Green Options

For some reason, when I think of products that need to ‘go green’, certain types of items tend to top the list.  Cleaning products.  Plastic children’s toys.  Paint and building materials.  Baby supplies.  Food.  Clothing.

Playing cards had not yet entered my mind.

So imagine my amused surprise the other day when, while shopping for a new deck of quality cards for bridge (my husband had even requested a plastic set), I stumbled across Bicycle’s new (launched in 2008) line of Eco Edition Playing Cards.

While there is almost certainly a good level of bandwagon-jumping greenwashing going on here, there is still much good to say about these cards.  According to Bicycle:

Our playing cards are crafted from sustainable forest paper, starch-based laminating glue and vegetable-based printing inks.  This pack of cards is recyclable.

“Spend a year tickled pink with flowers and leaves native to northern california and oregon, and sometimes found in other parts of the western u.s.“ with the the floral leaves datebook or “spend a year in the forest and the coral…lush green interior pages with 8 repeating original illustrations of all the little details found in the forest and in the tidepools.“ with the forest coral datebook!

They’re 100% recycled paper and have beautiful front and back covers in full-color printed with vegetable-based inks on reincarnation paper.