Eco-Nature Care™ is committed to using only what we need and we encourage you to do the same. We don’t use any superfluous ingredients in our products like added color and we apply the same minimized philosophy to our packaging. You might have noticed that we don’t use bottles with pumps and other froufrou features because they really aren’t necessary. Both are bottles are caps are made of the same recyclable aluminum. This means that the cap and bottle can be easily recycled in one place.
Bottles with pumps and other components are much more complicated. The bottles may be recyclable but the springs, straw, and pump are not. Over time these excess pieces can really add up and end up in landfills. Continue reading
Spring cleaning this last weekend made me realize how much I consumed and how often I went overboard in buying unwanted and unneeded items. When my dad passed away, I helped clean up the house to sell. To my surprise, we found hundreds of shoes and purses in my mother’s closet still with price tags on them. My mom smiled and said: ”I am a compulsive shopper”. In the basement we found food supplies that could feed a family for years. While I am not making excuses for my parents, their generation lived through the Great Depression, World War II rationing, and prepared for the threat of a nuclear attack. Remember “duck and cover”? 
In 1976 I drove my big Ford station wagon with insecticides in the car. Something about this never felt right but I couldn’t put my finger on what it was.
I found a cool blurb about “A Day in the Life of a Recycled Can” at