{"id":527759,"date":"2010-04-14T15:19:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T19:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e201347fe009f7970c"},"modified":"2010-04-14T15:20:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T19:20:06","slug":"they-sure-make-nice-jewelry-from-old-aluminum-cans-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527759","title":{"rendered":"They sure make nice jewelry from old aluminum cans these days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandfreak.com\/2010\/04\/they-sure-make-nice-jewelry-from-old-aluminum-cans-these-days.html\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Can-Bracelet\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834519bc269e20133ecb024f0970b \" src=\"http:\/\/brandmediaweek.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834519bc269e20133ecb024f0970b-350wi\" style=\"width: 330px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Years ago, downtown hipster boutiques in Manhattan started selling handbags made from old license plates\u2014cute, but a real bitch if it starts a run in one&#8217;s chiffon dress. Recycled fashion recently got another boost with the 2009 debut of a Vassar, Mich.-based family outfit called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cangles.com\" >Cangles<\/a>, which, as the same suggests, makes bangle bracelets out of aluminum cans. (Finally, the perfect solution for those who hate the taste of Mountain Dew: Now you can wear the stuff without having to drink it.) Cangles is one of those green startups that&#8217;s not only found a plausible use for some of the 36 billion cans that end up in landfills each year but also gives a hefty percent of its profits to Michigan-area charities. It&#8217;s also given us a new marketing wrinkle: eco co-branding. The jewelry company got together with the Save the Earth Foundation, which now features its Earth logo as a charm on the recycled bracelets. (A portion of sales will go to benefit the foundation&#8217;s educational and research efforts.) So, ladies, now you don&#8217;t have to feel as guilty about buying jewelry, because it&#8217;s not shopping, it&#8217;s <em>recycling<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by Robert Klara<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, downtown hipster boutiques in Manhattan started selling handbags made from old license plates\u2014cute, but a real bitch if it starts a run in one&#8217;s chiffon dress. Recycled fashion recently got another boost with the 2009 debut of a Vassar, Mich.-based family outfit called Cangles, which, as the same suggests, makes bangle bracelets out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}