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How to Reduce Plastic and Promote Your Brand at The Same Time

Our mission is to reduce plastic, and help our clients do the same while promoting their brands. We believe reusable promotional products serve a twofold purpose: they are effective marketing tools and they are good for the planet. Over the last 20 plus years, a lot of businesses have joined with us in the reusable movement to reduce plastic, help secure loyalty from their customers, and do right by the planet. How can the reusable movement benefit your business?

Reusable Grocery Bags VS. Plastic Bags…You Might Be Surprised By The Facts

Have you ever wondered how disposable plastic bags stacks up against reusable grocery bags? We did, so we did some research to figure out how both types of bags hold up and the results were interesting. From weight capacity to longevity, see how a custom reusable grocery bag is the right choice for your brand image.

Reusable Grocery Bags for Michigan? Walker Residents, Meet Catherine Pearce

Catherine Pearce, of Walker, Michigan is on a mission. For a couple years now this teacher has noticed disposable plastic bags constantly showing up in trees and shrubs while walking her dogs. Recently, Pearce decided that some changes need to be made, and she is taking her cause to the City of Walker with an idea to ban disposable plastic bags and increase the use of reusable grocery bags.

Think Reusable Shopping Bags When Advertising in California

California is pretty well known for their disposable plastic bag legislation. Well over 100 cities, towns and counties have logged laws banning or implementing fees on single-use bags. There is even a measure to ban plastic bags throughout the entire state. The fate of the bag ban will be decided in November 2016. Reusable shopping bags were already fairly popular in California, but all of this plastic bag legislation creates additional need for reusable shopping bags. If you are advertising in California you should seriously consider creating customized reusable shopping bags.

Are Certified Reusable Bags Better for the Environment Than Plastic Bags?

To understand the benefits of certified reusable bags on the environment, you need to understand the negative impact of plastic bags. To be fair, plastic bags became popular for good reasons and they were initially manufactured and handed out with the best of intentions. Ultimately, when you weigh the impact of certified reusable bags against the impact of plastic bags, you can see what a better choice a reusable bag really makes.

Why Use Reusable Bags To Promote Your Business?

There are three main reasons to use customized reusable bags in your promotions: There’s an environmental crisis being caused by disposable plastic bags Being part of the solution is an incredible promotional opportunity for your company Your company can build long-term “green” credentials for a very low cost The Crisis In Brief Why Custom Reusable […]

Want to Win a Million Bucks? Put on Your Recycling Thinking Caps!

Global fashion retailer H&M is known for on trend clothing on a budget, but they are looking to change how clothing is recycled and they are looking to the global community for help. A contest is being sponsored through H&M Conscious Foundation which is a non-profit foundation funded by the Stefan Persson family who are the founders and primary owners of the worldwide brand H&M. The H&M Conscious Foundation is sponsoring the Global Change Award which is looking to close the gap, conserve resources and change how worn out clothing is handled.

5 Strategies for Customer Service Reps That Increase Sales

Can we agree that your customer service reps (CSR’s) play a pivotal role in your company? They interact with your customers and oftentimes it is their hard work that will seal the deal and in many cases their work will lead to future sales. CSR’s are relationship builders. You absolutely want to make sure your CSR’s have the necessary tools to do their job because their success works out to be success for the entire company.

20 Reasons to Make the Switch to Reusable Bags

There are so many reasons why you should #GoReusableNow and switch to reusable shopping bags. Between the negative impact of disposable plastic bags and the advantages of custom reusable bags the choice is pretty clear, but we’ve rounded up 20 reasons why retailers and grocery stores should go reusable now.

How to Get the Most Out of Your Money On Certified Reusable Bags

Certified custom reusable shopping bags are a great tool to market your brand by getting the most out of your marketing or retail budget. From bulk wholesale pricing to durability and the rapport you will establish with your customers you can’t go wrong with your very own custom designed reusable bag. And now they are required by law in many cities across the United States and beyond, giving you even more reason to look into investing in custom reusable shopping bags for your brand, and if they’re bags made from recycled materials, that’s all the better.

3 Tips for Greener Travel

When you’re in your day-to-day routine you can easily keep up with your green practices, but there is no reason to let travel upset your green routine. When you travel, you can stick to your green practices and make sustainable choices whenever possible. Here are a few tips for green traveling that will help the planet and allow you to relax knowing that you’ve done your part.

Reusable Bags Better Option for Environment Than Recycling

In a wonderful letter to the editor, Randy Moorman, Community Campaigns Manager at Eco-Cycle recently broke down why reusable grocery shopping bags are in fact a better decision than recycling single-use plastic bags and we loved it. Moorman clearly poses counterarguments to a guest commentary piece that ran in a Boulder newspaper and we wanted to share his thoughts on recycling and reusable bags.

Girl Scouts Encourage Use of Reusable Shopping Bags

When Hermosa Beach Girl Scout Troop 3925 was looking for a community project to undertake, they found that they all agreed that disposable plastic bags are causing severe damage to the environment and sustainable options, like reusable shopping bags, are a much better choice.

Retailers, Why Wait for a Bag Ban to Come to You!

Creating a custom reusable shopping bag is a great way for you to help residents go green before a bag ban is implemented effectively marketing your brand. Reusable grocery bags are a great marketing tool since they offer tons of visibility and increase your brand recognition.

Eugene, Oregon Working to Encourage Reusable Shopping Bags

Plastic bags are not very popular in Eugene, Oregon, so a recent move to ban them has not caused much of a stir. And the switch to reusable bags has found support from organizations that typically do not back plastic bag bans: grocers. More than 60 local businesses that range from mom-and-pop shops to major chains in the Eugene area have announced their support of the ban. There is still some work to be done, but in the best-case scenario, the folks of Eugene can be free from plastic bags in as little as 6 months.

Students Promote Reusable Grocery Bags

Students from the small New York state town of Sleepy Hollow have some big plans. A group of middle school students in the Environmental Action Club have started a grassroots campaign to ban plastic bags and move to reusable bags in their hometown. They got the idea from the neighboring city of Rye which recently put a bag ban in place and from the movie ‘Bag It,’ a documentary about the environmental effect of plastic bags. Their efforts have attracted the attention of the mayor, Drew Fixell, who paid the club a visit to discuss the pros and cons of such a ban.

Austin Embraces Reusable Shopping Bags

Several cities across the United States are weighing the pros and cons of banning plastic disposable bags. Austin, Texas is another city implementing such a ban in favor of reusable bags. The Austin Resource Recovery, the department handling the transition, has been working diligently on drafting and redrafting the bill to make sure they get it right. As with other cities that have passed similar bans, there is resistance and opposition to switching to reusable shopping bags, but the authorities of Austin have allowed the community to join the conversation and give feedback via public forums.

Seattle Bans Plastic Bags and Supports Reusable Bags

On December 19, 2011 the Seattle City Council passed a ban on plastic bags, and a short time later the mayor of Seattle, Mike McGinn, signed this bill into law. Banning plastic bags is quickly gaining momentum and similar bans have been put into place in San Francisco, CA, Portland, OR, and Brownsville, TX.