Friday, December 26, 2008

Go Green By Giving Eco Friendly Promotional Mugs

By Alexander Calvin

As green awareness grows by leaps and bounds, many companies face a moral dilemma when purchasing non-biodegradable promotional mugs. Whether your company is on the cutting edge of eco-friendliness or not, you would have an added benefit of showing your awareness to customers and that you're doing something about the problem. By purchasing green mugs, you would receive an added benefit.

Plastic has long been in common use when producing promotional products like mugs. Plastic is relatively inexpensive and very versatile for large production runs. But when we consider that every piece of plastic on earth that ever was made is still with us, then it is only prudent for organizations to begin using recycled plastic for such gifts. There is now a wide range of products which use recycled plastics.

Considering the increasing pollution causing global warming and melting of polar ice caps, everyone is trying to do their bit for the improvement of these devastating situations. Recycling indirectly promotes less production of non- degradable substances. One must also realize that production of these plastics involves the usage of fossil fuels which are rapidly depleting. To cater to such problems cropping up in the world, major companies have resorted to the use of recycled plastic promotional mugs.

Major NGOs are doing their bit by spreading the word all around the world about the production of these recycled products in the markets. Responsible designing companies have also brought a wide range of beautiful eco-friendly promotional mugs to the markets, hence decreasing the production and sale of new plastic products. These days, there are a number of processes to recycle plastics. One of the most useful to produce recycled plastic of the desired colour is a process which distinguishes colours before recycling the goods; this avoids the production of black coloured plastic due to the mixing of various colours. The method separates out plastics on the basis of colour and the final recycled plastic is not of an unwanted brownish black shade but the desired colour.

At business levels, companies should try to use eco-friendly promotional items for distributing among their customers. Moreover they can use such promotional mugs with company logos at the work place as well. This will create awareness about the issue amongst the employees. - 16069

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