Bulletin Bags: Environmentally Friendly Reusable Shopping Bags

This year’s Rhode Island College graduates will receive their diplomas in recycled plastic bottles! Not literally, of course, but their traditional black caps and gowns are made from an eco-friendly material called GreenWeaver. The fabric is spun from molten plastic pellets, which are produced completely from recycled plastic bottles (about 23 per gown).

After the ceremony, the gowns will be recycled (again!) into carpet. We think this is an amazing way to keep reusing materials, and yet another reason why recycling is so important. Swapping your disposable bottles for reusable water bottles is best, but if you can’t bear to do that, at least make sure they’re properly recycled!

1. "The Pittsburg Tote Bag Project collects new & gently used tote bags to donate to local food pantries. We will use the bottles to encourage reuse & give back to our supporters who donate from the community! We want to live our mission so reusable bottles are a great PR tool for us to help our neighbors"

2. "Hi, this is Trinity. Help me raise money for our family's work here in Honduras. We work with orphanages with Reach Out Orphanage Ministries!"

3. "Northeast Mississippi Birthing Project educates and empowers mothers to increase good birth outcomes and reduce infant mortality. The project coordinator, Toni Doula Hill, has been running the NEMS BP for over six years without even getting paid, spending money from her own pocket to make sure the project has what it needs. During the past six years, thanks to Toni, the NEMS BP has welcomed over 100 healthy, full-term, good good birth-weight babies into our community!"

4. Botsfor Elementary is not a large school, but we have big hearts, healthy goals and a great team of school employees & parents doing our best to make these kids into model students and citizens!"

5. "We Coupon For Cause is a non profit organization, consisting of a group of women, that use their skills of being extreme couponers to donate goods to the homeless, animal shelters and others in need. We would love to win your contest and give these bottles out in our next set of homeless bags!!"

6. "Oakland High School deserves to win these 100 water bottles as a gift to our students who come from a variety of challenging backgrounds but still value their education enough to come to school and work toward their high school diploma. Additionally, Oakland works really hard to be an environmentally friendly school!"

7. "Sister to Sister Mentoring Program (S2S) works with at-risk girls ages 13-17 in the Juvenile Justice system, as well as various agencies to help "make a difference in the lives of girls." S2S envisions a program in which every youth experiences nurturing one-to-one mentoring relationships, which assist girls to develop into healthy, confident, and contributing young women. We support an eco-friendly environment with our 100% recyclable S2S tote Bags, and we would like to continue that mission by winning 100 free water bottles for our girls!!!"

To enter to win a water bottle fundraiser for your nonprofit, or to vote for one of these great causes, just ‘like’ Bulletin Bottle [.com] on Facebook, post why your school or nonprofit should win the water bottles, and tell everyone to ‘like’ your post—and have them tell everyone too. On April 20, the post with the most ‘likes’ wins! It’s that simple!

For more information, visit http://www.bulletinbottle.com/custom-water-bottle-giveaway/

Bulletin Bag is very excited to announce that we now carry RuMe folding bags! All of us here are in love with everything about these awesome bags--from the colors and patterns (more than 20 to choose from!), to the construction, you really can’t go wrong with selecting RuMe fold-up bags for your messaging vehicle.

So why are we so excited about this bag? The Medium RuMe bag features 11.5” handles, box-stitched sides and bottom, and water-resistant fabrics that hold 50 pounds. Oh, and they’re machine washable. Big bonus!

Our custom water bottle division (Bulletin Bottle [.com] ) is giving away 100 Child Safe Aluminum Water Bottles to one lucky school or nonprofit to use as a fundraiser, and the proceeds are 100% theirs to keep!

It’s easy to enter your favorite school or nonprofit. Post on their Facebook wall why yours should win custom water bottles, and spread the word! On April 20 the post with the most ‘likes’ wins, so tell everyone to ‘like’ Bulletin Bottle [.com] and ‘like’ your post!

Have a worthy organization in mind? Nominate them! Ready to enter? Want to learn more?  Visit Bulletin Bottle's contest page or facebook.com/bulletinbottle