Exactly how does buying and selling used products help our environment?

The volatility of our environment has weighed heavily on everyone’s mind in some way or another. Parents today often wonder what kind of future their children will have if we don’t start saving our precious resources now - before it’s too late. Baby Adorable is committed to keeping the preservation of the environment in everyone’s thoughts. We want to help make the most of our reusable resources by educating people to choose to “recycle” their previously loved apparel, shoes, gear, accessories and toys that their babies and toddlers once loved. 

You positively impact the environment by selling and buying used products.  

By becoming one of our consignors or resellers, your unwanted and no longer needed items won’t occupy precious landfill space or increase the earth’s carbon emissions as they are incinerated. By becoming one of our shoppers, you are choosing to buy a used product rather than a new one, which greatly lessens the strain on our environment by reducing the manufacturing process for making new products. 

Green Benefit of Consignment and Resale

The Council for Textile Recycling estimates that buying resale clothing prevents about 2.5 billion pounds of fabric from entering directly into the waste stream. This amounts to about 10 pounds per person in the United States. Wow, that's a lot!

According to the Environmental Protection Agency “The average American throws away about 68 pounds of clothing and textiles per year.” No longer needed clothes and toys either end up in landfills or they are incinerated. Landfills frequently lead to water and soil contamination and also give off methane, a greenhouse gas that leads to global warming. When items are incinerated, a great deal of CO2 and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, air pollution, and even water pollution are released.

Save Money and Feel Great About Doing Your Part

Not only do you save money buying used products, you also help improve the environment by reducing the demand for new products. Many environmentalists believe that “buying new” is harmful to the environment. There are many steps involved like the growth, production, manufacturing and transportation of a new product which therefore ultimately has a detrimental impact on our environment.

Did you know that the growth of cotton uses petro-chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides that poison the soil and water supply. Cotton production uses approximately 80% of the world’s pesticides. These pesticides kill our wild birds and fish and contaminate our livestock which then in turn effects OUR meat and milk supply! 

Rayon is made from wood pulp and its production leads to deforestation, air pollution, and water pollution. Nylon and polyester production emits greenhouse gases, produces toxic wastewater, and uses petroleum, which is one of our non-renewable resources. These items are also non-biodegradable, which means they do not decompose easily in landfills. They also use a lot of water and energy in their production as well as environmentally harmful chemical processes are widely used in dyeing of fabric, manufacturing leather, and wool processing.

After manufacturing, the product needs to be transported to the store and sometimes to the United States if it is manufactured elsewhere. The transportation process contributes to emissions of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels.

Sure is a lot to think about!

Thanks For Helping Our Children's Future

By consigning or selling your no longer needed items to us, they won't occupy precious landfill space or increase the earth’s carbon emissions. As one of our shoppers, by choosing to buy used products, you are ultimately reducing CO2 emissions, air pollution, water pollution, as well as deforestation is reduced. Our kids future depends on how well we treat our environment and wildlife today! 

Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

The next time you are looking at that new outfit at the mall, please think twice about the process that got that outfit there and the negative impact that process has on our environment. Then, consider shopping at Baby Adorable Designer Consignment and Resale Boutique instead to Green It Forward and reduce your own carbon footprint. Remember, every little bit helps!

Green it Forward With B.Y.O.B

We love when our customers B.Y.O.B (Bring Your Own Bag)! When you come shopping with us, please remember to bring your own shopping bag or request no bag at all for your purchases. For those who need a bag, we have "reusable" shopping bags.

Each year millions of discarded single use plastic shopping bags end up as litter in the environment when improperly disposed of. Single use plastic bags can take up to 1000 years to decompose. As they slowly decompose, these plastic bags break into tiny pieces and leach toxic chemicals into our soils, lakes, rivers and oceans. On land, single use plastic bags are one of the most prevalent types of litter. At their worst, plastic bags can clog drainage systems which contributes to flooding.

Single use plastic bags constitute a significant portion of the floating marine debris in the Earth's oceans. If washed out to sea, these plastic bags can be carried long distances by ocean currents and can strangle marine animals or worse if ingested, causes them to starve to death. Sadly, numerous deaths among animals such as sea turtles and dolphins have been attributed to the ingestion of plastic bags and other plastic litter in our oceans. Not to mention some of our other wildlife friends are equally in harms way due to this same litter in forests, lakes and rivers.  

Everyone needs to do their part and Green It Forward by reusing items we already have. We encourage you to reuse our logo-free Purple Shopping Bags as gift bags, tote bags, toy bags, storage bags, laundry bags and much much more! Each time you reuse an item, you are doing something great!

Help save our environment and protect our wildlife...

one plastic bag at a time!!!

REUSE - RECYCLE - RESALE