Green Gifts: 10 Original And Useful Gift Ideas

Are there any gifts more ecosustainable and environmentally friendly than a beehive?! Thanks to 3Bee you can choose to give the adoption of a beehive from a distance, choosing the local beekeeper and the honey of your choice! The person you give it to receives a personalised adoption certificate, the possibility to remotely monitor the health of the bees and genuine honey shipped directly from the beekeeper. Your hive will protect a family of bees, the planet and help local Italian beekeepers in their hard daily work.

Thanks to 3Bee you can choose to adopt a Nectar Tree as a gift. 3Bee plants and cares for them, you help them grow, the bees benefit. Trees are available all over Italy, controlled with ESA (European Space Agency) satellites and monitored with 3Bee technology. Trees are essential for producing oxygen and removing CO2 from the atmosphere, cleaning the air and increasing the biodiversity around us. Native and pollinator trees give pollinators more nectar and protect biodiversity. Give a sustainable gift, give a 3Bee Tree!

The perfect eco gift, for the technology lover, is definitely a power bank that runs completely on solar power thanks to small panels that allow it to recharge in direct sunlight. For smartphones and tablets, instead of the usual plastic cases, how about opting for a case made of wood or other organic materials? Find the colour you prefer, check the certifications and make a conscious choice to give a truly natural and beautiful case.

For plant and gardening lovers, the best environmentally friendly gifts must surely be related to these passions of theirs: how about a nice kit to germinate avocado seeds, acorns or grow small cuttings of their favourite plants? You're sure to find plenty of options online! You could even think about putting together a basket with everything they need to set up their own personal garden: good universal or succulent soil, the best gardening tools and a few seeds to grow original plants and flowers indoors.

Given the great success of vertical gardens and vegetable gardens in the home, how about giving a small indoor "greenhouse" to fix to the wall? This way you could combine your eco-friendly gift ideas with the sophistication of contemporary design. For design lovers it will be a beautiful surprise, which they can continue to care for and grow over time. It will be like having a small vertical forest inside your own home. Isn't it beautiful? There are so many models and types. A perfect gift or graduation gift idea. You could also think about giving wild pollinator houses, such as Polly. By hosting the uniquely designed, sustainable little house and 25 Osmia cocoons, you actively contribute to the population of the species and the preservation of the biodiversity around you.

To say goodbye to plastic bags, choose for your friends the shopper to keep in your bag with cheerful plastic-free print. The ones you find online are not only made of pure cotton with designs in eco-friendly colours, but are also designed to carry up to 10 kg. Not only that, it is also handmade in ethically certified facilities. For fashion victim friends or girlfriends, choose green gifts that can please them but in an ecological way. There are now many brands producing jeans in organic cotton, sustainable underwear and even jumpers made from recycled yarns and dyed in a natural way: search online for your favourite brand and help them discover the fascinating world of ethical fashion.

Giving enogastronomic products in Italy is very simple: go to small shops or directly to the producers and compose a small set with extra virgin organic oil, a bottle of good Italian wine and perhaps some cheese or typical products bought directly from the farms around your city. The whole world envies our delicacies, we are so lucky that we can buy them at km0 and give our loved ones top quality products! There are many types of honey that our territory offers, such as honey from cherry, honey from sulla, honey from chestnut, honey from acacia, thousand flowers and many others.

Enough of the usual shower gel with plastic bottle and aggressive formulations: make an ecological choice and only give organic body care products. There are plenty of sites online that offer a wide selection of 100% organic cleansers, creams and make-up that do not test on animals and are formulated in a gentle and environmentally friendly way. For tooth care there are wooden toothbrushes! You soon get used to the taste of wood in your mouth and the bristles are soft. In addition to toothbrushes, the packages include a wooden case and a floss made of bamboo fibre and charcoal, flavoured with mint. Did you know that honey is an excellent ally in skin care? Find out why!

To eliminate once and for all the transparent plastic film we use to seal food before putting it in the fridge, here are beeswax food wrappers. They are reusable, compostable and tight enough to seal containers and wrap food. For those who eat a lot of vegetables but tend to throw a lot of them away because they get mouldy quickly, the freshness-saving mat to keep vegetables and fruit unwrapped in the fridge drawer. is a great gift to reduce waste and colour the fridge! Find the best original gift ideas and useful gifts to surprise the ones you love and protect the environment and the entire planet.

Gifting a bee is another original eco-friendly idea. With 3Bee you can gift a bee and its wild pollinator house. With MyPolly you receive Osmia Rufa's cocoons and the house to house them. The Osmia house is made entirely of wood, with bamboo canes to fill the interior space and house the new eggs. You can place the Polly House by following the guidelines for correct positioning: at least 1 metre above the ground, in a sunny spot, facing south and sheltered from the wind. The Osmias, once hatched, will fly from flower to flower to collect nectar and pollen, thus contributing to the pollination of the surrounding vegetation. They will then colonise the Polly House to give birth to the next generation of solitary bees. A special gift that protects wild pollinators and contributes to the preservation of biodiversity.