Going Green in the Promotional Products Industry
Brush up on the green movement this month with Corporate Logo's Green Issue.
It includes information not only on green products & practices,
but on the state of the environment and how the promotional products industry is involved.
There are success stories from distributors who have been able to build large programs based around green products
and tips on how to make your own business a bit more eco-friendly.
Read more.
Cincinnati Making Strides in Cleaner Transportation
The city of Cincinnati is using t-shirts for a great cause... to clean up their transportation system!
They plan on purchasing new, cleaner hybrid buses to replace their old, pollutant emitting fleet
and are holding a t-shirt design contest to promote awareness of it.
Contest entrants will design tees based on the theme of environmental responsibility.
T-shirts and other apparel featuring the winning design will be sold around the community and online,
with proceeds helping to fund the purchase of the new buses.
Read more.
Cleaning up the Ports
The Port of Long Beach is the second busiest in the country, with over $100 billion of cargo moving through each year.
The boats and trucks involved in transporting this cargo are hazardous to the environment
and to those who work and live within close proximity of the nation's ports.
Officials at Long Beach have taken note and are taking steps to improve their operations.
Current initiatives include the following:
Clean Truck Program
-- This program will replace about 16,000 polluting trucks working at the ports
and reduce air pollution from harbor trucks by more than 80 percent within five years.
Clean Fuel Incentives for Ships,
which encourages shipping companies to use cleaner-burning fuel
when transiting within 40 miles of San Pedro Bay and at berth of the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
The commissioners of both ports approved the incentive program on March 24,
which will pay the difference in price between the cleaner-burning, low-sulfur fuel and the cheaper,
highly polluting bunker fuel, which generates the majority of sulfur oxide emissions in Southern California
and makes ocean-going vessels the single largest source of air pollution at the two ports.
"Sulfur oxides, which contribute to the formation of health-threatening soot or particulate matter,
will be cut by as much as 11 percent and particulate matter by 9 percent."
The port of Long Beach also initiated a "Green Flag Program" to reward ships and vessel operators
for voluntarily slowing ship speeds in the harbor to reduce air pollution
and is working on plans to build a new, certified environmentally friendly complex to serve as their headquarters.
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