Rolling out the Green Carpet

As you know, Oscar attire is just as important as the nominees. And one of Hollywood’s biggest names, Meryl Streep, came to the event in an Eco Certified Fabric dress that stunned the crowd. 

 Meryl Streep, who knew that recycled material could be so fabulous!?

The leading lady behind the sustainable style push is Livia Firth, actor Colin Firth’s wife. Livia created the Green Carpet Challenge and teamed up with top designers to fashion the gowns. See, recycling is sexy! (We’re just glad we’re not the only ones who think so.) Read more about Livia’s going green here.  

PSU's Career Fair Photo-Op!

TfP partnered up with Portland State University's Career Fairs last week with the goal of reducing water bottle waste. The event showcased TfP's bin to encourage recycling along with water containers to fill up participants' reusable drinking bottles . The coordinator tracked the difference from last year of using 90% less water bottle waste...90%!! It's almost unbelievable yet so motivating to TfP to keep on spreading the word. Take a look at some photos from the event:

Our bin being a little wallflower, so adorable!

Clean, fresh water. Step on up and fill up those reusable water bottles!

Laura doing double duty by promoting Peace Corps and encouraging reducing waste.

Our TfP bin is making appearances!

The Grammy winners are not the only ones receiving press this week. TfP made an appearance at Portland State University’s Career Fairs on Tuesday and Wednesday. Although there was no red carpet, our Trash for Peace bin came strutting out in its usual plastic bottle attire, and believe me, it looked stunning! And people did take notice; the career fair coordinator calculated out that people used 90% less bottled water than at the 2011 event. What a difference!

Next event is the 2012 Green Professionals Conference, where people come together to educate and motivate for more energy efficiency. Our very own founder, Laura, was asked to participate on a panel today as a representative for Trash for Peace to speak about the organization and spread awareness. She’s gonna wow the audience!

Check out more info on the conference here.

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure

TfP has been pretty busy these last couple of weeks, scouting out more materials and fantasizing about all the crazy, neat projects we can create. Just like the good ole elementary school days, we put on our rainboots and coats and went on a fieldtrip! To where, you may ask? Why, of course, to the endless rows of goodies at the ReBuilding Center on Mississippi Ave. We had a hard time putting items down, but luckily our founder, Laura, has a nice, big garage to store our treasure.

Next up: Putting on our work gloves because it’s construction time!

Trash Around The World

TfP is ecstatic to have connections that expand beyond the U.S. borders to gain more insight about our world waste. Our fellow trashy guru, Andrew, is collaborating with TfP from afar in the country of Bulgaria as a Peace Corps Response member. Andrew recently wrote a great piece about how waste is seen in an under-developed country and his new creation of recycled materials that will be used as an educational tool! (That’s so TfP!) Check out his project and amazing photos here:

http://www.andrewjudkins.com/2011/12/wiggity-wiggity-waste.html

Putting our designs to the (con)test!

When Trash for Peace heard about Coachella’s TRASHed : : Art of Recycling contest, we nearly fell over ourselves jumping at the chance to be a part of it! Coachella teamed up with the nonprofit organization, Global Inheritance, to encourage artists to create recycling bins for the huge music festival.

Wait. Design recycling bins, you say?! YES, PLEASE!

The TfP team quickly organized its resources and sent our designer to the drawing board to sketch out a Coachella-specific bin to wow the judging panel. We’re hoping to place in the top 50 artists to have our bin showcased at Coachella, so wish us luck!

For more info on TRASHed, check out this link:

http://www.globalinheritance.org/trashed-coachella-2012-call-to-artists