If one of your new year’s resolutions is to lose weight, here’s a nifty eco gadget to help you monitor the situation.

Japanese precision electronic scale maker, Tanita, has made the common bathroom scale a little greener.  In addition to being solar-powered, Tanita’s new HS-302 Solar Digital Scale is made with ABS plastic using biodegradable resins.  The new material, Terramac, is purported to reduce carbon emissions in making the scale’s housing by 20% while making the scale more landfill friendly, (biodegradable).

The HS-302 retails for $59.99.

sources: tanita.com / designnews.com