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Shape Gives Away BlueAvocado Bags Made with REPREVE

Carry groceries in style with BlueAvocado reusable bags. Five readers can win the starter kit (a $30 value).

Go to www.shape.com/giveaways to enter to win.

BlueAvocado bags are made with REPREVE!

TV Discovers Recycled Polyester Yarns

Viewers of the Discovery Channel will be able to see textile recycling in action when the TV station visits US polyester yarn supplier Unifi to find out how it makes its 100% recycled 'Repreve' polyester yarn. (EcoTextileNews, June 2008)

Unifi Ready For Its Close-Up

Unifi's Repreve fiber is about to make it to the big time. The Discovery Channel selected the 100 percent-recycled polyester yarn as a feature for its television show How It's Made and plans to air an episode documenting the production of the fiber during season 12, which begins in January 2009. Unifi is the first U.S. textile mill to be featured on the show. (DNR, May 26, 2008)

Repreve Recycled Yarn Featured on FOX 8's "Made in NC" Series

The fiber waste created during the manufacturing of polyester at Unifi's plants was once sold off for lower-end use like stuffing. But that waste has been given a second chance. Unifi now combines the waste with discarded plastic bottles to create its new line of yarn, called Repreve. (Fox 8 WGHP, July 3, 2008 "Repreve: Recycled Yarn by Unifi")

Unifi Launches Repreve.com

Unifi, Inc. unveiled a new consumer-focused, interactive website as part of its new "Repreve. For the Planet." campaign. The new website, www.Repreve.com, is focused on educating users about the positive environmental benefits of Repreve, Unifi's family of 100% recycled yarns, and the importance of resource and energy conservation and recycling. (Forbes.com, October 3, 2008)

Achieving Unifi

"Five years ago, we were not sure where the bottom was going to be. How much contraction would the U.S. market experience and how much would move entirely to Asia? But now our strategy is clear.” ~ Roger Berrier, EVP Unifi (Textile Insight, November/December 2008)

RESTORE CLOTHING, One of Apparel Magazines 2009 Top Innovators, uses REPREVE

Restore Clothing sought out Unifi, the prominent producer of multi-filament polyester and nylon textured yarns and related raw materials, as Celeste sought an ecofriendly replacement for fabrics containing polyester. (Apparel Magazine, May 2009)

Computer's recycled packaging bags an award

Hewlett-Packard won Wal-Mart's Home Entertainment Design Challenge - a contest that encourages companies to reduce the environmental impact of products in the home-entertainment category. HP replaced the box used for one of its products retail shelf packaging with the HP Protect Messenger Bag. (Packaging Digest, October 2008)

GREENER WAYS FOR THE HOLIDAYS; Reusable Bags by BlueAvocado

Just in time for the holidays, BlueAvocado has created new kits from a new kind of material to help satisfy all of the greenies on your list. BlueAvocado is a mission-driven lifestyle products company that makes it easy to do good while getting it done. And as of just recently, these gro-pak kits are now made from a certifiable recycled REPREVE fabric. Meaning, the gro-pak – collapsible, reusable shopping system – just got greener! (Fitnessmagazine.com, December 2009)

Health Magazine's April Hot List features BlueAvocado Bags, made with Repreve

Bag it Up. Schlep your groceries in style with vibrant, reusable shopping bags and totes from BlueAvocado ($9.99, BlueAvocado.com) that collapse into the tiniest of pouches.

BlueAvocado bags are made with REPREVE!

Repreve Yarn by Unifi to be Featured on Discovery Channel

Fiber and yarn producer Unifi, Inc.'s 100% recycled yarn Repreve will be featured on 'How It's Made,' a TV series produced by the parent company of the Discovery Channel. (Home Textiles Today, May 19, 2008)

Repreve Recycled Yarn Featured on Greensboro's WFMY News 2

The Greensboro based textile company reported its first profitable quarter in five years last month. Part of being in the black, means going green for the U.S. textile manufacturer. One of its products is made of 100% recycled yarn. (WFMY News 2, June 9, 2008 "Unifi Banks on Green")

Unifi's Repreve Nylon Races Through Efficient Supply Chain

The North Face's Denali Jacket has been an outdoor retailer's standby for years - and now it's gone green without any change in performance or price thanks to Unifi's Repreve recycled polyester. (OR Daily, August 10, 2008)

Unifi Launches Repreve.com

Repreve Takes a Uniform Approach

Perfection Uniforms has chosen Repreve, the 100% recycled fibre by Unifi, for its latest collection of uniforms and workwear. The manufacturer of police, fire, and EMS uniforms, which was recently designated as one of Apparel magazine’s ‘Top 50 Most Innovative Companies’, has selected the Repreve family of polyester yarns, which have been independently certified for 100% recycled content by third-party auditor Scientific Certification Systems (SCS). (EcoTextileNews, May 2008)

Smarter (and cuter) Grocery Bags

I don’t know about you, but I find it really hard to remember to bring my own bags to the grocery store. But that has all changed since I met with the ladies of BlueAvocado. BlueAvocado is a line of sustainable, reusable and machine washable grocery bags, and if they couldn’t get any more green, BlueAvocado has teamed up with Repreve to create a bag made from 50% recyclabe, traceable polyester fibers made from plastic bottles and crude oil. (Parents.com, December 2009)

Bottle ban means business

No, the trash police aren’t on the way to your house. But on Oct. 1, it will be illegal for plastic bottles to find their way into North Carolina landfills. Keeping bottles out of landfills here should increase supplies of recycled bottles available to be turned into items such as more bottles, carpet and pricey outerwear. “The more people who engage in recycling plastics, the more that’s going to help companies like Unifi take advantage of a cost-competitive product,” said Roger Berrier, an executive vice president with the Greensboro-based textile maker. (News & Record, September 2009)

Alloy.com Holiday Gift Guide - Blue Avocado, made with REPREVE

Go green! This starter set is perfect for a trip to the grocery store, a weekend excursion or even for an outing to the mall. (Alloy.com, December 2009)

Perfection Uniforms, made with REPREVE, receive UNIVATOR Uniform Innovation Award

Perfection Uniforms, made with REPREVE, receive UNIVATOR Uniform Innovation Award. Recipients of this award embody the most elite products in the industry and are acclaimed as widely popular and well regarded. By committing to REPREVE eco-friendly fiber, Perfection Uniforms are now aligned to aid law enforment officers not only in keeping the streets safe, but also in protecting our environment!

The Company Behind Repreve 100% Recycled.

Repreve is made by the Greensboro, North Carolina textile manufacturer Unifi.

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