From
their base in Hood River, Oregon, Detours has
designed a group of exceptionally useful bicycle bags and accessories
around needs of the typical urban trek to work, to school or down to the shop.
These bike bags are strong, stylish and full of the features you
need on your daily grind or weekend trip to the farmers
market. Since
their beginnings, Detours has designed a variety of utilitarian products
for a wide range of riding needs while advocated for green living,
too. Their unique Juicy bags and panniers, like
the Toocan Juicy and Teeco Too Grassy are sustainable products. These bike bags are not only eye-catching and unique,
but are made from recycled juice boxes from the Philippines and grasses
native to Vietnam.
Recycling juice boxes into bike bag and supporting a community.
Money from Trash:
...is a ten year old initiative of several women-owned Cooperatives in the Philippines.
...separates garbage at the source - thousands of households, businesses and schools participate.
...recycles, re-uses and composts all collected garbage.
...raises community environmental awareness.
...provides living-wage jobs for Co-Op members.
...funds a community clinic for basic health care for young and old.
...seeds women-owned small businesses with micro loans.
...empowers women to make a difference for their families and their community.
...enables us to make our best-selling urban bike bags in a compelling choice of recycled materials.
Money from Trash is a grassroots effort of several unique, women-owned and operated co-operatives in the Philippines. These co-ops address the needs of their communities by providing a self-help program to clean up and recycle trash to generate well-paying jobs for their members. Money from co-op enterprises is used to fund important community programs such as free health clinics and micro loans to small, women-owned local businesses.
Virtually all households, businesses and schools within the community participate in the recycling effort. Refuse is separated into recyclables, re-usables and bio-degradable/compostable materials at the source and collected weekly. The soft polyethylene juice packs are one of the most common drink packaging found in the Philippines. Mountains of these juice packs are collected at schools and shopping malls, washed, sorted by color and size and then transformed into a wide array of innovative, fun and colorful end products, like some of Detours' Juicy Bike Bags.
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