Yes, eco-friendly photo albums can preserve your memories for future generations. In normal circumstances, unless you have one of the ancient albums passed along to you by parents or grandparents, with the black stick-on corners, you're probably noticing, or will eventually, that the pictures in your oldest photo albums are not quite as rich in color as they once were. This would especially be true if they've been put into the photo albums with the plastic pages, since it's more than likely that the pages have something in their make-up called polyvinyl chlorides, or PVCs. Over time, these chemicals actually bleed the color out of photos. After years of being stored in there, the best pictures look like they were originally overexposed.
Obviously then, what needs to be done is to find a photo album without these PVCs in their pages. There are several out there I found, and there seems to be quite a selection of different designs available. Each of these designs has, instead of plastic pages, paper pages akin to heavy construction paper. This will never fade your pictures, no matter how many decades they remain in the photo album. Since the albums with the plastic pages are so prevalent these days, it's good to know that an alternative is out there awaiting purchase.
In addition to being PVC free, they are also, as the article's title infers, eco-friendly, or organic photo albums. This most likely means that they use no animal parts of any kind, as well as no endangered plants. In fact, since they're made by hand on a tropical island, Indonesia's Bali, to be exact, the materials--seeds, flowers, bamboo, leaves, etc., will be in generous supply right out the front door, certainly throughout my lifetime, if not through several more, at a minimum.
James Green lives in Rockford, IL, and owns [http://www.forestcityphotoalbums.com], which offers handcrafted albums in more than 80 different designs broken down into over 20 categories.
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