Sustainable gift guide
- twilli47
- Dec 14, 2020
- 2 min read
During a time when excess is the norm, here are some gift ideas to promote sustainability and lessen your footprint this holiday season.
BlueLand Essentials Kit
These are natural, yet effective cleaning products that are aesthetically pleasing and smell great. How it works: order their starter pack which comes with three bottles (bathroom, glass and mirror and multi-surface), a foaming hand soap dispenser, and dissolvable tablets, and all you do is mix the tablets in the bottles with water. If you sign up for the subscription, they'll continue to mail you tablets in small, compostable paper packets that cost only $2 or less per refill. It saves me money, creates extra space in my pantry and the products have a pleasant, mild smell (conventional cleaning products give me terrible headaches and nausea). I can't say enough good things about this company.
This is my personal choice for a reusable water bottle. Plastic water bottles are so 2005! Using a Hydroflask or Swell can save you so much money and effort and save you from being exposed to the toxic chemicals, carcinogens and endocrine disruptors in plastic. Single use plastic water bottles are highly resource-intensive: they use about 3x as much water as what's inside of the bottle and the equivalent of 1/4 of the bottle in oil--ew!
Bamboo fabric is super breathable, soft and naturally hypoallergenic and antibacterial so it makes for great pajamas and bedding. It's also very eco-friendly--it uses 500x less water and 52% less CO2 compared to cotton! These sheets by Ettitude are made of 100% organic bamboo.
I recently got this countertop composting bin to put my food scraps in throughout the week (avocado pits and coffee grinds/filters included). Once or twice a week, I dump it in a Santa Monica green composting bin on the street. This is a public composting program specific to Santa Monica (see here for details). Other counties and cities in California also have their own composting programs. The benefits of composting include reducing methane emissions from landfills (a greenhouse gas that warms our climate 30x more than CO2!) and enriching the soil that we use to grow crops to keep it from getting depleted of nutrients.
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