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Eco Home Gear LLC Report Card
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Description:
Eco Home Gear strives to offer high quality, sustainable products that minimize their impact on the planet. We feel that environmental education is key for consumers to make the right purchasing decisions. Our fashionable and functional environmentally responsible products attempt to meet as many of following criteria as possible:
* Made from recycled, reclaimed or organically grown material
* Manufactured using natural resource saving methods
* Conserves natural resource when used
* Locally produced
* Small scale business, co-op or fair-trade
* Ecologically packaged
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| | Above & Beyond:
* We package our products in reused or recycled boxes and packaging materials
* Our website is hosted by ThinkHost, which runs on 100% renewable energy (solar and wind)
* Our long distance phone service is operated by EarthTones who gives 100% of their profits to grassroots environmental organizations.
* Our faxes arrive via email to conserve paper
* Products are stored on shelves made from reclaimed wood from Ecowood
* Our office is painted with BioShield natural paints and carpeted with environmentally friendly wool, organic cotton, and jute from Nature's Carpet
* Our bathroom is renovated with Oceanside recycled glass tile, Crossville Eco-Cycle tile, Richlite countertops and thresholds, Toto dual flush toilets, and Auro natural paints.
* Our office is lit naturally and via compact fluorescent bulbs
* We purchase our electricity from the GreenCurrents renewable energy program
* Local business travel is via a diesel car and utilizes Biodiesel when available
* All land and air travel is offset by CO2 credits from Terrapass
* Marketing material is printed on 100% recycled paper and with eco-inks
* Invoices are printed on 100% recycled paper (still looking for eco-print cartridges)
Eco Home Gear supports the following organizations:
* Clinton River Watershed Council
* Michigan Environmental Council
* Ecology Center in southeast Michigan
* Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association
* Environment Michigan
* Union for Concerned Scientists
* National Resource Defense Council
* Affirmations
* National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation
| | Did You Know:
Do you wonder what happens to those plastic water and pop bottles (PETE #1 plastic) you throw into your recycling bin? Some bottles are separated by color, cleaned, shredded and melted into a liquid. This liquid is extruded into thin, strong strands, which are woven into fabric. One Reware Juice Bag removes 8 two-liter bottles from the waste stream. |
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