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This month, at-home soda maker brand SodaStream is circling New York City with a 12-foot by six-foot cage atop a trailer filled with empty soda cans and water bottles equaling the average five-year waste of a family of four. The vehicle is part of SodaStream’s integrated sampling and social media campaign to get consumers excited about its soda maker as a gift for the holidays. The brand sets up a tent where it demonstrates how to use the machine and then has consumers taste the final product with the waste-filled cage in the backdrop.

Premium junior denim brand Amethyst Jeans this week launched a campus tour that through Oct. 5 will give away thousands of pairs of free jeans ($25 to $48 suggested retail price) and other gifts on a swing through 11 colleges.

There is a group of consumers out there that is almost impossible to define demographically, but they are affluent, smart and growing more numerous all the time. They call themselves makers, lifehackers and inventors and they delight in recycling found objects to make something new. Their inventions range the gamut from handmade crafts, quilts and clothing to robots with flamethrowers mounted on top.

HP this summer deployed a series of shipping containers retrofit to look like giant boomboxes to promote its HP Jam Sessions program, a buzz-building initiative designed to create excitement and awareness for the brand’s new Beats Edition laptops. The laptop is designed to target the youth market with its focus on music and high-quality sound.

Every year, 901 Tequila, founded by singer Justin Timberlake, celebrates National 901 Day on Sept. 1 with special events that give back to consumers and retail accounts nationwide. This year it rocked out New York’s Irving Plaza with a free concert by the band FreeSol, which debuts its album “No Rules” on Oct. 11. Playing up its 901 theme, the doors opened up at 9:01 p.m. on a first-come first-served basis to consumers 21 and over.