Understanding What Microplastics Can Do to Your Health

Understanding What Microplastics Can Do to Your Health

How Does Microplastics Impact Your Health? Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic litter that end up in our water and food supply. We already looked at how microplastics happen, so now we’re going to look at a variety of health effects of microplastics. Find out what these tiny plastic particles mean for you and your […]

What Are Microplastics and Why Do You Need to Know?

What Are Microplastics and Why Do You Need to Know?

Understanding the Impact of Plastic Particles Can Help Us Help the Environment and Our Food Chain Plastic is everywhere and such a common part of modern life. While plastic provides useful value, it also leads to a variety of problems. One unintended consequence of all these products made from plastic is microplastics. Find out more […]

What Is Wishcycling?

What Is Wishcycling?

Ditch Wishcycling to Improve Recycling Efforts Recycling is a great way to streamline the waste stream and make the most of the existing materials while conserving resources. However, the process of recycling is only effective when materials that can, in fact, be recycled are tossed into the proper bin. When items that cannot be recycled […]

Can PopSockets® Be Recycled?

Can PopSockets® Be Recycled?

Learn How to Elevate Your Green Marketing In a major green development, PopSockets® is partnering with TerraCycle to create a recycling program. This is tremendous news because it means less plastic will end up in landfills and will instead find new life and purpose after being recycled. This is also exciting news for your marketing […]

Are Plastic Lobbyists Winning the Fight Against Plastic Bag Bans?

Are Plastic Lobbyists Winning the Fight Against Plastic Bag Bans?

How Far Is the Bag Ban Movement Likely to Reach? To date, eight states have been banned single-use plastic bags. This is an amazing accomplishment! Banning single-use plastic bags takes a lot of work, primarily because there is a lot of resistance. The plastic manufacturing industry works hard to prevent bans from happening, and there […]

China to Ban Single-Use Plastic Bags

China to Ban Single-Use Plastic Bags

Efforts Intended to Take on Massive Environmental Problem The Chinese government is taking steps to ban single-use plastic bags in response to the huge environmental impact of single-use plastics. This is exciting news because if a country as large as China can eliminate single-use plastic bags this action will have a global impact and hopefully […]

3 Eco-Friendly Promotional Items for Successful Trade Show Marketing

3 Eco-Friendly Promotional Items for Successful Trade Show Marketing

Make a Lasting Impression with These 3 Eco-Friendly Promotional Items! Trade shows are all about making connections. Eco-friendly promotional items are a great way to find success at your next trade show and leave a lasting impression. People will appreciate receiving an eco-friendly promotional item at the event, and as they continue to use your […]

9 Seed Paper Marketing Ideas for 2020

9 Seed Paper Marketing Ideas for 2020

Grow Green in the New Year Brochures, business cards and other forms of printed materials are a necessity of marketing, but an effective way to make sure your materials stand apart from the rest is by utilizing seed paper. There are so many ways you can use seed paper for marketing and each and every […]

Does Marketing with Promotional Bags Work?

Does Marketing with Promotional Bags Work?

Making the Most of Your Marketing Efforts You have a lot of options when it comes to how to promote your business. An abundance of options exists in terms of how to spend your marketing budget. You need to determine which method will effectively reach your audience and deliver the best return on investment. Promotional […]

Reusable Recycling Bags Work to Support Recycling Legislation

Reusable Recycling Bags Work to Support Recycling Legislation

Outreach Helps People Understand How to Recycle Earlier, we wrote about proposed legislation that could tremendously help the recycling industry. The inspiration for these posts came from our friends at SWANA. Essentially, both pieces of legislation would provide financial resources to state and local governments with the intent to improve outreach around recycling. We are […]

#StatesBanTheBag Update on Plastic Bag Bans in the USA

#StatesBanTheBag Update on Plastic Bag Bans in the USA

Find Out Which States are Going Green in the New Year Over the past summer, we launched our series, #StatesBanTheBag. The goal of this series was to highlight the efforts to ban single-use plastic bags at the state level. We already track the bag ban movement on our plastic bag ban map, but this series […]

Our Top 10 Eco-Friendly Blog Posts of 2019

Our Top 10 Eco-Friendly Blog Posts of 2019

Find Out What Eco-Friendly News Trended This Year Eco-friendly news and developments are happening all of the time and we strive to deliver this information and more in our blog. From the benefits of reusable shopping bags in terms of helping the planet and your business to breaking down why bag bans matter, how to […]

Recycling Legislation Introduced in Congress Supports Educational Outreach

Recycling Legislation Introduced in Congress Supports Educational Outreach

Big Changes Potentially Coming to the Recycling Industry Recently introduced legislation could make a huge difference in recycling rates throughout the U.S. Two pieces of legislation are calling for increased funding and outreach to improve and expand recycling efforts. If passed, these laws could have a major impact on the waste management industry and the […]