Green Ideas: Your Own Carbon Neutral USB Flash Drive

We've always felt that wooden accessories are great. They are partly made out of sustainable materials, and wood is just plain good looking. Since USB flash drives are so small and can get taken apart quite easily, making your own wooden USB flash drive housing isn't a big project. It's still nice to see that some manufacturers have finally caught up on the trend. This USB drive is not just only made out of wood, it's also carbon neutral.

This new flashdrive is made by the British company Flashbay. They've come up with a their Nature Series, a new line of flash drives that are carbon neutral. They feature a natural hardwood shell from a PEFC certified source. The is European Maple and companies can brand the flash drives with their own logos. It's available in sizes from 32MB to 8GB.

We think that it's a good idea to make gadgets like these, because before you know it, we'll be running out of materials to make our favorite ones! Otherwise, this looks like a good quality flash drive. We like the wood case, and we are sure that lots of people will appreciate it. It's quite distinctive, since most USB flash drives seem to look alike. [via GeekAlerts]

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Comments (1)

So...let me get this straight... A company is destroying trees (yes I know PEFC certified blah blah) that would otherwise draw carbon FROM the air to clean it so we can breathe it. So after using the logging machines, chainsaws and potentially helicopters to harvest this wood, the wood is processed in a mill. After the wood is processed in a mill by machines that most likely run off a fossil fuel (somewhere down the line) it is then laser etched which is run off the same juice the mill is, potentially a third vendor. After this series of vendors has their hands on the product (how did it get from vendor to vendor?) the product is lovingly shipped to your door, originating from England. So it will most likely have to be shipped via plane or freight boat, then finally delivered by a truck. And this isn't even counting the internals of the USB itself (most likely made in China for near slave wages).

When is this massacre of "green" going to end? And when are companies going to keep pawing all their crap off thusly?

posted by whiteryanc on January 30th 2009 at 9:23am
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