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Eco-friendly products
We put together this list of eco friendly products to show you just how easy it can be to replace some of the plastic products you buy and support those making products out of recycled plastic. By replacing them, you can virtually eliminate your single use plastic waste in that area. By purchasing recycled plastic products you are helping to close the loop of the circular economy.
One of the best ways to fight plastic pollution is to live by example and ensure the products you buy are produced with both ethics and the environment in mind.
Also, don’t forget to share the journey with your friends and family. The more friends you convince, the more people you share articles like this one with, the more people will begin using environmentally friendly products in their everyday lives, and that is how we change the world.
Scroll down to see where you can make some simple changes with eco friendly products that can have big impacts on your environmental footprint.
Or use the links below to navigate to a specific section:
- Zero Waste Shopping Gear
- Ethical Personal Accessories
- Planet Friendly Pet Accessories
- Reusable Beverage Containers and Accessories
- Low Impact Picnic, Camping and Travel Products
- Eco Friendly Home Items
- Sustainable Clothing and Shoes
Zero Waste Shopping Gear
Many people don’t realise how much plastic is wasted when they go shopping. Thankfully, there are eco friendly products that can quickly reduce or eliminate your plastic shopping plastic waste.
Here at Onya, all our reusable bags are made using rPET material which is a fabric made from recycled BPA free plastic drink bottles. In addition, all Onya reusable products are recyclable at the end of their life cycle.
1. Reusable Bread Bag
Carry your bread home in style without any packaging waste. The Onya Reusable Bread Bag is made from up to 10x recycled plastic drink bottles and is designed to replace single use paper or plastic bread bags, plastic toggles and ties.
Perfect for the home baker too. Bread stored in one of our bread bags can last up to 3 months in a frost free freezer and will not sustain freezer burn due to the unique double lining and airtight roll and lock closure.
Check Out Our Reusable Bread Bag
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Our award winning Reusable Produce Bags are one of our most popular products here at Onya.
Instead of using the produce bags from the grocery store and throwing them out when your food is brought home, you can use the Onya reusable produce bags and never tear off and throw away a plastic produce bag again.
They also let water and air through, so you can wash your fruits and veggies within the bags when you get home.
Check Out Our Award Winning Reusable Produce Bags
3. Reusable Bulk Food Bags
The Reusable Bulk Food Bags from Onya were designed to help people easily and conveniently transport their bulk food purchases home. The bags have been designed as a lightweight top up tool to replace the need for carrying heavy jars and canisters when doing your shopping.
Our bulk food bag set includes a large, medium and small bulk food bag along with our specially designed bulk food shopping tote and carrying case. Each size bag and the tote are also available individually so you can customise to your needs.
Check Out Our Reusable Bulk Food Bag Range
4. Reusable Shopping Bags
Plastic shopping bags from the grocery store (or any retail store) produce even more waste than single use plastic produce bags.
The Onya Reusable Shopping Bag scrunches down into an attached pouch so you always have it On Ya to carry your groceries and other items, eliminating your plastic waste from shopping bags every time you shop.
Check Out Our Reusable Shopping Bags
Ethical Personal Accessories
Many personal accessories are made using virgin materials. Luckily there are plenty of eco friendly products available that are both stylish and sustainable alternatives.
5. Recycled Ocean Plastic Eyewear
Sea2see collects ocean plastic waste, nets, and ropes in coordination with fishing communities in Spain to create their Italian designed eyewear. Collecting an average of one tonne of plastic waste every second day, selected plastic waste is used as the raw material for their eyeglasses with the remaining waste sold off to other companies for use in different processes.
Check Out Sea2see’s Sustainable Eyewear Collection
6. Side Bag Made From Recyled Plastic Drink Bottles
Lightweight and super-tough, the durable Onya Side Bag is ethically made using rPET material which is a fabric made from recycled plastic drink bottles. It makes for a perfect day bag which stuffs down into a fist-sized carry pouch so you can take it with you anywhere, anytime.
Check Out Our Recyled Plastic Side Bags
7. Repurposed Billboard Vinyl Wallet
Over 600,000 tonnes of non-recyclable vinyl from billboard banners alone finds its way to landfills each year. RAREFORM took note and rescues this durable material to create one of a kind wallets and other products, including bike bags, iPhone cases and more.
Over the past seven years they’ve repurposed over 1360 tonnes of vinyl that was destined for landfills simply by turning it into unique, durable bags.
Check Out RAREFORM’s Repurposed Billboard Vinyl Product Line
8. Recycled Plastic Backpack
The stylish Onya range of Backpacks are also made from rPET (Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate)- the material created when single use plastic drink bottles are recycled into a fabric.
Each of our lightweight backpacks scrunches down into an attached keyring size carry pouch, making them great for traveling.
Check Out Our rPET Backpacks
9. Eco Friendly Phone Cases
There are now more mobile devices than there are people on earth. That’s a staggering amount of plastic phone accessories (and packaging) being consumed and disposed of at an alarming rate. From manufacturing to packaging, Pela hopes to displace waste and pollution in the tech accessory market with their 100% compostable sustainable bioplastic iPhone and Andriod phone cases. .
10. Recycled Plastic Belts
Functional and socially impactful.
Jelt belts are made from recycled plastic bottles. Even better, Jelt was established as a cause-driven business, with the purpose of creating a product that everyone would need, while promoting and encouraging objectives that serve the common good.
Check Out the Jelt collection of recycled belts
11. World Wildlife Fund rPET Umbrella
An umbrella that’s stylish, hardy and eco friendly. The fabulous folding umbrellas from WWF are ethically produced with material made from 100% recycled post consumer water bottles and is both soft and durable.
You can choose from beautiful oceans, fantastic forests or WWF’s iconic panda design. Each umbrella is made from 5.2 recycled plastic bottles.
Check Out WWF’s rPET Umbrellas
12. Upcycled Eco Friendly Handbags
Mother Erth weaves eco conscious fashion and women’s empowerment together by repurposing factory-reject plastic headed for the landfill into eco-friendly products.
These handmade bags and accessories are woven from discarded plastic laminated foil that was rejected due to printing defects. Instead of ending up in landfills or reaching waterways, Mother Erth intercepts it and prepares it for new life in the form of unique and colorful handbags, clutches and more.