Recycled & Biodegradable Home Goods by Casabella Home & Housewares 2009

Recycled & Biodegradable Home Goods by Casabella
Home & Housewares 2009

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We've always liked the design of the Casabella goods from a purely visual standpoint and now they have taken the line to a green(er) place. At the Home & Housewares show yesterday, we saw their cradle to cradle certified Eclipse line of interchangable head cleaning tools made from 100% recycled PET soda bottles, a line of bamboo brooms and cleaning brushes and a biodegradable cutlery tray made from corn...

Top Row, left to right:
1. The plastic in the Eclipse line is made from 100% recycled PET soda bottles
2. The system is made up of interchangeable, replaceable heads that all work with a single "bean shaped" (30% recycled) aluminum handle
3. The bucket is a nice shape and is 100% recycled AND recyclable
4. There are brooms, mopheads and dusters
5. The sponge inside the microfiber heads is made from "re-bond", which is post-industrial waste
Bottom Row, left to right:
6. A pet hair pickup made from the 100% recycled soda bottle plastic
7. Bamboo brooms and brushes (they had a nice bamboo tool rack too, to hold the cleaning supplies)
8. Soon to be on the market, a biodegradable cutlery tray made from corn

More info and items available from: Casabella

Photos: Janel Laban

Comments (3)

i like the way casabella products look & get suckered into buying them every now & again, even though i don't think they perform very well.

posted by loislane on March 24th 2009 at 9:07am
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Though the bamboo handled stuff may seem "green", bamboo is an increasingly unsustainable product, especially when coming from mass producers such as casabella. Manufacturers will often cut down forests to plant bamboo, and because of the thin nature of the reeds (max 8 inch diameter) the process to make board wood from it is quite labor and material intensive. And the longer a manufacturing process, the less sustainable a material often becomes. Plus the adhesives use to keep bamboo pieces together to form boards is rarely "green".
That being said, they are at least prettier that other brooms.

posted by i8kermit on March 24th 2009 at 10:01am
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I love casabella stuff. I've got my eye on that bucket, of all things. Hopefully this stuff is Target bound?

posted by beelzabean on March 26th 2009 at 3:11pm
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