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Monday, November 9, 2009
The Green Room Exhibit
We are so excited to be a sponsor of the Green Room at the Arizona Science Center! This room was put together by members of the Phoenix Green Chamber of Commerce and will be open until the first week in January. It's a great display of GREEN building materials, office furniture, cars, artwork, and promotional products. Click here to view our pdf.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Wright Choice Promotions Joins Phoenix Green Chamber of Commerce
We are pleased to announce that we have joined the Phoenix Green Chamber of Commerce. We look forward to being a part of thier organization which links green-minded businesses together.
Monday, October 26, 2009
New Fax Number
Wright Choice Promotions is proud to announce our new ELECTRONIC fax number…
866-711-2470
The new fax number was established in an effort to better serve our clients. The electronic faxes do not require the use of paper for printing. Rather, they come across as emails on the computer, and are more environmentally friendly!
We will be phasing out the old fax number over the next few months.
Thank you for your cooperation.
866-711-2470
The new fax number was established in an effort to better serve our clients. The electronic faxes do not require the use of paper for printing. Rather, they come across as emails on the computer, and are more environmentally friendly!
We will be phasing out the old fax number over the next few months.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Consumer Report on Reusable Shopping Bags
When it comes to choosing the perfect reusable shopping bag, the options can sometimes overwhelming. Wright Choice Promotions will help youpick the right bag to represent your business. We can provide technicalinfo on our bags as well as actual samples for you to test.
Keep reading to find out which shopping bags Consumer Report preferred!
The following is an archived version of a report that appeared inMay 2009 Consumer Reports Magazine.
The Environmental Protection Agency says 3.8 million tons of plastic bagsand wrap and 720,000 tons of paper bags ended up as waste in 2007. You caneasily keep bags out of landfills and incinerators by bringing your own tothe supermarket. To point you toward good choices, we tested eight bags soldby national chains and regional stores (usually near the checkout line).Most cost $1 or less. Many other choices are out there, including tote bagsyou might already own.
The Consumer Reports National Research Center also conducted a nationallyrepresentative survey of 1,000 households to assess Americans’ use of andattitudes toward reusable shopping bags. Among the findings: 61 percent ofrespondents use only grocery-supplied bags. But among those who don’t usetheir own bags, about a third would consider doing so and might thereforebenefit from the findings below.
What our tests found
Strength
We filled each bag with 28 pounds of packaged flour and tomato cans, toppedoff with a 2-pound weight. A mechanical arm lifted the bag by its handlesoff the floor a few inches, then set it down again, and repeated that action500 times. All bags survived intact.
Size
Trader Joe’s bag has the smallest capacity, about 0.6 cu. ft., and WholeFoods’ A Better Bag has the largest, about 0.9 cu. ft. Most of the testedbags measure about 0.7 cu. ft. All can hold much more than the throwawayplastic bags they replace. Bear in mind that bigger may not be better,because the contents can become quite heavy.
Leaking
We poured a tablespoon of milk into each bag, and most contained the leak tosome extent, except for the Walmart bag, which leaked like a sieve. WholeFoods’ A Better Bag worked like a magic trick: The milk disappeared insidethe lining, where it could eventually have created a sour odor. The A&P bagand the Whole Foods Foldable Tote were especially good at repelling leaks.
Washing
The five bags with care instructions specify hand-washing, and all eightbags survived that fine. During machine-washing, some faded slightly orshifted shape.
What our survey found
When asked the usual checkout question, most Americans say “plastic.” Of allrespondents, 80 percent use grocery-supplied plastic bags at leastoccasionally; 34 percent, grocery paper bags; about 40 percent, cloth,string, or laminated bags of their own, for which most spent less than $2.Almost half of all respondents use more than one type of bag. The good newsis that 94 percent of respondents using grocer-supplied paper or plasticbags told us they reuse them (to line wastebaskets, say, or pick up after apet).
Bottom line
Any of the $1 point-of-purchase bags we tested are good alternatives to theusual paper or plastic bags; the $4 tote is useful if you want a less bulkybag. You might already have other good alternatives sitting in closets. Andit may be easier to choose a reusable bag than to use it: Forty-four percentof respondents said they forget to take it to the market more than once amonth; 39 percent said they almost never forget. Here’s a tip we heard fromshoppers: Consider stowing bags in your car.
Keep reading to find out which shopping bags Consumer Report preferred!
The following is an archived version of a report that appeared inMay 2009 Consumer Reports Magazine.
The Environmental Protection Agency says 3.8 million tons of plastic bagsand wrap and 720,000 tons of paper bags ended up as waste in 2007. You caneasily keep bags out of landfills and incinerators by bringing your own tothe supermarket. To point you toward good choices, we tested eight bags soldby national chains and regional stores (usually near the checkout line).Most cost $1 or less. Many other choices are out there, including tote bagsyou might already own.
The Consumer Reports National Research Center also conducted a nationallyrepresentative survey of 1,000 households to assess Americans’ use of andattitudes toward reusable shopping bags. Among the findings: 61 percent ofrespondents use only grocery-supplied bags. But among those who don’t usetheir own bags, about a third would consider doing so and might thereforebenefit from the findings below.
What our tests found
Strength
We filled each bag with 28 pounds of packaged flour and tomato cans, toppedoff with a 2-pound weight. A mechanical arm lifted the bag by its handlesoff the floor a few inches, then set it down again, and repeated that action500 times. All bags survived intact.
Size
Trader Joe’s bag has the smallest capacity, about 0.6 cu. ft., and WholeFoods’ A Better Bag has the largest, about 0.9 cu. ft. Most of the testedbags measure about 0.7 cu. ft. All can hold much more than the throwawayplastic bags they replace. Bear in mind that bigger may not be better,because the contents can become quite heavy.
Leaking
We poured a tablespoon of milk into each bag, and most contained the leak tosome extent, except for the Walmart bag, which leaked like a sieve. WholeFoods’ A Better Bag worked like a magic trick: The milk disappeared insidethe lining, where it could eventually have created a sour odor. The A&P bagand the Whole Foods Foldable Tote were especially good at repelling leaks.
Washing
The five bags with care instructions specify hand-washing, and all eightbags survived that fine. During machine-washing, some faded slightly orshifted shape.
What our survey found
When asked the usual checkout question, most Americans say “plastic.” Of allrespondents, 80 percent use grocery-supplied plastic bags at leastoccasionally; 34 percent, grocery paper bags; about 40 percent, cloth,string, or laminated bags of their own, for which most spent less than $2.Almost half of all respondents use more than one type of bag. The good newsis that 94 percent of respondents using grocer-supplied paper or plasticbags told us they reuse them (to line wastebaskets, say, or pick up after apet).
Bottom line
Any of the $1 point-of-purchase bags we tested are good alternatives to theusual paper or plastic bags; the $4 tote is useful if you want a less bulkybag. You might already have other good alternatives sitting in closets. Andit may be easier to choose a reusable bag than to use it: Forty-four percentof respondents said they forget to take it to the market more than once amonth; 39 percent said they almost never forget. Here’s a tip we heard fromshoppers: Consider stowing bags in your car.
Skype us!
In order to better serve our international clients we are now on Skype. Our SkypeIn is “ecopromos”. You can use Skype to talk with any other Skype user for free! We welcome our domestic clients to try it out as well. Let’s have a video call!
Sunday, April 12, 2009
We’re now part of Green America!
The process took months, but we were finally approved for membership in Green America! Green America is the leading non-profit organization which certifies businesses as being “Approved for people and planet”. We are very proud that we have been accepted as a Business Member.
I can honestly tell you, they do an excellent job of verifying business’s commitment to being green. They asked me questions about our business that even we hadn’t thought of before. Some of their questions led us to make some great changes.
Please check out the site - www.greenamericatoday.org.
I can honestly tell you, they do an excellent job of verifying business’s commitment to being green. They asked me questions about our business that even we hadn’t thought of before. Some of their questions led us to make some great changes.
Please check out the site - www.greenamericatoday.org.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Zero Landfill Event
by wrightch
Zero Landfill Event an Eco-Success! – Global Green Integrators (GGI), a division of AZ Docushred, LLC, Wright Choice Promotions and Gold Canyon Bank joined forces to bring the Glendale Chamber of Commerce it’s first Zero Landfill Event. On March 19th the Chamber’s monthly mixer went Green! Chamber members mixed and mingled while eating food off of plates made from sugar cane, using bamboo sporks, drinking from corn plastic cups and cleaned up with recycled paper napkins.
At the end of the evening we managed to divert more than 98% of the trash from the landfill! We composted the contents of a 32 gallon bag at local composting facility, we recycled plastic, glass and aluminum bottles, and some pigs at a rescue center out in Buckeye ate well on the leftovers and food scraps! We did have 4 items of trash that we were not able to recycle – one serving tray (too dirty to recycle) and 3 empty potato chip bags (brought in by guests).
For more information or to find out how your group or organization can have a zero landfill event please contact Julia Wright of Wright Choice Promotions at 602-795-7300.
Zero Landfill Event an Eco-Success! – Global Green Integrators (GGI), a division of AZ Docushred, LLC, Wright Choice Promotions and Gold Canyon Bank joined forces to bring the Glendale Chamber of Commerce it’s first Zero Landfill Event. On March 19th the Chamber’s monthly mixer went Green! Chamber members mixed and mingled while eating food off of plates made from sugar cane, using bamboo sporks, drinking from corn plastic cups and cleaned up with recycled paper napkins.
At the end of the evening we managed to divert more than 98% of the trash from the landfill! We composted the contents of a 32 gallon bag at local composting facility, we recycled plastic, glass and aluminum bottles, and some pigs at a rescue center out in Buckeye ate well on the leftovers and food scraps! We did have 4 items of trash that we were not able to recycle – one serving tray (too dirty to recycle) and 3 empty potato chip bags (brought in by guests).
For more information or to find out how your group or organization can have a zero landfill event please contact Julia Wright of Wright Choice Promotions at 602-795-7300.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
AMA - custom awards
Custom Wood Awards – Wright Choice Promotions is very proud to be the award sponsor for the Phoenix Chapter of the American Marketing Association. One of our responsibilities as the sponsor is to provide the awards for their annual Spectrum Awards. We wanted the awards to be special and eco-friendly of course, so we set about looking for the perfect item. We found an art glass award made from recycled glass, however all the bases available were made from non-green materials like marble or non-recyclable metals. So, when something you need doesn’t exist – you make it! The bases are being manufactured by a local artist out of Bamboo. As soon as they are complete I’ll get a photo up on our website.
Sugar Cane Plates
Press Release – March 16, 2009New to industry – Imprintable Sugarcane Based Plates
Glendale, AZ –Wright Choice Promotions announces the introduction of sugar cane based plates, bowls & cups to the promotional products industry. These fully compostable and imprintable dinnerware items are the first of their kind in the marketplace.
In the past, disposable dinnerware was made from paper, plastic or Styrofoam. Events like parties, picnics and other events used these disposable items for the convenience of their guests, but at the expense of the environment. Recently we have seen a shift to using corn plastic to make plates and cups. Corn plastic, or PLA, is certainly better than conventional plastic, but there is still some concern about the harvesting of corn for its production. Also, corn plastics are not recyclable and are not accepted by organic composting facilities. Sugarcane based products have been around for awhile but are only recently gaining in popularity.
A new trend in corporate and private event planning is the concept of a “zero landfill event”. This is where all or nearly all of the waste generated from an event is diverted from a landfill. Plastic and paper are recycled and food scraps are used for animal feed or composting. In the past recycling plastic was logistically challenging because the plates or bowls would need to be cleaned off of food before they could be recycled. With sugarcane based plates this is no longer an issue because the plates can be composted with the food residue still remaining.
The key to running a zero landfill event is making sure all the vendors are involved in the planning stage. If a vendor serves their product in cup that can’t be recycled or composted it will negatively impact the zero landfill rating. The sugar cane based plates, bowls and cups provided by Wright Choice Promotions are a great solution. These items can even be printed with your event, company or sponsor logos with a food safe soy ink.
For more info about sugar cane products or running a zero landfill event please contact Wright Choice Promotions at 603-795-7300 or 928-525-9012 or visit our website at www.wrightchoicepromotions.com
Glendale, AZ –Wright Choice Promotions announces the introduction of sugar cane based plates, bowls & cups to the promotional products industry. These fully compostable and imprintable dinnerware items are the first of their kind in the marketplace.
In the past, disposable dinnerware was made from paper, plastic or Styrofoam. Events like parties, picnics and other events used these disposable items for the convenience of their guests, but at the expense of the environment. Recently we have seen a shift to using corn plastic to make plates and cups. Corn plastic, or PLA, is certainly better than conventional plastic, but there is still some concern about the harvesting of corn for its production. Also, corn plastics are not recyclable and are not accepted by organic composting facilities. Sugarcane based products have been around for awhile but are only recently gaining in popularity.
A new trend in corporate and private event planning is the concept of a “zero landfill event”. This is where all or nearly all of the waste generated from an event is diverted from a landfill. Plastic and paper are recycled and food scraps are used for animal feed or composting. In the past recycling plastic was logistically challenging because the plates or bowls would need to be cleaned off of food before they could be recycled. With sugarcane based plates this is no longer an issue because the plates can be composted with the food residue still remaining.
The key to running a zero landfill event is making sure all the vendors are involved in the planning stage. If a vendor serves their product in cup that can’t be recycled or composted it will negatively impact the zero landfill rating. The sugar cane based plates, bowls and cups provided by Wright Choice Promotions are a great solution. These items can even be printed with your event, company or sponsor logos with a food safe soy ink.
For more info about sugar cane products or running a zero landfill event please contact Wright Choice Promotions at 603-795-7300 or 928-525-9012 or visit our website at www.wrightchoicepromotions.com
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Green in 2008
In 2008, sixty-eight percent of Wright Choice Promotion’s sales were “green” orders. A great accomplishment for only our second year as a green company.
The remaining orders were primarily from existing customers. We are in the process of converting all of there orders to eco-friendly alternatives as they become available.
Has your company made the switch?
The remaining orders were primarily from existing customers. We are in the process of converting all of there orders to eco-friendly alternatives as they become available.
Has your company made the switch?
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