Sustainable Kitchen Products

• Preserve Bowls
• Preserve Colanders
• Preserve Dry Measuring Cups
• Preserve Cutting Boards
• Native Organic Tablecloths
• Native Organic Aprons
• Native Organic Dishtowels
• Native Organic Napkins
• Anchor Hocking Storage Bowls
• Anchor Hocking Glass Measuring Cup
• Anchor Hocking Glass Pie Plates
• Lodge Cast Iron Skillets
• Reusable Net Produce Bags
• Reusable Muslin Produce Bags
• Natural Value Waxed Paper Products
• BioCare Flour and Pantry Moth Trap
• BioCare Kitchen Fruit FlyTrap



• Hemp Coffee Filters
• Hemp Tea Filters
• Coffee Sock Coffee Filters
• Coffee Sock Tea Filters
• Plastic Bag Dryers
• Wrap-N-Matt Reusable Sandwich Bags
• BioBag Tall Kitchen Bags
• To-Go-Ware Stacking Containers and Carrier
• To-Go-Ware Utensil Set
• Howard Naturals Butcher Block Conditioner

Sustainable Cleaning Products

• Twist Sponges
• Attitude Bathroom Mold and Mildew Cleaner
• Earthworm Family Safe Drain Cleaner
• Dr. Bronner’s Sal Suds
• Bon Ami Polishing Cleanser
• Ecover Stain Remover
• Ecover Limescale Remover
• Ecover Cream Scrub

Sustainable Car Cleaning Products

• Ecover Car Glass & Interior Cleaner
• Ecover Car Wax and Wash

Other Sustainable Household Products

• Hemp Twine
• Wood Clothes Drying Racks
• Hanset Brothers Broomcorn Brooms

 

Wisdom of Wool Organic Bedding

*Wool filled organic cotton

*Comforters and Pillows (light, all seasons, heavy)

*Mattress Pads and Crib Pads

Why buy sustainable non-toxic products for your home?

The One Stop Sustainability Shop (TOSSS) sells a variety of household goods which will help you achieve, not only a more sustainable live style, but also a healthier life for you and your family. In choosing products that would be the most sustainable, TOSSS looked at 5 things:

• what ingredients are in the product
• how the product is made
• where the product is made
• the company making the products
• what happens at the end of the product’s life

Ingredients making up everyday US household cleaners are particularly problematic. A reasonable person would assume that the US government wouldn’t allow products to be sold that are dangerous to human (and animal) health and that manufacturers would have to prove their products are safe before they can be put on the market. Sadly, this is not the case. Any product can go on the market until it’s proven not to be safe. From a recent research project by the Washington Toxics Coalition:

“The United States operates under a toxics law that allows manufacturers to continue using chemicals with known hazards. The Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA), meant to keep chemicals that can harm our health out of the products we buy, has failed to in its mission. Since its 1976 passage, it has resulted in testing of only 200 chemicals out of 80,000 believed in current production.”

Sloan Barnett in her 2008 book, Green Goes With Everything, p. 31, writes:

“The government only requires companies to list “chemicals of known concern” on their labels. The key word here is ‘known.’ The fact is the government has no idea whether most of the chemicals used in everyday cleaning products are safe because it doesn’t test them, and it doesn’t require manufacturers to test them either. Actually, under the terms of the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which administers the act, can’t require chemical companies to prove the safety of their products unless the agency itself can show the product poses a health risk.”

How a product is made helps determine how sustainable it is, in other words, does the manufacturing process use excessive water or energy, pollute the air or water or in any way cause environmental degradation?

To learn more about toxins in household products and how they affect us go to:

http://www.watoxics.org/chemicals-of-concern