Weird But True Back To School 2015 Items You Can’t Eco Live Without

The bar just keeps going higher and higher when it comes to green living. How about paper without trees? Staplers without staples? Lunchboxes without plastic? Here's a list for the greenest kids on the block as they go shopping for back to school 2015!

No. 2 Notebooks (Not Pencils)

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Recycled paper from wood pulp is so old school. What about poop? These notebooks are made from upcycled elephant poop. No joking they also use horse poop, zebra poop, cow poop, moose poop... in other items.

Eco fact: Lots of trees are usually cut down to make paper pulp.

Next Gen Ocean-Friendly Lunchbox

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What? No plastic and no leaking? Say what’s that plasticy looking stuff? Silicone + steel. P.S. It’s no waste, too.

Eco fact: 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic trash are floating in ocean gyres already. Waste-free lunch packing can prevent a family from creating thousands of pieces of trash.

Stitch - Not Staple

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Need to clip two pieces of paper? How about stitching them together with this stapler? Confused already? No needles are needed for the stitching. Just use this staple-less stapler. Clear as mud?

Eco fact: Billions of metal staples are manufactured in pollution-spewing factories. Most end up in landfills.

Eco Highlighter Pencil

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Sharpen your pencil and get going highlighting! With wooden non-toxic highlighters that come in four colors. And while you're saving the planet, you're not going to have any leaky highlighters to worry about either.

Eco fact: Traditional highlighters are made using plastics, ink solvents and volatile organic compounds.

DIY Candy Wrapper Pencil Case

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Your kid can stop feeling guilty about the candy he’s sneaking at school. After all, the wrappers can be upcycled into a useful pencil case!

Eco fact: Schools generate a lot of waste. Look no further than the trash dumpster at your local school and scale up from there to imagine the waste generated by schools throughout the USA and world!

Solar Powered Backpack

Voltaic / Via voltaicsystems.com

No need to carry a charger on campus. Just let the solar panel on this backpack keep you powered up all day long!

Eco fact: Solar energy is a renewable energy source that doesn’t rely on carbon fuels.