An Alternative Approach To Buying Green
The focus for Earth Day tends to be on buying recycled and other environmentally friendly products. Quite often very little time is given in consideration of where those products may be coming from or of the carbon footprint involved. Having some experience in this industry suffice to say there are gigantic problems with the promotional recycled business as it is now.
An alternative to buying an item that may be recycled from materials made half way around the planet is to buy a one trip item. By this we mean an item designed to degrade in the ground. The Biodegradable BPA Free Sport Bottle not only has the advantage of falling into the eco-friendly category but it does so at a much lower cost to the environment. Almost all of our current recycled promotional items manufactured by ASI suppliers are of questionable origins. The underlying first use products such as the water bottle are used domestically before being piled into containers. These containers often end up being loaded into larger containers before they are shipped to Asia. At that point they are recycled into new products which are then again shipped back to suppliers throughout the country. Rather than going through all that trouble and burning all that fuel it makes more sense instead to choose a product that will break down in a landfill at no additional cost to the environment. This particular bottle is one of the few we have come across that is also BPA free. Although the debate rages on about BPA there is no sense in having a product that contains it at this stage.
Last week witnessed some mediocre economic news. There are several reports due out this week that will shed a lot of additional light on how business is going. In our eyes it is pretty clear though that with job losses still mounting and gas prices also increasing there is little hope for a substantial recovery. Instead we are in a pattern once again of fits and starts as the economy grows for short periods after intervention from the government only to slow again later. We will begin daily updates on Monday and look forward to providing additional reviews.