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The Best Sustainable & Non-Toxic Lip Balms

An effective lip balm is a must-have in your arsenal of beauty and wellness products — we always like to keep one handy in our purses and dressers. But like most things, all lip balms are not created equal. Some contain nasty toxins like petroleum, many come in non-recyclable plastic tubes, and others just don’t provide long-lasting moisturization. We don’t know about you, but we’re definitely tired of constantly having to apply a coat to dry, chapped lips, only to have to apply it again shortly after.  

So, we put together a list of ten of our favorite planet-friendly lip balms that will keep your lips supple and moisturized for that perfect pucker. 

Note: Not all the lip balms in this list are vegan. Some products may contain beeswax — if they do, this has been clearly noted.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN CHOOSING A SUSTAINABLE LIP BALM:

• Petroleum-free. Many brands (including Vaseline, Aquaphor, and Neutrogena) use petroleum jelly in their lip balms. Did you know that this petroleum jelly is literally a by-product of the oil refining industry? It doesn’t get dirtier than that. Stay away from lip balms that contain petroleum jelly as it is a potentially toxic, carcinogenic chemical. 

• Free of other nasties. On that note, also stay away from products that contain other toxins like parabens, chemical dyes, and synthetic fragrances and preservatives. 

• Plant-based or cruelty-free. Opt for products using 100% plant-based ingredients where possible. For products that contain beeswax, you want to make sure it’s organic and cruelty-free. 

• Sustainable packaging. Can the container be reused, recycled, or composted? As always, go for plastic-free when that’s an option. 

• Certifications. Look out for third-party certifications like B-Corp, Leaping Bunny, ECOCERT, and USDA Organic that back up claims made by the brand. 

• Worker welfare. Is the brand paying its workers a fair wage? Does it have stringent policies in place regarding ethical worker conditions? Fair Trade, FLOCERT, or SA8000 are good certifications to keep an eye out for. 

• Diversity in leadership. Bonus points if the brand is BIPOC, LGBTQ+, or woman-owned! 

OUR TOP PICKS FOR SUSTAINABLE LIP BALMS:

1. MyMatcha Moisture Stick

Brand: Cocokind

Price: $9

We’re big fans of Cocokind’s multipurpose Mymatcha All-Over Moisture Stick.

Incredibly nourishing for dry lips, it’s also super effective in reducing dark circles and puffiness.

It’s made primarily of two simple ingredients: The organic coconut oil is packed with Vitamin E and amino acids, perfect for deep moisturization, and the caffeine- and antioxidant-rich matcha powder is magically rejuvenating. They have also recently changed the formula to make this lip balm vegan!

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2. Nectar Unscented Lip Balm

Brand: Ethique 

Price: $8.50

The Nectar Unscented Lip Balm from Ethique checks all the boxes for an effective, basic lip balm. This no-fuss vegan balm is perfect for everyday use. It contains castor seed, moringa, and jojoba oils, as well as Fair Trade cocoa butter.

Packed with fatty acids and Vitamin E, this hardcore combination of moisturizers hydrates your lips and locks it all in for long-lasting protection. And don’t worry, the formulation isn’t sticky at all and glides on super smoothly.

Ethique sources its Fair Trade ingredients from Rwanda, Ghana, and Samoa, supporting local farming cooperatives (most of which are owned by women!). Finally, the lip balms are 100% plastic-free and come in a compostable tube (suitable for your home composts)

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3. Better Balm

Brand: Elate 

Price: $30

If you’re on the lookout for a tinted lip balm for everyday use, Elate’s Better Balm is another great option. We like the Bloom tint one because of how subtle the sheer rose color is. The lightweight texture and glossy shine make it perfect for when you need a quick pick-me-up. The balm contains castor, olive, and sunflower oils for nourishment and antioxidants like carrot root oil, vitamins A, C, and E, and rosehip oil for protection against environmental pollutants. The conditioning balm comes in a recyclable glass jar with a compostable bamboo lid — we always love to see brands use zero-waste packaging! 

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4. Vegan Lip Balm

Brand: Axiology 

Price: $14

This lip balm from Axiology is not only Vegan and Cruelty-Free, but it's also Plastic-Free and Handmade in the U.S.A. You can choose from unscented or peppermint varieties. This luscious balm is rich with meadowfoam and cocoa butter, providing a soft, creamy texture that deeply nourishes and loves your lips. While all ingredients are non-toxic, a few are even certified organic.

Axiology is also a BIPOC-owned and Woman-Run beauty brand.

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5. Lip Wrap Overnight Mask

Brand: Ilia

Price: $26

An overnight mask that assists in uncovering your smoothest, softest lips!

Acting as a facial for your lips, the powerful, two-fold formula eradicates dry, flaky skin while attracting moisture to visibly refresh and rejuvenate.

Note: This product is not vegan due to a small amount of ethically-sourced beeswax.

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6. Vegan Lip Balm

Brand: River Organics 

Price: $12.99

We love this tinted lip balm from River Organics. The tint is very subtle and gives your lips a natural warm flush for the perfect ‘no makeup’ makeup look.

It’s made with nourishing cacao and mango butters, which keep your lips moisturized for a long time. Plus, the balm comes in an eco-friendly compostable tube. 

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7. Vegan Lip Balm

Brand: Meow Meow Tweet 

Price: $9.99

This creamy lip balm is made with olive and coconut oils, cocoa seed butter, and candelilla wax. You can also use it on your hands or other areas of your skin to prevent and repair dryness.

The rosemary, eucalyptus, and peppermint oils in the balm help with concentration and focus and are also great for respiratory relief.

Apply this balm on your lips (or under your nostrils for a boost) for a little aromatherapy pick-me-up! Bonus: It comes in a compostable tube. 

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8. All Good Lips – SPF Lip Balm

Brand: All Good

Price: $5.59 - 6.99 (pack of 3)

If you’re looking for an effective, affordable option, this sunscreen lip balm from All Goods is a solid choice. It is broad-spectrum SPF 20 and provides blue light protection as well — your lips need protection from all that screen time too! The balm is free of parabens and oxybenzone and contains zinc oxide for UVA and UVB protection, making it reef-safe. The ultra-nourishing combination of extra virgin olive oil, Vitamin E, & pure beeswax results in long-lasting, much-needed moisturization for those dry, chapped lips.

The balm is effective on cracked skin and cuticles too. And the brand has all the certifications: Certified B Corporation, 1% for the Planet, Leaping Bunny Certified, and Climate Neutral Certified. This one’s the real deal! The tubes could be better, but it is at least made from 50% Post Industrial plastic.

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9. Organic Beeswax Lip Balm

Brand: Zambeezi

Price: $13 (pack of 4)

Zambeezi’s Lip Balm is another great cost-effective choice. The organic Fair Trade beeswax is produced in Zambia. The balm also contains organic coconut, sunflower, jojoba, and mongongo oils, making it ultra-healing. Find their lip balms in 4 different flavors!

Note: This product is not vegan because of beeswax and could come in better tubes - but we love that it is Fair Trade!

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10. Lip Salve

Brand: Fat and the Moon

Price: $10

The lip salve from Fat and the Moon is super soft and light, making it ideal for sensitive lips. If you’re looking to moisturize your lips but don’t want that glossy finish, this one is perfect for you. It’s made with all-natural, organic ingredients, including mango butter for protection, and rosemary essential oil for that fresh, clarifying feel. The balm comes in a cute aluminum tin which can be washed out and recycled after use. The shipping boxes and cartons are made from post-consumer waste paper & also recyclable.

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About the Author

Jyotika is a writer based in New Delhi. She writes about sustainable living and eco-friendly brands, covering fashion, food, travel, and wellness. Previously, she was the fashion manager at her family's bespoke fashion business, where in addition to her other responsibilities she worked on improving textile sourcing from local artisans to encourage grassroots production, as well as conducting sustainability workshops with employees regarding the eco-friendly disposal of fashion materials.

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The Best Sustainable And Non-Toxic Perfumes

Fragrances have played a role in humans’ lives for millennia. Between 7000 and 4000 BCE, in Mesopotamia, people would burn fragrant resins to bring royals and priests closer to their gods. 

During the same period, Egyptians found out how to store fragrances in fats. Thanks to this discovery, they started making fragrant oils and balms that people would use for personal care and in funeral and religious rituals. 

The use of perfume was then incorporated into various cultures around the world, including in Ancient China, India and around the Mediterranean. The rise of Christianity brought about a decline in perfume usage in Europe, but the Muslim world kept the tradition alive and helped export it overseas. 

In the 16th century, perfumes became extremely popular in France among the upper classes. Then, the industry continued to grow, especially thanks to the invention of the eau de Cologne two centuries later. 

Nowadays, 41% of Americans use perfume regularly, and the industry is worth billions of dollars. However, most perfumes sold these days are full of harmful chemicals that we should not be breathing in or putting on our skin.

Fortunately, the 10 sustainable perfume brands we have selected for this article are an exception! They are making non-toxic scents that we can enjoy every day without hurting our health or the planet.  

How To Choose Non-Toxic Perfumes

The main issue with perfumes is that the perfume industry is incredibly opaque, and we rarely know what they are formulated with. 

FDA regulations do not apply to perfumes and fragrances, which means that companies are not required to disclose what their products contain. Perfume formulas are usually proprietary information, so instead of listing all their ingredients, many brands hide some of them behind the word “fragrance”. 

The problem is that perfumes containing “fragrance” can be formulated with hundreds of ingredients, many of which can cause health complications in the long run. They are often made with hormone disruptors, carcinogens and other toxic chemicals that are very harmful to human health. 

Unfortunately, if a perfume brand decided not to disclose its entire ingredient list, we cannot know whether the product we buy is safe for us. So it is crucial to choose perfumes made by a transparent brand that always discloses all its ingredients. 

What’s more, we should buy perfumes formulated with safe ingredients. To do so, always read the ingredient list and check what the ingredients are. If you cannot find what the perfume is made with, avoid buying it. 

In general, clean perfume brands make their perfumes with plant-based alcohol bases and essential oils. Avoid perfumes with an ethanol base because ethanol production causes many environmental issues. 

Other harmful chemicals to avoid in perfumes are: 

• Phthalates

• Synthetic musks, like musk ketone

• Styrene

• Benzaldehyde

• Methylene chloride

• Camphor

• Benzyl acetate

• Ethyl acetate

These are some of the most toxic ingredients you can find in perfumes, but many others are also problematic. So always research the ingredients before buying perfumes, and make sure they are safe. 

What makes Perfumes Sustainable?

In addition to choosing non-toxic perfumes, you might want to buy more sustainable options.

Eco-friendly perfumes are made by brands that take action to reduce their environmental footprint, at every stage of the production process. 

These brands prefer to use responsibly-sourced ingredients over raw materials that are usually over-harvested, even if it means using (safe) synthetics. They try to minimize their waste as much as possible and make ethical manufacturing their priority.

If you are looking for sustainable options, also make sure to choose a perfume that comes in a recyclable glass bottle. Some brands even make their bottles from recycled glass, and others offer refillable bottles that you can return afterward. Try to avoid bottles with plastic pumps and cellophane wraps. 

Our Top Picks For Non-Toxic, Sustainable Perfumes:

1. Henry Rose

Price: $35-120

Henry Rose has a large collection of eaux de parfum, with lovely fragrances ranging from earthy to spicy to floral scents, some of which won the Allure Best Of Beauty Awards. 

It also sells scented candles, skincare, and travel-size perfumes so that you can take your favorite perfume wherever you go. 

Henry Rose always discloses all the ingredients its products contain. Its perfumes are completely free of carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, parabens, phthalates, and formaldehyde.

The company is also Leaping Bunny certified, and its collection of fine fragrances is the first to be both EWG verified and Cradle to Cradle certified, which means that it meets the most stringent health and environmental standards. 

Henry Rose’s perfume bottles are recyclable and made of 90% recycled glass, and the caps are produced from sustainably sourced, compostable soy. Not to mention the boxes made from recycled corrugated paper! 

Plus, the brand has partnered with the Breast Cancer Prevention Partners to give back part of its proceeds to research and advocacy around harmful substances in personal care products.

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2. Abbott

Price: $31-88

Abbott is a sustainable perfume brand offering 8 unisex scents, all inspired by an ecological destination. Its eaux de parfum are made to ground you, bring you closer to nature and help you live in the moment. 

Depending on the scent you choose, Abbott’s perfumes will take you to wonderful places, like the forest, the beach, the mountains, or even the desert. They can be worn for any occasion, any time of the year. 

The label has also worked closely with two of the world’s best noses, Antoine Lie and Steven Claisse, who led the design of Abbott’s signature fragrances.

Abbott formulates its perfumes with the cleanest, sustainably sourced ingredients, all of which are PETA-certified vegan, cruelty-free and disclosed on the website. They are hypoallergenic and completely free of carcinogens, sulfates, phthalates, and parabens. 

The brand also packages its products in recyclable glass bottles and boxes. Plus, for every full-size perfume purchased, it donates a portion of all proceeds to a local organization that supports conservation efforts in the United States.

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3. Dedcool

Price: $30-144

Dedcool is a vegan fragrance brand creating 100% genderless, non-toxic scents for everyday wear and for the home. It makes all its perfumes with an innovative process that uses no water. 

In replacement of water, the company crafts its formulas using a signature blend of 23 certified organic plant extracts and clean, biodegradable ingredients. The plant extracts are added to nourish, soothe and help with their beneficial, anti-inflammatory properties. 

Dedcool offers twelve long-lasting scents that you can buy either in a full-size perfume bottle or in a travel-size spray for when you are out and about. That way, you will smell fresh and amazing wherever you go! The fragrances can even be combined if you want a more unique scent. 

All the brand’s products are handmade in Los Angeles and produced in small batches. Everything is free of harmful chemicals, like petroleum-based ingredients, toxic preservatives and fillers, and carcinogens. 

Dedcool is also a member of 1% For The Planet, and its manufacturing facilities and warehouses are certified carbon neutral. 

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4. Sana Jardin Paris

Price: $30-225

Sana Jardin is a socially conscious, luxury fragrance house crafting sustainable eaux de parfum and candles, all with delightful scents. As a true luxury brand, its fragrances are created by world-renowned Master Perfumer Carlos Benaim using only the finest ingredients. 

They are made with Leaping Bunny approved, clean ingredients and contain at least 15% essential oils.

The essential oils used by Sana Jardin are obtained from the distillation of flowers that have been discarded by the perfume industry.  

We also love this company because it has an alternative business model based on the circular economy that allows women working in the supply chain to become micro-entrepreneurs.

Sana Jardin offers training to these women so that they can develop and sell their own products made by upcycling the waste by-products of perfume production. They receive 100% of the proceeds, so this awesome initiative helps them earn an income all year round all while reusing resources that would have otherwise been discarded!   

Sana Jardin’s perfume bottles are recyclable, and they come with compostable caps and boxes made from upcycled coffee cups. 

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5. Skylar

Price: $30-90

Skylar is a sustainable perfume brand that produces hypoallergenic, vegan and cruelty-free perfumes, all made in the USA. Its nature-inspired scents smell fresh and dreamy, and you can even mix and match them to create a custom scent just for you!  

The company uses an organic sugar cane alcohol base for its perfumes, and it lists all its ingredients on its website. Its fragrances are all free of skin sensitizers, endangered plant species, phthalates, parabens, and more than 1,300 other questionable toxic ingredients. 

Safe for sensitive skin, Skylar’s fragrances are also almost entirely made with non-toxic synthetic ingredients as the brand strives to preserve the Earth's natural resources. 

The perfume boxes are produced using FSC-certified paper, and both the perfume bottles and caps are 100% recyclable. Skylar even donates a portion of its proceeds to a different charity each month, and so far, it has supported social and environmental organizations like Feeding America and the Surfrider Foundation. 

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6. By Rosie Jane

Price: $29-80

By Rosie Jane is an Australian clean beauty brand with a great selection of perfumes that are all sustainably made.  

From sweet scents to floral and fruity fragrances, the company’s perfumes are all formulated with 100% safe, non-toxic and responsibly sourced ingredients.

By Rosie Jane is extremely transparent about all the ingredients it uses for each of its perfumes.

Its eau de parfum is made with organic cane sugar alcohol, and its perfume oils contain organic fractionated coconut oil. 

The brand is also one of the only perfume brands that are climate-neutral certified, and all its products are 100% vegan and certified by Leaping Bunny. 

Everything By Rosie Jane sells is handmade in Los Angeles, and sent in 100% recyclable packaging made using wind power, FSC-certified paper and vegetable-based inks.  

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7. Vyrao

Price: $55-190

Vyrao is a well-being brand on a mission to fuse energetic healing with master perfumery. Its eau de parfum contains a supercharged, ethically sourced Herkimer diamond crystal, which is known for raising and purifying energy. Each of its six fragrances is made to trigger a positive emotion, like for instance, mindfulness, courage, or self-love.

The company’s perfumes are composed of 88% natural ingredients, 80% of which are certified organic.

They are formulated using a mix of essential oils as well as some synthetic chemicals that are completely safe for humans. The perfume base is 100% organic sugar cane alcohol. 

Vyrao’s products are also free of harmful chemicals, like parabens and preservatives, and they are 100% vegan and not tested on animals. 

Vyrao makes sure to package its fragrances in a sustainable way. Its perfumes come in recyclable glass bottles and FSC-certified recycled paper packaging, and their boxes are made by one of the only certified Carbon Balanced Printers in the United Kingdom.

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8. Rahua

Price: $28-32

Rahua creates sustainable hair care and body care products with the planet in mind. All its products are made with organic, plant-derived ingredients, including its oil perfume.  

Suitable for all genders, the brand’s Palo Santo oil perfume features a sophisticated, sweet and woodsy scent with hints of citrus and gardenia flower. This fresh, uplifting fragrance is made to promote positive thinking & healing, & its aroma is very energizing and helps center the mind. 

Rahua’s oil perfume comes in an elegant rollerball bottle and is completely non-toxic and vegan, formulated with the highest quality pure plant essential oils. 

It also contains handmade “symbiotic®” ingredients, meaning that they are grown in undisturbed areas in the Amazon rainforest, harvested and prepared using indigenous knowledge by local people, and purchased at a price that helps to sustain these traditions, empower the indigenous people, and grow the local economy.

Rahua’s labs and manufacturing facilities are USDA-certified organic, and the company donates part of the proceeds from some of its collections to support conservation efforts. The brand even won the Cosmetic Executive Women Beauty Awards in 2020!

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9. Moodeaux

Price: $32-98

MOODEAUX is a black-owned fragrance label that crafts perfume oils combining clean, luxury fragrances with skincare benefits. Its sophisticated signature scent, the SuperCharged SkinScent, comes in a travel spray pen, which you can take everywhere with you. This cruelty-free formula contains a concentration of over 30% fragrance oil. It leaves out the typical alcohol, water and dyes we can find in most perfumes, and instead, uses botanical ingredients that help lock in moisture, like grape seed, fractionated coconut, apricot, and meadowfoam seed oils. 

MOODEAUX’s scent is unlike anything you have smelled before! This warm mix of floral-citrus-woodsy accords even won the 2022 Melanin Awards for being the best perfume oil. Of course, it is completely free of endocrine disruptors and other harmful chemicals. 

The brand created Black In Fragrance, a movement building an ecosystem of support and help for Black perfumers and black-owned fragrance brands. MOODEAUX also donates 50% of the revenue from each sale of its limited edition merch directly to Black creatives. 

Plus, the company sends its products in biodegradable mailers and allows you to send back your empty travel pens. 

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10. Leahlani

Price: $34-72

Leahlani is a Hawaii-based artisanal skincare brand selling several perfumes, all featuring tropical fragrances that evoke the lush nature of the islands. They are all composed by hand and made in small batches with organic, wildcrafted ingredients. 

The company has two amazing perfume oils: one with notes of exotic vanilla and sweet coconut, and another featuring a feminine floral blend. Both are light and delicate, not overpowering, and they are perfect for everyday use! 

Leahlani also makes two aromatherapy essences that, again, will transport you to a tropical island. With their fruity and floral scents, they can be used as a regular perfume or an aromatherapy treatment to promote grounding feelings of harmony and comfort. 

The brand strives to minimize its environmental footprint, so it has a strict low-waste policy on the boxes and packing materials it receives, and it reuses most of them to ship out wholesale orders. Leahlani also makes sure to ship its products in recyclable packaging, and its headquarters in Kaua’i are 100% solar-powered.

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About the Author:

Eva Astoul is a French freelance writer, specializing in content related to sustainability, simple living, and a growth-focused healthy lifestyle. She runs her own blog, Green With Less, to inspire people to live a more minimalist and sustainable life.

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HIGH-QUALITY, SUSTAINABLE Dining TABLES, coffee tables & more…

Tables are usually some of the most used furniture pieces in our homes. We use dining tables to eat with our friends and family, and some of us even work and study on them. 

Coffee tables are where we put our cup of tea when we are watching TV, where we stack the magazines and books we are currently reading, and where we play board games on weekend nights. 

Many people also have side and end tables on which they display beautiful pictures, lamps, and home decor. 

Tables are truly at the heart of our homes and daily activities! But most of them are made of cheap, unsustainable materials, and they wear down fairly quickly as we use them every single day. 

However, when we need to replace our dearly-loved tables, we can choose to buy more eco-friendly versions that will stand the test of time. 

In this article, we have selected 14 sustainable brands selling all kinds of high-quality, durable tables for your eco-home. Thanks to them, you will be able to enjoy your beautiful tables for many years to come! 

WHAT MAKES A TABLE SUSTAINABLE?

A sustainable table is one made using high-quality, eco-friendly materials as well as natural, non-toxic and zero-VOC finishes. It needs to be built to last for decades and should age beautifully with time.

A sustainable table is also produced using eco-friendly and ethical manufacturing techniques. The brand should have a take-back and repair program to extend the life of its products, and it should be transparent about its whole supply chain. 

WHAT ECO-FRIENDLY MATERIALS SHOULD YOU SEARCH FOR?

Most sustainable tables are made of solid wood since it is a natural and renewable material that is also very durable. 

Recycled or reclaimed wood is the most sustainable option you can find! Using this material to make new products reduces the need to cut down more trees, and it reduces waste as we are giving a new life to existing materials. 

If you cannot find tables made of reclaimed wood, go for FSC-certified wood. The certification means that the wood was responsibly harvested from sustainably managed forests. The brand should also disclose where the wood comes from: the more locally it sources its wood, the better! 

Some eco-friendly tables are also made using recycled aluminum or recycled steel, which are both durable and sustainable materials as well. 

OUR TOP PICKS FOR DURABLE, SUSTAINABLE TABLES:

1. Medley

Categories: 4-10 Person Dining Tables, Side Tables, Coffee Tables

Materials: Wood

Price: $875-5,995

Medley is a sustainable brand that handcrafts wooden furniture using premium materials and old-school techniques. 

The brand’s dining tables can accommodate four to ten people, and they all have a modern, minimalist design.

Medley also sells various styles of coffee and side tables, some of which feature a practical concealed drawer to store magazines and remote controls. 

The company produces all its tables in Los Angeles, California. They are made of solid walnut or maple wood, grown domestically in FSC-certified forests.  

Medley protects its furniture pieces by applying natural beeswax and plant-based polishes. It leaves the wood with a matte finish and a subtle glow that accentuates the beauty of the material.

For every tree Medley uses to create one of its pieces, the company plants three other trees in partnership with the National Forest Foundation. 

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2. Burrow

Categories: Coffee Tables, Side Tables

Materials: Wood, Steel, Marble 

Price: $195-795

Burrow is a New York-based furniture brand ideal for people with a passion for American mid-century modernism and Scandinavian style. The company has 4 collections of side & coffee tables, each of which is simple to set up. 

The Kettle collection features circular, minimalist-looking tables that are available in different colors.

The base of each table is made of spun steel, and for the tabletop, you can choose between solid ash wood and Italian Carrara marble. 

The Carta collection is also worth mentioning: these side and coffee tables have a convenient storage compartment and removable trays that you can use as lap desks on your couch or as serving trays. 

The ash wood Burrow uses for its furniture pieces comes from sustainably managed forests located near its factory in Poland. The brand replants all the trees that are used for its manufacturing process to restore the forests. 

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3. VivaTerra

Categories: 10 Person Dining Tables, Side Tables, Coffee Tables, Café Tables

Materials: Reclaimed Wood, Wood, Steel, Recycled Metal, Seagrass Fibers

Price: $89-5,249

VivaTerra is a sustainable home decor brand selling unique handmade goods for the home and garden.

It has a huge selection of side and coffee tables, as well as a few larger tables. 

The brand’s Provence Farm dining table is meticulously handcrafted from reclaimed 19th-century timber, making us think it is an antique farmhouse table. Ten people can easily seat at this table, perfect for large family gatherings! 

VivaTerra also has a cool café table made using American and French oak wine barrels if you want more unique furniture pieces! The brand’s coffee and side tables are all inspired by the natural world, and some feature cool designs like fun geometric shapes or hand-carved details.

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4. Sabai

Categories: Coffee Table

Materials: Salvaged Wood, Recycled Steel 

Price: $595

Sabai is a sustainable brand with a simple collection of couches, home decor and furniture pieces.

The City table from its Essential collection is a must-have coffee table that will elevate any living room!

The brand used the curved and sleek lines of New York’s urban playground as an inspiration for this beautiful table. Very basic yet elegant, the table can be assembled in minutes thanks to its easy-to-follow instructions. 

Sabai’s City table is available in three different colors and features a powder-coated recycled steel base. Its tabletop is made of ash wood sourced from fallen trees in Baltimore, Maryland. 

The brand is a certified B Corporation that makes to order all its products in a family-owned factory in North Carolina. It sources 90% of its materials within 100 miles of its factory to minimize its environmental footprint.

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5. Savvy Rest

Categories: Coffee Tables 

Materials: Wood

Price: $599-724

Savvy Rest is specialized in the creation of organic mattresses, sofas and bedding.

The brand also sells two rectangular coffee tables, made of sustainably sourced maple wood. 

With their sleek lines, these two coffee tables feature a minimalist, modern design.

One of them comes with an added lower shelf that is ideal for storing magazines or other living room essentials. 

Savvy Rest's coffee tables are available in a variety of zero-VOC finishes, but you can also choose to have them hand-rubbed with linseed oil, or kept in their natural unfinished state. 

The maple wood is verified sustainable by the Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers, and it is durable yet relatively light compared to other types of wood. 

Savvy Rest is a Green America Gold-level certified business and a certified B Corporation. It regularly donates pillows to local domestic violence organizations.

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6. Masaya & Co.

Categories: Side Tables, Coffee Tables, 4-8 Person Dining Tables, Hall Tables

Materials: Wood, Glass, Steel

Price: $235-2,900

Masaya & Co creates handmade furniture pieces integrating classic and contemporary design with traditional artisan production methods. 

Most of the brand’s dining tables can accommodate four to six people, but with the Segovia table, you will be able to have up to 8 people sitting around.

With its geometric design and rounded top, the Chontales dining table even allows you to have heartwarming meals with your loved ones outside!  

Masaya & Co also has various coffee, side and hall tables of different styles and colors. We particularly love the Velero side table, which reminds us of the hull of a sailboat! 

All the brand’s tables are handcrafted in Nicaragua using sustainably sourced teak wood grown on deforested cow pastures.

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7. The Citizenry

Categories: Side Tables, Coffee Tables

Materials: Rattan, Steel, Wood, Palm

Price: $295-1,390

The Citizenry is a one-stop shop for everything sustainable, from eco-friendly furniture to home decor and textiles. 

The brand has different coffee and side tables that are all handcrafted by talented artisans from all over the world. The majority of its tables are made in Indonesia from locally-sourced rattan that is wrapped around a steel frame.

The Citizenry also sells small tables made with natural palm leaves and sustainably harvested teak or cypress wood. All the coffee and side tables are produced in small batches and take up to seven days to be completed. 

The company creates its products with a process audited and guaranteed by the World Fair Trade Organization. The Citizenry also pays its makers twice the fair trade wage requirement, and it reinvests 10% of its proceeds back into the artisan communities.

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8. Avocado

Categories: End Tables, Side Tables, Coffee Tables 

Materials: Wood, Reclaimed Wood 

Price: $329-899

Avocado is a leader in the production of natural, organic mattresses, pillows and bedding. The brand also sells furniture, including several kinds of coffee, side and end tables. All the company’s tables are statement pieces that are thoughtfully designed and beautifully made in Avocado’s FSC-certified woodshop in Los Angeles.

They are made from reclaimed wood, red cedar or upcycled beechwood using non-toxic finishes. 

The tables come with a ten-year warranty, and they are GreenGuard Gold certified, meaning that they meet the most stringent standards for low indoor emissions and health-based criteria. 

Avocado is a certified B Corporation that is also climate-neutral and Fair Trade certified. Plus, it donates 1% of its revenues to nonprofits through 1% For The Planet.

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9. Neighbor

Categories: Coffee Tables, Side Tables, 4-6 Person Dining Tables

Materials: Wood

Price: $450-2,200

Neighbor creates modern outdoor furniture pieces that are all thoughtfully designed, modular and water-resistant. It offers four tables of different shapes, dimensions and colors.

Made for comfortable outdoor dining, the brand’s dining table can seat four or six people.

It features a slatted surface with adjustable levelers on the legs as well as a built-in hole for umbrellas.  

Neighbor also sells a wooden rectangular coffee table with a rugged roped shelf for added storage. Its round side and coffee tables have a hand-poured concrete tabletop and a solid wooden base. 

All the brand’s tables are made of FSC-certified teak wood using extremely durable hardware. Teak wood has great water-repelling properties, making it very resistant to heavy rain and extreme weather.

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10. Emeco

Categories: Bar Tables, 6-Person Dining Tables, Coffee Tables, Side Tables, Café Tables 

Materials: Recycled Aluminum, Wood

Price: $981-6,118

Emeco was founded in 1944 with a mission to create chairs out of salvaged aluminum for the US Navy.

The brand has then continued selling furniture, and as of today, 90% of its products are made from recycled materials.  

Emeco sells a very wide variety of tables, from bar tables to dining tables. Made in the USA, each table has an extremely simple, geometric design, but they are all created with functionality in mind. 

You can choose between many shapes, heights and tabletop sizes. Some tables are even created for outdoor use, which is perfect if you are looking for a small table for a balcony!

All Emeco’s tables are made from recycled aluminum, the brand’s signature material. Some tabletops are also made of locally and sustainably harvested walnut or ash wood.

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11. Mater

Categories: Side Tables, Coffee Tables, 2-8 Person Dining Tables

Materials: Wood, Steel, Coffee Waste, Wood Waste, Upcycled Plastic Waste

Price: $405-3,397

Mater is a Danish brand selling furniture, lighting and other home goods with a focus on design, functionality and sustainability. It has a great selection of coffee tables, side tables and dining tables of various shapes and sizes. 

Mater’s Accent oval dining tables are available in three different sizes. They combine a sculptural and handcrafted aesthetic, and they are made of solid FSC-certified oak. The brand also offers two rectangular dining tables that can be used as desks or meeting tables. 

For your living room, you can choose one of Mater’s round side tables or coffee tables. Their sustainably harvested mango wood is incredibly beautiful! But for a more unique version, Mater makes three models using upcycled coffee, wood and plastic waste!

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12. Skagerak

Categories: 4-8 Person Dining Table, Office Tables, Side Tables 

Materials: Wood

Price: $325-5,579

Founded in 1976, Skagerak is a Danish brand creating high-quality indoor and outdoor furniture designed to last for generations.

It offers many round and rectangular dining tables that can seat four to eight people. Skagerak has several side tables that are extremely versatile as they can also be used as bedside tables or stools, and they are very easy to integrate into most home decors. 

Another multipurpose furniture piece is the brand’s two-legged console table. Fitted against the wall, it can serve as a make-up vanity in the bedroom, a welcoming station in the entryway, or even as a TV stand in the living room. 

Skagerak’s tables are made of FSC-certified oak wood, and the brand is very transparent regarding where its materials come from and where the products are made. 

The company is a certified B Corporation and a member of the UN Global Compact Act.

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13. Inside Weather

Categories: 4-6 Person Dining Tables, Coffee Tables, Side Tables, Kitchen Tables 

Materials: Wood, Plywood, Steel

Price: $169-900

Inside Weather is a sustainable brand making custom furniture at affordable prices. It has a great selection of dining tables, coffee tables and side tables, all made with high-quality materials in California. 

The company’s dining tables can accommodate up to six people, and they are made of FSC-certified plywood.

Its Vienna tables even feature an optional built-in power unit that is tucked away under a slidable surface lid. Perfect if you want your table to double as a workspace! 

Inside Weather’s coffee and side tables are also made to be beautiful and highly functional at the same time. Each piece is hand-sanded and made-to-order, and you can customize it according to your preferences. 

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14. From The Source

Categories: End/Side Tables, Coffee Tables, 2-10 Person Dining Tables, Console Tables 

Materials: Salvaged Wood, Wood, Steel, Iron

Price: $215-6,255

From The Source makes sustainably sourced hardwood furniture & accessories for the home using eco-friendly, reused & repurposed materials. 

The company offers a wide array of tables of all kinds, shapes and heights.

You can find small dining tables ideal for two people, but if you have a big family, From The Source has larger models that can accommodate eight to ten people. 

The brand also has various styles of coffee and side tables. You will especially fall in love with its Cumi side tables, which feature unique shapes and look like they have animalistic personalities. They are made from salvaged tree trunks and roots, making them one-of-a-kind pieces. 

From The Source also has different outdoor models and two console tables. The brand makes its tables using solid hardwood from different trees, including teak and mango trees. 

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Eva Astoul is a French freelance writer, specializing in content related to sustainability, simple living, and a growth-focused healthy lifestyle. She runs her own blog, Green With Less, to inspire people to live a more minimalist and sustainable life.

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sustainable brands that tweens Will love

During my time working in tween retailing, I gained valuable insight into the often-overlooked world of tween fashion. While children’s clothing brands typically cater to sizes up to 12/14, tweens inhabit a unique space of their own. They're not quite children, yet not fully teens who are ready to transition to adult brands. What’s more, it's challenging to find sustainable clothing brands that offer sizes for tweens, as many stop at size 10. It's been a personal mission of mine to discover and curate a list of sustainable brands that cater to this age group, leveraging my expertise in tween fashion to make shopping an exciting experience for tweens.

What is a tween?

Tweens, typically aged 9-12, represent a unique demographic in the fashion world. Traditional fashion brands like Justices, Abercrombie Kids, and others cater to this age group, but there is a rising interest in sustainable alternatives to these brands.

What do tweens look for when choosing clothes or fashion?

Tweens tend to have stronger preferences when it comes to fashion compared to younger children. They are beginning to develop their own sense of style and are eager to convey their individuality through their clothing choices. While they desire to move away from shopping at children's stores, they often find themselves in between sizes, not quite fitting into adult sizes yet. Many of us can likely relate to this experience of wanting to transition from kids' clothing to something more mature during our tween years.

Does tween fashion fall under children’s brands? Or do they have unique fashion brands for their age group?

Many fast fashion brands have carved out their own niche in the industry. If you're in your 30s, you may have fond memories of shopping at Limited Too, which is now known as Justice. These brands primarily offer clothing in children's sizes but target the tween and young teen demographic. Sustainable fashion is gaining traction in the industry, but there isn't yet a dedicated brand for this age group. However, there are several children’s brands that offer sizes suitable for tweens and feature fun and expressive designs that cater to their tastes. Without further ado, let's delve into our top recommendations for the tweens in your life!

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Our top pics for tween sustainable fashion brands:

1. Mightly

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Mightly offers a range of Fair Trade certified clothing, including tees, leggings, dresses, hoodies, and pajamas. These items are sourced from India and are made from GOTS organic cotton, using non-toxic, tween-safe dyes. Many of their designs are gender-neutral, which were created by Lili Arnold, an artist and designer from Santa Cruz, California. The brand's carefree spirit and fun prints make it a great choice for tweens looking to express themselves through their clothing.

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2. Hanna Andersson

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If your tween loves Disney, prints, and colors, Hanna Andersson may be their new favorite clothing brand! Started in Portland back in 1983, Hanna Andersson was perhaps the first sustainability-focused kids’ brand. Made from natural materials like organic cotton (note: not all their clothing is made with organic cotton), their clothing is made to wear and wash over and over then handed down. They even have swimwear and accessories; plus, a secondhand shop to shop even more sustainably.

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3. Infantium Victoria

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Infantium Victoria is a one-of-a-kind and exquisite brand designed specifically for tweens. Julia Gaydina and Dinie van den Heuvel established the brand in 2014. Their focus is on creating high-end organic and vegan fashion for children up to size 16, drawing inspiration from romance and nostalgia. Every garment is produced ethically, utilizing only organic materials and following sustainable sourcing, production, and distribution practices. As a tween, I would have adored this brand for its commitment to style and sustainability.

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4. Jackalo

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This brand is committed to creating clothing that encourages play and is always mindful of its environmental footprint. Recently, a contributor highlighted the advantages of circular fashion, and this brand is a shining example of this concept. They actively recycle all leftover fabric from their production process, promote a culture of repairing and reusing, and even provide discounts on future purchases to customers who return their used Jackalo™ products for repair or upcycling. It's a great model for other brands to emulate!

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5. Primary

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If your tween loves color, Primary will be your new favorite! The creators of this brand were tired of the common gender stereotypes in clothing - pink for girls, blue for boys and the need to spend a fortune for quality. They also didn't like slogans on everything, dictating who kids are and what they should be. So, they created a brand where colors aren’t associated with gender, and there are no labels or slogans. The clothes are made from soft and sustainable fabrics, and they provide great customer service!

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Plant-Based Packaging

Supporting your lifestyle with sustainable goods feels great until they arrive in traditional packaging. Even if your purchases don’t harm the earth, cardboard and plastic do. It’s one of the reasons why many companies are moving toward plant-based packaging. Check out the sustainability benefits of eco-friendly shipping materials to better picture the future of green shopping.

What Are Eco-Friendly Packaging Solutions?

Eco-friendly packaging solutions are shipment materials that don’t produce environmental waste during manufacturing or after arriving at consumers’ doorsteps. Enough global companies use them that the eco-friendly packaging industry is worth $292.71 billion and will continue to grow through 2029. As long as consumers can place orders online or in stores, packaging materials will be necessary for every business sector.

Do Consumers Want This Packaging Alternative?

Companies may switch to plant-based packaging for various business reasons, but consumer demand is among the most crucial. Experts estimate that 60%-70% of consumers will pay more for green shipping materials. They may opt for green, eco-friendly packaging due to their sustainable lifestyles or general concern for the planet’s well-being.

How Does Traditional Packaging Hurt the Planet?

Traditional packaging includes materials like plastic and styrofoam. Those solutions aren’t biodegradable, so they pollute landfills and break down into chemicals that harm ecosystems. Given that around 11 billion tons of goods are moved across the world by ships annually, non-biodegradable materials are used extensively. Eco-friendly packaging solutions would remove a large amount of waste from landfills and places where those materials become litter, like the oceans.

Different Kinds of Plant-Based Packaging

Anyone interested in eco-friendly shipping materials should learn about plant-based options. They might become available from your preferred manufacturers or restaurants, giving you more opportunities to live a greener lifestyle.

1. Paper and Corn Starch Liners

When you order food to-go, it likely comes in a small plastic container. Restaurant owners prefer these containers to cardboard because they’re nearly leak-proof. The delicious contents won’t soak the material and render it soggy. That’s been the primary challenge of swapping them with cardboard alternatives, but now there are special liners to reduce obstacles.

Manufacturers making restaurant delivery supplies produce containers featuring liners made with 90% renewable materials drawn from corn starch and paper. They withstand liquids well and even provide moderate temperature regulation when the lining is thick. It could help more restaurants replace polystyrene — also known as styrofoam — with these sustainable liners.

2. Dissolvable Packing Peanuts

You’ve likely made at least one purchase that arrived in a box of packing peanuts. The styrofoam pieces absorb shock and cushion fragile goods, but they also don’t break down when you throw them away. Even worse, they’re the perfect size for animals to confuse with edible food.

Manufacturers can create the same type of insular packaging with packing peanuts made from natural starches. They’re so easy to produce that grade school classrooms often make them for science experiments demonstrating the life span of eco-friendly shipping materials. 

If you were to receive a box of these peanuts, you could toss all of them into a bowl of water. The water would instantly break down the primary starch ingredient, liquifying your packing peanuts into their biodegradable starch compounds. It’s a significantly greener alternative to petroleum-based styrofoam products.

3. Plantable Boxes

If the idea of washable paper made with cellulose fiber blew your mind, you’re going to love plantable boxes. They’re green packaging that naturally breaks down, like starch-based cardboard or paper. After you retrieve your order, you can bury your packaging in your yard. Instead of remaining in a landfill forever, it would decompose until the seeds hidden inside could form roots in your soil.

This alternative to traditional shipping materials restores ecosystems with specific seeds, like flowers for pollinators. If you choose a company that ships things featuring seeds native to your hometown, your purchase would be twice as green. You’d add plants to your local environment that insects and animals would instantly recognize, rather than a new plant or a potentially invasive species.

4. Bioplastics

You might try to make your lifestyle greener by recycling any plastics you buy. While that helps the environment, you can go even further. Companies are making so much bioplastic packaging that the industry will produce 7.4 million metric tons of it annually by 2028.

Bioplastic is a material made with biobased polymers that microorganisms break down through digestion. They don’t leave any waste behind after entering a processing unit, like a composter or anaerobic digestion equipment. Feeding them contributes to the nutrient profile of the soil around them as well, fueling the environment instead of polluting it.

This revolutionary plant-based packaging can ship everything from pharmaceuticals to consumer goods, so keep an eye out for this green shipping option when you make future purchases.

5. Bagasse Materials

Although you might not have heard about bagasse before, you’ve likely enjoyed the sugary products related to it. When sugar cane manufacturers process their harvests, the sugar cane leaves behind a natural waste called bagasse. Researchers started studying this fibrous waste for its potential in shipping materials. It’s an ongoing form of waste that will exist as long as people eat sugar cane products, which aren’t going away anytime soon.

Bagasse pyrolysis economically benefits its production regions while utilizing an unlimited natural resource. When processed into a solid material, it easily replaces cardboard as a sturdy shipping option. It could reduce the level of deforestation currently contributing to cardboard production, so companies are jumping on board.

6. Mycelium Containers

Mushrooms aren’t just delicious ingredients that eliminate free radicals in your body after you eat them. They’re also another tool in the green packaging world. It all comes down to their roots.

When mushroom spores start growing in the woods, they form intricate root systems. Experts call the entirety of the root system a mycelium, which contains many thin hyphae strands that send nutrients to the mushroom.

Mycelium systems utilize tough natural fibers. They’re perfect eco-friendly packaging solutions because they’re easy to replicate without removal from the natural environment. When fortified for packaging purposes, mycelium containers ship products safely and biodegrade in compost bins. This material is so reliable that people are even combining it with wood to make greener houses made of mushroom roots.

7. Pulp-Based Packaging

Many people think of fruits like oranges when they hear about pulp. Sustainably-minded consumers imagine the boxes their next online order will arrive in. Pulp is one of the leading ways companies ship their products, but it doesn’t come from fruit.

Instead, manufacturers partner with recycling companies to purchase their paper goods. Consumers drop off widely used materials like office paper, toilet paper, newspaper and cardboard at their local recycling facilities. Those facilities ship them to manufacturing partners who process them into pulp.

The resulting waste paper products can become new paper or cardboard. Eco-centric companies might use pulp-based packaging to contain their goods and paper using the same material to print the receipts in each shipment. When you finish using this material, recycle it just like other paper products to restart its evergreen life cycle.

8. Seaweed Plastic

Seaweed can do so much more than hold your favorite sushi ingredients. It’s one of the next materials that could replace plastic. Students in Australia turned seaweed into edible water bubbles, eliminating the need for plastic bottles. They also found that it was a stable replacement for other plastic products like disposable gloves and laminating pockets.

Researchers in Australia even found ways to make seaweed into grease-resistant paper, like the paper wrapping your burger when you get fast food. The revolutionary material would continue supporting consumer needs while transferring the world to biodegradable alternatives. 

9. Bamboo Packaging

Bamboo is a great material for tasks like cutting boards and flooring. Although it grows in lush forests, experts consider it a sustainable material because it grows much faster than trees. It’s an excellent option for sustainable packaging, so it’s already replacing materials like plastic.

Manufacturers can remove the fiber composites within the bamboo to create the foundation for their shipping materials. They combine it with polymer to reinforce the material and make packaging with much less polymer than before. Not all polymers are plastics, so it’s an excellent way to make a greener alternative for supplies like food packaging.

10. Coconut Husks

People around the world already harvest coconuts for various food products. It’s a delicious fruit that’s also a promising source of plant-based packaging. When manufacturers keep the husks discarded by larger food producers, they break down the coir fibers that make up most of the brown husks.

The organic fiber is strong and doesn’t absorb water very easily. Due to these benefits, it could become a more widely used ingredient in eco-friendly packaging for food products. If more manufacturers partner with companies already processing coconuts, they would reuse a consistent form of waste that would otherwise get thrown in garbage dumpsters.

Embrace New Eco-Friendly Packaging Solutions

Eco-friendly packaging solutions offer numerous sustainability benefits. Creative materials reduce the use of limited natural resources, minimize waste and innovate alternative ways to use packaging waste once you finish using it. The next time you make a purchase, see which options are available with your preferred retailers or restaurants.

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About the Author

Mia Barnes is a health and beauty writer with a passion for sustainable living and wellness. Mia is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Body+Mind Magazine, an online publication that covers healthy and eco-friendly living. Follow Mia and Body+Mind on Twitter and LinkedIn! 

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