Recycled mugs... oh yes indeedy!

The summer is here and the days are getting hotter so lots of people will be taking on board plenty of fluids for their big days out. What better way to promote your brand in the summer months than on the thousands of promotional mugs that will be on display every day. It would be even beter to promote your brand on environmentally friendly printed mugs though.

Recycled acrylic mugs are a sturdy way to ensure maximum brand promotion and they are made from recycled plastic so they aren't taking any more from the environment. The standard recycled mug comes in white and has a large print area to allow you to make the most of your message. The Recycled classic acrylic mugs are available in black and are more curved around its body.

Promotional mugs are always a reassuringly simple yet effective way to guarantee an enhancement of brand awareness and an unmistakably reliable way to make the right impression.

These promotional products will stick around forever

Available in a variety of colours iuncluding white, blue, pink and yellow, these paper pals have a habit of being at the forefront of people's minds when looking for something handy to jot notes down on.

Recycled Sticky Mates are the cost effective alternative to branded eco friendly Post It Notes. Just as effective, they not only help you save money in your pocket but also help to save the environment at the same time. Being constructed of paper, these products are able to be printed in full colour so you can have virtually any picture printed on them that you require. This means your logo and message can have as much or as little impact as you desire.

50 sheets per pad make them ideal for mailing campaigns and will result in guaranteed usage over the coming months. Why not make the most of your campaign will these cost effective promotional gifts.

Eco friendly t-shirts

Summer is one it's way (if the rain ever clears) and we'll all be buying our summer gear and rummaging in the drawers for our printed t-shirts and shorts. If you really want o spread your message this coming season then consider investing in some eco friendly t-shirts that will help you to spread your brand and massage far and wide when printed or embroidered with your logo.

As promotional gifts go, t-shirts aren't always considered to be among the front runners but when you consider how visible and large your message can be on these garments it really does make sense! Available in both mens and womens styles, these great clothing items can really bring an enjoyable element to your campaign. Why not take advantage this year?

A summer partner for printed pens

It's the middle of March and before we know it summer will be with us and hopefully it'll be all hot and clear skies this year. Thinking about getting all hot and sticky makes me recall about that most perfect of all promotional gifts for the summer season, recycled sticky mates! Ok, a bit of a pun but the reason is that they are ideal for jotting down that quick little comment or note whatever the season.

Of course there is no point having recycled sticky mates if you don't have appropriate promotional pens to write on them so what about Summer Ballpens? Available in a range of vibrant colours for the clip and tip, they have a white barrel. These two factors combined make for a great effect to enhance your logo when it's printed on the barrel.

The recycled sticky mates can also be printed with your logo to add to the full effect of your branding by making for a bigger impact through the combiined usage of these great promotional gifts.

Bio Pens that are Green Pens... does that make sense?

We know that there are an ever increasing number of promotional pens on the market that are green. What do I mean by 'green' though? Well I mean exactly what I say in both the colour green and the environmental friendly pens aspect. There are many green pens around that are considered to be good for the environment and almost infinite number of pens that available in the colour green.

One particular pen that makes a real effort to merge both concepts to the level of quality that you'd expect from a well made pen. The reson they can be truely called bio promotional pens is because they are 80% biodegradable which is no mean feat by any standards. They achieve this level of degradability due to that fact that they are manufactured from Polylactic Acid (PLA).

They match their green credentials with their colour variety and the vast array of colours are shown in the grip and clip colours. The remainder of the pens are either solid white with a shiny finish to the click and nib surround and the barrel being frosty and the transparent version also has a shiny click and nib surround and a frosted barrel. Making these in to printed pens making them effective marketing tools is a valuable trait due to their good sized print area on the barrel.

Bin old ideas with these great recycled products

Conventional marketing formats may include everything from inserting adverts in to brochures and magazines, creating flyers or printing on to various promotional products. If one of your main aims is to promote the green ethics of your company or organisation, why not consider spreading those credentials with recycled promotional products or green printed products.

A recent addition to this ever expanding family is the Wheelie Bin Pencil Sharpener. Perfect for desktop use, it's a constant and practical reminder or the environmentally friendly aspirations of your company. If these sorts of printed products are combined with the right sort of message then you can guarantee a distinct realisation of what your brand is all about.

Other related environmentally friendly products that can be used in conjunction with your message could include biodegradable carrier bags and Recycled Pens among many others.

Recycled Promotional Products lifespan

Whilst taking out the recycling this week and seeing the sheer volume of items in the bags, it made me consider how short a lifespan products have in their present form compared to already recycled products. Take something like a milk bottle; once you've emptied it of its contents it soon becomes redundant. You can fill it up again but many bottle these days carry warning stating that other liquids should not be poured in to them and stored in them because the chemicals in the plastic can affect the contents after an extended period of time.

It adds emphasis to the reasoning behind creating products that are reusable in their current form. Great examples of this are promotional recycled products as they are manufactured from other products or they have been made to actual degrade after a set amount of time like biodegradable carrier bags for instance. Alternatively they can be made from ecologically grown products and manufactured in ethical ways.

Recycled products have improved in quality drastically over the last few years and many products are so similar to their non-recycled counterparts that you can virtually tell no difference between them. They can also be printed in exactly the same ways as conventional products. Eco friendly products are on the rise and it's time to wake up the world and see the future for their domestic products.

Environmentally Friendly T-shirts

There are many eco items and recycled promotional products on the market right now from recycled desk pads to biodegradable carrier bags but eco clothing? Well it's true, they aren't strictly recycled T-shirts but rather they're made from organically grown cotton and this has given rise to our organic ladies t-shirt and our organic mens t-shirt.

An exciting alternative to normal promotional T shirts, they're 100% pure organically grown cotton which is Certified by the Control Union World Group, to the Organic exchange 100 guidelines and the Skal International standards for sustainable textile production. A great eco friendly way to promote your brand with large print areas on both the front and back and sleeve print also available, these make for great message spreaders and are a great way to demonstrate your corporate green credentials.

Recycled Post It Notes

It's been a good while now since recycled paper was introduced to the world. The very first sheets were somewhat obviously recycled, by which I mean that they were grainy, coarse and off colour. Thankfully though, the world of recycled products has made sure that through the development of better technology and experience, this is rarely the case now and the range of quality recycled paper products is much better.

Recycled pads are proving to be very popular promotional products and the same looks to continue for the foreseeable future with the world trying to make the most of available resources and to be seen to be environmentally conscious. The great things about it all is that because of the improvement in quality, items such as recycled sticky mates and post it notes can be created with the glue included yet still retain the quality and not rip when pulled apart.

An evironmentally friendly ruler for a new year

The new year is well under way and it's already starting to brighten up. Have you managed to keep to your new years resolutions, whatever they were or have you let yourself slip a little? Well no matter... even if you've slipped off the pace a wee bit, there's no reason why you can't regain the initiative early on in the year and draw a line under what has gone before.

A new start for yourself can also mean a new start for other areas of your life such as in business and organisationally. The new year could mean that you want to promote your company with planned campaigns to get your brand more recognised. One of the best ways to generate brand interest is through the ever present items that are in use every day of the year. Promotional gifts are relished by everybody, they are guaranteed to get significant usage and if printed with your logo, they will ensure that your corporrate identity will be fully visible all year round.

The range of promotional products on offer is vast and includes everything from printed pens and mugs to balloons and bookmarks. I reccommend that anyone wishing to provide brand stability and increase visibility should use promotional gifts in 2010. The best product to really start afresh with and to put a rule under the previous months are promotional recycled rulers.

Eco Ice Media Pen perfect for winter...

Hotline.co.uk has introduced the Eco Ice Media Pen for all those businesses that want to promote themselves successfully throughout the winter period and the coming months. This pen is the new eco freindly alternative to our best selling Ice Media Pen! It gives you the opportunity to impress your customers with your green credentials with these value for money recycled pens. Available in blue, white and green, these vibrant and contemporary frosted pens are perfect for your message.

The pen itself has a large print area along the barrel and it is available in three colours: white, blue and (of course) green! If ordered with a one colour print, they could even be delivered to you in an astonishing three days! This is just one of the extensive range of promotional pens and printed pencils available from the UK's number one supplier of promotional products.

Jute Bag does its duty

The Promotional Jute Bag is a useful carrier that is made from renewable and biodegradable Jute. Jute is a type of plant fiber used to make common items such as rope, twine, chair coverings, curtains, sacks, hessian cloth and carpets etc. This is accomplished by spinning the fiber into a coarse thread. Despite the fact that jute tends to be rough in texture, fine threads of it are sometimes used to create imitation silk.

Jute really is one of those materials that has come in under the radar and could potentially prove to be a valuable resource in the future. It is also being looked at as an alternative source for making paper, rather than cutting down trees for pulp.

The Jute Tote Bag is supplied with 25mm cotton webbing handles and is 100% biodegradable. The great bonus with these promotional bags is that it also has a large print area which can be printed with your message and will really make it stand out!