Small choices,
big impact
Your badge just saved the planet some extra baggage.
Over 250 million people attend U.S. conferences each year. If everyone wore 4×6 plastic badges and polyester lanyards, laid out in a line, the waste would circle the Earth 3.6 times.
Find your sustainable alternative to single-use plastics below—crafted by our SBA-certified, women owned small business in our own U.S.-made Eco Name Badge holder line.
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Kraft Paper
From an ENVIRONMENT paper line with sustainable production.
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- FSC® Certified, Green Seal™ Certified, Green-e Certified production
- Made with 30% or more Post-Consumer Fiber
- ENVIRONMENT® Papers are made by Neenah Paper, with US and European facilities focused on reducing environmental footprints
Seed Paper
Made in the USA at a solar-powered B Corp facility.
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- Made using 100% post-industrial or post-consumer recycled paper that originally met FSC standards
- Seeds are specially identified to be non-invasive, non-GMO, and drought tolerant for all regions of the USA and Canada
- 100% natural die, vegetable-based pigments
Wood-Paper Overlay
FSC® Certified, thinly sliced wood withpaper overlay.
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- Produced in partnership with a small family- owned Midwest business
- Double-wood product is certified FSC® 100%,
Wood from well-managed forests,
FSC® C117062 Wood-paper Overlays are certified FSC® MIX, Wood | Supporting responsible forestry, FSC® C117062
Recycled Cotton Denim Paper
Sustainably made in Ohio from diverted textile waste.
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- Made from 100% PCW with denim scrap diverted from the millions of textile waste sent to landfills every year.
- Pulps remain unbleached and require no dye in the papermaking process.
- Part of the Renewal line from Mohawk paper, made in the USA with Green-e Certified production.
50% Grass Paper
Made with regenerative materials and renewable energy sources.
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- Made from up to 50% grass and other eco-friendly materials
- FSC® Certified, carbon neutral
- Paper from plant fibers is compostable, offering nutrients to grow new plants
- Made in Germany by Gmund: up to 75% of electrical energy comes from their own renewable sources of hydropower, solar energy and combined heat and power generation
Alder Wood
A regenerative species sourced from the USA.
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- Wood sourced in the Pacific Northwest
- Alderwood is known as an abundantly grown and well-managed species
- Procured from a family-run Wisconsin business using shredded edges and scraps to heat their facility
Circular by design, biodegradable as back-up ...NOT disposable by default.
Lifecycle assessments may show slightly higher production impacts for paper badges or in washing and reusing our repurposed rental lanyards. But what happens after use tells the full story.
- Only 8.7% of plastics were recycled in the U.S. as of 2018 (NIST, EPA).
- Even when recycled, plastic is usually “downcycled” only once before heading to the landfill for good.
- Plastics can persist for hundreds of years, fragmenting into microplastics that contaminate soil, waterways, and our food systems.
- By contrast, 75% of all paper-based packaging is recovered for recycling (EPA).
- Paperboard is the most widely recycled packaging material in the world, with recovery rates around 80% in both the U.S. and Europe (EPA, Eurostat).
- Paper can be recycled multiple times, returning to consumers in new forms again and again—making it a far more circular, renewable material.
- Paper and wood badges naturally break down in months to a few years, even in landfill conditions.
