Unlike when taking unnecessary car journeys or printing an excessive amount of paper, I don't feel particularly environmentally unfriendly when using a USB drive. But if you do, then this could be the USB drive for you.
Claiming to be the first earth-friendly product of its kind, the ATP 8GB EarthDrive boasts that it is made entirely from bio-recycled plastics, and it can be recycled when you've finished using it. It remains to be seen whether people bother to recycle the EarthDrive, or whether an item as small as this will merely be discarded.
The drive is water proof, shock proof and dust proof, which extends its lifetime in the first place, and proves to be a good product in itself, due to a built-in security software and password protection too. Taking these factors into account as well as the 8GB storage space, $48 is a decent price.
Oh, and if you weren't completely sold on the environmental factors outlined above, EarthDrive promise to donate 'a portion of all product sales' towards planting trees, which smacks somewhat that they realise the product itself is slightly lacking in practical ecological use. There is also the eternal question of why they need to overcharge for the product merely to give an (undisclosed) fraction to tree-planting - surely consumers can do this themselves if they choose? All in all, the EarthDrive is probably more impressive for its technical features than its green credentials, but being both recycled and recyclable certainly won't do any harm.
(via ecogeek)
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