Environmentally friendly household products of If You Care®
If You Care® is an American manufacturer that stands for high quality and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional kitchen and household products. Only materials such as wood and paper from sustainably managed forests and recycled materials are used to reduce the impact on the environment.
The History and Products of If You Care®
The first If You Care® product were unbleached coffee filters that was launched on the U.S. market in 1990. Soon followed parchment baking paper and baking cups. Also from unbleached paper and totally chlorine free. Since 2004, If You Care® Aluminum Foil from 100% recycled aluminum is on the market, that features a 95 % energy savings compared to conventional aluminum foil. Other achievements for home and on the go are with soy wax coated wax paper from unbleached paper and snack and sandwich bags from FSC-certified wood and vegetable oil. For fireplaces, grills, wood burning stoves and campfires there are 100 % biomass firelighters. They replace conventional firelighters environmentally friendly. But the story of If You Care® does not end like this. Many new various and environmentally friendly products are planned and developing.
The natural cycle of the IYC products
The materials for the ecological kitchen gadgets from If You Care® are carefully and deliberately selected to make the impact on the environment as low as possible. The kitchen and household products are intended both to leave a small carbon footprint as possible, while providing the consumer the highest quality. Each product should go through the natural cycle – from development and production through to the consumer, who properly disposes it into the natural cycle. All IYC products, from coffee filters to the baking molds to the sandwich bags, are 100 % biodegradable and compostable.
The amount of waste that we produce after all, is significantly reduced with the eco-friendly kitchen helpers. Chlorine as a bleaching agent is waived. And that means no chlorine is dumped into our lakes and rivers. All IYC products which are based on paper are made from a wood pulp which is brown or beige in nature.
Also, the aluminum foil made of recycled aluminum can be recycled again, providing your local recycling center accepts aluminum foil.
This does not only save energy during production, but here particularly the environmental benefits have an effect. The primary component of aluminum is bauxite, typically mined in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Which means in addition to the tremendous energy expenditures and environmental costs in the mining of the mineral, there are very significant added transportation and fuel costs in moving it around the globe. The recycling process of aluminum, however, is more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
The packaging of every product is made from unbleached and whenever possible, recycled cardboard or paper which should be recycled again.
So if it should be environmentally friendly in the kitchen and in the home, then If You Care® products are the right ecological kitchen gadgets. The comprehensive range can be found on Greenpicks.