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27
OCT

Lucky Vitamin Presents: LunchBots

Filed Under: Environment at 4:00 pm | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

Lucky Vitamin is happy to announce the introduction on another brand of eco-friendly products: LunchBots.

LunchBots offers a superior line of plastic-free solutions to reduce the use of plastic. Created to improve school lunches, this family-owned business is truly concerned about the safety of plastic and its impact on the environment.

Plastic is everywhere: dishes, toys, food packaging and many other things we use daily, and many products contain toxic additives. Plastic color, texture, and hardness can all be changed to improve performance or reduce cost, even though the additives used might be potentially dangerous.

Many household products contain additives, such as adipates and phthalates, which may become an issue when plastic comes into contact with food. Traces of these chemicals can leach out of the plastic, exposing your family to their harmful effects. Bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the most popular toxic chemical additives, commonly found in plastic baby bottles, water bottles, sports equipment, and most food and beverage cans.

Studies have shown that certain additives can cause harmful developmental effects on children, potentially impacting allergies, hormones, and metabolism. New studies are beginning to show that the convenience of plastic simply isn’t worth the risk to our health.

It’s also important to consider the environmental impact of plastics as, unlike paper, glass, or wood, plastics aren’t biodegradable or easily reusable, resulting in landfills, and polluting the ocean or wildlife areas.

LunchBots is dedicated to creating safe alternatives to plastic products. Glass, stainless steel, bamboo, and other materials are just as effective and don’t have any of plastics’ inherent dangers. LunchBots stainless steel lunch containers are healthier than plastic and better for the environment. Both containers and lids are made from the highest quality, 18/8 stainless steel and are perfect for snacks, salads, sandwiches, take out, and leftovers.

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LunchBots – Pico 100% Stainless Steel Lunch Container
LunchBots – Duo 100% Stainless Steel Lunch Container

 
27
SEP

Trashing The Trash

Filed Under: Environment at 5:00 pm | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

If you ever check garbage containers, the large ones picked up by private companies a couple times per week, you’ll be amazed by the amount of recyclable products mixed with regular trash. For lack of better words, people are trashing the trash and also trashing a great opportunity to protect our environment.

This problem is happening everywhere; restaurants, public parks, offices, shopping centers and pretty much anywhere you can find trash containers.

Glass bottles, aluminum cans, cardboard and tons of plastic bottles are thrown in regular garbage cans every day. Perhaps it’s time to really start educating people about recycling and if that doesn’t work, make new laws. We have plenty of silly laws but we don’t’ have enough laws to protect our planet.

You can do your part at home and at work, separating and recycling everything possible. Paper, cardboard, plastic, glass and aluminum should never go with your regular garbage. If you don’t have a recyclable place near your house, try to find a public place and weekly dispose your recyclable garbage. Use different trash cans and bags for the stuff you can recycle.

Remember, recycle is not just what you do with trash, it’s also everything you can reuse and avoid throwing out, minimizing waste. Try to reuse plastic bottles as well as containers. Grocery reusable bags are a great way to minimize plastic waste, reducing the number of millions of grocery plastic bags given at grocery stores every day. Do you part. The planet Earth says “thank you”.

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World Centric – Lawn & Leaf Compost and Waste Bags 33 Gallons – 10 Count
BioBag – Food Waste Bio Bags – 3 Gallons
Pride Green – Biodegradable Tall Kitchen 13 Gallon Drawstring Trash Bags – 15 Bags

 
23
AUG

Hit The Books, The Green Way

Filed Under: Environment at 4:00 pm | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

Summer is almost over and it’s time to go back to school. Lucky Vitamin is your source of eco-friendly supplies for the upcoming school year.

Hit the books the green way and take advantage of our incredible selection of recycled, environmentally friendly school supplies. From notebooks to index cards, from recycled correction tape to biodegradable pens, Lucky has everything to make a green return to school.

Lucky Vitamin fully supports environmentally friendly companies, hoping our customers can help this great cause as well. Parents should keep in mind that paper has a significant impact on our environment. The average person in the U.S. consumes about 700 lbs. of paper per year, making the U.S. the largest consumer of paper in the world.

An average of 90% of the printing and writing paper comes from virgin tree fiber and, once used, paper generally ends up in the municipal waste, counting for more than 40% of the total waste in landfills.

Furthermore, producing recycled paper causes 74% less air pollution, 35% less water pollution, and creates five times the number of jobs than producing paper from trees. It saves old-growth trees, forest eco-systems, native habitat and biodiversity.

Additionally, Lucky is offering biodegradable pens, made from corn-based material. The majority of its components are intended to be disposed of in your own backyard. Biodegradable pens are a very cool idea to promote a “green” return to school and protect our planet Earth.

Reusable products can be used time and time again. Lunch bottles and food containers are one of the best ways to protect our planet Earth and save some money. Lucky Vitamin is proud to offer a complete line of “green” products with more than 150 choices from water bottles to lunch containers. If a significant number of students could switch to “green” reusable products, the amount of waste nationwide will drastically reduce and the planet will be greener.

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Roaring Spring – Environotes Notebook 1 Subject College Ruled Recycled 8.5″ x 11.5″ – 80 Sheet(s)
Roaring Spring – Environotes Notebook Genesis Premium 3 Subject College Ruled Recycled 11″ x 8.5″ – 120 Sheet(s)
Roaring Spring – Environotes Index Cards Plain Recycled 3″ x 5″ White – 100 Pack

 
11
AUG

Nature Calls For Eco-Friendly Picnics

Filed Under: Environment at 11:00 am | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

Outdoor activities are very common in the summer. The opportunity to be outdoors gives us a chance to be a little closer the Mother Nature. However, we should always respect and protect our environment wherever you are, whatever you do.

Beaches, national parks and local parks are perfect places for picnics in the summer and early fall but people often leave plastic plates, water bottles and all types of trash behind. We can advise people to pick up their garbage but we can also use more eco-friendly options of picnic supplies.

Lucky Vitamin is constantly thinking about our planet Earth, thus we have created an Eco Friendly Picnic and Party category, where customers can find over sixty different products and enjoy an earth friendly time outdoors this summer. We are proud to offer a 100% eco-friendly selection of products including reusable dinnerware, disposable or reusable plates. You can shop for recycled items such as plastic cups, paper towels, napkins, plastic forks, knives and spoons.

Look for alternative tableware products, better for the environment than traditional plastic. Made from GMO free cornstarch resin, these products are biodegradable in a few months and cut-resistant making them both strong and durable. In addition, you should use eco-friendly products for your food storage as well, like containers and bowls, creating a complete eco-friendly atmosphere at your next picnic.

Don’t forget the garbage bags. Cleaning up is essential for any outdoor activity and you must ensure nothing is left behind. Lucky offers recycled trash bags made from recycled plastic to help reduce pollution and save energy and trees.

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Seventh Generation – Brown Napkins 100% Recycled 1 Ply Jumbo 500 Pack
Seventh Generation – Tall Kitchen Trash Bags 13 Gallon – 30 Bags
Preserve – Reusable Recycled Plastic Plates Large 10.5 inch Apple Green – 8 Piece(s)

 
27
JUL

Lucky Vitamin Presents: EcoSmart

Filed Under: Environment,Natural Cleaning Aids at 11:00 am | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

Lucky Vitamin is introducing another eco-friendly brand of household products: EcoSmart.

EcoSmart Technologies is the world leader in safe pesticide solutions. The company offers the world’s safest, most effective pesticides based on natural ingredients, with 15 years of scientific research backing up all products.

EcoSmart makes the only 100% safe insecticide proven to work, offering the only complete line of EPA exempt pesticides sold in the US. The first company to apply modern science to essential plant oils, EcoSmart offers safe and effective alternatives to conventional insecticides for leading commercial pest control services. All products are based on the natural defenses that plants and trees have used for their self protection against insects and pathogens.

After over a decade of research, EcoSmart had developed revolutionary and proprietary combinations of efficacious insecticidal plant oils that offer viable botanical-based alternatives to conventional pesticides. EcoSmart blends of natural plant oils are every bit as effective as synthetic chemicals, killing bugs fast without any toxins or harmful residues.

Safe around children, pets, and the environment, EcoSmart proprietary botanical oil blends attack attributes that are specific only to pests and have no effect on people, pets or the environment. These oils are commonly used to add flavor and aroma to many cosmetic, beverage and food products, including cake, candy, sweetener, gum, soft drinks, and lipstick.

The primary active ingredients in EcoSmart products are approved as Direct Food Additives or classified as GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.

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EcoSmart – Organic Ant & Roach Killer – 14 oz.
EcoSmart – Organic Weed & Grass Killer – 24 oz.
EcoSmart – Organic Wasp & Hornet Killer – 14 oz.

 
13
JUL

Lucky Vitamin Presents: Fuji EnviroMax

Filed Under: Environment,Natural Cleaning Aids at 4:00 pm | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

Lucky Vitamin is proud to introduce another top quality eco-friendly brand: Fuji EnviroMax.

Fuji EnviroMax offers environmentally-respectful batteries with unexcelled power and uncommon responsibility. The company is dedicated to setting environmental standards, leading the way by setting rigorous safety and quality control standards to produce battery products that are safe for users and to the environment.

At one time, all batteries were made with mercury and cadmium. Both of these heavy metals have been proven to be harmful to the environment. Fuji Batteries decided to change this and confront this environmental danger head-on.

Fuji EnviroMax has developed an entire line of batteries without the use of materials like mercury and cadmium, and any other material hazardous to the environment. All batteries bring a long-overdue dimension of eco-responsibility along with unsurpassed power and longevity. Independent tests show Fuji EnviroMax batteries equal, and most often, exceed the performance and longevity of equivalent major brands.

The materials used for Fuji EnviroMax batteries are derived from the basic elements of the Earth. Nothing inside a Fuji EnviroMax battery will harm the environment if disposed through normal waste systems. All batteries contain no harmful mercury or cadmium, nor are they packaged with dangerous, non-recyclable, PVC plastic.

Fuji EnviroMax batteries are labeled and packaged with recycled paper and P.E.T. plastic and ozone-depleting compounds have been eliminated in the production of all batteries.

At first glance, all batteries look the same as they’re all the same size and fit snuggly into one of the many portable electronic devices that have become very common in our everyday lives. Most of us never even give a thought to how batteries are made or what harm they can do to our environment once they are discarded. Fuji EnviroMax has been dedicated to developing one of the most environmentally respectful batteries on the planet for 20 years.

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Fuji EnviroMAX – Digital Alkaline Batteries AA – 4 Pack
Fuji EnviroMAX – Digital Alkaline Batteries AA – 24 Pack
Fuji EnviroMAX – Super Alkaline Batteries AA – 24 Pack

 
23
MAY

Lucky Vitamin Presents: World Centric

Filed Under: Environment at 1:00 pm | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

Lucky Vitamin is proud to present another eco-friendly brand to our customers: World Centric.

World Centric provides high quality compostable food service disposables and food packaging products for use in schools, corporate cafeterias, restaurants, hospitals, and parties.

This Eco friendly line of products is made of renewable resources like corn, sugarcane, and wheat straw fiber. Sugar cane and wheat straw fiber are also discarded by-products of the agriculture industry, and considered one of the best sustainable alternatives to plastics and styrofoam.

World Centric was founded in 2004 with a mission to reduce economic injustice and environmental degradation through education, community networks, and sustainable enterprises. The company was founded to raise awareness of large scale humanitarian and environmental issues and to promote sustainable alternatives to every day consumption choices.

In 2004 World Centric hosted award winning documentaries and speakers on environmental, social, human rights and peace issues, offered courses on sustainability, simple living and globalization and worked on a Conscious Living guide. In order to be a self-sustaining organization, without requesting donations or grants, World Centric began selling Fair Trade products and compostable products in the beginning of 2005.

In 2010, World Centric offset all carbon emissions, and gave 25% of profits before taxes to grass root social and environmental organizations, and hope to move towards giving 100% of profits. The company’s overall mission, vision and values stayed the same since the beginning: to make a difference and create a more just and sustainable world.

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World Centric – Wheat Straw Plates 9-Inch – 20 Count
World Centric – Corn Starch Spoons – 24 Count
World Centric – Kitchen Compost & Waste Bags 3 Gallon – 25 Count

 
18
MAY

Lucky Vitamin Presents: Green Toys

Filed Under: Environment at 11:00 am | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

Kids playing with toys can also protect our environment. That’s right. When children play with toys made of recycled plastic milk jugs, they are having fun and also protecting our planet Earth. Lucky Vitamin fully supports this great idea and is proud to present Green Toys to our customers.

Green Toys Inc. makes an innovative line of classic children’s toys constructed from recycled plastic and other environmentally friendly materials. This helps reduce fossil fuel use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improving the overall health and happiness of the planet. All toys are safe, and made from environmentally friendly materials.

The company uses recycled milk containers as the main ingredient in creating toys. The exact plastic milk jugs that you and your family drink from every day. When you finish your milk and toss the container in the recycling bin, these milk containers are collected by a recycling company, who then sorts them from all the other types of plastic.

Next, the milk containers are reprocessed into super clean fresh plastic. The plastic material used is called high-density polyethylene (or HDPE), considered one of the safest, cleanest plastics around.

Green Toys also strives to minimize packaging, using as little material as possible. Green Toys products are packaged in recycled corrugated boxes with no plastics, cellophane or twist-ties, and are 100% recyclable.
Additionally, Green Toys are 100% safe, contain no traceable amounts of Phthalates or BPA and are tested by nationally recognized, independent, third-party labs. All products pass a plethora of tests, including: Consumer Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), Consumer Products Safety Standard Specification, ASTM F963, California Prop. 65 restrictions on lead and cadmium, FDA regulations for food contact, Voluntary testing for no Bisphenol-A, and International standards EN71 and ISO 8124.

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Green Toys – My First Tugboat 6 months+ Red
Green Toys – My First Stacker 6 months+
Green Toys – Tool Set Ages 2+

 
27
APR

Trendy Fashion Organic Clothing

Filed Under: Environment at 5:00 pm | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

Everyone has heard about organic food, quickly gaining more space in grocery stores across the country. Some folks are familiar with organic personal care products or organic gardening, but have you heard of organic clothing?

It sounds a bit strange at first but it is actually a very trendy and, why not, fashionable way of dressing. Earth friendly and organic clothing items have been one of the hottest sellers recently at Lucky Vitamin.

As the concern to protect our environment continues to grow, (we are all thankful for that), clothing factories are also adopting the organic way of business, with natural ingredients (well, materials in this case) from sustainable resources, supporting the organic, sustainable agricultural community.

Green is always in fashion and organic clothing companies are now creating apparel and accessories made from natural materials that restore, sustain and enhance the resources. These companies also ensure that workers are treated fairly and the environment is not affected by the production of these products.

Organic clothing is made from all-natural, non-synthetic fabrics from plants. No synthetic, chemical pesticides, fertilizers, antibiotics, genetically modified organisms, and additives are used in these clothes making them the perfect fit for babies.  Organic clothing will not create allergic reactions, preventing rashes and protecting your baby’s sensitive skin. In addition, eco friendly infant clothes are far better in keeping babies warm than regular fabrics.

Organic clothes and accessories are comfortable, durable and affordable and we are happy to offer them at our discounted prices. Choose from one of our premium organic brands such as Maggie’s Organics, Piccolo Bambino, I Play, Incredisocks, and Earth Therapeutics. You can find socks, shirts, scarves, gloves, hats and other items all made of organic material, such as organic cotton.

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Incredisocks – Bamboo Charcoal Socks Above Ankle Sports Medium Black

 
22
APR

Happy Earth Day!

Filed Under: Environment at 5:00 pm | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

Today, April 22, we celebrate our planet Earth. Earth Day is a day intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s natural environment.

Founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in, Earth Day was first held on April 22, 1970. Today, Earth Day is coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year. Numerous communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of activities focused on environmental issues.

As an Eco-friendly company, Lucky Vitamin is proud to support Earth Day.

Green is the official color of our company, not just in our logo, but also in the way we run our business.

This morning, several Lucky Vitamin employees volunteered to spend time cleaning areas and collecting garbage from the surroundings of the company site.

In addition, we are proud to recycle and reuse as much material as we possibly can. Boxes, bubble wrap and packing material used in shipments from suppliers to our warehouse are reused in orders shipped from our warehouse to our customers. Lucky Vitamin also uses oxo-degradable bubble for packing material. This revolutionary system is a much greener version for packing. Similar to biodegradable, oxo-degradable bubble accelerates the degradation process and will breakdown under many different waste conditions.

Lastly, many Lucky Vitamin employees fully support the green movement, using coffee mugs instead of disposable cups and water bottles instead of bottles of water. Office supplies also have a green tone at Lucky Vitamin as office workers recycle paper to print out documents. Each sheet of paper has two sizes and we try our best to use both of them.

Post-it or sticky notes? No chance. We cut used invoices or any paper in the office to use the other side for notes. A small and personal green touch which (if done by many people) can have a giant impact on keeping our planet Earth green for future generations.

Note: in celebration of Earth Day, Lucky Blog will be daily presenting a new Eco-Friendly brand added to Lucky Vitamin.com, starting today until the end of the month of April.

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22
APR

Lucky Vitamin Presents: Eco Kids

Filed Under: Announcements & News,Environment at 11:00 am | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

Today is Earth Day and Lucky Vitamin is happy to introduce another top quality eco-friendly brand to our customers: Eco-Kids.

Eco-Kids is dedicated to offering art supplies for creative play the natural way. The company offers a unique line of art supplies including eco-dough, eco-paint, and eco-ornament kits, using only the most natural ingredients and eco-friendly packaging for all products.

Eco-Kids firmly believe that the imagination of a child can bring on the most amazing masterpieces. New products are developed with this belief in mind and, from the ingredients to the unique packaging, eco-kids works with environmentally friendly companies from around the United States to bring you fresh ideas in the world of art supplies.

Eco-Eggs Easter Egg Coloring Kit is one of the company’s best selling items. Made of natural plant, fruit and vegetable extracts, Eco-Kids Eco-Eggs Easter Egg Coloring Kit includes three natural dyes (orange, blue and purple), a color chart for creating 6 colors and instructions for coloring eggs.

Another top selling product is the Eco-Kids Eco-Art Pad sheets. This unique “tree-free” natural organic paper is made from the discarded stalks of banana trees. Every sheet character is created from banana fibers and is non-toxic and chlorine free.

Lucky Vitamin is now offering this Eco-Kids incredible eco-friendly line at our discounted prices so your kids can enjoy creative play the natural way.

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Eco-Kids – Eco-Dough Original Formula 5 x 4 oz. Containers
Eco-Kids – Eco-Paint Original Formula 5 x 4 oz. Containers
Eco-Kids – Rolling Pin – 6 in.

 
15
DEC

Gift Ideas: Green and Environmentally Friendly Gifts

Filed Under: Environment at 11:00 am | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

Lucky Blog continues to publish a series of suggestions for gift ideas to make your holiday season a “Healthy One” and should we add a “Green One”?

Why not? Make this holiday season a good one for your family and our planet. Lucky Vitamin offers a sensational list of green and environmentally friendly gifts such as BPA free bottles, recyclable shopping bags, food storage containers and much more.

Lucky Vitamin continues to make every effort to protect our environment offering dozens of green products and brands, from companies which care about our planet. We also use recyclable boxes and packing materials including oxo-degradable bubble wrap.

Furthermore, Lucky Blog has published multiple articles on different ways to protect our environment, from saving water to using eco-friendly school supplies, or using a water bottle instead of buying bottles of water to minimize the plastic bottle waste.

Every little thing we can do to reduce waste is essential to protect our planet for future generations. This could be the year you can get a nice BPA-free bottle of water for your coworkers, so their trash can isn’t full of empty plastic bottles every Friday.

Eco-friendly shopping bags are back in fashion. Have you ever realized how many plastic shopping bags are wasted every day? Too many is the answer. Many people use disposable supermarket plastic bags for their home trash cans and that’s a great idea but just not enough. Millions of plastic bags end up in municipal landfills every year and it’s about time to reduce your “contribution” of plastic bags. Choose from one of these stylish reusable shopping bags made of recycled materials, available at luckyvitamin.com.

Lucky Vitamin is the perfect place for your holiday shopping with thousands of fantastic gifts and stocking stuffers. Take advantage of our best gifts at the best prices and, as always, free shipping on most items for orders over $100. Find the perfect gift at the best prices at luckyvitamin.com.

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Fit & Fresh – Kids Hot Lunch Container
Fit & Fresh – Kids Smart Portion Container With Removable Ice Pack
New Wave Enviro Products – Round Tritan Water Bottle BPA Free – 3 Gallon
Blue Q – Get Real Owl Tote Bag

 
15
OCT

Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Filed Under: Announcements & News,Environment at 11:00 am | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

Today is Blog Action Day, an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action.

This year’s topic is “water” and thousands of bloggers will discuss this single issue to raise awareness, initiate action and to shake the web!

Lucky Blog is participating in the annual Blog Action Day for the fourth consecutive year, discussing important topics such as poverty and climate changes. This year’s topic is essential for the survival of every living element in the Planet Earth: water.

71 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. However, only about 2 percent of the planet’s water is fresh and ¾ of this fresh water is locked up in the polar ice caps and glaciers. So, consider this: only about a small part of the remaining 0.5% is considered “drinkable water” and the world population is currently estimated to be 6,875,100,000. Once again, that does not include animals, plants and other living creatures that need fresh water for survival.

Fresh drinkable water is a precious thing and many people do not realize that. Currently 3.6 million people die each year because they don’t have clean water to drink and every day 4,000 children younger than 5 die from preventable, water-borne diseases.

Millions of people across the world do not have clean fresh water available but yet we continue to waste water in many preventable activities. We often see people cleaning sidewalks using a hose instead of using a broom, wasting gallons of fresh water. Some people take excessive long showers wasting so much water on a daily basis. We understand a long shower may be relaxing and the running water feels great on your skin but, after all, when you are showering, you are just supposed to clean your body.

Drinking bottled water is another problem for the environment as LuckyBlog has displayed so many times. In the United States, each person drinks in average 200 bottles of water each year and only about 15% of these bottles will be recycled. Millions of barrels of oil are needed to produce all plastic bottles for the U.S. each year, while transporting these bottles burns ever more oil. Additionally, most people do not realize that bottle water is often sourced at municipal water systems. So basically, bottle water is as good as tap water.

Drinking water is essential for a healthy diet but buying bottled water is definitely not the best option to protect the environment. Minimizing the volume of recyclable and non-recyclable trash is essential to protect our environment. One of the easiest ways to reduce the volume of waste is to use a water bottle, saving hundreds of plastic bottles of water. The same rule applies for coffee cups. You can save hundreds of coffee cups by simply using a coffee mug.

You can buy a top-quality water bottle for less than $5 and will not waste a single disposable plastic bottle for the rest of the year. Plus, you are saving a lot of money too. If you buy one or two bottles of water a day, you are spending anywhere between $1000 and $1500 a year. If you don’t have filtered water at home, an entire water purification system won’t cost you more than $100, a great investment for you and your family.

Save the planet and save your money: buy a water bottle instead of a bottle of water.

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Nalgene – Everyday Tritan BPA Free Widemouth Water Bottle Slate Blue – 32 oz.
New Wave Enviro Products – Water Bottle Made From Eastar Resin Assorted Colors – 1 Liter

2
SEP

Eco-Friendly School Supplies

Filed Under: Environment at 1:15 pm | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

Lucky Vitamin continues to increase the number of eco-friendly products available on our site. Lucky fully supports environmentally friendly companies and we hope our customers can help this great cause as well. The demand for recycled products is rising as more and more consumers realize how “small changes” can add up to a better environment for us all.

So, parents need to shop for school supplies as kids are going back to school. Go green this year. Lucky Vitamin offers an incredible selection of eco-friendly school supplies, including plenty of “cool tools” for your kids.

It’s important to know that paper has a significant impact on our environment. The average person in the U.S. consumes about 700 lbs. of paper per year, making the U.S. the largest consumer of paper in the world. 90% of the printing/writing paper comes from virgin tree fiber. Once used, paper generally ends up in the municipal waste.

A scary 40% of the total waste in landfills is paper. On the other hand, producing recycled paper causes 74% less air pollution, 35% less water pollution, and creates five times the number of jobs than producing paper from trees. It saves old-growth trees, forest eco-systems, native habitat and biodiversity.

So, choose recycled/environmentally friendly notebooks, index cards and pocket folders. Don’t forget to recycle used papers as well or use it for notes (instead of brand new sticky notes).

Every little thing helps to reduce the amount of paper in landfills and to minimize the number of trees cut down for paper manufacturing.

Additionally, Lucky is offering biodegradable pens, made from corn-based material. The majority of its components are intended to be disposed of in your own backyard. Biodegradable pens are a very cool idea to promote a “green” return to school and protect our planet Earth.

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Paper Mate – Write Bros Recycled Ballpoint Pen Medium Point 1.0 mm Black – 10 Pack
Roaring Spring – Environotes Notebook 2 Subject College Ruled Recycled 11″ x 9″ – 100 Sheet(s)
Roaring Spring – Environotes Composition Notebook College Ruled Recycled 9.75″ x 7.5″ – 80 Sheet(s)

 
31
AUG

A Green Welcome Back to School

Filed Under: Environment at 5:56 pm | By: Mauricio Matusiak, Senior Editor

It’s time to go back to school. Students will be learning new things as they return to class but one subject should definitely be on the “learning list” this year: protecting the environment.

Our planet Earth needs your help. Students, teachers and parents should all be united in this important issue and lessons should start at home.

Look for alternative ways to start this school-year the “green way”. Need an idea? Pack lunches using reusable products for food and beverage storage.

Reducing garbage is one of the best ways to help the environment. Every day, thousands of tons of garbage are collected in schools across the country and the number adds up as the school-year goes on. If everyone can come up with a simple way to minimize trash disposal, we can save a lot of trees and protect our planet.

Reusable products can be used time and time again. Also known as “green products”, they are washable and resistant to last an entire school-year, which makes them economical too. Check for recyclable products, normally identified by a number inside the recycling symbol, generally on the bottom of the product.

Moreover, lunch bottles and food containers are one of the best ways to save some money. Plus, some of these products are really cool too. Try to use recyclable napkins and tableware to ensure minimal waste.

Lucky Vitamin is proud to offer a new complete line of “green” products with more than 150 choices from water bottles to lunch containers. You can also buy lunch boxes, which include food containers.

If a significant number of students could switch to “green” reusable products, the amount of waste nationwide will drastically reduce and the planet will be greener. Do your part. The Planet Earth thanks you in advance for your cooperation.

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Bamboo Studio – Bamboo Dinnerware Flatware Forks Spoons & Knives Reusable Disposable – 24 Piece(s)
Fit & Fresh – Kids Hot Lunch Container
New Wave Enviro Products – Lunchopolis Lunch Box with Food Containers Multi-Colored Swirls – formerly Pink

 
 
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