Since the government is trying its best to protect and preserve our environment, companies have followed suit. Today, there are corporations that have launched their own recycling programs to not only cut down on using natural resources, but also inform their consumers about the importance of reducing their carbon footprint.

As owners of small businesses, you can preserve our environment by using recycled materials in your production. From here, you can use different advertising tools to market your product’s use of eco-friendly materials.

In advertising your eco-friendly products, you can use hang tags made from recycled materials. These provide ample space for your company’s slogan and advocacy. You can also use the hang tags in awareness campaign by placing simple facts about how recycling can produce high-quality goods using less resources.

If you’re planning to order hang tags from a printing company, look for the SoySeal, SFI, and PEFC logos in their products or website. These logos certifies that the printing company uses recycled paper and soy-based ink.

To help you understand more about soy-based ink and recycled papers, here’s a rundown of what they are made of and how they help preserve our environment:

Soy-based Ink Vinegar or soy inks are a form of non-food soy that is a healthier, safer and friendlier alternative to regular or petroleum-based ink. These type of ink is produced using 0.5% of the total energy required to create regular ink. Soy inks also have a very low level of VOC (volatile organic compounds) that helps reduce air pollution by minimizing toxic emissions.

Recycled Paper Using recycled papers for your products let you save more energy and produce a lesser amount of air pollution. Though recycled papers are made using chemicals and bleaches, these are still significantly lower than creating paper from wood fiber.

Once you’ve decided to use eco-friendly hang tags for your business, search for printing companies that offer full-color professional hang tags. Since there are hundreds of companies that print hang tags, narrow down your choices by searching for online reviews. These should help you determine which of these companies offer the best materials and services for their hang tags according to people. The faster you do these, the quicker you will be able to order your hang tags and reduce your production costs.

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Under the Hood of the Jaguar C-X75
The C-X75 is a plug-in series hybrid, a bit like the Chevy Volt. But unlike the Volt, it has 4 electric motors, providing all-wheel drive, and when the battery is drained, it doesn’t get recharged by a conventional gasoline engine. Rather, it uses twin micro-turbines, each generating 70 kW by spinning at 80,000 rpm.

The C-X75 has a drag coefficient of 0.32 Cd.

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Power and Top Speed
The four electric motors produce 145 kW (195 bhp) and 400 N·m (295 lb-ft) each, for a total power of 580 kW/780 bhp. Top speed is 330 km/h (205 mph), acceleration from 0-100 km/h (62 mph) is achieved in 3.4 seconds, and from 80-145 km/h (50-90 mph) in 2.3 seconds.

“The mid-mounted 70 kW (94 bhp) micro gas-turbines can generate a combined 140 kW (188 bhp) to charge the batteries and extend the range of the car to 900 km (560 miles)–or, when in Track mode, provide supplementary power directly to the electric motors. The four electric motors provide torque-vectored, all-wheel drive traction and grip, which Jaguar deems essential in a car that produces 1,600 N·m (1,180 lb-ft) of torque.” (source)

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What Makes It Green (Kind of, Depending…)
All this power seems overkill, and I’d much rather see a car that looks just as good but is less powerful, lighter, and gets a longer electric range and then gets better fuel economy once the battery is drained.

But still, the Jaguar C-X75 has an electric range of 110 kilometers (68 miles). Since the average American rarely drives more than 40 miles in a day, and that number is probably lower for Europeans, this means that if this supercar was plugged in every night, it could conceivably be greener (at least when it comes to usage) than a much less powerful car like a Honda Fit or whatever.

All of this is theoretical. The C-X75 might never reach production, and if it does, it would probably stay a small-volume model. But if this design project has helped Jaguar engineers to get familiar with series hybrids and electric cars, and to develop new technologies that can push the field forward, then it’ll be worth it. I’d rather see automotive engineers work on these kinds of things than ever larger V8s like in the 1990s and early 2000s.