For years, items such as pens, cups and bags have been used by companies to promote their products or services. Promotional products are a great way of building awareness of your brand – because everyone loves a freebie. Right?
The problem is that many of these items contain plastic that takes ages to biodegrade – even hundreds of years! All while, after use, they sit in landfills damaging our awesome planet.
We don’t like the sound of that. So, we’ve come up with some innovative everyday items that are transforming the eco promotional products industry. Let’s find out more…
Why use eco-friendly promotional products?
The world seems obsessed with plastic; much of it is single-use. As a consequence, globally, a whopping 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic goes into landfill each year – that’s the same amount of weight of 1 billion elephants!
This trash builds up, damaging the soil and emitting a huge amount of methane, which is a big contributor to climate change.
While promotional products may only count for a small amount of the plastic that ends up in landfills – we believe that small changes can lead to big things!
If you want to show your friends, colleagues and customers that you’re passionate about protecting our amazing planet, switch to eco-friendly promotional products.
Let us be your eco promotional products partner
When sourcing eco-friendly promotional merchandise, you want to know that the company you’re buying from is serious about sustainability. We are!
Way back in 2013, our chairman Michael Stausholm came across a plantable pencil that some MIT students had put up on Kickstarter. Michael loved the idea so much he bought the rights to it,and that was the start of Sprout World.
We like to say that “sustainability is in our DNA.” We love our planet and we want to inspire others to care more for our natural world through the use of innovative, fun everyday items – the plantable Sprout pencil and our Sprout Spoon.
We’ve designed our production techniques to be as sustainable as possible, including having production partners in Poland that serve our European market and in the US for our American market.
Find out more about the story of Sprout by visiting our About Sprout page.
Plantable Sprout pencil
Are you looking for an alternative to promotional plastic pens that may break after a few uses? Then eco-friendly pencils are a perfect solution. But, why not go one step further and use our plantable Sprout pencils that burst into life after use as part of your eco friendly promotional materials?
Once our plantable Sprout pencil is too short to use, place the end with the seed capsule in some soil, place it natural sunlight, water it frequently and watch as it grows into fresh vegetables, luscious flowers, fragrant herbs or even a spruce tree – an eco pencil with plenty of life!
The Plant A Tree pencil is our newest edition, and we’re super excited to be able to offer a pencil that grows back into a tree. As we like to say, “From a tree to a pencil and back to a tree, the circle of life is complete.” The Plant A Tree pencil can be customized with your company logo and message and is ideal for promoting your company’s ‘Plant A Tree’ campaign or other sustainable initiatives.
Made using only sustainably harvested wood (every time a tree is cut down to make our pencils a new tree is planted to replace it) our plantable Sprout pencils contain non-GMO seeds held within a plant-based material seed capsule that biodegrades when placed in soil.
You can choose to give-away graphite pencils, color pencils or our popular Rainbow pencil that has three colors in one – red, yellow and blue. Customize your plantable Sprout pencil by engraving a personalized message to make your pencil really stand out and to also start a conversation about sustainability and the importance of caring for the plants, flowers and animals that populate our plant!
As an alternative to engraving, color printing is available to businesses in the EU. Using UV printing and safety standard inks, we can print in just about any color. This also means more intricate designs can be created. Plus as the inks we use are durable and waterproof you don’t have to worry about your design smudging.
Visit our case study page to see how other companies have successfully used our plantable Sprout pencil and be inspired to switch to eco friendly promo products.
How our Sprout eco promotional products can be used
Our eco-friendly promotional gifts make perfect giveaways at lots of different events. Here are some examples in case you need inspiration:
Conferences
Drive more engagement at your conference by gifting a plantable Sprout pencil to all the delegates when they arrive. They’re a perfect way to show your support for sustainability and they’re also a fun way to break the ice and get people talking!
Product launches
Launching a new product is extremely exciting and giving away fun and inspiring eco promotional items at the event will make it extra special. Choose to customize the plantable Sprout pencil by engraving or color printing your logo – color printing is currently only available in Europe.
Trade fairs
Announce your presence at trade fairs with innovative eco promotional products. Opt for our plantable Sprout pencil that’s customized with your logo or personalized message. Or, choose to give away Sprout eco pencils with customized packaging to get your message across.
Team building events
If you’re bringing people from different parts of the business together for a day or two, give away our plantable Sprout pencils as a souvenir of your team building event.
to get a quote for our plantable Sprout pencil or if you simply want to chat about eco-friendly promotional ideas – we’d love to hear them!