Visit any landfill, and there’s a good chance you’ll see a baby bouncer or highchair amongst the scraps. The husband-and-wife duo behind Evrloop hope to change that.
Vince Giudice and Marlo Gertz-Giudice created their business with one guiding principle: Keep your baby’s carbon footprint little. For the Chatham couple, this translates to a business using entirely recycled and regenerative materials in its baby gear, minimizing waste, and offering a buyback program where customers can get up to a 20 percent rebate by returning their used products to Evrloop.
“I like to use the line, ‘Your baby deserves the best right now and 50 years from now,’” Giudice says. He previously spent over a decade heading product design and development at Green Toys, a West Coast toy company that makes its products out of 100 percent recycled plastics. When Giudice eventually departed the company, he wanted to take the concept a step further. A father of two, he soon chose baby gear as his product line—even keeping a journal to outline the pros and cons of the items his kids used.
Photo: Courtesy of Evrloop
Guidice highlights the unique brevity of baby products, recognizing that bouncers, for example, are typically only used for six months. That short lifespan, paired with the fact that, for liability reasons, some places won’t accept used baby-item donations, means many products are left out on the curb.
“You have this category where you have a lot of waste and a lot of quality,” says Giudice. “That all came together, and we decided, let’s go ahead and do this.”
Evrloop launched nationwide in April with three-in-one highchairs ($220) and bouncers ($200). Products are available at retailers including Amazon, Target+, Pottery Barn Kids, Crate & Kids, plus evrloop.com.
The couple hopes their efforts can help inspire other businesses to go green.
“The hope is that people replicate this, that we can share the data on how it works both financially and for carbon reduction,” Guidice says.
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