Green Options

Last week I posted 5 ways to make your own fabric labels which is great if you just need a few labels.  If you are a serious crafter or small manufacturer and need a larger quantity of labels, you may need to order custom fabric labels.  A quantity of 1000 is the typical minimum order for custom labels.  The eco-friendly options are increasing rapidly and currently include materials like organic cotton, bamboo, hemp, coconut, and mother of pearl.

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of ProformaGreen, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy. John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

A number of manufacturers are working on natural (non-dyed) paper impregnated with seeds. The idea is that if you plant items made of these papers flowers or trees will grow.

Bloomin’ Promotions and Seed Cards are two manufactures doing this type of thing.

I really don’t know what to make of this idea.

If properly used I am sure they would be a great learning tool, perhaps in an educational setting - write a letter to the planet, plant the letter in the school yard and see it live - that type of thing.