Environmentally-Friendly Lunch Bag

Thousands of pounds of plastic end up in our landfills every day. Much of the plastic comes from one time use of bottles and plastic bags. As we know it, most plastic can last up to 1,000 years in an enclosed landfill!

Using lunch bag made from 100% bamboo is another great way to live green and do so affordably. These bamboo lunch bags are light, soft, and tough. Best of all, they are renewable, reusable, and easily decomposed.

Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on earth. A 60 foot cut takes only 59 days to re-grow. It can regenerates without planting. Furthermore, bamboo never requires chemicals and pesticides to keep it growing healthily. [New Wave Enviro Products]

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As it turns out, the pen really is mightier than the sword. And the machete. And the bulldozer, or whatever else they’re using to demolish Earth’s endangered rain forests. Or, at least one pen is: the new Bamboo Tornado(TM) by Retro 51.

It’s a pen that’s fun to use. Lightweight, ergonomic, and writes nicely. More important, the barrel is made from solid bamboo, a durable hardwood that’s also eco-friendly. Bamboo — the fastest-growing woody plant in the world — is a favorite with environmentalists because it’s an abundant, replenishable resource.

Bamboo is also a favorite with giant pandas, who eat 20-40 lbs. of the stuff every day. Hence the engraving of a bamboo-noshing panda on the back of the pen. Read the rest of this entry »

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