washington america products bags & accessories number of employees 10 website http www.alchemygoods.com alchemy goods is a company in seattle washington that creates bags and accessories from recycled bicycle inner tubes . the ag motto turning useless into useful refers to ag s transformation of discarded materials into new products through a process called upcycling . hundreds of rei trek and independent bike shops send used bike tubes to alchemy goods every week . since the recycling program was started in 2006 over 425 000 bike tubes have been diverted from landfill . 1 the first alchemy goods bike tube messenger bag was created by founder eli reich in 2004 after someone stole his messenger bag and he replaced it with one he crafted from used bicycle inner tubes . 2 since that original messenger bag alchemy goods has developed a wide array of upcycled bags and accessories for the urban lifestyle . every ag product comes with a lifetime guarantee and is manufactured in seattle washington . 3 4 5 references edit bloomekatz ari june 28 2013 . trek and rei join forces with alchemy goods to grow nationwide bike tube recycling network . business wire . costley white james december 15 2010 . alchemy goods ag cycling bags first look . bikeradar.com . bloomekatz ari january 3 2006 . useless turns useful with alchemy . the seattle times . perman stacy august 16 2006 . from garbage to gold . bloomberg businessweek . brones anna june 30 2009 . golden garbage alchemy goods leads the way for transforming useless into useful . wend magazine . external links edit http alchemygoods.com this united states manufacturing company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title alchemy goods & oldid 664503419 categories companies based in washington state united states manufacturing company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 29 may 2015 at 02 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view