Enter to Win $500 with Unilever’s Rinse. Recycle. Reimagine Program

This post is sponsored by Unilever. As always, all thoughts and opinions are 100% my own.

Unilever, the maker of products including Dove®, Suave®, St. Ives®, Caress® and more, has a new Rinse. Recycle. Reimagine program aimed at increasing awareness about recycling bathroom products through their Bright Future Initiative.

I don’t know about you, but I have a great stockpile on household cleaners. With the Rinse. Recycle. Reimagine program, Unilever is encouraging us to rinse our empty, used containers and then recycle them. Just imagine how the recycled containers can be used! They may return as hairbrushes, backpacks or even a backyard play set.

Below are some interesting facts on American and their bathroom products:

• Beware the product hoarders: 1 in 5 Americans (20%) have more than 10 bathroom products in plastic bottles in their bathroom at a given time. Only 34% of Americans recycle bathroom products meaning that approximately 600 million plastic bottles are sent to landfills each year!
• What gets Americans moving: Americans are more likely to go the distance to get a drink when thirsty, charge their phone, or answer a phone call than walk an empty plastic bottle from the bathroom to the recycle bin.
• Battle of the sexes: More men (80%) reported recycling their empty bathroom bottles than women (74%).

 So what do you take away from this? For me, I’m motivated to play a bigger part with recycling. Sometimes I find that using the blue recycle bag and setting it out separate from my garbage can is just too much work. What a lame excuse I have been using! For more information on the Bright Future Initiative and how to begin recycling, go HERE.

To find out what items qualify for recycling in your area and to find out what your plastic bottles could become, go HERE.

And don’t miss this awesome giveaway! There will be 42 daily prizes and one grand prize of a $500 gift card! To enter, spread the word by sharing a photo of your bathroom empties being recycled on Twitter and Instagram using #ReimagineThat. Add #Sweeps to your post to be entered for a chance to win recycled, reimagined prizes.

To connect with Unilever US on Facebook, go HERE, or Twitter, follow @unileverusa