The way I see it, there are a number of advantages to handcrafted, eco-friendly photo albums. Although a photo album can be eco-friendly without being handcrafted, that same album is very definitely eco-friendly if it is handcrafted, as can be said for that business at large, provided that handcrafting is all they do.
From my point of view, the only way it could affect the environment is if one of the artists came to work with bad breath, which is quite a minuscule effect--a point, though rather facetious, which we can all agree upon. In the handcrafting industry at large, there are no chemicals, oil, smoke, noise, or light polluting the environment, provided the work shift starts and finishes during daylight hours.
Also, because the construction materials used in the crafting of these photo albums, which are found on various Internet sites, are not mass produced, each album comes out as completely unique. Though they all are easily recognizable from their picture on the various websites, as compared to what you would find in the package you receive from these sites, you will also note that because of slightly nuanced differences in the shade and pattern of the bamboo, leaf, seed or flower incorporated in that particular organic photo album, it is unlikely to have an exact match anywhere else in the world.
Though this would present problems in the automobile industry, this is a real advantage, rather than a disadvantage, in the photo album industry. The reason I say this is that you end up, as a matter of course, buying a completely one-of-a-kind work of art. Since an original painting can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even duplicates can be expensive, these photo albums seem to be a real bargain.
Jim Green lives in Rockford, IL, and owns [http://forestcityphotoalbums.com], which offers more than 80 different designs broken down into over 20 categories.
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