This Plastic Alligator Cleans Florida Beaches!

Fun green and Eco friendly project! 

It's the clever idea from Artist Donald Gialanella and his first time participating with it at the Clearwater Beach festival. He’s responsible for bringing one of his unfinished “Allie-Gator” with him for guests to enjoy and even participate in.

He has done similar projects at other Beaches, such as Fort Myers, Florida.

“The piece is made for bringing awareness to recycling. It’s an audience participation piece, an interactive piece, if you will, where people come and they complete the sculpture by adding their single-use water bottles to the ‘skin’ of this sculpture,” said Gialanella.

Clean and Green Ideas For Back to School

Here are a few ways you can help the planet this school year...Remember, every litter bit helps!

• Take your lunch in a reusable lunch box, or cloth bag instead of paper bags..
• Recycle any packaging in your lunch box.
• Pack a cloth napkin instead of paper one. You can reuse it! Just count all your school days...that's how many paper napkins you saved.
• Cover your books in recycled paper bags or wrap... decorate them yourself, they could look fun and you might start a trend!
• Use up last years school supplies before you buy new ones.
• Use the reverse side of scrap paper for your first drafts of writing, art and math projects.
• Keep a "craft box" of discards you think might be handy for class projects during the year...mark it "my craft box" so noone will mistake it for trash! Keep things like empty yogurt containers, elastics, string etc...that might interesting and useful for your art.
• Take the bus or Car pool with friends...have your mom's take turns...It's fun to go to school in groups and you save lots of gas!.
• Ask your teacher to put up Planetpals recycle kits posters to remind everyone at school about recycling.
• Click here for more recycle ideas for everyday

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You're Going To Love These Eco Friendly Valentine Wreath Ideas!

Planetpals Loves Valentines Day And Loves Making It Greener

What better way to decorate for Valentines Day than with a big green wreath!  Repurpose surplus craft materials and other unused items you may already have.  It's that simple!  Just use your imagination and some familiar objects and you can make a wreath everyone will LOVE!

A great way to recycle ribbon scraps.The girl creative.com

Natural twig wreath with little hearts from www.thecardswedrew.com

Paper hearts make a clever wreath.  Use old greeting cards, wrap, scrapbooking paper scraps. from  www.thehybridchick.com

Playing card wreath - perfect reuse for an old deck of cards from www.planetpals.com

Wreath from repurpose wine corks from www.refabdiaries.com

Fabric or t shirt scraps sew simple! From ritamay-days.blogspot.com

Vintage ads, music sheets, photocopies in black and white.  From http://inspireco.blogspot.com

Christmas balls.  You must have some surplus!  from Dime Store Thrift.com

Vinatge cards and images, music sheets, flowers and fabric.  Romantic. From www.scrapbookgraphics.com

Great idea to resuse or cherish keepsake valentine cards. from Ribbons.com

Button or beads recycle.  A Jewel of an idea.from Craftsncoffee.com

Valentine pin ups! Put it on your door, wall or frame it in a board. Use it as a valentine cards holder. From www.funfamilycrafts.com