Biodegradable Bags - Eco Friendly Advertising

by Andy Black

Biodegradable bags are a great way to contribute towards looking after planet earth. They are a very eco friendly product that will help promote your brand and get your company name noticed. Most councils and government organisations now use biodegradable bags due to their eco-friendly nature. Bioplastics are the new craze in the plastic industry. Bioplastic is produced from the components of organic materials such as soy oil and corn starch. The process can work in two ways. With aerobic degrading, the materials are broken down by bacteria in an oxygen environment. As you might guess, anaerobic degradation is the second method and does not require an oxygen rich environment. Not only do standard carrier bags take substantially longer to break down or degrade than biodegradable bags, but as they do they release highly toxic chemicals.

There are many other environmentally friendly promotional products on the market, with each of them serving a purpose. Many councils and government departments use recycled goods where they can to re-inforce the governments stand on creating a greener future. Using pulp based recycled products such as paper pads, help reduce the felling of tree's around the world. Recycled promotional products like rechargeable torches and recycled mugs can be offered as promotional products as these items do not require any digging up or mining of raw materials from the environment. One of the most widely accepted environmently friendly items is the shopping bag. These come in the form of paper, starch based, or bags with a biodegradable agent added.

Promotional products in general can help your business boom. They are a great tool to offer as business incentives to staff and clients alike. Promotional products can help draw attention to your company at any event, and a custom promotional gift is an effective way to demonstrate your company's professionalism. All products previously produced as Leather goods can now be made from PU - usually for less than half the price. This produced a short term boost for UK manufacturers. Promotional products and business gifts are a great way to get your logo and brand in front of potential customers. The key focus of every business is maintaining a client base that will ensure success and future operations.

Promotional pens are used by just about everyone on the planet, from kids to the elderly. They are a good way to keep your company logo in the hands of your clients and potential clients. No matter whether you are a doctor, a lawyer, a businessman, a student or a housewife, you will need a pen for some purpose or the other, that is for certain. Promotional pens are one product that offers guaranteed usage. It will most certainly get used by someone. A low cost promotional pen has on average, seven owners within its lifetime. Everyone uses pens, from school children to the professionals who teach them.

Another great business gift is the promotional mug. These are also a promotional item that are used daily and are literally in the hands of your clients. A printed mug is the perfect solution to your advertising needs, because it's an item your client base could potentially use on a daily basis. Within the business sector printed mugs are given out regularly. The main elements on your mug should include your company's name, your company's logo and any message your company wants to send, including a listing of products and services. Personalised mugs must be of a good quality, as they are an item that is going to be in use for a long time to come. So ensuring that these items remain durable becomes a must.

About the Author

Article written by Andy Black - Co-owner of a business gifts company that specialises in supplying printed biodegradable bags, as well as a full catalogue of promotional items and incentives. Other products include usb flash drives, promotional umbrellas, printed mugs and leather conference folders.

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Shopping Without Shopping Bags - The Eco Friendly Alternatives

by Victor Epand

On an average, every person who goes shopping is given 280 carrier bags every year. That's almost 17,000 bags each in our lifetime, and what do we do with them all? Sadly the vast majority simply get thrown away. It takes about 20 years for a plastic bag to decompose. What were you doing twenty years ago? Did you buy something from a shop? It may well be that the shop you visited no longer exists, the items you bought long forgotten, but the plastic carrier bag is still sitting somewhere, a part of the natural environment we have created. This means that for every adult alive today there are 5,600 plastic carrier bags waiting to decompose. That's a horrible thought, and it's facts like these which can make us sit up and think about what we are doing to help or hinder this situation.

Last year, enough carrier bags were disposed of in the UK to weigh as much as 70,000 cars, and this is going on year after year. Yet all it really takes is a little thought. If each one of us spent a little extra time thinking about this problem it would be drastically reduced. Reusable carrier bags are available, and it is estimated that a cloth bag can save as much as 1,000 plastic carrier bags - or nearly four years' worth per person.

Shops pass the cost of these free carrier bags on to us as consumers, so we are paying the price in both monetary terms, and environmental terms, for our laziness and ignorance. Often we are handed our groceries in a carrier bag without so much as a thought by either the shop assistant or ourselves. I bought a chocolate bar the other day from my local supermarket, and they handed it to me in a plastic carrier bag! I took it out and handed the bag back to them; they almost seemed astonished that I wouldn't need a bag for my 'shopping'. What really got to me was that this particular chain of supermarkets is supposed to be having a drive on carrier bags, and only the day before I got given a free fridge magnet to remind me to take a reusable carrier bag with me to get my shopping to help save on unnecessary plastic ones. It seemed pretty clear that complacency and habit had overtaken any real concern for such initiatives.

The thing is, we don't see the animals in the wild chocking to death on the plastic rubbish we discard. We are blind to the oceans of plastic rubbish retched over the landscape and rotting in to the natural habitats of the creatures we are supposedly so fond of. Perhaps if these images were made more obvious we would be less complacent. I wonder how people would react if supermarkets printed pictures of animals chocking to death on plastic on the side of these carrier bags? Unlikely to ever become a popular marketing ply, but it's worth thinking about, not because other people should know better, but because we ourselves should accept that we are part of the problem.

Ironically, the supermarkets unpack the goods on their shelves from cardboard boxes, then crush and destroy these boxes, whilst handing out free plastic bags for us to repackage the good into. Using a cardboard box is much sturdier, more environmentally friendly, and can be re-used and recycled. Cloth bags can make a huge difference. Instead of 17,000 plastic bags we could easily get away with just 15 cloth bags in our lifetime. In addition to which, the cloth breaks down into harmless substances very quickly. It's worth a thought, isn't it?

About the Author

Victor Epand is an expert consultant about luggage, cruises, hotels, and shopping. You will find the best marketplace for luggage, cruises, hotels, and shopping at these sites for bags, luggage, hotels, cruise, and shopping, bags, cloth bags.