The 11 best eco-friendly promotional products

In this blog we present our top 11 useful and environmentally friendly promotional products. We asked ourselves a few questions along the way. What are the advantages of eco promotional products? Do the common ecological promotional products actually meet sustainability criteria, and how can they be personalised? Is production in Switzerland (Swiss Made / Made in Switzerland) possible? What costs should you allow for? You will find the answers here. With these sustainable giveaways you show your clients that sustainability matters to you when it comes to promotional products as well. These are our top 11 ecological promotional products:

• Eco water bottles
• Seed pencil
• Socks in organic cotton
• Soap and hygiene items
• Eco coffee cup in bamboo or cork
• Eco carrier bags
• Plants
• Insect snacks
• Ecological textiles
• Organic masks
• Wooden toothbrushes

Eco water bottles: sustainable, personalised and practical 🏺🏺🏺

Promotional products that are not environmentally friendly, such as plastic bottles, can easily be replaced by eco water bottles. The cost of an eco bottle can vary a great deal depending on the quality, the design and the manufacture. The bottles come in every possible colour, size and variation and offer a large surface for your logo, your slogan and your branding in general. Besides the ecological advantages (less plastic used), you do yourself some good as well by always having a bottle of water with you (more on water bottles with a company logo).

Eco advantages – reduce plastic use, sustainable material

Cost – from CHF 7.- to CHF 60.-

Use – daily need for water, 12 h warm / 24 h cold

Decoration – engraving, logo print, individual design only at Twing

Plantable seed pencil: writing and planting in one ✏️✏️✏️

Give your writing materials a second life. With the plantable seed pencil you get not only a sustainable pencil but a new plant at home or in the office. Depending on what you want, the pencil contains vegetable or flower seeds that bloom when you press the used pencil into the soil. At Twing these ecological pencils can be printed individually and are available as a set.

Eco advantages – sustainable material Cost – from CHF 3.-

Use – 2 in 1: seeds and pencil

Decoration – logo print on the pencil

Sustainable socks: in 100% organic cotton 🧦🧦🧦

Unobtrusive and yet impossible to imagine our wardrobe without: the sock. Here too there is no need to do without sustainable, organic materials. Given the high demand, the possibilities for an environmentally friendly promotional product are almost unlimited. Playful sock designs with a logo in the company colours are very much in fashion. We make the coolest sock designs, by the way. 😉

Eco advantages – organic cotton, natural materials, rePET

Cost – from CHF 7.- to CHF 35.-

Use – warm feet in winter, sweat-free in summer

Decoration – logo print, your own design

Purely natural: soap and hygiene items as eco promotional products 🧼🧼🧼

Unlike the toothbrush, soap is not made of plastic, is it? Not quite, because some soaps contain microplastics and where they do not, the packaging is plastic. For environmentally harmful soaps as well as for the packaging there are plenty of environmentally friendly promotional products as a replacement — as there are for many other hygiene items. Who would not be pleased with a freshly scented, sustainable soap in the bathroom?

Eco advantages – avoid microplastics and ordinary plastic

Cost – from CHF 3.- to CHF 15.-

Use – daily use, an emotional promotional product

Decoration – logo print or your own packaging design

Ecological coffee cup: your daily companion ☕☕☕

The sustainable Twing coffee to go cup is made of 100% reusable cork and can be designed entirely individually. That makes it a stylish and above all environmentally friendly promotional product for a young, environmentally aware audience. Did you know that in many places the coffee is even cheaper if you bring your own reusable cup? One more good reason for the Twing coffee to go cup as your new promotional gift (more on eco coffee cups to print). Now available in bamboo fibre as well.

Eco advantages – reusable cup, cork or bamboo

Cost – from CHF 2.85.- to CHF 15.-

Use – ideal for coffee to go, cheaper coffee

Decoration – completely customisable with a logo print

Eco carrier bags: say goodbye to plastic 🛍️🛍️🛍️

Whether after the shopping or as a trendy accessory, carrier bags are practical in daily life and can be used again and again. At Twing there are plenty of ecological carrier bags in organic material, cotton and many other environmentally friendly materials such as rePET or bamboo.

Eco advantages – reusable, organic material such as rePET or bamboo

Cost – from CHF 3.- to CHF 25.-

Use – daily, ideal for travelling

Decoration – logo print or a complete design possible

Encourage growth: plants as an ecological promotional product 🌵🌵🌵

For about two years a small cactus has been sitting on my desk, which probably makes it the most visible and most environmentally friendly promotional product in my household. Green is good for the eyes and plants are nature itself — it is hard to get more sustainable and more organic than that. At Twing the pot can be branded with your logo. Otherwise we recommend a nice card to go with it, or seeds in individual packaging as an eco promotional product.

Eco advantages – nature itself Cost – from CHF 5.- to CHF 40.-

Use – at home or in the office, a bit of green never hurts

Decoration – logo print on the pot, the card or the packaging

Pure protein: tasty insect snacks and protein bars 🦗🦗😋

The tasty insect snacks and protein bars by essento are made in Switzerland with few resources and are a very sustainable source of protein. Most of your audience has certainly never tried them. With these branded snacks you can create an unforgettable experience and help make sustainable insect food more socially acceptable. Be one of the pioneers of ecological (and unusual) promotional products and provide a unique customer experience.

Eco advantages – few resources, Swiss Made

Cost – from CHF 4.- to CHF 6.-

Use – eco protein, healthy, unique

Decoration – high-quality sticker / branded tag

Ecological textiles: fashion with a clear conscience 👕👕👕

Wasted water, poor working conditions, long transport routes — the list of drawbacks in the textile industry is long. It could be very short, though, because there are many sustainable suppliers of T-shirts, hats, bum bags and other sustainable giveaways. A very popular ecological promotional product is beeswax wraps from Twing, for instance, because they can be produced very sustainably and keep food fresh for longer.

Eco advantages – fair trade, materials such as rePET or bamboo

Cost – from CHF 5.- to CHF 200.-

Use – your giveaway comes along, extensive branding

Decoration – logo print, your own design

Organic masks: protecting health and the environment 😷😷😷

Since Covid at the latest they have been on everyone's lips — or rather on everyone's face: protective masks. There is a wide choice of eco masks in every possible colour and variation as promotional products. The masks can protect you and the people around you from a possible infection, they are washable and can be reused afterwards. You can also get masks that are Swiss made — sustainable and local, and therefore a very environmentally friendly promotional product.

Eco advantages – reusable, organic or recyclable, Swiss made

Cost – from CHF 4.- to CHF 20.-

Use – protect effectively against infection, comfortable to wear

Decoration – logo print or a complete design possible

Wooden toothbrushes: brushing your teeth without plastic 🌳🌳🌳

We see it at least twice a day: the toothbrush. While this useful helper keeps our teeth sparkling, discarded toothbrushes are a heavy burden on the environment. Simply replacing the plastic handle with an environmentally friendly material such as wood already saves a fair amount of harmful plastic. The wooden toothbrush can even be made in Switzerland, which saves the long transport route on top. Prices of course differ with the quality. As an eco promotional product, the brush offers plenty of room on the front and the back for an individual logo engraving.

Eco advantages – Swiss made and no transport routes, recyclable

Cost – from CHF 4.- to CHF 15.-

Use – at least 2× daily, clean teeth without plastic

Decoration – individual engraving in wood

Your idea? 💡💡💡

Do you already have a product or an idea for a promotional product you particularly like? Write to us — for almost every product we have an ecological option in recycled, recyclable or organic material for you. There are further ways to make your promotional product more sustainable as well. Our very popular webcam covers with a logo, for instance, can be transported by train instead of by plane, or organic materials can be used for the packaging of your giveaway. Here is the way to an individual enquiry. We look forward to hearing from you!