Fashion’s In The (Pet Food) Bag

The kitten and puppy photos adorning pet food bags now have a wider audience beyond those who buy those products or skim the ads in glossy magazines. And so do those pet food bags. When Lexi Saeger, 14, needed a project for a Future Career and Community Leaders of America competition, she found inspiration at home. “We have two cats and one dog,” she said. The recycle and redesign category caught Saeger’s eye. This individual event requires participants to apply recycling and redesign skills learned in family and consumer sciences courses and create a display using a sample of their skills. Participants must select a used fashion, home or other post-consumer item to recycle into a new product/ Cindy Hval , SR. More here. (Dan Pelle SR photo: Lexi Saeger is working her way toward a national competition by selling shopping bags, right, that she makes from empty pet food bags)

Question: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being awful and 10 being perfect, how do you rate yourself as a reclycler?