Logical Star organic cotton wallet
The Logical Star wallet by Volcom is part of their V.Co-Logical product range. It is made from 100% certified organic cotton and comes in two colours, natural and vintage black. It is a three fold cloth wallet with a velcro closure.
The V.Co-Logical initiative by Volcom is their social responsibility program that covers a range of products, support for outside programs and also an inhouse program to reduce waste and utilize sustainable materials. They have also teamed up with One Percent For The Planet where 1% of the sales from the series are donated to environmental causes.
More details of the entire Volcom range can be found at the Volcom website.
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Catalog Choice to opt out of receiving paper catalogs
Catalog Choice is a free service for US residents who wish to opt out of receiving paper catalogs through the mail. Whilst it relies on the merchants to voluntarily honour the requests their list of endorsements is long. You simply sign up for free and then select the catalogs you wish to decline. If the catalog isn’t listed then you can suggest it for inclusion. The benefits are for both the senders and the receivers because the senders get to reduce the number of catalogs delivered (by only sending to people interested in them) and hence the cost of production whilst the receivers get less clutter in the mail boxes.
Environmentally speaking the benefits are huge. According to the site, there are more than 19 billion paper catalogs delivered each year. Just imagine the lost sforests, carbon emission in producing and delivering them and then the problems of what to do with them once they have been used. Annually it accounts for 53 million trees and around 53 billion gallons of water discharges from the volume of paper required. that’s 81000 Olympic sized pools. The power used in production is roughly the same as the annual power usage of 1.2 million homes. Truly staggering.
Of course they have a strict privacy policy and you can find out all the details at Catalog Choice.
Moltex Oko disposable diapers
The Moltex Oko disposable baby diaper is marketed as am eco friendly disposable diaper that is also better for your baby. There are no added chemicals as found in the mainstream brands. These chemicals, such as lotions and deodorants are used to keep odours away. Unfortunately these can cause rashes and other problems such as fungi and viruses. The Oko diapers use a green tea leaf extract to help with odours.
Twenty percent of the absorbant gel has also been replaced with a totally biodegradable absorbant gel made from maize (corn) starch. Being a natural product this also tends to prevent for formation of ammonia which can also cause skin rashes. Of course the diapers are also 100% chlorine free. These diapers might take a bit of getting used to because they aren’t the traditional white colour. Using 50% unbleached cellulose and b leaching with hydrogen rather than chlorine it gives them a natural brown colour.
The breathable backsheet is made from 100% biodegradable materials as is the packaging. All this means a fully compostable diaper without the need to add to landfill or be burnt, which just causes a bunch of other issues.
For details about the range see the Oko Loco website.
Earth Friendly Moving
Earth Friendly Moving offers a complete moving solution that does away with having to buy cardboard boxes, plastic bubble wrap and tape that all usually ends up in landfill. That’s Spencer Brown the founder and owner sitting on boxes made from recycled containers that you probably bought many of you household cleaning products in. The pallet underneath is made from about 500 recycled baby diapers. That’s just a couple of the many products.
The boxes pictured are RecoPacks and available in four sizes that you can rent for “a buck a week”. The Poopy Pallets help when loading into trucks. Then there are the packaging items like RecoCubes that replace the polystyrene beans or peanuts. They are made from recycled paper sludge, sugar, starch and vitamin B-12. B-12 is a plant food vitamin so when you are finished with them, just toss them in the garden.
It’s not only these products that make Earth Friendly Moving a stand out business. Their fleet of vehicles are veggie oil and bio fuel powered and when the trucks are driving around they are generating power that is then used to help make the Geami packing paper.
They also claim this method of moving will save you time and money, plus the environment. The RecoPacks are cheaper to rent than cardboard boxes and because you don’t spend time assembling and flattening them it takes less time to move. On average about 37 hours according to their calculations.
They are based on California and more information at the Earth Friendly Moving website.
EcoBye.com explained
Just a quick first off post to explain what will be happening with EcoBye.com. For a while now I’ve been seeing advertisements and reading articles about businesses that are trying to help preserve the environment. They don’t have to be out and out ‘greenie’ organisations, rather, businesses trying to do something so future generations can live in a place no worse than we have now and hopefully much better.Sustainable consumption is one of the terms used to describe what I’m on about. However, before that should come the decision, “do I really need to buy this?” Much better not to do something harmful in the first place, then there is no need to look for the good businesses or buy things like carbon offsets to reduce your footprint.
