What’s UR Bag: Read JS Review | Buy It ($15)
City-wide plastic bag bans are a perfect excuse to spend a small amount on nylon/lycra blend totes that give back.

Eco Emporia: Read JS Review | Buy It
We have Eco Emporia's products — made from discarded items including fire hose belts and rescued paper notebooks — to thank for introducing a reusable holiday tradition that extends beyond second-hand gift bags.

Blightster: Read JS Review | Buy It
Chilean artist Rodrigo Alonso has created a gift that keeps on giving with lamps made from reusable containers.

Tappening Bags: Read JS Review | Buy It ($50)
There's no reason that plastic water bottles and yogurt containers should live in landfills when they can have a second life as bags imploring your gift recipient to “Think Global, Drink Local.”

Herb-n Art Toys: Read JS Review | Buy It ($9 – $60)
We know it’s fun to run out to the drugstore and get a friend a Chia-Pet as an “ironic” gift. Well, irony is dead. Get them an artistic alternative that can also grown microgreens out of its head.

Everyone knows that we need to handle our resources better, so remember the three Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Eco Emporia is focusing on reuse. Their entire online store is made up of used products transformed into stationary, jewelry, bags, bowls and clothes. We really love the rescued paper notebook. Rescuing paper that has been printed on one side, but not the other, and binding them into a notebook. The pages are folded so the notebook is completely blank. That and the fire hose belt, but that might just be from a boy-like attraction to being a firefighter. Check out the recently opened store out in the U.K. (but they ship worldwide) for some really clever green gifts. They even pass along a few free tips to reusing your own products.