Doing Our Part

One of the root causes of our environmental problems is hyper consumption. We simply buy too much of what we don’t need and often even what we don’t really want. In fact, the average American buys 53 as many products as someone in China and one American’s consumption of resources is equivalent to that of 35 Indians.  Over a lifetime, the typical American will create 13 times as much environmental damage as the average Brazilian (Sierra Club via CNN).

Here at ccino, we do our part in helping our good mother earth: We offer a variety of Eco-friendly furniture lines and products, as well as print all of our receipts on recycled paper.  In addition to recycling our glass bottles, cans, and paper at the local HyVee, our bags (shown above) are also made of recycled paper.

Plastic bags in general take anywhere from 20 to 1,000 years to breakdown in the environment. This is a very long period of time; however, eventually they would breakdown and disappear. Once in a landfill though, they never breakdown.

This picture just breaks my heart!

Speaking of bags, check out these cool bags—made of recycled cotton from  etsy.com

Pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaasssse take the extra time to invest in a few good cloth bags and take them anytime you go shopping. If EVERY person did this simple conversion, think of the waste we could save on!!

Besides, isn’t this much more stylish? (found at www.haleytrikes.com)

-Ginger