truth in advertising...

[thanate]

I'm never quite sure what to think of this kind of thing... On the one hand, it's pretty (if not my style of jewelry) and recycling is a "good thing." But honestly? Making a claim about buying some vastly expensive designer recycled-plastic bracelet being remotely akin to saving the world is... well, bordering on hypocritical. How many plastic bags does the average consumer-culture american acquire in a week?How many of those go either straight into the trash, or immediately get bundled up to go in the recycling outside the grocery store? And you're saying that a bracelet that might have the plastic content of three or four bags and is outside the price range of large numbers of the people who collect random plastic and scatter it about the world is helping you save the planet?

Recycling only works if there's a resale market for all the materials you're trying to put into it. Sigh.