If you haven’t had the pleasure of being introduced to the new market term “Eco-Anxiety,” allow me the pleasure of mediating your greeting. Corporate business goer, please meet Eco-Anxiety. He’s been the one supplying you with those prevalent knots in your stomach when you drive to work yourself, fully aware your housemate is driving in the same direction. You can also credit him for that one time you walked past a plastic bottle on the sidewalk, and felt so bad that you didn’t pick it up and put it in a recycling bin that you actually walked back to get it.

Yes, he is quite influential these days, not only to your stress, but to the policy decisions of highly successful corporations.

In this edition, we want to recommend a change you can make now to partially remedy your very apparent and frustratingly unproductive relationship with Eco-Anxiety. This change is adopting the use of 100% recyclable poly bags and basking in their efficiency, versatility, and cost-effectiveness.

So what can poly bags do exactly? First and foremost, they can assist in the renovation of your administrative endeavors by playing the vital role of replacing extraneous cardboard boxes and other paper products that often end up in trashcans instead of recycling bins.

Take for example your storage room. A multitude of space hungry boxes filled with who knows what. Replace those boxes with space friendly poly bags of various sizes (relative to the items you’re storing), and hang them via wire shelving. Not only are you preserving and better organizing your supplies (therefore making them more accessible), you are also investing in customizable packaging that can be easily reused in the office or elsewhere.

These customizable and eco-friendly space savers can also assist in lowering your shipping and advertising costs. Stop shipping a huge cardboard box full of non-recyclable Styrofoam when you could instead ship a poly bag of adequate size and mailing requirements. Because most manufacturers of poly bags offer a special series of brand-able mailing bags in every size imaginable, you should have little trouble finding something to match your budget’s fancy. Doing so is both an admirable and intelligent move, and branding your packaging with recommendations to recycle will help spread the good word.

There are many more ways to experience the versatility of poly bags in your office environment, but a large part of the new eco-friendly movement is individual innovation! We hope this has been informative and motivating, as we wish nothing more than seeing your company’s continued success, both monetarily and in reputational growth - not to mention, you may rest easier once you are no longer completely dominated by that pesky Eco-Anxiety.