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to your booth. Plus, you will collect tons of leads when their business cards are dropped into the raffle buckets.

Promotional Drinkware
To help reduce the use of paper coffee cups and disposable plastic water bottles, trade show exhibitors can provide attendees with promotional drinkware. Imprinted drinkware makes a great eco friendly giveaway. There are several different varieties of mugs, tumblers, and sport bottles available. Since these are all reusable items, they promote a "green" way of thinking. A travel tumbler for the car is an item that several people find helpful. To help cut down on waste, provide attendees with promotional sport bottles and polycarbonate bottles for their water.

Promotional Bags
Rather than wasting another 380 billion plastic grocery bags, provide tradeshow attendees with organic cotton grocery bags. Several promotional products companies are now recognizing the need for attractive promotional bags that are also eco-friendly. The options include everything from organic tote bags to organic messenger bags. There's even an organic bag recycler to store plastic grocery bags rather than throwing them away. By giving out an eco-friendly trade show bag, you will not only be providing attendees with something useful for the show, but for years to come

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