We’re kicking off our Earth Week celebration with our friends at Eco Green Crafts! Here at FaveCrafts, we love Eco Green Crafts because they have designed a line of earth-friendly craft products so that you can create and be environmentally conscience at the same time.
Let me tell you a little more about them!
Eco Green Crafts believes the most valuable resource on earth is people. To do their part to contribute to the health and happiness of children and adults that use art and craft materials, they have designed a comprehensive line of craft products that are sensitive to the environment and to people.
Because they care about the environment, the people that use thier products, and the workers that produce them, they manufacture only low and no VOC products and package those products using recycled materials, unvarnished labels, and ergonomic styling. What’s a VOC you ask? Briefly, the World Health Organization and The United States Environmental Protection Agency have targeted these airborne and absorbable particulates as hazards to health. There are countless studies supporting the advantages of lowering and removing these elements from public and personal environments – which is why they’ve done their best to do exactly that!
The best thing about their “green” craft products are the quality and performance they offer. But of course, you can’t just take my word for it. Give them a try yourself!
Eco Green Crafts is offering a special promo code for FaveCrafts readers! Enter EarthDay2012 when checking out to get 20% off of your order this week! This code is valid through 4/30.
In partnership with Eco Green Crafts and in celebration of Earth Day we’ve set up a little giveaway for you as well! Just answer the question below in the comments section to be entered to win a $25 gift card to Eco Green Crafts! Then you’ll definitely be able to check out their amazing and earth-friendly products!
Contest Rules:
- Contest open to US and Canada residents 18+
- One comment/entry per person.
- Contest closes April 23, 2012 at 11:59p CST.
- Please answer the question below in order to be entered.
- Winners will be posted on this blog and notified by email
I try to reuse everything in my artwork and keep it out of the landfill…. the bonus? My family receives lots of unique, one of a kind gifts!
My kids help me out a lot. Together we find lots of things we can reuse. Also, my kids have lots of fun helping me make crafts.
I recycle my papers & plastics. I’ve stopped receiving my phone book and stopped junk mail from coming to my house.
I am cloth diapering, reusing crafting materials into new fun giveaways for family and friends and am reusing a ton of outside things into gardening pretties this year – so much fun to reuse!!
I recycle newspaper, glass and plastic. Use less paper towels.
Recycle, I my number one way. I have my wagter heater turned several degrees down. Turn lights off when I am not in a room. Pay bills on line to keep extra paper work from coming in.
I have saved and reused gallon plastic jugs. I fill them with sand and then make cute little covers for them. They make great door stoppers!
I recycle our daily trash as much as possible and I also collect corks from nearby wineries and tasting rooms to make crafts to sell.
In order to be green, I am constantly recycling. At my college we have bins for just about anything you would ever want to recycle! I try and make sure that I recycle a little bit every day =)
I plug out all my kitchen appliances and cell phone chargers and so on.
It helps a lot.
We have a wood burning stove, so instead of tossing a lot of cartons and paper products into the trash, we use them to start the fire in it. We also use a lot of food waste and peels in our compost pile.
I check out packaging really well to see if I can use it for anything else. Sometimes it involves completely taking it apart to use what ever parts and pieces or hopefully the whole thing. It’s a fun challenge to think out of the box! (h-mmm)
old t-shirts for cleaning rags, worn out jeans for any number of projects, glass jars for holding craft items, plastic bowls for leftovers. No plastic grocery bags, only paper to use for garbage, or my own.
I use reusable bags, recycle craft scraps, recycle bottles by making them into vases; bags etc., most of the food I eat is fresh so there is no packaging involved in it, I have a compost pile, CFL light bulbs, the list goes on and is quite extensive for me so I think I will leave it now so it’s not too long. Thanks for the opportunity.
we recycle plastic, aluminum every day
I always use all my scrapes and never through away anything. I want to save our planet by Recycle as much as I can. I’m a big craft person and I even reuse my TP roll for crafts and MED Bottle as well for crafts. I just look what I plan to through away and find a use for it in crafts. I love crafts and saving my planet. Thanks for all you do. GOD BLESS ANNETTE
I have a wood-burning stove so save all my paper to start fires in it. All my wood comes from my son-in-law’s workplace. He’s a housebuilder and all of them throw leftover bits of 2 x 4es and other unpainted wood bits into the BFI bins that go to the dump. For 7 years now he has saved them all of the leftover bits for me and that’s the wood I burn in my stove. I also use some of this leftover wood for crafts.
I have a wood-burning stove so save all my paper to start fires in it. All my wood comes from my son-in-law’s workplace. He’s a housebuilder and all of them throw leftover bits of 2 x 4es and other unpainted wood bits into the BFI bins that go to the dump. For 7 years now he has saved all of the leftover bits for me and that’s the wood I burn in my stove. I also use some of this leftover wood for crafts.
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I recycle all the time and I give my daughter my paper scraps to play with and make her own art.
I recycle everything that I can, reuse as much as I can. I crochet tote bags with plastic bags to keep them from the landfills.
We recycle, and take reusable bags to the supermarket.
We also compost all our food scraps.
I look first for a triangle usually at the bottom of products. It tells me it’s okay to recycle. I divide up paper with newspapers and magazines and cardboard, plastic, glass, tin cans. I take them to the dumpsters in our town. Clothes can be taken to second hand shops or donated to the needy at churches, or passed on to friends and family.
We (my son and I) recycle all of our garbage, three separate bags in our kitchen. We’ve been doing for so long, ever since we lived in San Francisco, it’s just second nature .
I have a recycling container in the kitchen where we collect all recyclables. I also compost.
I try to reduce the garbage we produce – utilizing reusable containers instead of plastic and recycling what we can
We recycle glass, plastics, paper anything that we can. I also crochet grocery bags and use them when I go to the store. I also started a compost pile this year.
We have tried many diffrent ways. We cloth diapered for a short time, till it became aparent after our water bill skyrocketed that we where wasting more water for a seperate load from the rest of our clothes. We compost, we reuse any paper items we get in the mail in our trash to keep the smell down, we buy all clothing at thrift stores unless its my husbands work clothes. And we have bought a large furncace that will heat our new house and we can burn just about anything in it which will heat our water heater and our house during the winter.
I recycle every day. I recycle newspapers, junk mail, catalogs, aluminum drink cans, cardboard, plastic bottles, plastic bags, aluminum food cans, metal food cans. My family has been recycling aluminum cans since the 70′s when my dad started to work at a Reynold Metals reclamation plant where the melted down aluminum cans. I try to remember to use totes when I shop.
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I recycle things and reuse and use up wear out things
I try to reuse everything somehow.
To be green I use cloth diapers for my baby and air dry. I use laundry detergent that is biodegradable with just one ingredient, garden my own vegetables, cut down on meat, recycle everything I can, shop at thrift stores, use hand-me-down clothes, bring my own bags to the store, make flash cards from old magazines for my daughter, use vinegar as cleaner, and conserve energy in the home by turning off lights, heat, air etc. We LOVE to be green in our home!
composting scrapes and clippings..reusing rain water caught..using newspapers for mulch bottom layer..banana peel feeds roses etc.
I use the kids’ old clothes to make doll clothes.
I’ve been a Girl Guide leader for 20 years and my units always end the year with extra money… Why ? Beacause we dont BUY craft supplies, we Reduce, Reuse and Recycle !
i recycle, reuse what i can, carry my own shopping bags, compost, jar and freeze what i grow. just my thing to do what i can.
We recycle aluminum cans that I have removed the tabs from. I use the tabs to make bracelets and key chains that my sister has designed. Crochet or knit our own wash cloths from left over yarn from larger projects and use old blue jeans to make quilt tops for my family.
I don’t throw anything away unless it’s truly garbage. I find a use for it somehow, either for crafting or other uses, or I give it to a charity or post it on FreeCycle.
I even save to reuse (either as craft foam type of foam or as trays for messy craft work) the styrofoam meat & produce trays that food comes in.
Use cloth shopping bags, use every little scrap of yarn + fabric, buy used clothing + alter, recycle everything possible including my cars, reuse until it’s truly garbage (almost no garbage), reuse rain and grey water, refashion old clothing, donate items I no longer use or need, reuse $$ through loans, pass on books (buy used).