LSi’s Favourite 7 Eco Friendly Promotional Products for 2024
For every Merchandise brief the LSi Sales Team are asked to work on there is always the preference that some, if not all, of the product selection must include Eco Friendly Promotional Products.
To this end following trade show visits and engaging with our supply chain the team has created the following short list of favoured eco products new to the market.
- Circular & Co 12 ox Reusable Coffee Cup
- Magboost Recycled Powerbank
- Ocean 500ml vacuum water bottle
- Tarn Recycled Sports Bottle
- A5 Kraft Notebook
- Refresh Recycled Ball Pen
- Enviro Smart Laptop Pad
1. Circular & Co 12 oz Reusable Coffee Cup
There are many “terms” used in the definitions of what constitutes “Eco Friendly Promotional Merchandise” but the clearest cut seems to be product that is made from “recycled” materials and products that are easily collected at the end of their usefulness and are fully “recyclable” themselves.
Enter Circular & Co
Circular & Co.'s 12 oz reusable coffee cup is manufactured from single-use paper cups, so is a cup made from recycled materials.
The reusable cup is designed and manufactured for longevity, specifically a product that will be useable for 10 years, but once the cup is no longer useable or becomes waste for another reason then the cup is 100% recyclable.
The cup itself, reduces the need for single use cups, but it provides a route for those single use cups that are used in cafes up & down the country to be recycled into this really useful product and following its end of use, in maybe ten years time, the Circular Cup itself can be recycled again creating a closed loop circular design solution that is the key to sustainability.
The process significantly reduces CO2 emissions, stops consumption of the planet's precious resources, and eliminates pollution; the three core environmental challenges humanity faces.
The Circular & Co 12 oz Reusable Coffee Cups are:
- UK Manufactured and designed for ten years
- Backed by a 2 year product guarantee
- Keeps drinks hot & cold for 60-90 minutes
- Features a leakproof lid design that makes it the perfect travel cup
- Presented with product information sleeve wrap to highlight the backstory
- BPA & Melamine free
- Dishwasher safe
- Available in smaller 8oz and larger 16 oz sizes
The 12 oz Reusable Coffee Cup is a fantastic eco-friendly business gift which subject to budget is perfect as a gift for customers and employees which with its fantastic backstory is a great product to co-brand with and demonstrate your awareness to the environmental issues we face.
2. Magboost (RCS Recycled Plastic) 5000 mAh Magnetic Powerbank
The RCS (Recycled Claim Standard) is an international, voluntary standard that sets the requirement for third-party certification of the recycled input to a product and creates a chain of custody to track from source of recycled material to final product.
Each stage of production is required to be certified, from the recycling stage and ending at the last seller in the business-to-business transaction.
The goal of the RCS is to increase the use of Recycled materials in products and supply chains and to track and trace the recycled inputs providing an assurance for the end consumer that the final product has the recycled material as claimed and has been processed sustainably.
This Powerbank is RCS certified with a total recycled ABS plastic content of 21% based on the total item weight and the Carbon Footprint has been calculated as 2.63Kg CO2e.
The Magboost RCS Recycled Plastic 5000 mAh Magnetic Powerbanks is:
- A Grade A 5000 mAh lithium pocket size powerbank
- 15W magnetic wireless charger with case made out of recycled ABS plastic
- Integrated digital LED screen indicates remaining energy levels
- Type-C Input 5V/2.4A; Type C output:5V/2A.4A
- RCS certified recycled TPE charging cable
- Packed in FSC® mix packaging
If a great quality eco-friendly tech gift for customers or employees is what you are looking for then the Magboost Powerbank has the eco-credentials with product quality to match.
The Magboost could benefit from the addition of LSi's unique bespoke packaging allowing for full colour edge to edge printing, individual personalisation and eco messaging.
3. Ocean Bottle 500ml vacuum insulated water bottle
Continuing our theme of quality promotional merchandise that is recycled and recyclable the Ocean Bottle as per the Circular Cup and Magboost Powerbank is another retail quality sustainable business gift with a great backstory.
For brands looking to showcase their own eco friendly goals to co-brand your Promotional Merchandise with a brand such as Ocean is another great opportunity to reward but also educate your audience with another sustainable success story.
Each Ocean Bottle is entirely carbon neutral and funds the collection of 1,000 plastic bottles before they enter the river courses and oceans and improves livelihoods in coastal communities.
Collectors in coastal communities exchange this plastic for money and get access to social resources such as healthcare, education and financial security.
As at February 2024, 12,040,069 Kg of ocean bound plastic has been collected and stopped from reaching the oceans.
The Ocean Bottle 500ml vacuum insulated water bottle has:
- Ten year guarantee - repair & replacement scheme
- Vacum insulation keeps hot drinks hot for up to 8 hours and cold for up to 18 hours
- The dual opening makes it easy to clean and fill the bottle, and the anti-leak lid has an easy carry loop
- Manufactured from 90% Recycled Stainless Steel, BPA-free plastic, silicon rubber and ocean bound plastic
- Dishwasher safe
- Funds the collection of 1000 water bottles for every Ocean bottle sold in Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, the Philippines
- B Corp Certified Social Audit through the manufacture process
- Presented in a responsibly sourced cardboard gift box
4. Tarn Recycled (rPET) GRS certified 750ml Sports Bottle
Continuing our theme for “Recycled” and “Recyclable” Promotional Merchandise, an alternative drinkware product at a more budget price point.
rPET, or Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate, is a sustainable form of plastic derived from post-consumer PET (typically water bottles) plastic waste.
Through a process of collection, sorting, cleaning, and transformation, PET plastic bottles and containers are broken down and reprocessed into rPET pellets.
These pellets can then be used to manufacture a wide range of products, including packaging materials, textiles, and consumer goods.
rPET recycled plastic helps reduce the environmental impact of plastic production by diverting waste from landfills and conserving valuable resources.
By choosing products made from rPET, consumers contribute to the circular economy and support efforts to mitigate plastic pollution.
GRS stands for Global Recycled Standard.
GRS is an international, voluntary standard that sets requirements for the certification of recycled content in products.
The GRS establishes guidelines for tracking and verifying the use of recycled materials throughout the supply chain, including socially and environmentally responsible practices in production.
Manufacturers and companies that adhere to the Global Recycled Standard demonstrate their commitment to sustainability and transparency in their recycling processes.
Tarn Recycled (rPET) GRS certified 750ml Sports Bottle is:
- Manufactured from recycled rPET & GRS certified
- 750ml single walled, transparent plastic drinks bottle
- Made with 98% recycled materials
- White screw top lid with coloured band and coloured fold down sip mouth piece
- The bottom half of the bottle is ridged for ease of grip
- BPA and PVC free
By providing our customers, prospects and employees with Promotional Merchandise products that encourages the refilling of water, rather than the retail purchase of yet another plastic bottle we will reduce the number of new plastic bottles.
Promoting this message and helping your audience find refill stations steering them towards the refill.org.uk app will further enhance their education but very much demonstrate your company's passion to add value to the environmental message.
The app has 274,000 refill stations shown globally.
The Tarn Sports Bottle is a great looking product which with its colour accents means it can link with most brands corporate colours, the product provides a lower cost eco friendly promotional product solution for event giveaways, sales force leave piece, conference gift.
5. A5 Kraft Notebook
Stationery is a huge category for Promotional Merchandise giveaways whether they be used to create lumpy mail in direct mail campaigns, as a giveaway at exhibitions or by sales people, or as a useful part of a conference pack.
There are many different covers that can be used to form a notebook but the LSi A5 Kraft Notebook is manufactured from Recycled Kraft Paper for the outer cover and Recycled Paper inside.
The product is supplied with elastic pen-loop and ribbon in matching colours which enables a brand to choose a colour accent that matches brand while the Kraft background provides a clean blank canvas for decoration.
- Recycled Kraft cover and 100 Recycled Paper Sheets
- Matching coloured pen loop and elastic closing band
With all eco friendly merchandise education is an important part of the process, highlighting to our audiences that we are considering the environment but also explaining our promotional product choices.
A simple recycled logo added to the design will remind your teams to point out to the recipient that the product is recycled, on message with your corporate CSR policies.
6. Refresh Recycled Ball Pen
Stationery needs to be complimented with a writing pen or pencil, there are many recycled plastic promotional pens but the LSi team has chosen this stylish and sustainable metal pen that has a social as well as an environmental positive message.
This modern design pen is manufactured from a recycled aluminium barrel with a pre-printed recycled symbol, it has a natural bamboo plunger encased within a transparent surround and finished with a gun metal clip.
For every pen purchased, 5p goes towards HUGS charity ‘Helping Uganda Schools’ to directly support the supply of essential stationery to children, ensuring they have the tools they need for a better education and a brighter future.
- Modern design
- Recycled Aluminium barrel
- Pre-printed recycled symbol for better education & communication of your goals
- 5p for every pen sold supports HUGS charity
7. Enviro Smart Laptop Pad and Desktop Pad
Our final product in the Stationery category is our Laptop or Desktop writing pads.
Key ingredients for the success of any promotional merchandise used to support a marketing campaign is that the product is useful. If a promotional giveaway or gift is useful for the intended audience then it will be seen on a regular basis, it will be appreciated by the recipient and above all the printed message will be seen on a regular basis.
Drinkware and Stationery are identified as two high use case products which we know will deliver fantastic Return on Investment if the right products are selected.
Our range of Laptop and Desktop Pads are perfect for scribbles whether your audience is a computer user sat at a desktop or a remote/mobile worker using a laptop and the pad is cut to sit next to a laptop.
The paper is from sustainable sources, and of course if waste is processed correctly the paper is fully recyclable after use.
- 50 sheet white paper pads
- Sustainably sourced
- Printed & manufactured in the UK
- Glued securely to a board back
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