Physical BOOKMARKS not just any but ‘Greener things’ ideal for Authors or targeting anyone who reads books!
Recycled Bookmarks in various materials.
Why bookmarks?
- Large print area for all your messaging and branding
- Low price point
- Flat, light and easy to mail within a standard DL envelope
- Modern or classic styles
- Special shapes can be made
- Variety of textures
- Very inexpensive unit cost to give away
- Easy to ship and store to give away anywhere (you could charge!)
- Constant point of reference when in use by recipient
A physical bookmark will constantly make an impression to you the reader as you begin and end each page, each chapter and every book!
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Have you seen this symbol before?
It is a universal recycling indication located at the bottom of all plastic bottles.
If you are like us you may have wondered what happens to all these plastic bottles after use?
Well the question is do you recycle your PET?
Post-consumer waste PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) is the most common plastic used for beverages and food products.
We wanted to share about the recycling process with you:
1. First your PET (Plastic Bottles) are collected.
2.Separating them from other materials is next such as labels, metals, and other rigid plastic parts.
3. Sorting into different plastics & colours
4. Crushing
5. Washing, drying & separating further for the next advanced recycling process
6. Shredding into small pieces called PET ‘fragments’ is the next step, where at this point there are still residues of the original product attached.
7. Thereafter, these fragments are purified to remove physical and chemical impurities through melt filtration to result in pure PET ‘flakes (Source: Petcore, a non-profit European Association fostering the development of PET recycling).
8. PET ‘flakes’ are then sorted for r-PET (bookmark PET) and the rest for different industry specifications, such as carpet fibre, moulding compounds, and non-food containers.
9. Finally, the addition of r-PET with recycled paper allows the lamination of your colourful and new looking branded bookmarks!
10. Would you like to watch a video on PET recycling? Click here ! (Source: Recycle-more is a sister site managed by Valpak, where Valpak is the UK’s leading provider of dependable, reliable and responsible compliance and recycling solutions, managing the recycling obligations of over 3,500 UK businesses under producer responsibility laws).
We like our PET bookmarks the most because they can be printed full colour both sides, they are cut for a page hanger and they are priced from less than 20p each + VAT. Coca Cola used them in one of their recent promotions – makes sense huh!
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Did Max, the dog, bite your old leather shoes? Don’t worry, we’ve used them as bookmarks!
How is leather recycled? You may not know that it is also shredded into tiny pieces then ‘glued’ together using resin and catalysers, where natural rubber binding is mixed with the recycled leather material to producelarge sheets. These are then cut into the rectangular bookmark size available in black, blue, burgundy, green, natural, pink, purple, red and white from only for 0.201p*.
Leather bookmarks remind me, of something a relative would bring back for us from a holiday maybe in the Isle of Wight! One of the first pieces of merchandise I remember with the smell of the dye and the leather. They were then a traditional & quality product with the luxury aspect. Today we have adapted this classic through an eco process while still maintaining that high quality finish to a much more modern & still loved style.
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Classic cars are vintage, but old tyres, what happens to them?
According to RecyclingExpert.co.uk tyres are made from very tough forms of chemically enhanced rubber and it can create toxic pollutants if burnt and take a long time to break down when put in landfills!
So how are they recycled?
Recycling tyres is a tricky & intense process through different companies being innovative. Here are the stages to where tyres are ground up, and delivered in a bag of bits for bookmark making.
1. Cutting the raw tyres into small pieces called ‘chips’ is the first step of the tyre recycling process.
2. Loading and cooling the chips into an enclosed freeze chamber using liquid nitrogen is the next step.
3. Subsequently, allowing the chips to reach a temperature of minus –80 degrees centigrade will make the rubber very brittle.
4. Thereafter, smashing these frozen tyre chips with a hammering machine until the rubber falls into smaller pieces of various sizes known as ‘grade of tyre’ or ‘crumb’.
5. Extraction of these crumbs from the hammer chambers is the next step.
6. Then, sorting the crumbs within the plant into one of 6 grades. (Source: Recycling Expert, a company founded by John Rowlinson, the founder of PtS, where it was formed to offer unique point of reference on how to recycle and reuse your waste).
7. Blending the recycled ‘crumbs’ with natural rubber binding is the final step to produce sheets where your solid tyre bookmarks are cut from.
8. We take your logo and message and print them!
We like tyre bookmarks as they really look recycled, tactile feel of rubber and have traction on your fingers, they are great for a one or two colour print and definitely make their mark at a price starting at only 0.144p*.
Better, we recycle using UK tyres!
For a quotation, simply drop us an enquiry here, or contact Karl at source@OriginalThing.com.
Note: *Price subject to quantity and colour.
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