Recycled Silver Earrings
It’s one thing to recycle, and another to do it consciously, and another to be in business with an emphasis on good recycling. Meet Jodi Chapman, proprietor of This Is It! Creations, located in Jacksonville, Oregon. Love the slogan: Eco gifts that inspire.
Jodi’s jewelry is made with 100% recycled sterling silver. She buys silver from a mill in the USA that never mines. Instead, it’s bought as scrap, ‒ or purchased from a conscientious refinery. Extra measures, such as wrapping each hand-formed earring in a biodegradable sleeve on a 100% recycled printed card, proves no green-wash BS to me. Get my drift?
Greeting Card
The greeting cards and gift tags are created from 100% recycled post-consumer content cardstock. Ditto on the spiral-bound journals with chipboard. The hardcover journals are made from 100% recycled matboard and tree-free lokta paper.
What’s lokta paper? Well, it comes from the inner bark of the lokta bush, which grows in the mountains of Nepal. Its popularity is expanding as ones of the most exquisite and versatile papers on the planet. No chemicals are used in the manufacturing process–it’s all handmade and acid-free. Believe it or not, lokta is laser printer compatible on the smooth side. Much like sugar cane, it regenerates within a few years after being cut.
Jodi uses mulberry paper for her journal covers. Her mulberry paper is handmade in Thailand with an admirably-sustainable harvesting process. It’s a renewable resource and environmentally friendly.
Gift Tags
The white-paper notepads are 100% recycled and the colored ones are 30% recycled. Then all products are packaged using EarthFirst® PLA film, where the re-sealable sleeves are made from plants. That’s biodegradable, sustainable, and compostable!
On Jodi’s site, she explains why handmade paper is her conscientious preference. With each person averaging more than 750 pounds of paper usage each year, more than half of the wood used by humans goes into products like boxes, napkins, disposable dishes, gift wrap, etc. Such items are typically made from fresh-cut trees. With much of the world’s biologically rich forests disappearing at an alarming rate, alternative sources of paper pulp is very important. Sixty percent less energy is required to manufacture paper from recycled stock than from virgin materials. I won’t even go into the chemicals!
This is just a brief summary of a model sustainable-green business focused on recycling and renewable resources. Jodi’s offerings are available to both individuals and retailers. It touches my heart to see a businesswoman so eloquently offer artistic goods with all the right ethics beautifully predetermined.
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Delia Montgomery www.ChicEco.com is my business. My name is Delia and I get my kicks by discovering people who design and make eco-green products utilizing trash and salvaged materials. From clothing to home and garden stuff, I think it's cool. My pursuit is to connect suppliers with retailers as a broker. Something crazy about me favors small businesses.
Constructed a yurt home on my tiny piece of Pahoa paradise early 2009. In a lava zone, but then everybody here is. I happen to dig the vibrations. Indeed a challenge to build sustainable style. See blog on http://chiceco-yurtliving.blogspot.com. Damn building inspectors. Yet I'm determined to walk the green talk, and to artistically recycle especially where islands have trash problems.
Paradise suits me well to benefit my mind, body and spirit. Growing own food from banana, mango and avocado trees. Vegies galore, but still under construction on this fifth-acre semi-urban lot. Hope to fulfill my beer-bottle wall dream and maintain a pet someday.
What a nice surprise to read your wonderful article! Thank you so much, Delia, for writing it and for recognizing our company and our ongoing efforts to create earth friendly products. We feel truly blessed to spend our days creating products that we are proud of – that are light on the earth – and that hopefully bring everyone a little bit of joy! I am so touched – thank you so much.
Jodi – owner, This Is It! Creations
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Recycling is very very important in order to preserve mother earth.’.~
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we should always think about recycling our waste products to help the environment.-”,
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