I received a postcard in the mail from a company trying to sell me a big banner for my business. I just almost tossed it when I noticed the words “Eco-Friendly”.  That caught my attention!

Seems there’s a whole new earth-friendly material that trade show and other banners are created with. That eco-friendly material? Recycled soda bottles.

This new fabric is of the non-woven variety and made completely from recycled soda bottles.

This new eco-friendly fabric has the capacity to keep about 3 billion plastic PET soda bottles out of the world’s landfills each year, saving over 1/2 million barrels of oil and eliminating 400,000 tons of harmful air emissions. The amount of petroleum saved by using post-consumer bottles instead of virgin materials in the manufacturing process annually is enough to supply power to a large city.

It takes about 700 years for a soda bottle to break down in a landfill. Help keep these bottles out of landfills by buying items made with recycled bottles, like a trade show banner.

(The company that sent me the postcard was bannercreations.com .  While I’m not in the market for a banner, I’ll certainly remember them when I need one!)