Three Key Dates for helping the Planet
Promotional products to help you go green
Global Recycling Day (18th), International Day of Forests (21st) and World Water Day (22nd) are three key dates to remember across March that raise awareness for our planet.
You can bring awareness to your brand as well as the planet by switching to promotional products that are eco-friendly and sustainable. Whether you’re fundraising for a specific awareness day or looking to switch your current merchandise, at Sycal we have plenty of products to help you go green.
We’ll highlight a range of products that hit the mark for all three awareness days at once by offering products made from recycled materials, made from sustainable materials and use less water to produce.
Branded Bags
At Sycal you can find a selection of recycled cotton bags including duffel bags, backpacks and totes. Not only are these bags made from waste textiles that are recycled into practical products but they also save consumption of water. In fact, for every tonne of recycled cotton, it is estimated that 765,000 litres of water is saved in comparison to regular cotton production.
Recycled cotton is even more sustainable than organic cotton as it requires less water, fewer resources and prevents waste from going to landfills.
Recycled plastic uses 66% less energy than new plastic, so our range of rPET bags are another brilliant sustainable alternative for your promotional merchandise.
Our biggest rPET range is the Impact Aware collection, each product you personalise from this range will have 2% of the proceeds donated to Water.org. You can trace the authenticity of each product by its unique Aware Tracer that tells the story of your product’s journey.
For a single Impact Aware RPET drawstring bag, 2.4 PET 500ml bottles were reused and 1.41 litres of water were saved compared to creating a regular plastic drawstring bag.
The entire Impact collection contains items from hats to bags, t-shirts to drinkware and isn’t limited to just rPET but recycled cotton as well. Individual products can save anywhere from 0.5L of water up to 30L, making these recycled bags a perfect choice for supporting World Water Day.
Personalised Drinkware
Reusable drinkware has been a simple eco-friendly switch for many years, only in recent years has technology and research given us access to products made from recycled or sustainable materials.
At Sycal we offer drinkware made from recycled plastic, recycled waste, wheat straw, bamboo and more. Some of these products, like the H2O Eco screw cap bottle, are made in the UK to help further reduce your carbon footprint.
The H2O Eco bottle comes in four styles, all of which are made with Prevented Ocean Plastic. Prevented Ocean Plastic is recycled plastic that has been collected from coastlines before polluting our waters. Each bottle purchased saves plastic from entering our oceans and provides a reliable income to those collecting the waste.
Available in a range of colours, you can customise a full wrap design with your branding and showcase your logo on a sustainable, practical product.
Another drinkware option made in the UK is the Circular&Co Recycled Now Cup, a coffee cup made from single-use coffee cups! With double-wall insulation to keep your drinks hot, this reusable cup is 100% recyclable.
Tree free products
International Day of Forests highlights the impact that forests have on our planet and aims to raise awareness of their impact on our ecosystem. The world is losing 10 million hectares of forest each year and the United Nations encourages countries across the world to use sustainably sourced materials from certified forests.
To further support sustainable sources of paper and forest restoration you can switch your paper promotional products to tree-free alternatives. We’ve previously highlighted paper-free products for National Tree Week, read more about how you can support forests here.
Alternatively, we will plant 25 trees for any order placed with us over £750. The trees planted with our partner Ecologi help reduce our carbon footprint and plant new forests across the globe.
If you’d like to discuss more recycled or sustainable products to promote your organisation, speak to a member of our team today. We’re happy to help.
Call us on 01234 841741, or email us at sales@sycal.co.uk.
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