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Preserve Flavored Toothpicks are a great supplement to floss – offering an easy way to help clean teeth between brushings. Made from certified sustainably harvested white birch wood that is domestically grown, Preserve Flavored Toothpicks contain essential oils that serve as natural antibacterial ingredients that keep your mouth healthy and help freshen breath. Look for Preserve Flavored Toothpicks in your local natural products retail store – featured in 2 mouth popping, all-natural flavors - Cinnamint and Mint Tea Tree. |
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Now that you have heard about our new Preserve Flavored Toothpicks, we want to pick your brain. Some have suggested that we ought to give the toothpicks a cool and catchy new brand name that packs as much punch as the picks themselves. If you suggest one that we end up using – we’ll reward you with an iPod Shuffle! Have ideas that are fun, memorable, and convey the mouth popping flavors? Click here to submit your idea. |
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For those customers that do not live close to a natural products retailer, there is now an easy, convenient option for buying your Preserve products. Our Preserve toothbrushes, Razor Recyclable, Plateware and Cutlery are now available through online retailer Amazon.com And while you are browsing Amazon’s site, take a moment to write a review of our products so other shoppers can hear what you think! |
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“Why can’t I recycle #5 plastics in my town?” This is a question we hear a lot at Recycline and at tradeshows and earth fairs. It really hits at the roots of our beginnings and why Recycline was founded. In order for towns to offer recycling of #5 plastics, there has to be an interest in the recycling business community for these plastics – generally they either pay the towns for them, or they take them off their hands for less than it costs for waste removal. Since the beginning, #1 and #2 plastics have always been the breadwinner for the recycling industry. There are large and consistent supplies. Consequently, companies that buy plastics have been able to incorporate the purchase of recycled plastics into their plastic purchasing program. Given this market, municipalities can get over 20 cents per pound for post consumer PET and HDPE recycled plastics after separation. Also given their breadwinner status, most recycling facilities will not interrupt their systems to separate 3s, 4s and 5s. Recycline makes products from primarily recycled #5 (polypropylene) materials. We also seek to help other companies to do this. The more that we can create demand for this material, the more we can convince a recycling facility to separate the #5s; then, once the supply increases, more companies can be convinced to incorporate it into their purchasing program of plastics. It is an evolving and building cycle. We are just beginning this same effort with polycarbonate for the Preserve Razor Triple Blade… for which there are no curbside supplies. One step at a time. As consumers, you play an important role in encouraging communities to recycle #5 plastic and encouraging companies to use recycled #5 plastics – for every Preserve product you buy, you are sending a message to the marketplace that will lead to more and more facilities recycling #5 plastics. |
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Jeremy is shown in this photo taking the Preserve toothbrush on his vacation in Venezuela. Lucky brush! For his efforts, we are sending him a Preserve gift pack featuring one of each of our products including our new Preserve Plateware and Cutlery. |
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We got a fantastic response from our last survey and appreciate your ideas. We are trying to incorporate some of your suggestions into our newsletter so stay tuned. Click below for this month’s three questions. |
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We’re in the process of developing a range of new products. From time to time we need people to test new products and give us feedback. Are you interesting in helping? |
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Our New Product Development team has been hard at work this year. Not only did they introduce Preserve Plateware and Cutlery this summer – which has been selling like hotcakes – but now they have come up with a great new addition to the Preserve Family – Preserve Flavored Toothpicks.
In last month’s newsletter we asked you to send in a photo of you using a Preserve product, anywhere in the world. We love to see how you are helping spread the word about environment-friendly products – especially ours! – around the world. After lots of fun sorting through the entries, we have chosen Jeremy Wetter as our winner.