Approximately 80% of all women are wearing the wrong bra size, often because we’ve never been properly measured or we believe our bodies haven’t changed over the years.
If your lingerie drawer contains bras you can no longer wear, consider recycling them through the Bosom Buddy Program, an Arizona-based textile recycling company that helps women in need. Recycled bras are sent to women’s shelters and other transitional housing facilities.
Founder Elaine Birks-Mitchell wants women to know that used bras often end up in landfills, so her program also offers a healthy dose of environmental education.
If you live in Arizona, many drop-off locations are available. Otherwise, follow Birks-Mitchell’s directions for mailing donated bras.
For your organic bookshelf: The Bra Book: The Fashion Formula to Finding the Perfect Bra
Pictured above: Ecoland Organic Cotton Wireless Soft-Cup Bra
Stater Bros., a Southern California grocery chain, has partnered with Community Recycling & Resource Recovery, Inc., to turn organic waste into compost that can be sold to area farmers.
All 166 store locations will load outgoing delivery trucks with pallets of produce trim and cull, waxed cardboard, wooden crates and paper,...
Read: Stater Bros. Supermarkets Launch Composting Program
School may be out for summer, but seize the opportunity to increase your children’s vocabulary and environmental literacy with a good book.
Kids ages 3–8 will enjoy Recycle! A Handbook for Kids, by Gail Gibbons—a colorful 32-page book that explains the recycling process from start to finish.
Children will learn how different...
Read: Recycle! A Handbook for Kids
Swarovski Crystal has partnered with The Libby Ross Foundation to help empower women battling breast cancer through the charity’s yoga program.
Creative celebrities, including three mother-daughter teams, have joined the cause to raise funds for this unique program by decorating yoga bags with jewels. The bags will be listed through May...
Read: Celebrity Mothers and Daughters Support Breast Cancer Survivors
When I was growing up, my grandmother would buy me a new box of Crayola 64-count crayons each summer, with the cool sharpener built into the package. Like most kids, I happily threw my old crayons into the trash.
Today, children can turn their nubby old crayon pieces into perfect new...
Read: Recycle Old Crayons!
Osage, Iowa-based hosiery manufacturer Fox River offers an innovative line of socks made from corn—more precisely, Ingeo, a fiber derived from corn and a 100% annually renewable resource.
Ingeo is the first manmade fiber that combines the best of both worlds: the performance of a synthetic fiber and the appeal of...
Read: Very Corny Socks
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