Our Story
Inspired by Sea Turtles Since 2008
Established in 2008, Eco Maniac Company’s mission is to inspire individuals and businesses to protect the environment through small habit changes that reduce their use of single‐use plastics by providing affordable, simple‐to‐use, eco‐friendly, reusable, sustainable, zero‐waste products along with an educational shopping experience.
Eco Maniac Company was founded in March 2008 by Christina Trapani with some help with her sister Yvette. What started as 10 designs and 1000 reusable grocery bags has turned into an eco-friendly online store and traveling retail store with many options to help you replace single-use plastics in your life. Visit us at our Pop-Up Events in the Mobile Eco-Truck or at Painted Tree Boutiques, Life is Gouda and Lazy Daisy in Virginia Beach, VA. Rethink, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse!
When we add products to our selection, we want to make sure they meet as many of the following criteria as possible:
Reusable
Eco Friendly
Sustainably made
Ethically made (Fair Trade)
Made from sustainable materials
Replace a similar unsustainable product
In 2024, owner, Christina Trapani, was hired to become the Executive Director of Clean Virginia Waterways, a non-profit organization based in Virginia Beach, VA that works to reduce plastic pollution and litter in Virginia.
Christina has worked with Clean Virginia Waterways for more than 20 years including
organizing litter cleanups for the International Coastal Cleanup;
leading a statewide marine debris monitoring program;
implementing a Cigarette Litter Prevention Program at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront;
founding the Keep It Beachy Clean litter prevention program
co-leading a balloon litter prevention campaign including monitoring, research, education and helping to make it illegal to release balloons in Virginia;
co-founding the Virginia Plastic Pollution Prevention Network;
and coming soon, implementing a balloon recycling program in Virginia.