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SUSTAINABLE PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTS
PRODUCT WITH PURPOSE
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FAIRWARE Fairware helps you to better engage your customers, employees and partners through the creation of sustainable, custom branded products. We ensure your promotional merchandise helps tell your story and animate your brand. Our mission is to change the world through the simple act of buying. We’re committed change makers and we’re serious about sustainability. We bring emerging retail, consumer and sustainability trends to the forefront of promotional campaigns and product assortments. We’re sustainable brand strategists and merchandise is our medium. We do the homework on ethical sourcing and sustainable materials so you can rest assured that your marketing merchandise lines up with your values. Thanks, Team Fairware
ABOUT SUSTAINABLE PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTS If you’re a sustainable brand, social enterprise, or a non -profit changemaker, here are three great questions to ask about your promotional products. 1. Are they made from sustainable materials in an ethical supply chain? 2. Do they help drive more environmentally responsible consumer habits and behaviors? 3. Are they educating recipients about key social and environmental issues? At Fairware, we use those three questions as our lens for creating high impact merchandise programs for North America’s leading sustainable brands and changemakers. This e-book is a guide to some of our favorite campaigns and merchandise programs. Get inspired and give us a shout to see how we can help you with your next campaign.
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Upcycled Merchandise
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Sustainable Tees
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Sustainable Office Products
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Re-Fillable Water Bottles
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Re-Usable Tote Bags
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Re-Usable Travel Mug
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Zero Waste Lunch
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Drive Conservation
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Plantable Promotions
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Nothing - Donation High Five
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THE FAIRWARE FAVES
Aspen tote bag: reconstructed & upcycled old aspen
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UPCYCLED MERCHANDISE Nothing says sustainable like using materials destined for landfill to make your merchandise. Ask us about options to re-purposing textiles and other materials into your next merchandise product.
n ski uniforms
Fairmont makeup bag: made from upcycled bedsheet linen
Aveda travel & makeup bag: made out of upcycled bicycle inner tubes
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TWO. SUSTAINABLE TEES The t-shirt is a standard give-away for good reason, it’s a classic. If you can get on your client’s ‘top 5 favorite tees list’ they’ll love you.
But caution, if you’re going to do it, do it right. Gone are the days of printing a corporate logo on the centre of a shirt and having people wear it. Consider cool designs or subtle graphics on soft tees.
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THREE. SUSTAINABLE OFFICE PRODUCTS Desktop products are incredibly good value if you want daily brand recognition/impressions. Make sure you’re sending the right signal with sustainable office products.
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FOUR. RE-FILLABLE WATER BOTTLES
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An obscene number of disposable water bottles are tossed daily in North America. Use your promotional products to help educate your fans and employees about the issue so they can be part of the solution.
FIVE. RE-USABLE
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Help people kick the plastic bag habit with re-usable totes. Looking to really drive change – how about using a door hanger hang tag to remind people to take their bags as they’re leaving their house. Tired of totes? Give out re-usable bulk or produce bags and help drive the zero waste trend.
SIX. RE-USABLE TRAVEL MUG Arm your people to lug their own mugs. Use the real estate to educate and inspire and if you’re looking to motivate your team, create a campaign for staff to ‘pledge’ to use travel mugs and not take out cups.
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7 ZERO WASTE LUNCH ANYONE? Equip folks with re-usable lunch totes, tiffins and utensils to they can stop using take out containers.
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EIGHT. DRIVE CONSERVATION Use your merchandise for social marketing campaigns to drive change where and when people are making energy, water and waste management decisions.
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PLANTABLE PROMOTIONS
Grow your next campaign with seeded products. Why not start a garden with your next marketing campaign. We can match seeds to recipes and regions.
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TEN. NOTHING The most sustainable gift of all! Consider handing out high-fives. Go get an old bowling trophy from your local second-hand store to reward your ‘employee of the week’.
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