembering to bring their own bags to the supermarkets. Not only do these bags hold a lot more, they save you that sinking feeling of carrying several plastic bags that you know are going to give up the ghost before you’ve got from the car to the front door!
And talking of bags, there’s a company in Melbourne (my home town – have I mentioned this before?) called Haul that’s making old billboards (presumably the paper rather than the wooden stands) into fashion bags, number plates into purses and wallets (I’m wondering how heavy one of those would be in your pocket) and backpacks out of the inner tubes of tyres. Get your rubber-smelling backpack here!
I’ve just checked the site – as I should have done first – and find that they’re using vinyl advertising billboards. Never thought of vinyl ones.
Seems they also make laptop carriers, bean bags, artists’ aprons, dog collars, document satchels, and, in what must be the best buy of all for anyone who wants to fight for the environment, punch bags!
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