The Best Recycled Plastic Toys for Kids

Are great toys hard to come by today? Yes, but they do exist! The toys featured on this page are all made of recycled plastic, most toys made with recycled milk jugs. Most are PVC free, phthalate free, and BPA free, and made in the USA! For some great green gift ideas for kids, read on for suggested recycled plastic toys by the much loved toy manufacturer, Green Toys, as well as other recommended environmentally friendly toys that go light on the plastic and high on quality.

Toys made with recycled milk jugs

This is one of the most popular recycled plastic toys on the market. In the set, you'll get a huge lot of play toys, including a tea pot, multiple cups and saucers, stirring spoons, and more. Kids can have their own little tea party, and you won't have to worry about any BPA! It's also a great environmentally friendly alternative to toys you'd be buying anyway. Great gift for children who have green parents, too!

Green toys made in the USA!

Every boy needs a cool truck to play with! The only problem is that with some of those toys, you never know where they were made or what they've been made with. These, however, are made right in the USA. They're phthalate free and BPA free, so there's no worry about the contents. To boot, it's made with recycled plastic, so you can feel good about the favor you're doing for Mother Earth. Oh, and did we mention that it's pretty cheap, too? Even the packaging on this product is recycled. You can get it with free super saver shipping on orders over $25 (just look for products on Amazon that qualify for super saver shipping).

Creative toys - stimulate their brain!

With a creative twist on your average blocks and building pieces like LEGO, Fat Brain has introduced a great new toy called Dado Planks. These are made of recycled plastic, but that's not the coolest part. They interlock together to make some really neat structures like towers, cubes, and more. They come in a variety of stimulating bright colors that your child will love, and you'll find a great toy for its "replay" factor. For ages 3 and up, you may find kids much older assembling some unique pieces of architecture!

PVC free and phthalate free tub toys!

Like all of the toys from Green Toys, this is made with recycled milk jugs. As water fills the hull, it will pour out the spout! An eco friendly baby safe toy that they'll play with for years to come! This also has outstanding reviews from customers, with a 4.5 star rating.

This tugboat is available in three colors: red, yellow, and blue. The smaller image on the right will take you right to the product on Amazon, where it can be found at an excellent price (if not the best price online!).

Read more about eco friendly baby products here, and which ones make sense for your baby.

Cool earth friendly toys for boys!

Start your little one on their way to becoming a handyman and do-it-yourselfer with this eco friendly tool set! This set will have them using their hands with these tools, which includes a philips screwdriver, flat screwdriver, saw, hammer, 2 bolts, 2 nuts, 2 nails, 2 hole connectors, wrench, pliers, and the tool box itself. A great little kit for kids!

As you may have noticed by this point, a lot of these recycled plastic toys are made by Green Toys. These are all made with recycled milk jugs, so there's less emissions put off into the environment during production, and less waste created (you're actually reducing waste by buying any of these products instead of the other potentially toxic toys!).

The perfect safe first developmental toy for baby!

Stackable cups are a great developmental toy that teach children coordination and help them learn the concept of visualization and sizes. You can start out by giving your baby cups, to which they will eventually pull apart on their own. When they get older, you can try encouraging them to take them out one by one, then help them put them back in the stack one by one. They also help to introduce them to different colors and help develop hand eye coordination. You may find when they start walking that they like to stack the cups up and topple them over, which is all part of the fun!

These stackers are a great choice for their first stackable cups. One thing to keep in mind is that babies love to chew on these cups when they're teething. If you can buy one that's PVC free, phthalate free, and BPA free like these, they'll be avoiding those toxic chemicals (which have been known to be hormone disruptors).

Dig, rake, and play in the sand - durable and earth friendly!

Once kids get over the age of about one, they'll probably be ready to sit outside on the grass and in the sand. A first trip to the beach, even if it's your local pond or just a playground sandbox, is a unique and fun experience for both parents and kids. Of course, they are going to want to eat the sand, too, so expect them to grab at the sand and try to put in their mouth. As other parents have pointed out, here's what to do when your toddler eats sand.

A creative way for kids to reuse plastic bags!

Frankly, this is an ingenious way to reuse plastic bags. Plastic bags aren't just a nuisance, they're harmful to every aspect of the environment. They contaminate our water supply when they degrade, blow all over the highway (a complete pain if they get stuck on your antennae or muffler!), and are even ingested by animals. Not to mention, they look gross and are one of the most harmful products we throw away.

Spread a great message to your kids and let them be creative with the Plastic Bag Monster Kit! This cool kit lets them collect different colored bags until they have enough to reuse to make the Plastic Bag Monster (different colors work best, like blue, red, yellow, green, etc.). Once they have enough, they can put their imagination to use and create this cool and imaginative toy! See right for details on this one of a kind green product that kids will love.