There’s been a lot of buzz about Earth Day this week, so my attentiveness to my regular recycling routine has been heightened. And that’s what Earth Day is designed to do — inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. So instead of just sorting my paper and plastic, conserving electricity and grocery shopping with reusable totes, I took it one step further this week. My husband, pup-daughter and I have a two-ish mile walk we try to take every night the weather cooperates, through these woods behind our apartment complex. It’s pretty deserted back there and always quiet, so it’s a nice relaxing wind-down from our hectic days. What isn’t relaxing is the miscellaneous pieces of trash strewn about along our route: everything from construction waste to beer cans and candy wrappers to…broken plastic hangers? True story. Who litters this helpless space? I see it, it bothers me consistently, but I do nothing because I’m walking a dog, carrying on a conversation and thinking about dinner. Not this week. This week, armed with trash bags and gardening gloves, I cleaned up our path. Over the course of several days, anything I could carry got brought back to our dumpster. I know it’s not going to change the world, or even clean up our woods permanently, but it’s my contribution. Earth Day buzz was certainly my motivator this time, but I’m committed to keeping it up.
Along those same lines, I’ve noticed that more and more companies are stepping up to the plate en masse to help green our planet. Efforts are focused on reducing waste, conserving energy and of course, recycling. In this vein, I’m proud to be a partner to OmniMount, a company that’s been very focused on eco-friendly initiatives for quite some time now — and it didn’t take Earth Day to motivate them to do something drastic! Above and beyond their green routine, they’ve come up with a unique spin that has nothing to do with the products they manufacture: textile recycling. No, they’re not secretly on the cusp of announcing a shift in manufacturing focus. They’re just interested in showing that as a company whose bread and butter is flat panel mounting solutions, they support more than TVs. And for those of you that know the fine folks that make up the team over there, you won’t be surprised to know that The BRAvo Event has been supported wholeheartedly (Read: We are mounting an organized effort to collect BRAS?!?!)! While this initiative has been developing behind the scenes for a couple of months now, they’re announcing BRAvo today as their appreciation of the environment on this 40th anniversary of Earth Day. I’m inspired by the grand effort, so wanted to share the details here.
So what do bras and Earth Day have in common, again? Not sure. But the headline caught your attention. 
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