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Eco-Friendly Luggage from Recycled Airline Seats and Fabrics

We were so excited to find eco-friendly luggage and other items, including business card holders, wallets and handbags made from recycled airline seats and fabrics. Tierra Ideas, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, creates the products below using leather aircraft seat covers, aircraft fabrics, aircraft curtains, tire inner tubes and more: BUSINESS CARD HOLDER /// Made [...]

Recycled Cigarette Butts Transformed into Hot Threads

Talk about a Phoenix rising from the ashes. Quite literally, one designer has taken discarded cigarette butts and transformed them from trash into treasure. Alexandra Guerrero, from Chile, created eco-friendly fashion statements from a not-so-healthy habit. The designer came up with the idea to recycle cigarette butts into hot threads while writing a graduate thesis. [...]

November 4, 2010 Going green 8 Comments

Upcycling, Repurposing, and Conserving

Here at Peachygreen we are all about upcycling , repurposing and conserving. Use it up, wear it out and make it do is our motto and if you can take a worn out something and give it new life as a something else, that really gets our attention. My friend Meg, who is a dedicated [...]

January 18, 2010 Going green, Peachy 10 Comments

Upcycling Barbie

On the way to the bus stop Friday morning, my 10-year-old was going on (and on) about how she no longer likes Barbie. She hates her. Problem is, she has a very large box full of Barbies, accessories and various stuff. Even if I let her little sisters pick over and help themselves to what [...]

November 18, 2009 Going green 1 Comment