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Do you know that during the construction of a two-bedroom single family home, the process can produce enough waste to fill up one of the bedrooms that we had just built? Real estate can be a very un-green industry, and our goal behind EcoJoe® is to raise awareness and open up dialogue without preaching to our consumers.
Our goal at EcoJoe® is to provide a greener alternative to existing plastic St. Joseph products on the real estate market. St Joseph statues are often forgotten once the properties are sold, or the sellers simply forget where they buried him. As time goes on, plastic degrades and releases toxins that come back into our food through poisoning water sources, soil and our eco-system. Moreover, plastic is derived from crude oil. The production of plastic products release many toxic chemical by-products into our atmosphere, takes away valuable water resources and poisons our grounds.
EcoJoe® solves that ecological problem of plastic so that forgetting to dig Saint Joseph up leaving EcoJoe® in the ground to bless the next homeowners is perfectly okay.
EcoJoe® respects the Catholic tradition and promotes learning of Saint Joseph.
Each EcoJoe® is made with 100% clay, hand pressed into molds and then sent through the kiln firing process, left out to air-dry for 30-40 days. The product is 100% eco-friendly. Unlike its plastic counter parts, the process of making an EcoJoe® produces minimal and significantly less harmful by-product. Furthermore, when left buried in the ground, unlike plastic St Joseph statues, EcoJoe® does not leach harmful chemicals into our soils and water sources. The packaging of EcoJoe® is also environmentally friendly. The regular EcoJoe’s packaging is printed with soy based ink onto stone paper, that is bio-degrable. The packaging itself is an one sheet that folds into the box packaging without using glue. The gift version’s packaging is printed with soy based ink on recycled paper. You can visit our Why Not Plastic page for more informational on using plastic products.
EcoJoe® has been very fortunate to have amazing fans’ support from the beginning, and have received industry award nomination (Real Estate Staging Association’s 2009 Product of the Year finalist), as well as notable press from the likes of Entrepreneur Magazine, MarketWatch, Apartment Therapy, VARbuzz, dieline.com and many others. We are now retailed online, on Amazon.com, and selected retailers throughout the nation. If you are interested in wholesaling EcoJoe® in your store, please contact us at hello@ecojoekits.com.
We can also imprint your logo on EcoJoe® packaging to make it a complete promotional gift.