I make my sustainable items from both new, and preferably eco-friendly items and, if possible and suitable, from upcycled items. As a society we use many items only once, then toss them, some items will decompose quickly with little or no impact on the environment, while others may take many years to decompose, like snack bags, and can become landfill or river and ocean debris. Using reusable cloth towels and dusters that can be washed and used many times, will save you cash in the long run, using cloth wraps for food and lunch sacks instead of snack bags and plastic bags, will save you money and are earth friendly alternatives.

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Some of my items require waterproof and/or food safe materials, for example the lunch bags, snack bags and food wraps, or the kitchen wetbags that I make as a compliment to the cloth towels that I make (often called "unpaper towels", but cloth remnants and old clothes have been used as kitchen throwaway rags for probably hundreds of years- ever since there were kitchens I suspect, long before papertowels or kitchen rolls became the norm!). Anyway, I wanted to use certified and approved materials for these purposes with as little impact on the eco-system as possible and eventually found Wazoodle Fabrics, a company that I feel is aligned with my own views and is  based in the USA with USA manufacturing. 

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From another viewpoint, my cloth towels and face wipes also use new materials, in terms of flannel, however, the towel on the back of the face wipes is, where possible upcycled from old towels - thoroughly washed before use.