Chipotle Earth Day Lunch Bags (Photo: Business Wire)

For every 20,000 lunch bags made from retired Chipotle signage, landfills are spared some 78,000 square feet of billboard vinyl — enough material to cover 2.7 Olympic swimming pools.

Lunch bag supplies are limited and customers must purchase their bag between Monday, March 26 and Saturday, April 14, 2012, in order to receive it in time for Earth Day. Each lunch bag purchased through April 14, 2012 will include a card containing a barcode, which customers must present to redeem their free Chipotle menu item. Each customer is limited to one free burrito, bowl, salad or tacos per barcode presented.

A percentage of the proceeds from the lunch bag sales will go towards the Chipotle Cultivate Foundation, which launched in August 2011 with the debut of “Back to the Start,” an animated short film available at YouTube.com/Chipotle. The Chipotle Cultivate Foundation provides funding to support sustainable agriculture, family farming, and culinary education.

About Chipotle

Steve Ells, founder, chairman and co-CEO, started Chipotle with the idea that food served fast did not have to be a typical fast food experience. Today, Chipotle continues to offer a focused menu of burritos, tacos, burrito bowls (a burrito without the tortilla) and salads made from fresh, high-quality raw ingredients, prepared using classic cooking methods and served in a distinctive atmosphere. Through our vision of Food With Integrity, Chipotle is seeking better food from using ingredients that are not only fresh, but that—where possible—are sustainably grown and naturally raised with respect for the animals, the land, and the farmers who produce the food. A similarly focused people culture, with an emphasis on identifying and empowering top performing employees, enables us to develop future leaders from within. Chipotle opened with a single restaurant in 1993 and currently operates more than 1,225 restaurants. For more information, visit Chipotle.com.

About Loomstate

Loomstate is an environmentally and socially conscious brand launched in 2004 by Rogan Gregory and Scott Mackinlay Hahn. The Loomstate mission is to create casual clothing of timeless style and quality, with a commitment to environmentally sustainable materials and production methods. Loomstate furnishes instant wardrobe standards, standing the test of time and weather the coming and going of fashion. www.Loomstate.org

About Billboard Ecology Partners

Billboard Ecology Partners is a Denver-based company committed to rescuing retired advertising billboards from the landfill and upcycling them into tote bags and other unique items, most of which are sold for fundraising by schools around the country. To date the company has diverted over 1 million square feet of billboard and banner waste. www.BillboardEcology.com

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