All this talk of recycling, and how to do it, and what happens when you do (and don’t do it) is great and all, you might be thinking to yourself, but what happens when the rubber meets the road and it’s time to take action? We thought you’d never ask!

1) Apparel company Patagonia [www.treehugger.com] has been doing groovy stuff in the apparel industry for a long time, and continues that tradition with their program that takes old garments and recycles them into brand new ones.
2) We’ve seen t-shirt recycling take a few turns as fresh design; turns out they make equally cool bags [www.treehugger.com] and even underwear [www.treehugger.com].
3) To help accessorize your “recycled” look, bags like Freitag’s truck tarp beauties [www.treehugger.com] and Vy & Elle’s billboard re-branding [www.treehugger.com] (both pictured below) get the TreeHugger thumbs-up.

4) When it comes to interior design, we sure like MioCulture (featured here [www.sundancechannel.com] at Sundance), whose instant walls [www.treehugger.com], catch-all bowls [www.treehugger.com], wallpaper [www.treehugger.com] and lighting [www.treehugger.com] have all appeared on TreeHugger’s pages.
5) To help recycle stuff that doesn’t go in the blue bin, resources like Material Love [www.treehugger.com], Freecycle [www.treehugger.com] and Swap-O-Rama-Rama [www.treehugger.com] make it a two-way recycling street: you can get rid of stuff you don’t want, and can more easily find things you need that you don’t want to buy brand new.