ReCyCled KiDs FiNds

Lone Moose

Our Petone store has three great new labels which due to their uniqueness are not available online (unless you are flexible about colourways!)

Lone Moose - Recreated Wool Hoodies (http://www.craft2.org/blog/?p=232)
These hoodies are recreated from old jumpers which have been pulled apart and restitched into a new garment. Honestly the fabrics are so perfect you'd never know! $55-

Prairie (not online)
Cut gorgeous vintage cloth fabric from the 70's mostly and create panel skirts , baggy pants and swing tops/dresses. From $24 (pants)

Radha Designs (not online)
Create "goddess" and "god" knickers from fabric offcuts. Owner, Caroline works in the clothing industry and couldn't bear to see all the scraps going to landfill, so she started creating!
...and yes they cater for babies too....merino hoodies made with scraps from Caroline's own womens' clothing label are turned to hoody's with a vintage contrast on the hood. YuM!
Goddess knickers $26 , God boxers $32, Baby Hoodies $45

Recycling # 5 plastic containers

Your local council will recycle plastics with #1 or #2 on the botttom.
Up until now there's been no-where to recycle the #5's.

Fortunately, Cyclops Yoghurts have come up with a solution. They have now established a recycling system in Wellington in conjunction with Commonsense Organics.

They will even recycle other companies polypropylene packaging. That means as long as it is clean and has no paper labels you can take all your clean # 5 packaging to any of the four Commonsense Organics Stores for recycling.

It is also worth mentioning that Commonsense Organics stores also take clean, used jam jars and plastic bags (which are recycled as grocery bags by other customers).

Please post comments about any other organics stores around NZ offering recyling services, so we can let others know.

Where to recycle cellphones & printer cartridges

Just heard about this business who recycle your cellphones and printer cartridges (in The U.S.A). Great service, good for the earth and a percentage is donated to charity. http://www.charitablerecycling.com/.

For our NZ bloggers, you can order return old ink cartridges to Warehouse Stationery. I use Ink Post who also can refill and recycle your cartridges.

Old cellphones can apparently be returned to Telecom or Vodaphone.

How to dispose of your old cellphone etc

Did you know that cellphone batteries contain nickel and cadmium, so should not be disposed of via the landfill?
We have just updated our recycling page with information on how to dispose of old cellphones, as well as other batteries and smoke alarms.