A gift that gives back is the best gift to be given. My boyfriend recently bought me a flower pot to fill with flower seeds that I got in a business card (a post at a later date). Yes, a sweet thought, but it gets better. The flower pot is compostable! It is made from a rice base and will eventually decompose along with your plant into the ground! This way, if I happen to abandon it, or it is suddenly stolen from my porch in all its beauty, it can do a disappearing act with no harm to my Mother Earth.
This amazing garden tool is created by Terra Cycle, and upon further research, this company is fabulous. Their focus is to provide a plant food made from waste, worm poop to be exact, and distribute it in waste, recycled plastic bottles, ie. like the one your soda comes in. Their product is sold at The Home Depot (You really can do it!), Whole Foods, Wal-Mart, and other retailers.
Better yet, they will buy your waste from you! You get paid and save space in a landfill. Cookie lovers: Send them your old Oreo wrapper - get $.02. Caffeine Addicts: Send them your old soda bottle - get $.05. Winos: Send them your old corks - get a good samaritan feeling. Ah, getting rich by the saving the world has got to be the best feeling you can get.