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7 year old twins Tristin and Tyler have seen a lot of innovative ways to go green while filming their green family series Tristin and Tyler’s Tales from the City. But the Malt-O-Meal® Bag The Box initiative? Now that’s something innovative these New York City kids have never seen! “Why do we need the box anyway, mom?” … Continue reading
Reduce, reuse, repair, recycle…Re-imagine? That’s what Patagonia is challenging us all to do: re-imagine a sustainable world. They call it their Common Threads Initiative. We call it awesome. Patagonia has the same take on the “R” hierarchy that we do: ‘Reduce’ what you buy and the amount of packaging it comes in, then ‘Repair’ what … Continue reading
The lazy days of summer may be over, but conversations about our Bag The Box movement are just getting started! We continued to generate conversations in August with great pieces on Forbes.com and Fast Company, which took a closer look at our sustainability efforts. (The Fast Company article even got posted by our friends at GreenBiz, too!) We also … Continue reading
Happy September, box-fans! We’re ringing in the new month with a fabulous post from the earth-friendly folks at Earth911.com. Today, they published a great article posing a question we’re hoping you enthusiastically answer, “Yes!” Check out “Should We Bag The Cereal Box” by Earth911′s Megan Dobransky. Malt-O-Meal has an agenda: it is out to change your … Continue reading
We’re pretty sure you know by now, loyal Bag The Box fans, that skipping the box is just a better way of doing things – for the Earth and for your wallet. We know it too, but it’s always nice when someone new takes note – and an important someone did this week, when Fast … Continue reading
By Tom Szaky The current business model of TerraCycle grew from a community effort to collect used soda bottles in schools, at which time students could also earn money for their school and their community. The fundamentals of this idea – educating and empowering the community while also giving back – have always been fundamentals … Continue reading
In the opening episode, we saw a lonely bowl begin her quest for true cereal love after having her heart broken by an over-packaged poser. Then, our hearts soared as it appeared happily-ever-after was in store for the sweet little bowl and charming Bagly. Now, after a cliff-hanger left us wondering what’s in store, this … Continue reading
Happy Friday, cereal lovers. Speaking of love: remember our sweet, lonely bowl looking for her cereal match, in the first episode of Cereal Dating? She’s back, and it looks like our buddy Bagly shows up too. Check out the second installment of the series: jwplayer(“jwplayer-5″).setup({flashplayer: “http://bagthebox.com/wp-content/uploads/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/player/player.swf”, width: “400″, height: “280″, controlbar: “bottom”, “mediaid”: “2968″, “image”: … Continue reading
A couple week’s ago, Sara Snow shared a bunch of great ideas for earth-friendly birthday parties. Thinking about gifts that give back, how about a colorful, do-it-yourself (read: virtually free!) gift bow to literally top things off? The innovative waste-whittling team at TerraCycle offers this excellent step-by-step video on how to take an empty Malt-O-Meal … Continue reading
So you’ve heard of recycling, but have you heard of upcycling? (You probably have, without even realizing it.) Where recycling is a process by which old materials are broken down into itty-bitty parts, and then those itty-bitty parts are turned into something else (a totally great but sort of complex process), upcycling is a process … Continue reading