Green Process of Toys? Yes!!!!!!!!

      Have you ever giving thought to your children's toys being green? Well, now you can because there is a company called Green Toys Inc.  that makes green toys!! I was amazed when I saw  what this company was doing and how they make their toys 100%  GREEN!  Green Toys Inc. is based out of California.


        At first the company tested numerous materials against the Green and Safe rubric. The green rubric included recyclability of the product, biodegradability, and how energy efficient the material is. The safe rubric to making the green toys was not using lead and Bisphenol A (BPA).  By not using these additives of lead and BPA makes the toys safer and greener already, because lead can cause illnesses and BPA can leak into plastic materials that contain BPA.


          What does the company use to make these toys green? The answer may surprise you,  Green Toys Inc, uses High Denisty Polyethlyene (HDPE) from milk jugs!  Before they decided to use HDPE from milk jugs,  they first wanted to use Polylatic Acid (PLA). Soon they  realized that PLA did not stand up to  the expectations that they had hoped that it would. After they had experimented with PLA they decided to look into the use of recyclable materials,  during this process the company looked into petroleum based plastics because this type of plastic is recyclable. This is how the decision to use milk jugs came about! 


         How do the toys get made with milk jugs?!  Well, the toys are made by  pelletizing the recycled HDPE and mixing the pieces with colorant to give the toy color.  After the HDPE and colorant are mixed together, the mixture gets sent through an injection machine that injects the mixture into the toy molds, the operators of the machines then separate the toys from the plastic molds that they were casted in to get their shape, the plastic mold is then recycled. The plastic molds are recycled by going back to the manufacturing process to be used again to make another batch of green toys!


       Since Green Toys Inc. uses 100% green material to make their toys there is NO HAZARDOUS MATERIAL  to pose a risk to the employees in the factory.  Making the factory clean and making the working conditions safer for the employees.  Finding that this company uses 100% recyclable materials to make toys is a step in the right direction for other toy companies that want to green their current line of toys. Why can't all companies that they say they are  green use all recyclable materials?