13 Eco-Friendly & Sustainable Stocking Stuffers To Fill Santa’s Sleigh
Does the overconsumption of the 25% more wasteful holiday season ever make you feel like becoming the Grinch Who Stole Christmas?
You’re not alone!
We’re all about the spirit of the season’s generosity, but it can’t come at the cost of the planet or the tireless toiling of commodity makers. (Santa’s sweatshop of elves, no thanks.)
Stocking stuffers tend to be some of the most wasteful at Christmas, with dollar store trinkets and fun, cheap plastic amulets filling the traditional fireplace scene with a bunch of garbage that’s soon landfill-bound.
But great things sure do come in small packages, and these sustainable stocking stuffers are here to prove the perfect gift is a sustainable alternative to all the stuff.
By choosing any one of these eco-friendly stocking fillers, you’re spreading love and joy while also preventing excess waste.
Best of all, there’s no need to wrap eco-friendly gifts that are stocking-bound—but if you want to, check out our zero waste gift wrapping ideas.
Let’s take a sleigh ride down our list of the best environmentally friendly stocking fillers.
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The Full List Of Eco-Friendly Stuffers
- Earphones | Visit Store
- Candles | Visit Store
- Personal Care Products | Visit Store
- Camera | Visit Store
- Electric Toothbrush | Visit Store
- Food Storage | Visit Store
- Reusable Cutlery | Visit Store
- Candy | Visit Store
- Shaving Tools | Visit Store
- Reusable Water Bottles | Visit Store
- Tea | Visit Store
- Socks | Visit Store
- Accessories | Visit Store
1. Earphones
Price Range: $14–$149
Have someone’s stocking to fill who loves technology but also nature?
For the eco-conscious techie or music lover in your life, the best stocking stuffer ideas are small, unique ethical gadgets.
You heard that right, items like earphones and other various tech goodies have increasingly environmentally friendly options in an otherwise unsustainable sector.
House of Marley sells sustainable earphones featuring natural materials that carry out Bob Marley’s legacy by combining his love for both music and our Earth.
Your special someone will never miss a beat with the Redemption Anc 2 True Wireless Earbuds, which feature a 24-hour play time and a six-hour battery life.
They’re made from sustainable and natural materials, sweat and water-resistant, plus noise and echo cancellation will keep your honey singing One Love uninterrupted. Available in three ear sizes.
Or maybe your loved one isn’t ready to ditch their Airpods, which the jury’s still out on in terms of health impacts.
In that case, gift their Christmas stocking with a case itself for their Airpods with Oakywood’s Airpod’s Case. The Polish brand uses a traditional woodworking approach to craft modern, bespoke sustainable electronics and accessories. Using mainly walnut and oak, all wood in their eco-friendly products is certified sustainably sourced.
2. Candles
Price Range: $24–$78
“This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine, this little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine…”
The popular hymn during the holidays encourages us all to make the world a better place, and while it isn’t talking about vegan candles per se, the gift of a little loving light is something that everyone could stand to receive.
P.F. Candle Co uses 100% US-sourced soy for their vegan soy wax candles. Plus they feature a clean-burning cotton-core wick and natural oils to make sumptuous scents like Sandalwood & Rose or Cedar & Sagebrush.
The best part?
These vegan stocking stuffers are incredibly affordable, at less than $25 a pop.
Or maybe your stocking stuff-ee (as in, the one opening the stocking) is dynamite with DIY, in which case Siblings “easy AF DIY candles that do good for the planet and smell even better” are perfect vegan and sustainable stocking stuffer ideas.
Since most candle jars never get reused or recycled, this stylish zero waste candle brand offers easy fill-your-own options. We suggest their Sweater Weather Pack, which comes with a trio of cruelty-free festive candle kits.
3. Personal Care Products
Price Range: $6–$82
On average, women wear twice as many personal care products as men, applying a shocking average of 168 chemicals per day via their beauty routine!
But who wants products that contribute to inflammation, contact dermatitis, microplastics, or further landfill waste?
Especially if those products are also being used on a our precious little ones, whose developing nubile bodies are extra sensitive to toxins.
Birch Babe offers safe personal care oriented eco-friendly stocking stuffers for the whole family. From shampoo and shave bars to lip/cheek tints and the luxurious Gentle Face Scrub, filled with a host of nourhsing plant oils and nautral clay.
Let’s not forget our littles’ skincare needs.
For “Mums-On-The-Go”, the Birch Baby Travel Set is a triage of portable products that inlude shampoo and body wash (which can be used by both mom and baby), baby lotion, and diaper balm, contained in a convenient resealable zippered pouch that’s fully recycable.
But we recommend refilling it instead via their full-size Baby Skincare Bundle.
All three sensitive skin formulas contain organic ingredients that are EWG Verified, vegan, and cruelty-free.
In fact, any of their vegan Christmas stocking stuffers are always free of phthalates, parabens, PEGs, synthetic fragrances, dyes, and common allergens (like gluten, peanut, dairy, soy).
*Sponsored inclusion. Learn more here.
4. Camera
Price Range: $25–$250
Give the gift of new perspectives with an ethically manufactured, analogue-digital hybrid camera this season.
If you’re in need of sustainable stocking stuffers for kids (or adults!), award-winning Papershoot is an electronics brand putting the “E” in eco-friendly with their durable, kid-friendly, and simplistic digital point-and-shooters.
Because everyone could stand to take a break from their smartphones over the holidays (and beyond).
Papershoot’s Hand Drawing Red camera is especially cute for your little one. Meant to mimic a 35 mm film camera, except that it’s powered by rechargeable AAA batteries and records both photos and videos to a micro 128GB SD memory card.
All of Papershoot’s cameras combine the aesthetic and experience of film photography with the convenience of digital, wrapped up in an innovative, eco-friendly package of highly durable stone paper from biodegradable resin and pressed limestone.
Have an accident-prone butterfinger child? No sweat (literally,) this casing is also water-resistant, more durable than plastic, and drop-resistant.
No kid in your life?
Gift your on-the-go bestie, always filled with childlike wonder, with one of these cameras as they also make for excellent eco-friendly stocking stuffers for travelers.
5. Electric Toothbrush
Price Range: $70–$100
No one has to sing “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” thanks to the care their pearly whites will receive with the gift of a sustainable electric toothbrush, making the perfect stocking stuffer.
Sustainable Tomorrow’s eco-friendly electric toothbrush features heads made from FSC-certified bamboo with castor seed oil bristles. They can be composted at home, taking 6 months to decompose.
A full charge provides a full 30 days of sustainable scrubbing, and while the toothbrush handle is made of plastic, it’s to protect the electrical components. Each toothbrush is packaged in zero-waste.
These make for some of the best stocking stuffer ideas for your sustainable oral care enthusiast and environmentally conscious giftee, sure to get them buzzing with joy… and sparkling teeth.
Briut Essentials Co. is another dazzling tooth care option,
Their bamboo electric toothbrush offers five settings, a two-minute timer, a month-long battery life, a USB charger, charging base, and three bamboo electric toothbrush heads.
The bamboo heads are made of charcoal-infused and plant-based bristles, all of which are compostable at end-of-life.
6. Food Storage
Price Range: $10–$115
Whether or not your loved one’s holiday wish list includes a less wasteful world, groovy food storage makes for some of the (literally) neatest zero waste stocking stuffers.
And while it may not sound like the “coolest” stocking stuffer idea, what brings more gift-giving cheer than the knowledge that your zero-waste gifts are supporting a better world?
Especially for those clean-freak loved ones who get particularly particular in the kitchen around the festive season, reusable food storage can help soothe their holiday OCD.
We’ve touted the benefits of zero waste essentials brand Stasher in a number of roundups before, and it’s no wonder.
Their reusable silicone bags are the perfect eco swap of all your loved one’s plastic bag needs, ranging from little sandwich bags to mega 100oz-plus freezer bags.
Not only are they stylish and durable, but they’re dishwasher-safe, microwave-ready, and freezer-friendly, all the while eliminating traditional plastic produce or ziploc bags.
We suggest the kaleidoscopically colored Tropical Collection as perfectly practical stocking stuffers.
Or make your loved one the envy of their boardroom lunch (or Christmas leftovers brunch) with SuperBee’s beeswax wraps.
We’ve personally tested their wraps, crafted out of 100% GOTS-certified organic cotton and coated with beeswax, tree resin, and organic coconut oil.
And we can confirm, these biodegradable wraps work wonders at wrapping sandwiches or keeping leftovers safe, plus they’re 100% bee-autiful. We love the bold patterns of their Bee-ginner Classic 3 Set.
7. Reusable Cutlery
Price Range: £12
When it comes to plastic stocking stuffers, put a fork in it!
… A reusable fork, straw, spoon, and knife set as awesome eco Christmas stocking alternatives, that is.
Because the best eco-friendly stocking stuffers are the ones that help your family and friends lead a more sustainable lifestyle—maybe even completely plastic-free.
So if you want to gift a sustainable shift to someone you love, any eco-friendly cutlery set option from Jungle Culture is one of the best ways you can do it.
Does your beloved love to camp or travel? These sets also make for the perfect camping and travel companion to end disposable use for good.
We especially love the premium dark wood reusable cutlery set, which is handmade in Southern Vietnam and crafted using scraps from a local furniture maker.
Complete will all your utensils (bamboo straw included), it’s sold with an organic cotton carrying bag, hand sewn in the historic seamstress area of Hoi An, Vietnam.
We promise any zero waste folks will fork out plenty of thanks in return for this zero waste gift.
8. Candy
Price Range: $5–$55
No Christmas stocking is complete without something scrumptious you can eat, and nothing beats chocolate during the festive season… errr, any season for that matter.
Fun stocking stuffers adults and kids alike can get behind are chocolate and candy. Even sweeter?
When that chocolate is sustainably sourced.
Are you looking specifically for vegan chocolate stocking stuffers?
Vegan chocolate brand Conscious Chocolate is a female-founded Certified B Corp that suits all dietary requirements with their raw, organic, vegan Festive Five Bar Bundle.
The vegan gift bundle features their award-winning Peppermint, Orange & Tangerine, Four Nuts, Dark Side 75%, and Dark Side 85% bars—all free of gluten, soya, dairy and refined sugars.
All are handmade in their kitchen in England with renewable energy and Peruvian cacao from farmers who are paid a fair trade price.
Want healthy stocking stuffers that are equally mouth-watering for your friends and family?
Alter Eco’s decadent range of organic chocolate truffles are remarkably healthy AND tasty, with each one made with 100% pure coconut oil and other nutritious Fair Trade and USDA organic ingredients.
We suggest the Salted Caramel Truffles, which are like edible kryptonite, an addictive chocolate bomb.
Plus everything is wrapped in plant-based, compostable packaging to keep it healthy for the Earth, too.
9. Shaving Tools
Price Range: $40–$84
In need of even more eco-friendly stocking stuffer ideas?
Help your loved ones shave away unwanted waste and their hair down there (or up there… or around there… or everywhere) with their very own zero waste razor.
Because you know those single-use candy-colored plastic razors sold at convenience stores and drugstores?
The EPA estimates they will take a horrific 1000 years to decompose, releasing microplastics, choking waterways, and dirtying our ecosystems for an unfathomable length of time to humans.
Tried and true designs of bygone days have come full circle, with original metal razors proving the best alternative to plastic options.
Plus, these gender-neutral stocking stuffer ideas are handy and effective to all!
Leaf Shave ensures sustainable shaving is simple with their single-blade, fixed head safety razor, with a solid, chunky handle to optimize control and grip.
It comes in gold, chrome, and black, plus rose gold for the millennial in your life.
If your budget is a close shave, dig into a more affordable EcoRoots Safety Razor.
Made from stainless steel and zinc alloy, it’s a 100% recyclable object, except we’re pretty certain this will be a gift used for life. Comes with five additional replacement blades for every six or seven shaves.
Zero waste doesn’t ever have to mean zero style, so this stylish razor is available in black or rose gold.
10. Water Bottle
Price Range: $20–$125
What are the best stocking stuffers?
Eco-friendly stocking fillers that fill our Earth with zero waste, like an eco-friendly water bottle, make for an ideal sustainable stocking stuffer while helping rid the planet of unnecessary plastic waste.
Because more than twenty thousand plastic water bottles are purchased every second, with more than 1500 are discarded every second of every day worldwide, and this alarming stat keeps us all on Santa’s naughty list.
Instead, ‘tis the season to be jolly about mitigating this enormous amount of waste, so get your loved one on Santa’s nice list with Tree Tribe’s bottles, which come complete with vacuum insulation, to keep drinks hot for 6–10 hours.
Available in 20oz or 34oz, the outside is 18/10 durable stainless steel, while the inside is BPA-free 18/8 stainless steel, plus the cap is sustainable bamboo with a leak-proof food-grade silicone rim.
If that someone special is more of a “roadie” on-the-go type with a nip of holiday prosecco in tow, then Hydro Flask has a huge selection of stainless steel tumblers, mugs, and bottles for coffee, tea, kombucha, water, beer, bubbles, or wine.
We especially love their 32oz All Around Travel Tumbler, available in a variety of pretty colors and complete with lid, handle, and straw for sipping on whatever their favorite beverage may be.
11. Tea
Price Range: $4–$132
This holiday season, spill the tea—the sustainable tea, that is—on stocking stuffers for vegans that support a cruelty-free and ethical Earth with the gift of fair trade, organic loose-leaf tea.
Certified B Corp and Fair Trade veteran Numi offers 40-plus USDA-certified organic tea blends, with everything from chocolate tea to turmeric golden lattes, herbal tisanes, and sustainable green tea.
Loose-leaf options are available for their bestsellers, otherwise their tea bags are crafted from hemp-based, unbleached tea bags sealed in industrial compostable, sugarcane-derived wrappers, with organic cotton tea strings and a tag from 100% recycled materials and soy-based ink.
We suggest their Tea By Mood gift set, with 8 flavors to help giftees “embrace or change moods”.
The Tea Spot is another Certified B Corp tea brand offering a great stocking stuffer with their Loose Tea Starter Set.
The set includes a food-grade stainless steel tea infuser and four mini tins of their bestselling teas to get your loved one steeped in health and wellness benefits.
12. Socks
Price Range: $15–$35
What better organic stocking stuffers than, well, organic stockings?
Knock the socks off your loved one’s Christmas morning with quirky stocking stuffers like bright and fun sustainable socks.
Happy Earth’s organic cotton socks are a sure-to-be-loved ethical gift, with durable, soft, breathable socks to dress sustainably from head to toe.
Socks—like the colorful and geometric Peak Experience perfect for mountain lovers—are all made in a Fair Trade factory in India.
Or do you have a kid in your life who you’d like to help put their best ethical foot forward?
Try socks from Conscious Step, which are made from 100% GOTS-certified organic cotton and also come in big sizes for matching family pairs with a matching clean conscience.
We especially love any one of their Kids Gift Boxes, with each different set supporting a cause like ocean conservation, wildlife protection, or rainforest protection.
13. Accessories
Price Range: $110–$12,760
This Christmas, gift that someone special in your life with sustainable jewelry or a sustainable timepiece to demonstrate your love for both them and the planet.
In spite of most beautiful bling being associated with ugly armed conflicts, child labor, unsafe working conditions, and the end of ecosystems, these options prove that diamonds can be a girl’s bestie.
Ethical brand Bario Neal sells jewelry made entirely from recycled materials or certified Fairmined materials, so your bling gift can be given without any ethical baggage.
We especially love their Birthstone Rings, which could double as an eco-friendly engagement ring if popping the question is under this year’s Christmas mistletoe.
For the accessory-embracing man in your life, the perfect sustainable stocking stuffer comes by way of TRIWA’s Solar Black Recycled watch.
It features a large and minimalist face, glow-in-the-dark hands, a VS22B Solar movement that runs for several months without charging, plus a comfortable and durable canvas strap made from recycled plastic bottles.
Your sweetheart is sure to love it until the end of time.
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Final Thoughts On Low Waste Sustainable Stocking Stuffers
Science says gifting is good for you—but you know what’s even better?
Eco-friendly and ethical gifting.
No hard feelings to Santa, but a lot of his giving has contributed significantly to GHGs, waste, climate change, and overconsumption over the years.
And what else can bring gift-giving cheer quite like the knowledge that your eco-friendly stocking stuffers support a better world and humanity?
Now that’s a perfect stocking stuffer that keeps on giving.
This Christmas, you can make sure your eco-friendly stocking fillers don’t haunt landfills like the ghosts of Christmases past by choosing thoughtful presents that show kindness to all.
Share this article with the Scrooge in your life to encourage a more generous holiday season for the environment, people, and wildlife that make it even more miraculous than Christmas itself.
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