Recycled Canvas Bags and Hats by PAZ Apparel | Fashion Peace.

Customer Feedback for the New Recycled Canvas Journey Weekend/Overnight Bag

We just started offering this new bag at Paz Apparel our online store that sells recycled canvas hats and bags. And feedback so far is terrific. Here's one customer at the Denver airport about to embark on a trip to Vancouver wearing his extra large Journey Weekend bag. It's the perfect size for a quick trip. In this customer's bag he tells us he had a bunch of clothes, a lap top, travel document wallet, iPhone and toiletry bag.

This bag is fully lined in a heavy black material, and the trim is recycled vinyl billboard canvas from Brazil. Extra wide strap, and buckle and Velcro closures make this bag a hip update and compliment to our Metro Messenger bag.

 

 

Thanks to Commerce with a Conscience for featuring our recycled canvas bags!

The uptown bag was featured on Commerce with a Conscience as was our newest bag the Hobo! We are very excited about this because we are so passionate about our designs and the fact they are made in an ethical way. Check these guys out please but you can also visit our site too of course.

People have been asking for this recycled canvas hat in chocolate brown and it's finally available!

When we launched our recycled canvas hats bags and totes business a few years ago we had a photo of a chocolate brown outback hat that everyone loved. Unfortunately we didn't carry it at the time. We are pleased to say we now have this very popular hat available in an eco friendly dye. It's called the Carpe Diem, check it out and let  us know what you think.

For Your Next Baby Shower Gift

From Green Kit, a Virginia-based company committed to providing earth friendly products of all kinds.

Check out their Baby Green Kit.

And while you're there look around at their other items. There are some really terrific things!

Recycled Potato Chip Bag Coasters

Another fun find only this one's for your home!

The creators of these recycled potato chip bag coasters wrap used, and cleaned, potato chip wrappers around dried grasses. They're able to create two looks - the inside of the wrapper makes elegant silver coasters, while the outside is colorful and fun. Choose from either one. Includes six coasters and a carrier made out of the same material.

Created out of discarded potato chip wrappers Fairly traded out of Nepal As the importers of these products, the SPIRAL Foundation has operations in Vietnam and Nepal, and is inspired by the principle of "aid from within the country." Currently, 500 Vietnamese and Nepalese are employed with fair wages based on an hourly rate. The proceeds that are generated by producing these handicrafts go back into the community to finance humanitarian aid projects that include primary health care, medical, and educational projects.

Biodegradable in 180 days

Thanks to jollygreengirl.org for tipping us off to disposable cutlery that won't stick around for a millenia. Made from corn and potato starch and cassava starch 'vegware' has knives, forks, spoons, plates and just about everything else you need for a meal on the go.

They even have compost-able cellophane bags made from a sustainable source of wood pulp. Wow that's cool! (They're located in the UK but I'm sure something closer to home will pop up eventually.)

Gift Giving Ideas

Here's an excerpt from The Nature Conservancy website and a great gift idea!! ...."How Can You Help to Save the Osa Peninsula? When you give today to the Adopt an Acre® program, you will help the Conservancy protect and restore what remains of one of the world’s most extraordinary yet highly threatened regions.

With your $50 donation per acre to the Adopt an Acre® program, you will receive: Personalized certificate with signature photo of the Osa Peninsula commemorating your generosity; Colorful fact sheet about the Osa rainforests; Nature Conservancy Magazine subscription to keep you informed all year long about this project and the many other places the Conservancy is working to protect around the world.

(Plus, we'll rush the current magazine issue along with your personalized certificate!) An invitation to create a personalized nature homepage on nature.org; and Great Places E-Newsletter subscription to our monthly e-communication with local conservation updates, enviro-tips you can use and stunning nature photography downloads."

Recycled Mats

Check out these really cool mats I came across on "Eco Chick", which incidentally is a great blog by Starre Vartan and a team of earth loving contributors. Or you can go directly to the source, "Living, Future Friendly Products".