Making new innovative green products by recycling and reusing has become a fast-catching trend today. From green jewelery to green coffins – a lot of weird and bizarre Eco-friendly products are fast catching on with the current green trend. Here are ten such weird and bizarre Eco-friendly products given below.
1. Green Coffins for an Eco-friendly Burial
Ecoffins, a Colorado-based company in the United States manufactures and sells Eco-friendly caskets made out of pandanus or bamboo and banana sheaves that decompose along with the body. The Ecoffins that anything between 6 months to 2 years to decompose and biodegrade completely. These green coffins are quite in demand and have done a business worth 40 thousand dollars during the previous year and are interesting Muslim and Jewish communities as well.
2. Green Remote Control
A competition was launched by Sony in which the company challenge Chinese Industrial Design students to design and produce an Eco-friendly device. A participant from the Dong Hwa University devised an ingenious device called the Sony Conductor TV Remote. This wand-shaped remote control is operated by swaying it sideways and a green LED light is illuminated which indicates the power level of the remote control. Fluid movements with the wand-like remote control can change the volume and channels of your TV.
3. Green Pet Furs
This bizarre Eco-friendly creation is made out of pet fur – which is a very innovative way to use the fur shaving of your pet animal just like sheep’s wool, rather than throwing it away. This idea was practically put to use by a lade called Danelle German who works as a professional cat groomer and is based in South Carolina. Her business – Catty Shack Creations – reuses cat fur which is spun into yarn and then converted into handbags. The fur is collected over the time, when pet owners get their pets shaved.
4. Green Moss Carpet
Now you can have grass growing in your bathroom’s with the advent of the Moss Carpet by Nguyen Le Chanh. You would not have to find the nearest park or green space available to have a barefooted walk on the grass to improve your blood circulation. The moss in the mat are apt for the humid bathroom conditions as they thrive in the humidity.
5. Green Umbrella
This amazing umbrella begs to differ from the conventional types as it only has a skeleton which is collapsible with no surface. Now you are free to place anything from plastic bags to newspapers to save yourself from the rain!
6. Green Edible Shoe Cream
This Eco-friendly shoe cream that can be eaten sounds pretty weird and is the creation of Greenfibes. This amazing shoe cream can also be used as a lip balm or even for spreading on your toast.
7. Green Clothing for Babies
‘If you have to start something then start it young’ stands true in the case of replacing regular clothing with green clothing for babies. You precious one can sport tees that send across an important message like – Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute – which would probably make a lot many turn around and take notice.
8. A Green Pollution-sensitive Dress
The EPA Dress designed by Stephanie Sanstrom is actually pollution-sensitive that can figure out the amount of pollution in the air causing the dress to wrinkle. The dress has a very pretty appearance, however, if you walk in polluted air, then it ends up looking extremely dirty indicating the extent of air pollution.
9. Green Car Racer
The Eco One is an Eco-friendly car racer that is made out of plants only and has been designed by Dr Kerry Kirwan who is a researcher working at the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) and has been built by Ben Wood, a student at the university who spent over 2 months and approximately 20 thousand pounds to build this green machines. Through the Eco One, you can see that latest technology merged with an Eco-friendly structure lead to high performance. The car is 95% recyclable or biodegradable.
10. Green Earrings
These pair of Eco-friendly earrings are from Kitten Lab are a great fashion accessory that are hand made by using typewriter balls from the erstwhile IBM Selectric typewriter’s balls. These plastic typewriter balls would also be light on your ears and would look trendy as well. Apart from the fashionable look, you would indirectly be reducing landfills and saving further harm to the environment as well!
