A beanie is a beanie, you might think of the BINGABONGA beanie collection at first glance. On closer inspection, the diversity catches your eye. Plain, striped, patterned, pure organic cotton, lined with organic cotton fleece for the winter. Dyed with non-toxic colours, the caps are made immediately after ordering from GOTS certified fabrics. This is perhaps the largest collection of organic beanies …
For many people Christmas is a celebration with gifts. Greenpicks has been committed to sustainable consumption for over five years. And the more resource-conserving and environmentally friendly, the better. To have fun giving presents for Christmas to your loved ones, we love to show you eco gift ideas for Christmas 2017. All Christmas presents meet the Greenpicks sustainability criteria: from certified organic quality to recycling and upcycling to non-toxic materials and eco-friendly products from regional production. Vegans also find the perfect animal-free Christmas gift via the “vegan” filter.
Greenpicks wishes all customers and anyone interested a contemplative and peaceful Advent.
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Would you like to cuddle up in the sauna, after the shower or after an extensive bubble bath? With a bathrobe from Yumeko you are always properly wrapped up. Pure wellness for relaxing hours: Greenpicks and Yumeko raffle off a high-quality bathrobe made of organic cotton for Mother’s Day.
The bathrobe for lazy Sundays and daily bathroom routine from Yumeko!
The Dutch label uses only high-quality, soft and natural materials, please read more on our brand page Yumeko:
If you want to convince yourself personally of the beautiful quality, now you have the chance to win a bathrobe in the color grey for women or men. The winner can choose the size. Make a gift for you, for Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. The lottery takes place at Greenpicks via Facebook. You will receive your prize directly from Yumeko.
Start: 9th of May 2017, 11.00 h a.m
Closing date: 12th of May 2017, 11:59 h p.m
The Dutch eco label Yumeko has been influencing bedroom, bath & Co. with timelessly beautiful bedding and bath textiles, which are biologically certified. Both producers from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Portugal, Turkey, Peru and India as well as Yumeko themselves are certified according to GOTS and Fairtrade standards.
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What are the organic products and upcycling articles that the Greenpicks fan community was most enthusiastic about in 2016? The Greenpicks Blog shows the top ten most sustainable products in the judgment of the environmentally aware consumers.
With the conscious decision to buy environmentally friendly and ecological products, every person contributes to safe natural resources. Consumers also focus on the fact that the materials used are either derived from certified organic farming or can be recycled. Very popular are upcycling products, because each piece is unique. Purses made from recycled tea bags, carafes made from recycled glass and fishing bags and cement bags from which sports bags and messenger bags are ucycled are among the top places in the most popular eco-friendly items at Greenpicks.
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While the practical, but under-fire plastic bag is available at some trade chains fee-based (about 20 Euro Cents), environmentalists are skeptical if a fee will put off buyers and let them rethink. German food companies in turn sell the abolition of plastic bags in their stores as an eco heroic action. Who walks mindfully through these stores will quickly discover superfluous plastic packaging. Food to go as portioned fruits, salads for lunch to sushi packed in the environmentally harmful and unhealthy plastic containers. At the fruit and vegetable counter plastic bags are still available. Window dressing for the hurried consumer! And for eco shopper you have to hunt.
The EU prescribes to reduce the use of plastic bags by the end of 2019 to a maximum of 90 and by the end of 2025 to a maximum of 40 pieces per person per year. Nothing is easier than to avoid plastic bags. Build up your ecological conscience. Because our reusable shopping bags fit into any handbag, in a backpack, in any briefcase. There are no longer any excuses.
The only and sustainable alternative for the plastic bag: Drop it! And use ecological alternatives. For that this works, Greenpicks presents you eco shopper and fruit- and vegetable bags made of certified organic cotton and other sustainable materials. Based on greenpicks.de/en recommendations, on our practical experiences and the most popular products that go through the online sales counter.
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Practically, since the bag made from organic cotton is designed to fold quickly and stow in handbag, backpack or laptop bag. So you're ready for a spontaneous shopping. Also works accross Bavarian borders. 😉
* "If Bavaria had an ocean"
The Carrier Bag from Degree Clothing fullfills 4 of 11 possible Greenpicks-Sustainability Criteria
As a rejection from PET bottles adults use more and more often refillable bottles on the go and equip their children with the practical drinking bottles. Whether for the office, university, sport or on the go, filled with water, spritzer with apple juice, black currant juice or cherry juice or other mixtures you have always your thirst quencher with you. For lovers of hot drinks pollution-free hydro flasks insulated bottles are offered. Instead buying sugary sodas on your way or in the canteen, with this durable water bottles you save money and the environment.
Almost every child has a bottle in its kindergarten bag or school bag. Eco-conscious parents give their offspring practical drinking bottles made from bioplastics, stainless steel or glass coated with a neoprene suit – after all the child shall take its favourite drink free of plasticizers, BPA and phthalate.
But not only being without harmful substances is an important criterion. Thus the juice or tea does not flood the children’s bag or briefcase, they should be leakproof. And of course, the bottle should last a long time and should be recyclable. Combined you find these properties in three materials: glass, stainless steel and bioplastics. For each material greenpicks.de/en has recommendations – based on our practical experience and the feedback from the Greenpicks community.
The new collection of children’s swimwear by the label early fish shows how you can skillfully combine environmental protection and water fun.
Small swimmers and mini sea dogs can rejoice: The new early fish swimming costumes for children are trendy and look witty. Due to a special weave children’s sensitive skin is well protected by the UV protection of 50+ against aggressive sunlight. The processed material is made environmentally friendly and resource-saving from no longer used plastic materials such as from old fishing nets. Continue reading From fishing net to Eco children’s swimwear with UV protection 50+
The designer Sven H. Ricken from Essen, Germany, had the enlightenment for his timeless table lamp illustris+ when he thought about the disposal of empty wine bottles in the waste glass. “The shape of a bottle is known to us all from the smallest childhood and accompanies us for a lifetime. It is perfect in form but is used only for the storage of the contents. Instead of always just throwing the bottles in the waste glass to make new bottles, I got the idea to let live the product and give it a new function.” says the talented designer. After a longer developmental period, then came the series illustris+. Continue reading Upcycling Table Lamp illustris+
