KeepCup - Reusable Coffee Cups

Green is the new black, and has been for quite a long time. More and more, people are basing their buying decisions on the environmental impact of an item rather than its price … and they are responding to companies that share their values. When you’re next searching for corporate gift ideas, it’s time to start thinking about how you can save the environment with your choice of custom promotional products, rather than contributing to the needless proliferation of “stuff”! Here are 10 starter ideas …

1. Personalised and Reusable Coffee Cups
Think there’s nothing new about logo mugs? Think again – you can now get food-grade high quality reusable plastic takeaway coffee cups which replace disposable coffee cups, fitting under the heads of all the most common commercial coffee machines. One unique corporate gift, hundreds of paper cups saved!

2. USB Powered Products
Nowadays, everybody has their computer on all day at work – so it is far more efficient to draw power for desk items through the USB port than through a separate power supply. USB desk lamps, fans and many other products are now available to use as unique corporate gifts.

3. Recycled Office Items
Fair trade businesses are among the most common suppliers of truly eco-friendly recycled items, like magazine pages made into sturdy fruit bowls and coffee coasters, LP records made into plates, recycled glass jewellery, etc.

4. Battery Chargers Plus Rechargeable Batteries
Just as with the personalised coffee cups, reusability is the name of the eco-friendly game. The gift of a battery charger plus rechargeable batteries takes the ‘can’t be bothered’ factor out of the equation!

5. Grow Your Own …
You can grow your own herbs, lettuce, tomatoes, and heaps of other small vegetable plants in even the smallest of domestic spaces, with the right equipment. Use your unique corporate gifts to enable people to buy local and make their small contribution to reducing the environmental impact of transport.

6. Recycled Paper Compendiums, Calendars and Notebooks
Diaries, compendiums and notebooks are among the most common customised promotional products. There are plenty of eco-friendly options for these products – look for recycled paper, paper from renewable sources, even elephant poo paper (!) as a unique alternative to forest-destroying ‘new’ paper.

7. Thrilling Experiences
If you’re looking for a truly unique corporate gift that will never be forgotten, look into the variety of companies now offering ‘experiences’ as gifts, rather than physical objects. You can give things like a Formula One Track Day, a cocktail mixing class, your own customisable ‘Amazing Race’, sailing regatta, abseiling day, drumming classes … the list is huge. These are eco-friendly gifts because there is no or little consumption of resources involved.

8. Portable Solar Chargers
It’s possible to purchase portable solar chargers which convert energy from the sun into AC power which can charge mobile phones, tablet computers, mp3 players or a hundred other small items! Start creating solar converts with your corporate gift ideas.

9. Stainless Steel Water Bottles
Like coffee cups, water bottles are a common office sight – and reusability is the baseline standard for eco-friendliness! Stainless steel is hygienic and long lasting.

10. Shake and Shine Torches
These use a magnetic internal apparatus to create up to 45 minutes of power from 30 seconds of shaking – no batteries or recharging required, ever!

There’s no excuse for taking the old, lazy and environmentally unfriendly route with your corporate gift ideas anymore!