eco-Muji: A new lease of life-style

Eco Snack

I discovered this little eco-snack on Muji’s rack. A recycled snack? No way! Not recycled, but more like waste-not feel-good snack. Made from bread crusts cut out from bread, they are put to good use by remaking them into crunchy little bite size snacks.

When I was a kid, I loved the slightly burned parts of the bread fresh out from my neighbourhood’s mom-and-pop bakery. I loved it so much, I would peel off the crust and…leave the white bread aside. Take about being an early eco-adopter!

Organic Denim with prices that don’t pinch

Muji, is certainly turning up its already famous feel-good factor by introducing more eco-conscious green-living products, in that quiet Muji way. Float around the store to their franco-ambient music, and you will be quite pleasantly surprised. Early this March, they introduced their organic jeans. The prices range from $63 to $69 (at Uniqlo prices - very affordable.)

regular cut, his

The guys’ range come in slightly boring regular-joe straight cuts, but the girls get to have all the fun with sexy skinny-cut variations.

The Waste-Not Tee

And wait, there are also eco products made from “drop cotton shred”. When cotton threads are manufactured, it is inevitable that small cotton fibers are removed in the process. Muji fashions T-shirts and dishwasher cloths out of these leftover cotton shreds. Viola! By-product waste that has been put to good use!

A favorite with green-girls, some Muji stationery also come packed with conscience. Their organizer’s refills, made from “Planted Tree Paper” are culled from their own sustainable sources, to ensure ethical forestation.
It used to be that green boys and girls have to seek out eco-products, but now they simply come to you. And with the once so-green-it-pinches prices now brought down to mass consumer level, going green is more affordable and less painful.