Billboard Lunch Sack
Photo from BTC Elements
Although this durable lunchbag uses vinyl-laminated nylon fabric, I don’t mind its materials as much because they’re salvaged from old billboards. It’s even lined with mill-end fabric, which ordinarily would be considered manufacturing waste. Relan, which is based in Minnesota rescues approximately 8 tons of billboard and banner material from landfills and incinerators annually. (Chemical additives used to stabilize PVC, such as lead, cadmium, and phthalates, along with carcinogenic dioxins, can leach into the groundwater and release toxic emissions via landfill gases. Burning PVC lets loose hydrogen chloride gas, which turns into hydrochloric acid—the stuff of acid rain. Fun times.)
I’m sticking with Cosmo and Wanda for now—the first of the 3 Rs is “reduce,” after all—but you can get the lunch sack at BTC Elements for $26. And, hey, besides shipping in used boxes, BTC Elements is also carbon neutral, so as far as online stores go, this one’s a keeper. (And not just because I think Summer’s a sweetheart.)
Summer said,
August 28, 2006 at 11:29 pm
Aw shucks, thanks Jasmin. Good to have you back from fishin’.
Viv said,
August 29, 2006 at 8:28 am
Happy to have found your site! I’m another proud “card-carrying environmentalist” and obsessive knitter. Glad to find a like-minded site.
Melissa said,
August 29, 2006 at 9:19 am
So happy to have found your site! I will be back often!!
Kathy said,
August 29, 2006 at 1:09 pm
See, maybe if Colby had known about that he wouldn’t have gotten arrested for stealing a GE “we didn’t do it we shouldn’t have to dredge the Hudson, really” billboard.
The Worsted Witch » Plastica Melanine Bento Box said,
September 28, 2006 at 3:12 pm
[...] I may be becoming a tad obsessed with lunch boxes/lunch sacks/bento boxes (see Exhibit A and Exhibit B). Still, I think this stacking melanine bento box from Plastica is far cuter than the much-raved-about Laptop Lunch system, with its bulky and underwhelming design. ($36, Plastica) [...]