ECO-FRIENDLY

Are we? Are they? Who defines it? Let me try. So you'll want to 1st pay attention to quality of product; specifically, durability or ability to endure. This is most important. Second would be packaging. You want the company to have used minimum necessary just to safely cover and protect the unit, so they can get it into your hands in one piece. Third, you want to look at size of unit. How much material was used to produce it? Was it all necessary? Ideally, you want to see a minimal amount was used to create a durable, quality product.

When it comes to any claims about replaceable this or that, be skeptical. You should be leery of products touting it and should look closely to see what they had to do in order to make that claim. I say this because I know when replaceable filter is claimed, it's almost always going to be one wrapped in another shell. And why? Well 1st, a new HEPA filter can never be provided "as is" for replacement. That's because without being glued into the shell, professionally, it's going to leak. Because of this, what you get then is your replaceable filter glued inside another plastic shell. This then is to go inside a 2nd, even larger shell. So the point is you're using twice the plastic, and the inefficiency was created just to claim the filters are replaceable. That replacement filter is going to fail just as quickly as the first one did, so essentially you only doubled what goes in the ground. There's obviously nothing smart about this.

What's needed is intelligent maintenance. This, and a brand enabling the user the power to extend lifespans, preferably exponentially. To have a focus on creating a true longevity of use. That along with a minimum in excess toward unit design and packaging. And that's what a responsible solution should look like in my opinion; one of common sense.

We aren't interested here in sounding eco-friendly. We just are. Not a bragging point; it would just be selfish and illogical to not.