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Wouldn’t green be not buying them in the first place?

Where does this idea that making things of out wood is 'green' and 'sustainable' come from? Growing, harvesting, processing, staining, etc of wood is green?

Wood biodegrades. Plastic doesn't. In fact, it's accumulating in our environment at an alarming rate.

spicy- sounds like in a perfect world, nothing would ever be made.
all the processes you mentioned can be green. how else would products be made?

The wood itself biodegrades..what about the by-products of making things out of wood? What about the transportation costs of harvesting wood both from a carbon footprint standpoint and a environmental destruction standpoint? Etc Etc. What I'm getting at is that all this nonsense about one type of consumer good being more green than another is mostly marketing b.s. and should not be thrown around as lightly as this website does. This post is a particularly egregious and lazy use of it..what, are the wires and the actual earpiece made out of wood too? No. In fact you can see that the piece that actually touches your ear is made out of plastic. Seems to be a whole bunch of plastic in the packaging too that's gonna go right in the trash. I'd like to see MORE skepticism about claims of 'green-ness' from this website instead of what appears to be a pretty energetic willingness to go along with whatever a manufacturer says.

And, maximumHOTbottom...yes, all those processes CAN be green..but are they in this case? Who knows...but the editor decided to throw the word green on there anyway. Why? Cuz a tiny part of the product is wood?

Actually, I can't tell how much of those headphones are made out of plastic. It's possible the baffles are rubber or some other natural substance. The cords almost look like metalized fabric. The drivers themselves might be paper.

The "packaging" looks like it might double as a carrying case. And again, the clear material on the front could be a biodegradable plastic or plastic-like material - there are a few, though they're still pretty expensive.

Someone should come up with an equation that determines when an eco item loses its eco value by nature of its cost or frivolity. In all likelihood the consumer has the plastic earbuds from their orginal mp3 player purchase, in which case these don't remove or replace a plastic product from being consumed, and if one does need to replace them, couldn't the argument be made that if you have 100 dollars to put towards something eco friendly, earbuds arent the best bang for your buck? I dunno. This irks me!