GOING GREEN
Using eco-friendly products and renewable energy sources reduces Greenhouse emissions that have a negative impact on our planet. Using solar, water and shake powered products keeps batteries out of landfills. Using biodegradable products reduces landfill build up. Using products that "tread lightly" on the environment reduces the amount of pollution and saves the energy that would have been used to produce the "non-green" option.
APPAREL
ORGANIC COTTON
Cotton that is grown on land free of synthetic chemical fertilizers and pesticides is considered organic. It is harvested and processed without harsh chemicals such as bleach. The result is a quality product that is good for business and the environment.
BAMBOO AND CHARCOAL TECHNOLOGY
One of the world's most renewable plants, bamboo grows up to a foot a day. Bamboo styles are naturally soft and breathable. Beyond that, because of bamboo's innate antibacterial functions, it naturally wicks moisture and prevents odor. Clothing created from bamboo charcoal fabric achieves even higher performance. Using high heat, bamboo charcoal technology converts renewable bamboo into charcoal, which is then made into a soft fabric that naturally regulates body heat and resists UV rays.
PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTS
RECYCLABLE
Recycling is good for the environment in two ways.
It reduces the inputs (energy and raw materials) to produce new products and reduces the amount of waste produced for disposal
Impact of Plastic: The effect of shopping bags that we use once and then throw away is overwhelming.
- The average family of 4 accumulates 1460 plastic shopping bags a year.
- It can take up to 1000 years for a plastic bag to break down in the environment.
Product Examples: shopping bags, carrying bags
REUSABLE
Reusable items instead of disposable everyday items go a long way in reducing waste. Paper bags for your lunch may be convenient, but they waste precious resources. Instead, reuse or refill items you’d otherwise buy new and then discard each time.
It reduces the inputs (energy and raw materials) to produce new products and reduces the amount of waste produced for disposal
The most commonly used methods for waste disposal (landfill pyrolysis, incineration) are environmentally damaging and unsustainable. Reduce your environmental impact by minimizing waste.
Product Examples: lunch bags, picnic accessories, water bottles, cups
ENERGY SAVING
Use alternate, non-harmful resources such as hand-powered, solar energy, and water energy to replace or to prolong battery life. The products in this section provide renewable energy from these easily available resources to produce electrical current for use as a power source.
Product Examples: solar clocks, water powered calculators and desk clocks, wind up flashlights
RECYCLED
There are two types of recycled material available for manufacturing: plastic and paper. Recycling plastic saves 70% of the energy used to create new plastic. Paper recycling saves 40% of the energy required to make a new product.
Post-consumer and previously used material comes directly from the products such as used water bottles that have been shredded, purified and reformed into another usable product.
Save a Tree! Products using 100% post-consumer recycled paper are made entirely from recycled materials, ensuring that no trees were cut down to make them. If less than 100% post-consumer recycled paper was used in a product's creation, the remaining percentage was drawn from virgin trees.
Post-manufacturing material comes from scrap raw material left over from producing another product. This product would otherwise be thrown away and end up in a landfill.
Product Examples: recycled tote bags, recycled notepads, messenger bags made from recycled plastic bottles, recycled pens
SUSTAINABLE
Resources that are naturally replenished at the same rate that they are consumed are considered sustainable. Products in this section are made with materials such as bamboo, cotton or corn.
Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant on the earth. It has been clocked growing at 121 CM in 24 hours. Bamboo is environmentally friendly and a quickly replenishing resource. In additions to bamboo's many uses as a product material, the plant in its natural living state generates more oxygen than a similar size grove of trees. A small stand of bamboo can reduce the temperature in its immediate environment by as much as ten degrees. Bamboo is proving to be one of the most significant and versatile natural resources available. Its rapid growth rate makes it a prime textile and materials crop for a wide variety of products. Compare a bamboo forest to a hardwood forest – the bamboo will mature in 4 to 8 years, where as hardwood take 40 to 100 years to mature.
Unlike regular plastic which is made from petroleum, corn plastic comes from corn resin (also known aspolylactic acid or PLA.) This new plastic doubles its eco-friendly impact by reducing our dependence on oil while lessening pollution produced during its manufacturing.
Product Examples: cotton tote bags, bamboo BBQ utensil sets, bamboo knife sets, bamboo golf tees, corn pens
