Earth-Friendly Promotional Products are a Sign of the Times.

I was at the grocery store a few days ago and was pleasantly surprised at the number of shoppers who were using eco-friendly, reusable shopping bags! It was not all that long ago you were frowned upon and considered "cheap" if you brought your own shopping bags or if you reused the standard brown shopping bag for an "alternate" use.

Today, however, the pendulum has swung to the other side. I personally will not shop if I don't have my reusable shopping bags with me. It makes me feel irresponsible and uncaring for Mother Earth.

There are plenty of eco friendly promotional items you can use to promote your business and also show your customers you care about the world around you and what you are leaving to the next generation.

Probably the most widely used is the TBE-700 Large Non-Woven Grocery Tote. Most everyone goes to the grocery store several times a month, your logo on this bag will be seen over and over again by different sets of eyes. Other earth-friendly bags are, what I call the second generation of eco-totes, the laminated shopper (TB-802) which is a non-woven fabric that is laminated to give the bag durability and stability. You will be seeing more and more of this material in the market place in the near future.

Other green promotional products beginning to become more widely used are custom imprinted drinkware like the DWE-702 Evolve Infinity Tumbler, logoed shopping bags such as the PBE-600 Recycled Frosted Super Wave Bag), the GAE-605 Corn Plastic Rectangular Keyring, Eco-Friendly Pens like the popular WIE-529 Simple Stix Recycled Pen and the list goes on and on.

A bit more than a decade ago, we were all concerned about Y2K and what would happen at the turn of the century. Now our concern has changed and emphasis is being placed on saving our planet. With the use of eco-friendly or recycled promotional products, we can, as they say "reduce, reuse, recycle".