PromoKeychain.com Environmental Initiatives

PromoKeychain.com is a supplier of promotional Eco-Friendly USB Flash Drives.

Our Environmental Commitment

We are making an effort to supply green USB Flash Drives to the promotional industry. We started with RoHS certified construction to remove hazardous materials from all our products. We added a line of eco-friendly USB drives made with recycled materials, renewable Bamboo, FSC Wood, and (PLA) biodegradable thermoplastic. Next, we reduced our operational eco-footprint by choosing a website server that is 130% wind powered! We're not just neutralizing our environmental impact, we're reversing it!

Sustainability

PromoKeychain.com Flash Drive NAND memory technology uses less than 1% of the power consumed by conventional CD-ROMs, when transferring the same amount of data. The energy required to burn information onto a CD can use as much as 100 times the amount of energy to load the same information onto a PromoKeychain USB Flash Drive.

    * Save Paper - 1GB of storage can hold over 10,000 pages of full text
    * No Batteries - NAND technology holds data without batteries
    * Reusable - reload old USB Flash Drives with new content
    * Non-Toxic - meets RoHS standards to reduce hazardous substances
    * Reduced Waste - paper products account for over 1/3 Canada’s waste
    * Green Product - USB Flash Drives use
    * Reduced Packaging - packaging accounts for 41% of all paper used in North America

The Bamboo Solution

Today, almost 1 million acres of forest vanish per week. This alarming rate of deforestation has forced many world economies to rethink their business and manufacturing practices. A sixty-foot tree cut for market takes 60 years to replace. Meanwhile, a sixty-foot bamboo cut for market takes 59 days to replace (International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR)). Bamboo is officially recognized as the world's fastest growing plant and has a tensile strength comparable to steel.

• Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on earth. It is known to produce greater biomass and 30% more oxygen than a hardwood forest of comparable size, while improving watersheds, preventing erosion, restoring soil, providing sweet edible shoots and removing toxins from contaminated soil.  Ecologists tout bamboo as a renewable source used for manufacturing as well as food. Many promote bamboo planting for erosion prevention, and even to reverse the effects of global warming. 
• Bamboo helps reduce carbon dioxide gases blamed for global warming. Some bamboo sequesters up to 12 tons of carbon dioxide per hectare, which makes it a highly efficient plant, and conducive to fresh air.  Bamboo can be selectively harvested annually and regenerates without replanting. 
• Bamboo is a natural water control barrier. Because of its wide spread root system and large canopy, bamboo greatly reduces rain run off, prevents massive soil erosion and keeps twice as much water in a watershed. Bamboo helps mitigate water pollution due to its high nitrogen consumption, making it a solution for excess nutrient uptake of waste-water from manufacturing, livestock farming and sewage treatment.
• Bamboo can restore degraded lands. It is a pioneering plant and can be grown in soil damaged by overgrazing and poor agriculture. Proper harvesting does not kill the bamboo plant, so topsoil is held in place. Because of its dense litter on the forest floor it feeds topsoil, restoring healthy agricultural lands for generations to come.

FSC - The Forest Stewardship Council

FSC is an international certification and labeling system that guarantees that the forest products you purchase come from responsibly managed forests and verified recycled sources.

Under FSC certification, forests are certified against a set of strict environmental and social standards, and fibre from certified forests is tracked all the way to the consumer through the chain of custody certification system. The end result is products in the marketplace carrying the FSC 'check-tree' logo.

FSC certification is a voluntary and market-based mechanism for ensuring that our forests are healthy. Consumer demand for FSC-certified products encourages forest managers and owners to become FSC-certified. Independent third-party auditors conduct all FSC certification audits.

Please, visit the FSC website for more information.