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Outdoor

The perfect backpack, bum bag, and all around bag-for-outdoor adventure is here. Be choosey and pick one that gets you up that mountain and help restore our planet, one bag at a time.

Cotopaxi

Platinum Medal for Give Back

A fun outdoor gear company focused on using business as a force for good. Check out their Questival events where your exploration steathily has you collecting trash, giving hugs, and supporting your community.

FlowFold

Gold Medal for Give Back

Gear made from an adventurer, seeking to reduce waste, improve sustainable footprint, and help young women.

LooptWorks

Bronze Medal for Give Back

A Portland, Oregon based business that repurposes and upcycles abandoned, pre-consumer and post-consumer materials into limited edition products

North Face

Gold Medal for Social Good

A well-known outdoor gear brand that started over 50 years ago with a goal to provide amazing gear and help preserve our planet. Business and purpose can work.

CamelbaK

Silver Medal for Social Good

Reusable Bags

Farmer’s market veggie shopping. Grocery shopping. Wine and clothes purchases…Oh my. Put them all in a gorgeous reusable bag! Keep 300 single use plastic bags out with just one use it again bag.

Love Bags

Gold Medal for Give Back

Get to less plastic living with cutest fruit and dog print lunch sacks made out of recycled plastic. It's like a double whammy: Use Recycle and Reuse!

Chico Bag

Gold Medal for Social Good

Reusable grocery bags and recycled bags that funds advocacy and policy to eliminate all plastic bags in the world!

Upcycled + Recycled

Made from materials that would have ended up in a trash or landfill, these brands bravely eliminate waste by converting waste into a wonderful yoga bag, wallet, purse, and more.

Cotopaxi

Platinum Medal for Give Back

BlueQ

Gold Medal for Give Back

Bags made from post-consumer material, socks and kitchen wear that go towards hunger relief and emergency care? Count me in!

LooptWorks

Bronze Medal for Give Back

A Portland, Oregon based business that repurposes and upcycles abandoned, pre-consumer and post-consumer materials into limited edition products

Thread and Loom

OUT OF BUSINESS

FlowFold

Gold Medal for Give Back

Gear made from an adventurer, seeking to reduce waste, improve sustainable footprint, and help young women.

Eco Bags

Bronze Medal for Give Back

Thoughtful, ethically and sustainably sourced, durable-reusable bags

Haiku Bags

Bronze Medal for Give Back

Bags made from recycled plastic bottles, durable and sustainable!

Matt & Nat

In Review

Upcycling used materials means each vegan leather bag's lining is made up of 21 recycled plastic bottles

Alchemy Goods

In Review

Step away from fast fashion with these durable and stylish upcycled bags made out of bicycle inner tubes and banners

Give Back

A global community of businesses who are committed to giving back to their community by donating a portion of their sales or profits to support non-profit organizations that help create a better world.

Better Life Bags

Silver Medal for Give Back

Sydney Paige

Silver Medal for Give Back

Aveda

Gold Medal for Give Back

Around since 1978, the eco-salon, among other sustainable practices, now also offsets their green house gas carbon emissions by funding wind energy projects

Adventurist Backpacks

OUT OF BUSINESS

Eco Bags

Bronze Medal for Give Back

Thoughtful, ethically and sustainably sourced, durable-reusable bags

Alchemy Goods

In Review

Step away from fast fashion with these durable and stylish upcycled bags made out of bicycle inner tubes and banners

Doshi

Bronze Medal for Give Back

Maniwala

Silver Medal for Social Good

If all bags were made from leftover pineapple skins, we would be joyous everyday

Bloom and Give

Bronze Medal for Give Back

Two friends determined to keep girls in school and started a social enterprise to fund girls empowering programs

Catrinka

Gold Medal for Give Back

Designing handcrafted bags in Brooklyn where every purchase supports women to earn a living and education

Bluer Denim

In Review

Men's jeans made with fair wage labor and sustainably sourced material is sure to feel better than wearing jeans with chemically infused dyes

Jansport

Gold Medal for Give Back

Ichcha

Bronze Medal for Give Back

Sustainable prints made consciously to respect the artisan, artistry of block printing, and the natural world

Thread and Loom

OUT OF BUSINESS

Purses

Purses for going out to work, the park or on a date, choose purses made sustainably or ones that give back to empower women or education.

Sesko Design

Gold Medal for Give Back

Empowering women to attend university in Uganda by providing scholarships and training - and in 2019, gave 25 scholarships so talented women have the opportunity to geta higher education

Sak/The Sak

Rising Star for Social Good

Bags built for every occasion, supporting Bali women empowerment and children enrichment programs in the Bay Area

Catrinka

Gold Medal for Give Back

Designing handcrafted bags in Brooklyn where every purchase supports women to earn a living and education

Haiku Bags

Bronze Medal for Give Back

Bags made from recycled plastic bottles, durable and sustainable!

Malia Designs

Platinum Medal for Give Back

Doshi

Bronze Medal for Give Back

Esperos

OUT OF BUSINESS

Jill Milan

Silver Medal for Give Back

Luxury handbags that are leather-free and vegan

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Best BYO Lifestyle Tips

Why you should care The Bring Your Own mindset means you can enjoy that leftover pizza without dumping on the planet. By Latha Rao We

Backpack

Amazing Backpack Co Throwing Parties To Save The Planet

Why you should care Because a city-wide party and hiking backpack can inspire a young woman to change her shopping habit and girls’ education in

Why Use Recycled & Upcycled?

Upcycled Material. These are bags or clothing that are made from used or discarded stock fabric material, airbags, plastic linings, etc.

Recycled Plastic Bottle Fabric. These are fabric made from cutting recycled plastic bottles into tiny chip pieces, and than reformed to make a malleable fabric. The recycled plastic bottle fabric is then used to make clothing, shoes, and active wear. Instead of burying plastic bottles in the landfill or dumping them in the ocean, we’re reusing, updesigning, and innovating!

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