为了确保这种新盒子的所有制作材料都可以回收利用，“The Naked Grape”公司已经与TerraCycle公司达成合作。一旦消费者把盒子里的葡萄酒喝完，他们就可以把空盒子免费寄到TerraCycle公司，TerraCycle之后就会把这些盒子进行回收利用或者升级再造，最终用于建造公园长椅、自行车架、回收箱等。 Tom Szaky，TerraCycle公司的CEO，说“美国人回收利用了自己制造出来的34%废弃物。我们希望能有更多公司像The Naked Grape那样，通过使用可回收利用的包装，来帮助提高废弃物的回收利用率。”

为了确保这种新盒子的所有制作材料都可以回收利用，“The Naked Grape”公司已经与TerraCycle公司达成合作。一旦消费者把盒子里的葡萄酒喝完，他们就可以把空盒子免费寄到TerraCycle公司，TerraCycle之后就会把这些盒子进行回收利用或者升级再造，最终用于建造公园长椅、自行车架、回收箱等。 随着中国葡萄酒市场的发展，葡萄酒行业在不断规范，葡萄酒准入门槛也会提高，葡萄酒的发展前景也会越来越广阔。绿色的、环保的、有机的葡萄酒将是葡萄酒未来的发展趋势。 Tom Szaky，TerraCycle公司的CEO，说“美国人回收利用了自己制造出来的34%废弃物。我们希望能有更多公司像The Naked Grape那样，通过使用可回收利用的包装，来帮助提高废弃物的回收利用率，”

The end-of-year holiday season is off in full swing, and the first date up is Thanksgiving. Whether you are hosting the main event, having mini-celebrations at work or school, or simply want to get in the spirit by decking out your home with festive flair, Thanksgiving is a great time to give thanks to the planet. Give careful consideration to what you buy and why, what you ‘need,’ the options for disposing of the packaging or product when you are done with it, and what you can reuse. In our enthusiasm to decorate, entertain and gift, household waste jumps 25%  during the holidays. Using reusable dishware over disposable cutlery, planning a meal of sustainably and locally sourced food, composting, and using nature’s holiday decorations make a huge impact on the health of the environment. These five decorative DIYs are proof that going green for Thanksgiving can make for stunning, unexpected presentations that charm and delight.

1. Malt-O-Meal Origami Flower Bouquet

A table of loved ones and friends is made brighter with a lively centerpiece. Fresh flowers, while lovely, can be a bit pricey and take a real toll on the land, water and climate and only last a short time. Make a switch from the usual arrangements and go with this handmade version. A sure conversation starter, a vase or bowl of these intricate blooms adds color and interest without breaking the bank. Best part? You can bring them out for other special occasions, or to brighten someone’s day. Click HERE for Malt-O-Meal Origami Flower Bouquet DIY Instructions

2. DIY Acorn Eggs

This fall may have left you with an abundance of  acorns (which also look great as décor in glass containers), but these cute “faux acorns” made from last season’s Easter eggs not only carry some extra kitsch, but also may be a little safer to have around little ones. We like the cool metallic golds and silvers used here, but feel free to modify the colors to match the theme of your party or the scheme of your home. Click HERE for Acorn Eggs DIY Instructions

3. Falling Leaves Garland

Glitter-phobes beware! This glam take on an autumnal garland loves the light and catches the eye. We’d swap out the artificial leaves from the craft store with real ones that have fallen from our trees for a true tribute to the Fall foliage; pick them early and dry between the pages of a book for perfectly flat, sturdy leaves that will lay nice and straight when strung. Click HERE for Falling Leaves Garland DIY Instructions

4. Ella’s Kitchen Placemat

Who said the “Kid’s Table” gets left out? Dapper dining need not be saved for the adults. Placemats pull the table setting together, and these colorful, durable placemats are kid-proof, spill-proof, and can be an opportunity to get little hands involved in your holiday preparations. All you need for these simple placemats are Ella’s baby food pouches and colorful tape. Prepare several sets for a matching spread for all of your tables, or sweet DIY gifts for friends. Click HERE for Ella’s Kitchen Placemat DIY Instructions

5. Wine Box Wine Charms

Keeping everyone’s drinking vessels straight in a day full of dining, hors’ oeuvres and dessert can be daunting. It can also be a bit more stylish with these fitting wine charms made out of a wine box. Highly customizable, dainty and adorable, you can decorate them with glitter, paint, stickers or googly eyes. Better yet – have a wine & design party with family and friends to dazzle up your drinky duds; repeat every year, and you’ll have quite a collection. Click HERE for Wine Box Wine Charms DIY Instructions

As Chief Design Junkie at TerraCycle, Tiffany Threadgould has a unique job description: transform trash into treasure. “TerraCycle runs programs where we collect hard-to-recycle materials. So, things that don’t go into your regular municipal recycling,” she explained. Items like toothbrushes, granola bar wrappers, and drink pouches, that may contain a blend of various plastics or have multiple layers. “We have two solutions for the waste that comes in,” Threadgould said. “One is upcycling and one is recycling.” Threadgould is one of the creative minds behind the upcycling efforts. She helps develop items for sale like Capri Sun pouch backpacks, circuit board coasters and bicycle chain picture frames. I stopped by for easy-to-make holiday gift ideas, and her thoughts on where to start with sustainable materials. “Look to the potential of what you’re getting rid of,” said Threadgould. “Like something that you would normally throw away, take a look at it again, and think about the qualities that it has and preserve those qualities in the next life.” For example, turn wine corks into a cork board. “Would you take an old frame that you have lying around the house, and paint something like this?” I ask. “Yeah, you can use one type of spray paint to go around the outside edge, that’s really easy, and then a whole bunch of wine corks,” said Threadgould. “You want to make sure they’re a similar thickness, and then you can use an industrial glue like you can get at a craft store or a hardware store.” “What was this originally?” I ask picking up a tray. “So, this was an old picture frame and old hardware from a dresser that I had,” she said. “So that’s what the handles are on the outside edge. I put some colorful cardboard on the inside and arranged it in a way that I liked, and then you’ve got this new serving tray.” She adds, “The glass goes back on, and that’s what protects the cardboard underneath, and then you can use it for the holidays.” “This is a project you can make out of an old glassware that you were going to recycle, but it has some kind of a memento quality still to it,” Threadgould says about a glass lantern. “So basically just taping it off and adding an acrylic frosted spray paint to it, and then you take that off and you have this luminary, where you take a wick that you can also get at a craft store, an old hardware washer, you put oil inside, and you can light it.” Threadgould says it’s actually gift wrapping where she most enjoys showing off the art of upcycling. “Why buy new gift wrap? You can reuse things from around your house,” she said. “I cut this out from an old cereal bag. Basically, you just need a paper fastener, and some scissors. I have the holes all pre-punched, so you have holes punched on each end and in the center, an then you can spread it out and you have a little gift bow.” Tutorials for this and other do-it-yourself projects are available on the TerraCycle website. Threadgould says anyone can be a designer. When it comes to upcycling projects, there are no such things as mistakes — only opportunities for something old to be transformed into something new.

TerraCycle, Inc. started in 2001 when CEO and Founder Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton University after his freshman year to sell liquefied worm poop in a reused soda bottle, for fertilizer purposes. Despite having little brand recognition and only rudimentary manufacturing operations, Szaky managed to get major big-box retailers like Walmart and The Home Depot to start testing the product in 2004. By 2006, TerraCycle's worm-poop-based plant foods were being sold nationally across the United States and Canada in Walmart, Target, The Home Depot and Whole Foods Market retail stores.

If you are one of the many people who use PUR or Brita filters for your water, there is exciting news! Both companies have partnered with TerraCycle to create recycling programs

In this DIY tutorial, Tiffany From Pivot's 'Human Resources' proves that packaging doesn't have to be sent to the landfill.

Tiffany from Pivot's 'Human Resources' shows us how simple it is to add pizzazz to your Shiraz.

Tiffany from 'Human Resources' shows us how to make an upcycled serving tray for a great conversation starter at your next dinner party.

Here are some etiquette and serving tips we’ve gleaned about enjoying wines from The Naked Grape wine makers: