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Preserve Your BBQs This Summer
Barbeques are ablaze and picnic baskets are full of goodies—it must be summer! Preserve tableware is the perfect addition to your summer activities. To celebrate summer, we’re offering 15% off in our online store for our new colors—Apple Green and Midnight Blue. To redeem enter “TBWSum09” at checkout. The offer lasts until July 31st.
And be sure to take advantage of our summer sale for discontinued tableware in Tulip Red, Pear Green, and Lilac Purple for 30% off. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to complete your tableware sets in these colors or add to your current collection. These are the lowest prices Preserve tableware has ever seen so click here to order while supplies last!
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Bring your #5 plastics to participating Whole Foods Stores
We’re pleased to announce that the Preserve Gimme 5 program has expanded to a total of 125 stores, which includes the newly added Southwest region of Whole Foods Market. Look for bins in Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas stores. Keep checking here as Whole Foods Market stores continue to sign on. We look forward to expanding Gimme 5 to additional retailers in 2010.
Thanks to our friends on the Green Mission Team at Whole Foods Market, members of the Preserve team were able to spend a gorgeous summer day on the Charles River at this year’s Earth Fest in Boston (our hometown). 200,000+ people attended and we educated many visitors about the Preserve Gimme 5 program showing how their recycling can make an important environmental impact and create new Preserve products. |
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I spy: Preserve on TV and in the News
Where have you seen Preserve? We saw Michael Scott making French toast using the Preserve Mixing Bowl on "The Office" (Episode 521). Columnist Rob Walker, featured Preserve in a recent column in the New York Times Magazine stating, “…Product makers with a unique story to tell — and clear values to sell — have some advantages right now precisely because retailers are looking for something to attract customer attention besides the lowest price. An example of this in the marketplace is Preserve.”
Join the scavenger hunt and please post your findings on Preserve’s Facebook page.
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Lazy Environmentalist Launches with Preserve
Josh Dorfman, better known as the Lazy Environmentalist, launched his latest book, “The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget” and Preserve was there to make sure he got off to a strong start. All guests who attended the book launch at Twelve21 in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City were invited to bring their yogurt cups and other #5s to drop in the Preserve Gimme 5 bin. And a variety of Preserve products were on hand to illustrate some of the great ways you can go green without breaking the bank. Josh is offering Preserve newsletter subscribers a 25% discount on his book, so pick up a copy here and learn about furnishing your home, bringing a green touch to the office, and fun eco-friendly toys for your tot. To redeem, enter “LazyE609” at check out. Offer lasts until July 31st. |
Insider’s Look into our Sustainability Strategy
Since our founding in 1996, Preserve’s mission and dedication to sustainability has remained the same: to reverse the harm caused by the industrial age. We live by this mission every day, whether in our choice to use recycled plastics, the design of our products, the recycled paper that we buy for the office, or the boxes that we reuse to send our online store orders.
The Brundtland report’s, widely accepted definition of sustainability is that which, “meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” At Preserve, this definition is our starting point to ensure every single decision is a conscious and informed one. We know that every action and decision is important and we use these opportunities to drive our environmental mission, every day. For example, we take a systems’ view approach and look at Preserve’s overall environmental impact using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tools.
We conduct LCAs to examine a product or system’s entire life cycle, from manufacture to disposal, to determine its environmental impact. We use it to compare two different scenarios to make environmentally responsible decisions, as well as to analyze and improve our current products and systems. Before launching the Preserve Gimme 5 program, we conducted an LCA to examine the difference between virgin polypropylene and Preserve plastic. For the results, click here.
We will continue to share our thinking and analyses with you, so stay tuned in future newsletters for more on Preserve and our sustainability strategy and actions!
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