Go Green: Kitchen Utensils of recycled plastic that look good doing it.

Green Street Turner Leaf design Slot pattern with a serrated cutting edge.

Utensils that help keep the earth a great place to live and grow longer.

THE GREEN STREET STORY

Kitchen Tools That Help The Environment

Like everyone else, we want to help protect the environment. That’s why we’ve introduced the Green Street® line of kitchen tools and utensils. Our goal? To reduce our “carbon footprint” — the amount of greenhouse gases we release into the atmosphere — and provide retailers with environmentally friendly products consumers desire.

What “Green” Really Means: More Recycling, Fewer Emissions

What makes a product “green”? In the case of Green Street kitchen tools and utensils, there are two major ways we’re reducing our impact on the environment.

First, all Green Street utensils are made from recycled plastic water bottles. So we’re saving the oil that would be used in making new plastics, and we’re reducing the amount of plastic waste that goes to landfills and incinerators.

Second, we’ve structured our manufacturing and transportation network to dramatically reduce our use of fossil fuels. By using naturally generated power whenever possible and keeping transportation distances short, we can reduce our carbon footprint by lowering emissions of greenhouse gases.

What “Green” Really Means: More Recycling, Fewer Emissions

What makes a product “green”? In the case of Green Street kitchen tools and utensils, there are two major ways we’re reducing our impact on the environment.

First, all Green Street utensils are made from recycled plastic water bottles. So we’re saving the oil that would be used in making new plastics, and we’re reducing the amount of plastic waste that goes to landfills and incinerators.

Second, we’ve structured our manufacturing and transportation network to dramatically reduce our use of fossil fuels. By using naturally generated power whenever possible and keeping transportation distances short, we can reduce our carbon footprint by lowering emissions of greenhouse gases.

How We Do It: Turning Water Bottles Into Green Kitchen Utensils

The plastic bottles used for bottled water are made from plastic, or more technically a “thermoplastic” called PET made from petroleum. Every year in the U.S., manufacturing these water bottles uses enough crude oil to power 1 million cars. By recycling those bottles, we reduce the amount of oil America needs.

The used plastic bottles are collected and compressed, then shredded. The recycled plastic is fed back into a factory that adds materials to make the plastic more stable and both heat and stain resistant, important qualities for use in kitchen tools.

Reducing Emissions Naturally: Windmills And Bio fuels Reduce The Carbon Footprint

Next, this recycled plastic, in the form of pellets, is shipped less than 750 miles to our manufacturing plant in Ontario, New York. By keeping transportation distances short, once again we use less fossil fuel and reduce greenhouse gases. To further reduce harmful emissions, our factory uses both a windmill and natural gas generators to make its own power. Then, once the factory turns the recycled plastic into attractive, long-lasting kitchen tools and utensils, we ship them less than 100 miles to our Buffalo, New York warehouse using trucks fueled by bio diesel, a more environmentally friendly fuel made in part from renewable resources. Environmentally Friendly And Made In The U.S.A.

After carefully inspecting these new environmentally friendly utensils, we use 100% recycled packaging for shipment to retailers and distributors across the country

. That means each Green Street kitchen tool and utensil, along with its packaging, is not only 100% recycled but also 100% recyclable. And they’re made in the U.S.A.

As a 90-year-old employee-owned company, we share the values of America’s consumers. With Green Street products, we’re committed to making a positive impact on our community and our country.

Recycled Turner with Leaf Color and design by Green Street