Further to our blog about the importance of consumers purchasing sustainable promotional products to drive change, we thought it might be helpful to provide some business gift suggestions for you to consider.
We have thousands of fantastic eco-friendly products on offer (not all of them are displayed on our website) so please do get in touch if you want to discuss any promotional product needs you may have!
We have compiled a Top Ten list of Eco Products for 2024, which we know to be great sellers, and also loved by prospective consumers! Let us know what you think!
Our Top Ten Eco Products
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Americano Travel Cups
The Americano Travel Cup is one of our most popular branded products, and the brand itself is a top seller across the UK. These food grade quality, recycled plastic coffee cups are made and printed in the UK. They are available in a wide range of colours and include, wrap around spot colour or full colour printing.
When you learn of facts such as 0.11kg of CO2 is released into the atmosphere for every single-use cup produced and that only 0.25% of single-use cups are recycled, you realise the importance of the “reduce, reuse, recycle” campaign.
Even more so, when we tell you that around 500 BILLION single-use disposable cups are used every year. That’s around 375 BILLION not being recycled each year.
Our message here is clear: use and advocate the use of Americano refillable travel mugs to replace single use, disposable cups. Every change makes a difference.
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Baseline Recycled Sports Bottle
If there is one plastic bottle that has become a high frequency, throw away product, in the UK, it’s the plastic milk bottle.
It is estimated that 35.8 million milk bottles are used in the UK alone every single day. Of these, only around 19.8 million are recycled, which is quite disheartening considering they are easily recycled in the vast majority of UK homes. What better way to make an impact than to turn these into recycled plastic products.
Made in the UK, the Baseline Recycled Sport Bottle with flip lid is new to the market. It recycles and reimagines the common household milk bottle into a fun and funky, refillable sports bottle. We look forward to seeing this product doing well!
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Prevented Ocean Plastic H2O Eco Base Bottle
Made from Prevented Ocean Plastic (as the name suggests, here in the UK. These refillable, sports water bottles come in a variety of colours, are food grade quality and look fashionable too. There several bottle shapes and four different lid types which can mixed and matched, in different colours, to suit most corporate brands. https://businessgiftuk.com/product/drinkware/drinkware-by-brand/h2o/preventedoceanplatics/h2o-eco-spout-lid-sports-water-bottle/.
Every month, the Prevented Ocean Plastic programme prevents 1000 TONNES of plastic from entering our oceans. That equates to over a BILLION plastic bottles since this product went into production. That is a staggering amount of plastic prevented from entering our oceans and recycled into something fresh and new.
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Ocean Bottle
This is another of our favourite eco-products. Not only do Ocean Bottle prevent thousands of tonnes of plastics from entering our oceans, they also remunerate coastal communities for the collection of the waste from their beaches and waterways. Pretty cool huh?
According to their website, Ocean Bottle liken humankind’s response to the plastic crisis as being akin to “mopping the floor” rather than turning off the tap of an overflowing sink, which is quite an interersting analogy.
To give you an idea of how much of an impact this product has, for every bottle purchased, Ocean Bottle fund the collection of 11.4kg of plastic bottles – that’s around 1000 bottles recycled for every bottle they produce. Not only that, but as of September 2023, over 12 MILLION KILOGRAMS of plastic had been collected on behalf of the Ocean Bottle brand.
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Disposable Recycled Beer Mats
Get your brand message across in this highly affordable quirky way! Disposable and recycled beer mats are a fun product, which is eco-friendly, vegan, as well as being VOC and Solvent free. They are also available in square (with rounded corners) or round shapes. The custom beer mats can bear your logo and contact details, or even a QR code. They are a fantastic way to get your brand on your customer’s desks and tables in a sustainability conscious way!
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Eco trolley coins
We are all familiar with the metal and plastic trolley keyring giveaway. We particularly like the trolley keyring as it is a useful product and far less likely to be disposed of. These are now available in biodegradable and plastic recyclable forms! A great way to further reduce waste and the impact on our environment.
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Backpacks made from recycled materials
We can source backpacks made from recycled ocean plastics, recycled cotton and other recycled materials, all of which can be customised with your branding. Whether this is a gift for your team or a gift for your customers, this is a very useful and very eco-friendly promotional product with a maxium impact.
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Tote bags made from recycled materials
We can also source tote bags, jute bags and other shopper bags made from recycled materials. A fantastic way to get your customers carrying your brand messaging around for you!
We particularly like the Green & Innocent Kanka bags, as they are not only eco-friendly but Fairtrade, too!
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FSC Pencils
The FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) ensure that the wood for the pencils is ethically and sustainably sourced, ensuring that “forests and people come first”. Our FSC range of pencils, are all approved as sustainably sourced products. Pencils are a great message carrying product, which is not only affordable but also timeless. You can view our wide range of pencils on our sister site, PrintedPencil.co.uk.
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Poppy Pencils
The Poppy Pencils are one of our favourite products and a way to spread a little floral joy! These pencils have poppy seeds encased in their top, so when their use as a pencil comes to an end, they can be planted to bloom into beautiful poppies!
Whatever your marketing message, it’s clear that consumers want to see products which promote sustainability. Awareness and the drive for change is gathering momentum as consumer choices and attitudes show that they do care about sustainability – as such, businesses should be responding to this increased demand, and increase their own awareness surrounding sustainable practices and corporate responsibility.
If you would like to talk with a member of our friendly and helpful team, please feel free to call us on 01772 429111 or email us at ben@businessgiftuk.com.
