How Manayunk Goes Green

With the second annual Eco-Arts Fest kicking off Saturday, take a look at how businesses on Main Street "go green."

• Consignment shops like Upscale Resale, and reduce the amount of clothes Americans throw away by nearly 70 pounds annual. 

• sells a variety of locally-made organic products 

• merchandise is made in the country and at least 50 percent is made within five miles of the gallery.

• plates and utensils are 100 percent biodegradable and their products are made with organic and natural ingredients. 

• Many of ingredients are local and rgb-free.

• offers local and organic produce including Trickling Springs Creamery, Capogiro, Bobbi's Hummus and Mompops Gournet Popsicles. 

• , , , get ingredients from local farmers and even uses produce from its own garden.

• The Couch Tomato offers cash incentives to customers who bring their own reusable takeout containers and 's recycles its fryer oil to power greenhouses and local trucks.

• The recycles all of its spent grain at local farms

• features a carbon neutral tie collection that is made of 30 percent recycled materials and recycles old, unloved pieces of jewelry into new pieces.

• has carpeting that is made from corn, 100 percent PECO wind-powered energy and spa beds made from sustainably-sourced hard woods and PVC-free tops.

• offered handpicked, used books and allows music lovers to trade in some old tunes for something new.