Coach Jen B

This post is sponsored by REPREVE.  All opinions expressed on my blog are 100% my own.   I shared last week about Turning It Green with Repreve.  I love doing my part when it comes to recycling and purchasing items made from recycled products.   In our household, we Turn It Green with recycling our plastic and glass bottles.  I am fortunate that my husband is a talented cabinet maker and he built us an extra long drawer for our trash and bottles - so it's all in one place making it very easy to recycle. Even the kids are pro's at recycling!  We are quite fortunate, as well, that our grocery store has a recycling station right inside the entry door - through CLYNK  .  All we have to do is bag up our bottles in the green bag (that we need to purchase), add the little sticker with my account number, slide it through the door.  Then a few days later, I scan my card at the CLYNK machine, and I can get a payment receipt that I can eit...

Have you ever stopped to think about what happens to your bottle after you drop it off at a recycling center?   Honestly, I never did.  I knew recycling was a good thing to do.   Here in Maine, we get our bottle deposit back if we  recycle our bottles .  We have our recycling bin beside our garbage bin, so recycling bottles is easy to do in our house.  Then every few weeks, I take the  GREEN  bag to the grocery store and drop it off at the recycling center.  A few days later, I can check my account balance.  I can either use get the cash or use it on groceries.  I tend to just use the balance on groceries. But clothing made out of bottles?  Now, that's a really cool and awesome idea.  And, even better? REPREVE is a recycled fiber that helps turn plastic bottles you recycle into cool stuff you can wear and use every day.  Now there's no excuse to not recycle!!! Companies that ...