Eco-Friendly Stocking Stuffers for the Whole Family

Garden Seeds

While it may be the dead of winter where you live, a host of garden seeds are a fantastic stocking stuffer for the gardener who spends all winter planning for next year.

Recyclable Toothbrush

A new toothbrush is a classic, at least in my family, and these recyclable toothbrushes fulfill a need in a green way!

Fridge Water Bottle Rack

Use these handy racks to make the most out of your fridge space – they are perfect for keeping reusable water bottles chilled!

Audible Subscription

Avoid printing extra books – listen to audiobooks, instead. Gift an audible subscription to enrich their mind for the entire year.

Shampoo & Conditioner

Unless you’re in the no ‘poo camp, organic shampoo and conditioner are welcome additions to a green Christmas!

Burt’s Bees Lip Chap

Keep their lips happy with some lip chap – a perfect stocking stuffer for your wife when there’s mistletoe around!

Solar Lamp

There are many types of solar lamps available these days, I love my solar lamp – it’s waterproof and can run up to 15 hours on a single day’s charge. It’s perfect for power outages and camping trips, nice and small and compact.

Solar Charger

If your green friends have some prepper tendencies, love to camp or generally want to unplug from the grid, a solar charger makes an excellent gift.

Organic PJs

Eco friendly clothing has a huge impact on the planet, even if it is hard for us to see directly. Keep pesticides out of the watershed by giving a pair of organic pajamas as a stocking stuffer this year. They are also perfect if your family has a tradition of new PJs every year at Christmas.

Canning Lids

What do you get the urban homesteader or gardener? Canning supplies! You know they’ll use them this year.

Garden Markers

Avoid plastic garden markers with these more permanent metal garden markers, a nice eco-friendly gift for guys and gals who love to get their fingers in the dirt.

Soap Nuts

Soap nuts are a great eco-friendly product that replaces laundry detergent.

Wool Dryer Balls

Axe the dryer sheets and at the same time decrease the time required to get your things nice and dry – wool dryer balls do both!

Flip It Cap

Tired of losing the last bit of condiments, especially in bottles that won’t balance upside down? The flip-it cap adapter means they’ll get the last bit of that delicious mustard.

Bike Tube Wallet

While bicycles are beloved by sustainable living advocates, used bike tubes can create a lot of waste. Thankfully, there are tons and tons of great products being made out of old bike tubes. We love this wallet!

Organic Chocolate Bar

Christmas just isn’t Christmas without chocolate! Love the planet with some fair trade, organic chocolate bars. Everyone appreciates this classic stocking stuffer!

Fair Trade and Eco-Friendly Coffee

Rev up their engine with some organic coffee – see if you can find some excellent local roasters to support.

Organic Tea

Tea always makes an excellent sock filler and eco-friendly stocking stuffers!

Cotton Reusable Coffee Filter

Set aside the metal or plastic reusable filter for a cotton reusable coffee filter instead.

Canning Jar Accessories

We love this lunchbox adapter from Cuppow that makes it easy to carry your salad dressing or hummus separately, but in the same ready-to-go mason jar!

Reusable K Cups

Maintain the convenience of brewing just one cup at a time, without creating heaps of plastic waste by using reusable k-cups. As a bonus, you can fill them with organic, fair trade coffee! These were a requirement my Mom had before my Dad could get a Keurig (no joke!).

Hydro Flask

Good water bottles are just *so* much better than cheap ones – invest once in quality with a Hydro Flask.

Glass Lunch Container

Help them stay healthy and pack their lunch in a long-lasting, non-leaching glass lunch container.

Japanese Furoshiki Wrapping Cloth

Pick up some eco friendly gift wrapping in the form of a Japanese Furoshiki wrapping cloth – there are prints and styles for everyone in the family.

Reusable Produce Bags

These easy to use, non-plastic reusable produce bags have nice draw strings, are breathable, washable and will cut down on the plastic in their life.

Reusable Beeswax Food Wraps

Beeswax wrap is a natural product that seals your leftover food up without the need for plastic; it’s a great green invention!

These reusable wraps are great for sandwiches, apples, and other wrappable items to keep them fresh (and safe) in the lunchbox or fridge.

Coir Pellets for Seedlings

More stocking stuffers for gardeners – coir pellets to get their seedlings started.

Bike Tube

As a strong proponent of the n + 1 rule of owning bicycles, a cyclist will always appreciate a high quality spare bike tube.

Metal Straw

Metal straws make excellent eco-friendly gifts for kids – all the fun, none of the waste! This set is still bendable and comes with handy cleaning rods.

Biodegradable Golf Tees

For the golfer, try some biodegradable golf tees, designed to easily break down where they lie, instead of needing to be shipped to the dump.

Cloth Napkins

Banish paper towels with the gift of cloth napkins.

Rechargeable Batteries

Avoid tossing batteries altogether by ensuring that this Christmas will be powered by rechargeable batteries.

Biodegradable Dog Bags

Do you fill a stocking for your pet? We have lots of ideas for Fido, too, but an excellent one is biodegradable dog bags.

Cotton Face Wipes

These reusable cotton rounds can be replace the disposable ones in their make up routine. They’re also good for anything that needs a little cotton round like cleaning kids’ faces.

Stainless Ear Pick

Have you ever heard of a way to get rid of q-tips or cotton buds? This is one solution – a stainless ear pick, to gently remove wax buildup from their ears, without creating heaps of waste.

Straight Razor

A straight razor makes an excellent eco-friendly gift for guys.

Silk Floss

Continuing on the hygiene theme, silk floss is a reusable alternative to dental floss, and if you ever decide to cease using it, it makes a wonderful building material for birds nests.

Handkerchiefs

No more kleenex – handkerchiefs are for more than grandpa and hipsters.

Reusable Snack Bags

Make lunch completely garbage free with a set of reusable snack bags. Choose your prints to make this a stocking stuffer idea for adults, or for kids!

Stashers Snack Bags

These snack bags, like ziplocks, maintain the waterproof property that cloth bags do not, while being reusable! They are a durable and long-lasting solution that’s easy to keep around the house.

Bottle Brush

Does the keffir drinking kombucha-brewer in your life need to effectively clean out bottles? A bottle brush is the key to easily reusing bottles and jars that make their way into our homes.

Cup Koozie

These are a great alternative to the paper ones that you get when you get take-out beverages. Plus it works with reusable cups too.

Shower Timer

Keep their water usage to a minimum with a handy shower alarm, which can also keep fast-paced mornings on track thanks to the display time.

Shake / Wind Flashlight

Give them the gift of light with a shake or wind flashlight, that won’t go dead with a set of batteries. These are excellent camping gear, “reading under the covers” lights for kids, first aid kit accessories for cars and to have on hand for a power outage.

Merino Gloves

Put the incredible natural warm and wicking properties of merino to work for your loved ones with a pair of merino gloves.

Kindle

Turn books into electrons – bypassing the logging, pulping, paper-making, printing, shipping and storing – a kindle is a wonderfully green gift.

Recycled Scarf

Scarves are wonderfully seasonal and frequently made out of recycled materials.

Mushroom Grow Kit

The study of fungi is just beginning to unearth how powerful a force mycology is in nature – give the gift of an edible mushroom farm.

Lifestraw

Lifestraws are small, portable, personal water purifiers. Perfect for camping, emergency situations and “living on the land.”

Potmaker Paper Pot Press

Turn newsprint into seedling containers with a paper pot press. One paper pot press will last for a lifetime of gardening, repurposing the carbon of newspaper into seedling starters!

Mozzarella Making Kit

If you have a green-loving culinary friend, a mozzarella making kit is a fun way to truly appreciate how food is made. The freshest of fresh mozzarella is also delicious!

Skoy Cleaning Cloth

Skoy cleaning cloths are multi-purpose, highly absorbent, biodegradable cleaning cloths. A great addition to an eco-friendly cleaning regime and household. Aren’t these great eco-friendly stocking stuffers?