Household Supplies

Seventh Generation offers products that will help you keep your home, your family and our planet healthy.  We all know how important it is to recycle, to keep unnecessary amounts of garbage out of our overcrowded landfills. By reusing plastic materials that have fulfilled their intended end use (called “post-consumer recycled material”) and turning them into recycled products like this one, we play an important part in the overall recycling process.

Using recycled plastic saves energy and dramatically reduces toxic pollution! The process of manufacturing from recycled material requires 40% less energy compared to bags made from virgin plastic. This reduces the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere – and helps slow global warming. Processing crude petroleum into virgin plastic creates many dangerous chemicals. The 436 plastics production facilities in the United States emit over 37 million pounds of toxic air emissions and create over 2.5 billion pounds of production-related waste each year. This pollution is dramatically reduced or avoided entirely with trash bags made from recycled materials.