Green Your Routine with the Post-it Brand (Giveaway) (Now Closed)

This Earth Day I’m happy to announce that one of everyone’s favorite brands, ,Post-it® from 3M have added several new sustainable items to their line-up. You will be introduced to them in just a moment. First I want to discuss little ways in which we can all make a change this Earth Day.

Post-It products have always been a staple here in my home and whatever office I may be working in. I mean who hasn’t left a post-it note in their lifetime? Just a few months ago when I decided to start cleaning up my home office I found post-it’s everywhere! Not thinking about it at the time I simply crumpled them up and threw them away! Ack. Looking back now I could have easily included them with my other papers that went through the shredder and out to recycling.

This Earth Day I’ve been trying to come up with little ways I can continue to change in order to be more green. I have decided right here and now that I am going to make a concerted effort to shred ALL my personal papers in order to recycle them. I have notes jotted down all over my house. In fact, paper is my number one problem. In past years I have decreased my paper waste by doing the following:

• Signing up for online billing thus eliminating a monthly paper bill.
• Recycling all junk mail and envelopes from any bills I receive through the mail.
• Breaking down and recycling all food boxes, packaging, cardboard etc.
• Shredding all old bills over 5 years old thus creating more room in my office and in turn leaving me less cluttered and more apt to put things in their place and recycle, instead of becoming frustrated and just tossing paper in the trash on garbage day.

It may seem like such a small step to add personal notes, scrap papers, and even post-its to my list of items to be shredded and it is. Small steps lead to bigger steps and bigger steps lead to consciously making better decisions to do our part each and every time you are capable of doing so, not just when you feel like it.  Now on to Post-it’s new sustainable products!

Post-it® Brand new sustainable products include:

 Post-it® Greener Notes – Made with 100% recycled paper (30% postconsumer material and a plant-based adhesive. Choose from Canary Yellow or assorted pastel colors. 100 sheets per pad. Available in 1.5×2 , 3×3, 3×5, and 4×6 inch pads. Suggested Price: $4-20 (pictured above)

 Post-it® Super Sticky Recycled Notes – Made with 30% postconsumer recycled paper. Perfect for vertical and hard to stick surfaces. Rich nature inspired color palette – choose from vibrant Tropical colors or soothing Nature’s Hues. 90 sheets per pad. Available in 3×3, 4×4, and 4×6 inch pads; line and unlined. $8-20 (pictured above)

 Post-it® Recycled Easel Pads – Writing sheets are made from a minimum of 30% postconsumer content and resist marker bleed-through. Repositionable adhesive sticks longer to more surfaces than other easel pads. Measures 25×30 inches with 30 sheets per pad; white. Suggested Price: $44 (for pack of 2) (pictured above)

For shipping 3M also have Recycled Address and Return Address Labels (pictured above)

Even More Sustainable Products are Available Than Mentioned Here. You can check them all out on the Post-It website:

 http://www.post-it.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Post_It/Global/Home/Solutions/Sustain/

All Post-it® Brand Sustainable products are made with 100% recycled paper and are 100% recyclable.

 

(Now Closed)

Congrats to Miranda Ward and thanks to all who entered!

Prize: 1 reader will receive 2 packages of Post-It Greener Notes like the ones pictured above.

To Enter:  Please complete the required task. If the required task is not completed then none of your entries will count.  After that you have several other ways of getting extra entries.  Make sure that for each one you do you leave a separate comment. Each comment counts as one entry. Please leave your correct email addy.

Required: Tell me in a comment a simple change you want to make or have made in order to go green.

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Good Luck!

Giveaway is open to residents of the US 18 yrs of age or older.  Any posts not including the requested information will be disqualified. This giveaway ends: Sunday May 8, 2011 12am EST. Winner will be contacted immediately and announced Monday May 9, 2011. In the event the winner does not respond to email within 48 hours I will choose another random winner. I will be using random.org to do this.

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