Programs that encourage environmentally benign buying pay off for both consumers and businesses. Manufacturers and retailers are participating in green rewards programs that give shoppers the chance to earn points toward purchases of other products by living sustainably.
Consumers get some welcome greenbacks for making environmentally friendly choices. Meanwhile, companies get to burnish their environmental reputations, attracting more consumers who already make a point of buying green products from good environmental stewards. At the same time, the distribution of associated coupons and rewards raises foot traffic and brand awareness.
Advocates of eco-conscious living hope the programs will spread environmental awareness to more-mainstream consumers, who may be deterred by higher prices for organic food or the extra time it might take to separate out their recyclables. The economic downturn is “a great time to introduce an incentive” for sustainable living, says Tiger Beaudoin, the founder and vice president of marketing for EcoBonus, a green rewards program that will launch on Earth Day 2011. “People have good intentions, but price is an important purchase driver.”
Paul Smith wrote a series of articles about Terracyle <http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/28/home-depot-and-petco-targeted-for-terracycles-newest-recycling-efforts/> last year. Founded by Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer in 2001 while students at Princeton, Terra Cycle <http://www.terracycle.net/bb/> started as a way to spread the benefits of vermicomposting (that is, composting <http://kellibestoliver.greenoptions.com/wiki/composting> with worms) to a larger audience. Szaky and Beyer were eventually able to earn startup funds, and by 2004, Home Depot <http://www.homedepot.com/> was carrying Terra Cycle <http://www.terracycle.net/bb/> Plant Food <http://www.terracycle.net/products.htm> on their website.
The BP oil brief has zero upon a hundreds of miles of rubbish floating in a Atlantic Ocean, as well as a bigger sibling, a Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a plastic-soup in a Pacific Ocean estimated to camber a distance of a continental U.S. Our oceans have been a landfills, a actuality which nags during me with each take-out enclosure as well as alternative square of rabble we draw up of in my kitchen. I’m usually a single chairman creation all this trash, as well as my internal-dialogue right away sounds similar to a hitchhiker lady in Five Easy Pieces: “Pretty shortly there won’t be room for anyone!”
The BP oil brief has zero upon a hundreds of miles of rubbish floating in a Atlantic Ocean, as well as a bigger sibling, a Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a plastic-soup in a Pacific Ocean estimated to camber a distance of a continental U.S. Our oceans have been a landfills, a actuality which nags during me with each take-out enclosure as well as alternative square of rabble we draw up of in my kitchen. I’m usually a single chairman creation all this trash, as well as my internal-dialogue right away sounds similar to a hitchhiker lady in Five Easy Pieces: “Pretty shortly there won’t be room for anyone!”
The BP oil spill has nothing on the hundreds of miles of garbage floating in the Atlantic Ocean , and its bigger sibling, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , a plastic-soup in the Pacific Ocean estimated to span the size of the continental U.S. Our oceans are our landfills, a fact that nags at me with every take-out container and other piece of trash I dispose of in my kitchen. I’m just one person making all this trash, and my internal-dialogue now sounds like the hitchhiker woman in Five Easy Pieces : “Pretty soon there won’t be room for anyone!” I admit that these three horesemen of the enviornmental apocolypse have me seriously considering the possibility of reincarnation.
The BP oil spill has nothing on the hundreds of miles of garbage floating in the Atlantic Ocean <http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0820/Huge-Atlantic-garbage-patch-still-holds-mysteries> , and its bigger sibling, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch> , a plastic-soup in the Pacific Ocean estimated to span the size of the continental U.S. Our oceans are our landfills, a fact that nags at me with every take-out container and other piece of trash I dispose of in my kitchen <http://gardenwindmill.brighterplanet.org/garden-windmill/the-garden-windmill/andrea-chalupa-garbage-moguls-god-bless-the-eco-capitalists#> . I’m just one person making all this trash, and my internal-dialogue now sounds like the hitchhiker woman in Five Easy Pieces: “Pretty soon there won’t be room for anyone!”
Recycling has become second nature for most green living families It is no longer difficult to find products that contain recycled materials and recycling centers are becoming pretty popular.
I wanted to invite you into the mind of a business that takes recycling one step further. Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net> is a group of imaginative, green living warriors, who spend their days inventing ways to upcycle everyday trash, into cool, usable items. I have personal experience with their gardening products and school supplies. I also save our own recyclables for a local group that takes part in their recycling program.
