| With so many parents and grandparents | | | | What products are available from Green Toys? |
| becoming aware of warnings and recalls | | | | While still in the early stages, these toys are |
| associated with toys, due to lead paint and other | | | | offered with a strong selection for both boys and |
| safety issues, many wish there was a way their | | | | girls. Whether given as a gift, or purchased to |
| children could play safer. As more companies | | | | teach children about how recycling can impact |
| emerge, finding child safe toys that are safe for | | | | them, there is the perfect toy for any child. |
| both your child and green toys that help protect | | | | Girls may be interested in the tea set, which is |
| the environment are becoming more widely | | | | made from completely recycled materials. When |
| available. | | | | little girls set up a tea party, green toys are safe |
| Green Toys Inc. of California is quickly becoming | | | | for the kids to eat food from. With the quality |
| the preferred toy company of choice for parents | | | | testing that these toys undergo, not only are |
| and grandparents. They offer child safe toys that | | | | they dishwasher safe, but they actually meet |
| are just as much fun as the old versions, but the | | | | FDA food contact standards. The set includes an |
| materials they are made from are | | | | entire set-up for your little girl, including tea pot, |
| environmentally safe, while still providing a high | | | | creamer, sugar bowl and four cup, saucer and |
| quality toy. | | | | spoon sets. |
| Green Toys products are made from recycled | | | | For truck loving boys, what better child safe toy |
| milk containers that have been sorted from the | | | | than a recycling truck? This durable truck teaches |
| recycling bins. This is done by re-processing the | | | | environmental awareness on many levels. From |
| containers into a new plastic known as | | | | the packaging, to the actual truck material, to the |
| polyethylene. This is one of the cleanest, high | | | | play it inspires - children can actively use these |
| density and safe plastics available. | | | | green toys to spur on a recycling event in their |
| Their products also help the environment by | | | | playroom, by sorting out materials and |
| saving energy. Did you know that by recycling | | | | transporting it with this nifty truck. It comes |
| one pound of milk jugs saves enough energy to | | | | equipped with a movable recycling bed, and a rear |
| power your laptop computer going for one | | | | door that actually opens and closes, and the best |
| month? It is also equivalent to saving 3,000 small | | | | part is the axle design doesn't include the |
| batteries." That's a lot of batteries, which | | | | dangerous (and environmentally unsafe) metal |
| translates to a lot of toxic waste in our landfills. | | | | axles. |
| By purchasing child safe green toys, the | | | | Green Toys are also available for family fun, with |
| environment is staying safer for the next | | | | choices of flying discs and jump ropes. Everyone |
| generations. | | | | in the family can develop an eco-system friendly |
| What other factors should be considered when | | | | style of play, while at the same time fostering |
| purchasing environmentally safe toys? Thinking | | | | family time. |
| about the amount of emissions from gasoline, | | | | When determining if it really is a child safe toy, |
| ideally the products should be made in the USA. | | | | one of the things to consider is the testing. Green |
| This eliminates transportation across the world | | | | Toys products undergo extensive testing, including |
| and saves gas while lowering the price that would | | | | the Consumer Safety Improvement Act and |
| have to factor in to international shipping. All | | | | Safety Standard, pass the California Prop lead and |
| Green Toys products are produced in Northern | | | | cadmium restrictions, FDA testing (for food |
| California. | | | | contact), and voluntary and international standard |
| When buying Green Toys, you will notice that the | | | | testing. |
| packaging is also eco-friendly. Made from recycled | | | | They assure that you are not only buying child |
| cardboard, the entire process makes these child | | | | safe toys, but that you are doing your part to |
| safe toys completely green - from the plastic, to | | | | protect the environment with the added benefit |
| the packaging to the transport. | | | | of keeping Americans at work. |