Just about every consumer product now comes in green—including over-the-counter readers. From ICU’s Eco-Friendly Reading Glasses collection, the frames are made with 100 percent post-consumer recycled metal (front), bamboo (middle) and plastic from reclaimed factory waste (back).
$22.95 (recycled metal), $62.95 (bamboo), $22.95 (reclaimed plastic); icueyewear.com, 888-442-8393
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In 2001, mining for new metal in the U.S. produced 1,300 tons of toxic waste, including arsenic, lead and mercury.
Teach your kids to live—and play—fair. In the Cocoa A Go Go! board game, kids build up their own chocolate empires by answering trivia questions about chocolate and cocoa farms, all the while learning the importance of knowing where their food comes from, how it’s grown and who’s growing it. For two to four players aged seven and up. $18.83; shop.newint.org/uk
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In West Africa, where 43 percent of the world’s cocoa beans are grown, 284,000 children work on cocoa farms under abusive labor conditions.
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