Put the Whole World In Your Hands with Recycled Glass

Every month, Americans toss out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable. The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.

A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill. Mining and transporting raw materials for glass produces about 385 pounds of waste for every ton of glass that is made. If recycled glass is substituted for half of the raw materials, the waste is cut by more than 80%.

You don't need to use virgin glass for your promotions. Among our favorites is a wonderful line of recycled glass globes produced here in Northern California. These beautiful promotional gifts let you put the whole world in your hand. Made entirely from recycled glass, with geographically accurate natural earth colored continents, you can put a small logo or message on them. They range in from marble size to small desktop sphere - or about 1/300 millionth scale models of earth.  Small things can teach big lessons. 

Give Trees!

Here's a promotion that helps fight global warming and keeps useless plastic giveaways out of landfills. Seed-the-Future is a great new gift or incentive card concept from eco imprints. It gives brands an opportunity to show green values and lets consumers do something good for the planet. Each card, branded with the logo of your organization, allows the holder to have one or more trees planted in their name in a re-forestation project. The cards can be made of recycled materials or seeded paper. Use them to reward consumers for loyalty or conservation or to honor employees for reducing their impact on the environment.

Solar Powered Desktop Wind Turbine

It's a breeze to promote renewable energy with these imprinted desktop solar powered wind turbines. No plugs or batteries required. Powered by solar cell mounted on base. Just add direct sunlight and watch the blades spin. Each wind turbine is imprinted with a logo in two locations — on the base and the back of the propeller area. These won't exactly lower your carbon footprint, but you can stay a little cooler and bring the green movement to any office with this fun environmental desk accessory.