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Take Us with You
The air is getting a little cooler and the days a bit shorter. That can only mean one thing – it’s back to school time. And what goes better with the start of the new year than your favorite Preserve products? Whether you’re getting ready for a new year or helping your favorite student get ready, we’re here to help you return to school in style.
Sturdy (darn near unbreakable according to some Preservers who’ve road-tested them), long-lasting (they can be washed hundreds of times) and colorful, Preserve Tableware is made for dorm living.
For the students returning to school lunchbox in hand, send them back with Preserve Food Storage containers. Available in a small or large size, our fun food storage containers are durable, dishwasher safe and, like all of our products, 100% BPA free!
And for those of you still clinging to summer until its last gasp, check out the Tableware and Food Storage containers in action in this great video from Whole Foods Market. |
Update on Preserve Plastic
In our last newsletter, we shared with you our ongoing commitment to evaluating the health and safety of our products and the materials we use. We explained that we do not introduce any possible endocrine disrupters into our plastics. Furthermore, our systems are designed to make all of our Preserve plastics from recycled products and packaging that have not had these chemicals introduced to them. We also subject our Preserve plastics to laboratory leaching tests to ensure that the metals are at levels that are less than what the EPA allows in drinking water.
As promised, we have conducted further research and tests to confirm our confidence in the health and safety of Preserve products. A research paper has been posted to our web site and is available as a resource to you and others concerned about the safety of plastics. If you would prefer a bite-size version, we’ve also posted a summary of the paper here.
Finally, we have retested all of our products and confirmed that they are free of bisphenol-A (BPA) and phthalates. We have added this important information to the product information portions on our web site, and it will make its way onto our product packaging in the coming months. Preserve offers better products—ones that look good, get the job done and require no compromise of you or the earth. Please contact us with any questions you have about Preserve. |
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Take It Back!
As a loyal Preserver, you already know how important your contributions are to the earth and to the life of Preserve products. Without your yogurt cups, sour cream containers and other #5 plastics, we wouldn’t have the materials to make our 100% recycled plastic products.
When we first started collecting #5 plastics from partners like Stonyfield Farm® and buying materials from curbside recyclers 12 years ago, we figured that it wouldn’t be long before every recycling program in the country was accepting #5 plastics. However, from your phone calls and emails, we know that a lot of you are concerned that your local recycling program still doesn’t take #5 plastics. Now we have a good solution – send them to us!
Buoyed by the success of our community-based Gimme 5 Program (see below) and other long-time programs to keep #5 plastic out of landfills, Preserve will now directly accept all of your #5 plastics. Together we can keep these valuable resources out of landfills and turn them into stylish, useful new products. Send us any and all clean #5 plastics. Click here for full details and Gimme 5!
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Spotlight: Gimme 5 Reston
Last spring, we announced the launch of our second retail-based Gimme 5 program at Whole Foods Market in Reston, VA. Now we’re happy to share with you that it’s working even better than we had hoped. Designed to keep #5 plastics –everyday items like yogurt cups, cottage cheese tubs and hummus containers – out of landfills, the program has been a vital component of our Gimme 5 strategy to find innovative ways to take back your post-consumer #5 plastics. Here are just a few ways the on-the-ground portion of our Gimme 5 program is making an impact – or lessening one:
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Each pound of #5 plastic collected makes 32 toothbrushes. |
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In the first three months we’ve collected almost 50 pounds of #5 plastic. |
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In 2007, the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, NY collected 1,305 pounds of plastic which created 41,760 toothbrushes. |
So whether it’s bringing back your #5 containers to a local store or sending them back to us, make sure you Gimme 5! |
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