Big Businesses and Green: Products

Businesses all over the world are beginning to create more and more green products. These products help save electricity, water, use recycled content, are recyclable, and are made from plant materials instead of man-made. Here is a small peek at different products coming out that are green.

• Cereplast
  
  • Plans to produce polymers made with algae. Will end up making resins for injection molding and thermoforming.
    
• Belkin
  
  • The Insight- an energy-use monitor that you can plug a device into to see how much energy (in watts or dollars) is being used.
    
  • The Smart AV- a surge protector that detects when your TV is off and turns off power to attached components (i.e. Video game consoles, DVD players, and Cable boxes)
    
  • The Valet- a charging station that shuts off power when a device is charged.
    
  • The Socket- a timer that shuts off power to a device after a certain amount of time.
    
• Timberland's Earthkeepers
  
  • This line of footwear has added a men's boat shoe and women's sandal.
    
  • 90% of the boat shoe and 70% of the sandal is recyclable or reusable
    
  • The soles are made with 42% recycled materials.
    
• Cerealus Holdings:
  
  • Created a Corn-protein based coating additive for wrappers, bags, or other type of food packaging that come in contact with grease or oil. This will be used in place of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).