Waste-Free Lunch Gift Ideas With A 15% CouponKids and their parents are becoming more aware of the amount of waste produced via school lunches. My daughters’ school has set up recycling bins in the cafeteria for water bottles. There are even Terracycle bins accessible so the children can keep chip bags, cookie wrappers and juice pouches out of the landfills. A big challenge with many school’s are the polystyrene lunch trays. They are damaging to the Earth since they are made from oil, and when they are thrown away, they usually end up in landfills. Some schools may recycle these trays, but then they are made into other products that end up getting tossed into landfills anyway. Let’s think about the amount of school children who bring their lunches to school. The magnitude of waste can be staggering. According to Kids Konserve, an informational website dedicated to waste-free lunch kits and other reusable products: • Children’s lunches create 3.5 billion pounds of garbage each year Below is an impressive list from KidsKonserve containing useful and eco-friendly gifts for those lunch toting children (and adults, too!). Be sure to visit their site as it is filled with other reusable products to purchase, educational facts about plastics , and contests for kids. For our special Earth Promise readers, Kids Konserve has set up a 15% coupon code “promise” valid until 12/31/09.
Put meaning in the greening this holiday season. Want to make this a truly eco-friendly holiday for your family and friends? Our Kids Konserve’s gift guide features the season’s best non-toxic and sustainable gifts. Whether you are the green guru of the house, or you’re struggling to find a gift for one, you’ll find selections that you can be proud to give. Hostess & Teacher Gifts: Thinking about what to give to the hostess of the party, your child’s teacher, hairdresser, neighbor gift, what to bring to the cookie/gift exchange…. Tired of giving out candles? Here are some great ideas hanging from the tree (below) at great prices. As seen in Entrepreneur Magazine: The Greening of Lunch/Greening of Holidays
The Kids Konserve 2009 Gift Guide – 12 Earth Friendly Holiday Solutions 2. Reusable Party Pak for the Classroom. Take the trash out of the bash! 3. Nesting Trio Leak-Proof Stainless Steel Containers, all the right sizes 4. Cotton Napkins – Save a tree and use these at your family dinners. Pick
5. Food Kozies - The reusable wrap for homemade cookies, peanut brittle, 6. Waste-Free Lunch Kits – Give a Kid a Kit (choose your style, pattern, or 7. Bottles – No Liners! Non-Toxic Stainless Steel bottles. One for everyone in the 8. Minis – From nuts to jelly beans, you can always find something to put in these! 9. Drawstring bags – Great gift wrap, for a bottle of wine or on the go snacks, or
10. Snack Paks - Perfect for light lunches and on the go snacks. 11. Green Cleaning – Greenwood Naturals! Biodegradable and Non-Toxic! 12. 12 oz. Insulated Thermos - Going beyond the Sandwich! Endless options!
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