General

Submitting Designs and Photos

Voting

Product Info

Tees

Bottles

Bags

General

MPS is commited to ensuring the highest standards of social responsibility in everything we do. The companies we do business with must provide safe working conditions, treat employees fairly and use environmentally responsible manufacturing processes.

• All profits are donated to environmental charities
• 1% for the Planet Member
• All of our products are manufactured in the USA by companies that adhere to fair labor practices
• Green America Business Member
• Most orders ship within 24 hrs
• No sales tax (except AZ)
• You can buy with confidence as all of our products are People and Planet Friendly!
• We are a carbon neutral company offsetting our footprints at carbonfund.org.

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Donating Designs and Submitting Photos

Everyone (over the age of 13) is welcome to donate designs! All you need to do is join the MyPlanetStuff community, click the submit link on the home page or navigate to the 'Submit Designs' section. From there you will be able to read all of the detailed instructions.

Once your donated design is received it will be posted on the site to be voted on by the MyPlanetStuff community. If your design is among the top scoring, it may be chosen to be printed.

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• We encourage all art forms both digital and traditional to participate.
• We will need a 79px x 79px and a 222px x 222px image of your design for the voting process. The formats accepted are .jpg, .gif, and .png. If your design is printed, we will need a minimum of 300dpi in the native format to print the bag.

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The reason we ask for designs as donations is because we donate our profits to enivronmental charities. If your design is printed, you can choose an environmental charity and the profits from the bag printed with your design will be donated to your chosen charity. This information will be showcased on our website and added to your individual profile if desired.

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Navigate to the 'ur Planet Pics' area in 'Our Community' select the 'Upload ur Planet Pics' link and follow the instructions. There is no size restrictions as your photo will be automatically resized once uploaded.

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Contact us with the details of which picture you want to delete from your account and we will do it for you!

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Voting

To vote for designs, you need to join the MyPlanetStuff community, navigate to the 'Vote on Designs' section and begin scoring. Score each design on a scale of 1-5 (5 being the best). There is a checkbox when voting to 'I'd buy it.' This is simply a tool we use to gauge the response to the designs, not a commitment to actually purchase if it wins.

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We choose a design to print based on scores, comments, and the number of "I'd buy its". Ultimately the decisions of which products get printed are left up to MPS. The scoring system helps give us a general idea of which designs our community wants to buy.

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Product Info

Our bags are manufactured by Enviro-Tote®. They are located in New Hampshire. All bags are manufactured with the least amount of impact on the environment. Enviro-Tote® is a member/licensee of the Fair Labor Association.

Our T-shirts are manufactured by American Apparel®. They are located in Los Angeles, Ca. We purchase from their sustainable collection which is manufactured from 100% organic cotton. American Apparel® adhere to a strict "sweatshop free" environment.

Our BPA free bottles are manufacutred by Nalgene®. They are located in New York. The bottles we purchase are made from Eastman Tritan TM copolyester that is manufactured without Bisphenol A (BPA). Nalgene® is dedicated to treating all employees dignity, fairness and respect.Thermo Fisher Scientific places top priority on being eco-friendly.

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We use the scraps that are left over from the manufacturing of our bags.

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Tees

Our tees are made by American Apparel in Los Angeles, CA and are 100% combed organic cotton. This means that our tees are all natural made with no harmful synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. You'll not only look good, you'll feel good too.

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The Environmental Protection Agency considers seven of the top 15 pesticides used on cotton in the United States as "possible," "likely," "probable," or "known" human carcinogens (acephate, dichloropropene, diuron, fluometuron, pendimethalin, tribufos, and trifluralin). (Source: EPA) In the US, it takes about 1/3 of a pound of pesticides and herbicides to grow enough conventional cotton for just one T-shirt. So, in short, why wouldn't you keep it clean and green and use organics whenever possible.

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For the correct size, fit your measurements to the American Apparel size charts.

• Men
• Women

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Machine wash cold, tumble dry low. Do not iron decoration. Do not dry clean.

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Bottles

Nalgene® - HDPE 32oz Reusable Bottle which offers:

• Economical & dentproof
• Leakproof cap
• Durable, safe, non-leaching HDPE plastic
• Wide mouth fits ice cubes
• Lightweight & recyclable
• BPA-free
• Dishwasher safe
• Odor resistant
• Made in the USA

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-148 to 248F (-100 to 120C)

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Bags

Our bags are hand made in the USA and are 100% Recycled Cotton meaning our bags are made from 80% Ecotec™ a blended cotton yarn produced from the excess fabric of newly made clothing and 20% Bottle Bag material, a material made from 100% recycled soda bottles.

Bags are 18"W x 13"H x 6" with a heavy material weight of 10oz. These bags are built tough and made to last!

Our unique dual cotton web handles set at 13" and 25" one set short and one set long. This feature makes it easy to either carry over your shoulder, or in your hand. You no longer have to choose between buying a short or long handled tote

Washing instructions
Machine wash cold, line dry. Do not iron decoration. Do not dry clean.

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100% Recycled bags are uniquely manufactured with a process that saves land, energy and water. According to the Council for Textile Recycling, 25,000 tons of new textile fiber is disposed of by North American spinning mills, weavers and fabric manufacturers each year. Technology now exists to make new cotton yarn from gin waste, commercial fabric trimmings and mills ends. Recycled cotton is recovered cotton that would be wasted during the spinning, weaving and cutting processes. Up to 40% of cotton grown is wasted between the harvest and the manufacture of garments. In the past, this waste went directly into landfills.

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Canvas cotton bags are recyclable, functional, reusable and reliable for many years. Polypropylene bags cannot be made from recycled material; they tear easily, are inexpensive and therefore can be perceived as a disposable item. They often find their way into the landfills next to the paper and plastic.

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