Sustainable Parenting With Fleurville Bags

So what does environmentally-friendly parenting look like on the ground? To begin with, many new parents want to support corporations that are not using poisonous materials. Other parents will not buy products that are made in sweatshops or out-sourced to rural areas in third-world countries.

Fleurville diaper is one small eco business that is leading the way in sustainable parenting. In fact, Fleurville was recently certified as “San Francisco Bay Area Green Business” by Marin County, California. Fleurville is also one of the first ever PVC-free companies in the world. Let’s look a little deeper at what separates Fleurville from other diaper bag makers.

Polyvinyl chloride, or PVC for short, is a known pollutant and poison that is used in many commercial diaper bags and products, even ones that advertise organic cotton! The reason PVC is dangerous is because it contains chlorine, which produces byproducts that poison plants, animals and eventually humans as it is passed up the foodchain. Many companies continue to use PVC because it is a cheap plastic, but Fleurville refuses to be part of this practice. Fleurville decided to use an eco-friendly polyurethane laminate instead, known as Green-LAM™.

Next, Fleurville has traded wasteful nylon for a recycled fiber that is made from plastic water bottles. This plastic, called Re-Run™, keeps the bottles from being thrown away in our massive, and rapidly filling, landfills.

Lastly, Fleurville donates 3% of its Re-Run products to the Eco-Mom Alliance, which is a educational non-profit dedicating to empowering parents to become conscious consumers. So by purchasing Fleurville products, we are not only supporting eco-parenting, but also showing the world that there is a demand for more green technologies like this.

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