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Sustainability at Amazon: school supplies under the magnifying glass

2022-08-17T06:47:26.887Z


The range on Amazon is huge. Those who rely on sustainable products need some time to search. We did that for you and found school supplies with a green background for you.


The range on Amazon is huge.

Those who rely on sustainable products need some time to search.

We did that for you and found school supplies with a green background for you.

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Whether it's school supplies for school enrollment or the start of a new school year: now it's back to bulk shopping.

Satchels, pencil cases, exercise books, pens, paint boxes... The list that parents get from school is often very long and includes a lot of school supplies.

So much that you can make a difference with your purchase.


Anyone who pays a little attention to sustainability in everyday life, where things come from, how they were manufactured and from which materials, can make a valuable contribution to more sustainability and environmental protection with little effort.


We took a close look at the Amazon universe for you and discovered some school supplies with a green background - and that at an affordable price.

Sustainable colored pencils for healthy forests

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Write sustainably with colored pencils from responsible forestry.

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The hexagonal STABILO GREENcolors colored pencils are made from 100 percent FSC-certified wood from the "Forest Stewardship Council", an international certification system for more sustainable forest management.

Products with the FSC seal come from forests that are managed more responsibly.


Amazon price: 6.99 euros for 18 pens

Sustainable school backpack for clean oceans

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Sustainable school bag made from 15 PET bottles from the sea.

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For every neoxx product purchased, 1 kilogram of plastic is recovered from the sea.

As a certified partner of "Plastic Free Planet", the major goal is to make the oceans cleaner and to contribute to the more sustainable use of plastic waste through education and awareness-raising.

A total of 15 PET bottles are in this school backpack, which makes our oceans a little bit cleaner.


School backpack in four different designs from 109.99 euros instead of 112.90 euros.

Sustainable pencil case from the Andes

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These sustainable pencil cases support women in Nepal.

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What to do with used rice and lentil sacks in the middle of the Andes?

The women from the JeevanKala workshops in Kathmandu had a great idea: They make cheerful, colorful pencil cases by hand and can thus preserve their traditional handicrafts - and provide for themselves and their families in the remote mountain villages of Nepal.

Each pencil case is

handmade and unique and costs 9.95 euros.

Sustainable paint box without chemicals

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Sustainable paint box in strong fluorescent colors.

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What a surprise: the natural colors, which are inconspicuous when dry, unfold their full color and luminosity when mixed with water.

And that without chemical additives, only with plant-based raw materials and highly concentrated plant extracts.

Here, parents can be sure that the colors do not contain any environmentally harmful, toxic lead - which often leads to poor ratings for commercial water colors in tests.


Paint box with 12 natural colors and brush for 17.08 euros.

environmental awareness in Germany

The results of a representative population survey by the Federal Environment Agency in 2020 are clear: environmental and ⁠climate protection⁠ have not lost in importance despite the corona pandemic.

65 percent of those surveyed rated it as very important, which is a similar value as in 2018. Accordingly, decisive action on climate protection is clearly endorsed by large parts of the population.

With your conscious shopping you can also make a contribution in everyday life.

Sustainable notepad with endless pages

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Make sustainable notes with reusable pad.

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Known to schoolchildren as a "smear sheet", thrown away as a ball of paper in the waste paper container at home: Even if the notepads are made of recycled paper, that's still a waste.

This reusable spiral notebook is a sustainable alternative.

Made from 100 percent environmentally friendly, durable materials, notes can simply be wiped clean with the cloth provided – and backed up in the cloud beforehand.


DIN A4 notepad incl. Pilot Frixion pen and microfibre cloth 39.99 euros

Sustainable glue saves resources

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Sustainable glue with a minimal CO2 footprint, it saves fossil resources.

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Children are big when it comes to handicrafts, but small hands still find it difficult to use it sparingly.

With glue, which often contains a lot of environmentally harmful substances, a lot comes together.

Compared to conventional glue sticks, the UHU stic ReNature glue stick reduces the CO2 footprint and saves fossil resources.

The adhesive formula consists of 98 percent natural ingredients and is solvent-free.


4 glue sticks without solvent are available for only 7.39 euros.

Sustainable exercise books in premium quality

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Sustainable exercise books in premium quality: white and smooth.

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Forget the gray, rough, recycled paper notebooks of your youth.

Today, sustainable notebooks no longer differ from those from environmentally harmful production.

The Green Premium line from Staufen with the white, smooth look of conventional paper comes from a climate-neutral company and has been awarded the "Blue Angel" and the EU Ecolabel.


5 booklets in DIN A5 format cost from 3.45 euros.

Sustainable triangle

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This sustainable triangle is made from corn starch.

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Many useful school helpers are made of plastic, which can hardly be avoided.

But there are more and more sustainable, resource-saving alternatives like this triangle made of corn starch.

This bio-plastic is just as durable and transparent as more conventional ones: for comfortable working in the office, at school and in your free time.


Geo triangle for 4.27 euros

Source: merkur

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