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When it comes to eco friendly gift bags, are 100% recycled paper gift bags the only way to go?
Today while strolling through my local Target store, an isle display of green paper products caught my eye. A company called Greenroom Eco makes a line of eco friendly gift wrap products – like gift bags, gift boxes, and other goodies for the holidays. The first item I picked up to examine was this take-out style box (taken with my cell phone, please excuse the blurriness).
Greenroom Eco Recycled Gift Box
It’s a pretty good looking product, for a box anyway… I was totally down, until I read that it is made of only 35% post consumer recycled materials. Bummer. I was about to go about my business and forget all about this company but for some reason I picked up another item. This is of their 100% recylced paper gift bags.
Greenroom Eco Recycled Gift Bag
I thought it was funny that the two products were both sold and packaged as green items in the same exact way, but the fine print showed how they were much different. If I hadn’t been in investigative mode I probably would have missed it. In the end, I didn’t end up buying either of them. Partly because I know of some fabulous independently owned eco paper companies I’d like spend my money with, but also because I wasn’t sure about their true greenness after seeing the 35%. But they did get me thinking, “when is something green enough?” Is 35% better than none at all? Or, is it just not enough?
What do you think?
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O'bon Pencils made from Recycled Newspaper
Last weekend I went to the Green Festival in San Francisco California. My goal was to find and talk to the retailers of cool Eco-friendly products. Luckily for me there was a huge turnout for the event and I was able to talk to many.
One unique company that I found was called O’bon. They sell these cool and creative pencils that are made from recycled newspaper. When you sharpen the pencil you can see the letters from the original publication. Obon also sells colored pencils that are made from the same material.
The company also utilizes a material called bugasse which is essentially sugarcane. They use it to make notebook paper. Throughout the history of the spiral notebook there has never been one this unique. At least not one that I’ve seen anyway. These colored notebooks are a perfect way to express your creative flare.
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Healthy Fruit Snacks are a Guffly Choice for Natural Snacks
I have always loved fruit snacks but lately I’ve been wearly of what the hell they are actually made of. Scary. Even some products that are called healthy fruit snacks aren’t exactly natural, though their packaging may lead you to believe otherwise. However, my fears have subsided since discovering Annie’s brand new Organic Bunny Fruit Snacks. Those little things are super fruity in taste, made with real fruit juice, certified organic, and have no artificial anything – even colors. The Organic Bunny Fruit Snacks are available in two flavors: Berry Patch (a combo pack of natural strawberry fruit snacks, as well as cherry and raspberry flavors) and Tropical Treat (mango-peach, tropical punch and orange). These healthy fruit snacks are vegan, gelatin free and contain 100% of your daily value of Vitamin C. I highly reccommended these for the kid in all of us.
