Repell-em Blog

EcoSmartPlastics’ Repellem & Eco-smartbag products are among the most versatile products I’ve ever used!  Not only do these products do everything they’re supposed to do; they do much more!  It seems as if every week I discover more things these products can do, and do WELL!

How many trash bags have you ever bought that will not only be receptables for your garbage and trash but will also keep insects and animals away from your garbage and trash?  Or be made of 100% recyclable, biodegradable, natural ingredients?  Or keep your winter woolens safe from moths?  Or keep the deer and bugs away from your garden?

How many outdoor tablecloths have you ever bought that will also keep the mosquitoes and gnats away from your picnic?

How many such products have you used in the past that caused you to worry and hesitate to use in or near a child or a child’s room for fear of poison, since small children chew on pretty much everything?  With Ecosmartplastics Repellem products, you won’t have these worries.  100% natural, harmless ingredients.

Ecosmartplastics Repellem products don’t even harm the insects and animals it repels; they just, well, REPEL them.

Even the thickest, finest, and most expensive trash bags can not be set outside the night BEFORE the trash truck comes; dogs can smell that feast from miles around.  However, with Ecosmartplastics’ Repellem & Eco-smartbag products, you CAN set your trash outside on the curb the night before because animals simply can not detect the presence of even the stinkiest garbage if it’s inside a sealed Repellem bag.  How nice not to have to rise at dawn to run after the garbage truck with your bags of trash!!

There are more uses than these for Ecosmartplastics’ Repellem & Eco-smartbag products; check this blog each month for updates!  In the meantime, check our archives for all kinds of ways these products can be used.

Many of us have resolved to have a cleaner and greener 2010, and one way to begin is to use EcoSmartPlastics Repellem and Eco-smartbag products!

So many household products these days are made of chemicals created in test tubes in laboratories, and we have to be careful to guard our children and our pets from contact with them.  Not so with EcoSmartPlastics Repellem and Eco-smartbag products!!!

EcoSmarPlastics Repellem and Eco-smartbag products are made of 100% natural ingredients, each ingredient absolutely harmless to all living things.  (Repellem REPELS, it doesn’t kill!)  Your small children are completely safe in a home that uses EcoSmartPlastics Repellem products.  Not only will your home be free of insects; you will not have to worry about babies or toddlers being harmed by contact with dangerous products!  The ingredients in EcoSmart and Repellem are SAFE!!!!

You won’t have to worry about your pets getting into the garbage, either.  With Repellem trash bags, your dogs and cats won’t even know you’ve GOT garbage!  And when you set your full trash bags outdoors, possums and raccoons won’t be able to sense them, either.

Let’s all begin 2010 with a cleaner, greener, SAFER home!

This is the first day of the New Year, which means many of us had or went to a party tonight.  It also means many of us are taking down a Christmas tree today.

After the parties:  Dump all the garbage and trash in a big Repellem trash bag and toss it outside until later.  You don’t have to worry about animals getting into it and scattering it; Ecosmartplastics Repellem products live up to their name: they really do REPEL animals and insects.For the Christmas tree:  If you did like many people and used an extra-large Repellem bag under your tree skirt, disposing of your tree will be a cinch!  Just take off all the ornaments and trim, pull off the skirt, and draw the Repellem bag up around the tree, keeping the needles INSIDE the bag.  No mess, no fuss, and the Repellem bag is strong enough to deal with a tree inside it!  Pick up your tree, arms around the Repellem bag, and toss it outside.  Messy job, finished in minutes with NO mess!

Sleep in this morning, and don’t worry about your garbage bags sitting outside: if you used Ecosmartplastics Repellem bags, nothing will touch them.  And aren’t you glad it was so easy to get your tree out of the living room, with no mess?

EcoSmart’s Repellem products have so many uses; it boggles the mind!

Why not make using only eco-friendly, 100% biodegradable, 100% natural Ecosmartplastics Repellem & Eco-smartbag products one of your resolutions for 2010!

In my “neck of the woods,” there has been no trash pickup at all these past few days.  That means, ALL of the trash and garbage of Christmas has been sitting in bags, waiting.

People who use regular trash bags don’t DARE put the trash outside until the very last minute before pickup because of the dogs, raccoons, possums, and other animals who seem to lie in wait for such opportunities to scatter and feast.

People who use Ecosmartplastics Repellem trash bags can set the trash outside any time they need to, because the 100% natural ingredients in all Repellem products do exactly what the name says:  they REPEL.  Nothing will bother your Ecosmartplastics Repellem bags except a really high wind!

My family’s trash of the past three days is sitting outside on the deck as I type.  It will be removed tomorrow afternoon, but I don’t have to worry about it being torn and scattered at ALL, because I use Ecosmartplastics Repellem trash bags.

I gave my mother some Repellem bags, too, so she is now the only person  on her block who doesn’t have to get up at the crack of dawn tomorrow, to beat the city garbage truck!  She can set her trash out tonight, and she doesn’t have to worry about the neighborhood dogs savaging it.  The dogs can’t even see or smell anything inside a Repellem bag!

Happy Holidays from everyone here at EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem!

Remember, with a Repellem tablecloth or trash bag under your tree skirt, or with a red Repellem-wrapped box mingling with your other gifts, your pets will not bother your Christmas tree, nor will insects attack your real evergreen tree.  Repellem strives to make your home clean and green, and to keep your family safe from insects and vermin.

We here at EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem hope that everyone drives carefully, arrives safely, and has a safe and wonderful holiday!  We thank you for your business, and hope to see more of you!

Cooler weather drives bugs indoors, right where we LEAST want them!

However, if you line your closet shelves with EcoSmart Repellem, you won’t have a thing to worry about.  EcoSmart Repellem products REPEL insects and unwanted animals; in other words, those bugs are scared off and will never come back as long as there’s a piece of Ecosmart Repellem on the premisis.

It just takes a few EcoSmart Repellem trashbags or tablecloths.  Simply cover your closet shelf with the Repellem, and tape it down.  Now you can put all those purses and shoes back on it - they’re safe now, too!

EcoSmart Repellem products are made of 100% safe, harmless materials; our products are also completely recyclable.  They do not rely on chemicals in any form: not even sprays.

Wouldn’t it be sensible if we all put some EcoSmart Repellem in our closets?  I keep Repellem in my closet all year, in fact, but it wouldn’t hurt to put in a fresh sheet.

The weather is still good enough on Columbus Day, in many areas, for a picnic, and when there is a picnic, there is a great need for some way to keep the insects at bay!  The best, easiest, greenest, and safest way to do this is to simply have a few EcoSmart Repellem products here and there.

With an EcoSmart Repellem tablecloth on the picnic table, there will be no flies, gnats, or mosquitoes.  Put an EcoSmart Repellem trash bag in the garbage can, and you won’t have to worry about the garbage in there attracting wasps, bees, hornets, or flies, either.  It’s awesome; you don’t have to use dangerous and smelly sprays, rub chemicals on skin, or wear a clunky bracelet around.  Just throw a tablecloth on the table, a trash bag in the trash can, and everybody is free to relax and enjoy each other’s company, and the food.

In peace.  Without having to slap at or wave away bugs.

With a few EcoSmart Repellem products around your picnic site, you won’t have to worry about animals approaching where your small children are playing, either.

Plus, EcoSmart Repellem products are absolutely safe around kids and food; there are NO harmful ingredients in Repellem - they’re made of 100% natural, completely recyclable ingredients.  Your food can touch a Repellem product and still be safe to eat.  Go ahead and lean on the tablecloth; Repellem won’t harm skin, either.

It’s autumn, and that’s spider time!  Those creepy and sometimes dangerous little - or big! - spiders are invading our homes and setting up camp in our shoes!

Be careful, in fact, when you get out your cold-weather shoes, for brown recluse spiders love to live in the toes of our boots.  A bite from a brown recluse is nothing to take lightly, either; they can even be fatal!

How do we get rid of spiders without spraying harmful chemicals?  Easy!  Just cut a few Ecosmart Repellem trash bags or tablecloths up, and arrange the pieces in, among, and around your shoes in your closet. Throw a piece of Repellem over your closet bar, too.  In fact, put your summer clothes in a Repellem bag before storing them away, and you’ll be really glad next spring when you get them out again.

The point is, EcoSmart Repellem products live up to their name:  They REPEL almost all bugs and things that look like bugs, and this means your home will be cleaner and safer for you and for your children.  Remember, if your child or infant is bitten by a spider, the results can be much worse than if an adult is bitten.  Use Ecosmart Repellem products around your house, and NOBODY will be bitten because all the bugs will be driven away.  When you think of Repellem, think “Pied Piper of Hamelin,” for Repellem is just as good at getting rid of unwanted “livestock” as the legendary Piper was!

Repellem is easy to purchase, too.  Order from our website, or find them at many stores as well.  CVS now carries Repellem products, as do Cabela’s, Vitamin Shoppe, and many others.

Especially if there are small children living in your home, Ecosmart Repellem is a wonderful way to keep your house clean, safe, and green.  Repellem products are absolutely harmless to humans, even tiny humans, and not only that; they’re also 100% biodegradable, and made of 100% natural products.

Best of all:  no bugs in your house!  They’ll keep the mice away, too!

Most schools these days can’t function without donations from parents.  That is a sad fact of life.

If your child’s teacher has trash bags on the list of classroom needs, why not send EcoSmart Repellem trash bags to school!  It would mean that your child, and all the other children in the room, would be learning in a completely insect-free environment, no matter how many cookie crumbs were spilled onto the floor!

How comforting to know that your child’s daytime environment was clean and vermin-free!  What a relief to picture your child perhaps sitting on the floor, working over posterboards or stacking blocks, and not have to worry about roaches, gnats, fleas, or even lice!

That’s right: lice.  Many parents are tying a little strip of Repellem around their child’s headband or barrette, or around a necklace, or through a collar buttonhole, to keep away the insects that love to hop from head to head in any crowded classroom.  Tie it in a pretty red bow, or put it where it won’t show at all!  It will also keep the mosquitoes away from your child when it’s recess time.

EcoSmart Repellem trash bags are made of 100% natural ingredients and are completely recyclable and environmentally sound.  There is nothing in a Repellem trash bag that could harm a child, even if the bags are used in daycare or preschools where a child might chew or suck on a trash bag.  They are excellent for use in daycare, in fact, because dirty diapers will not attract insects - not even flies - if disposed of in a Repellem trash bag!

Your child’s teacher will appreciate any donations you can send, of course, but if you send Ecosmart Repellem products, the teacher and all of the other parents will genuinely, thoroughly appreciate your thoughtfulness.

It’s such a small thing, but it has a HUGE impact!  Not having to worry about insects or mice will be a relief to the teachers, and it will be one worry crossed off each parent’s list, too!

To find the most convenient way to purchase EcoSmart Repellem trash bags, check out this page!

From CanPlastic.com comes the news that EcoSmart Plastics can now be purchased in Canada!

Nothing says summer in Canada like mosquitoes and other nuisance insects. But they’d better beware: a new plastics packager has come to town with a product designed to keep them, as well as a host of unwelcome animals, at bay.

EcoSmartPlastics is the manufacturer of two distinct lines of biodegradable packaging products. The company’s Repellem green garbage bags use all-natural ingredients to (as the name implies) repel everything from dogs to wasps; Eco-Smartbags, meanwhile, are a line of unscented trash bags designed to meet the toughest industry standards.

After several years in business, the Bohemia, N.Y. company recently added Montreal-based Larry Schwartz as its executive vice president and Canadian representative.

According to Terry Feinberg, president, both Repellem and Eco-Smartbags are 100 per cent biodegradable, compostable, non-toxic and chemical-free. But while many all-natural packagers can, and do, make that claim, few can assert the following: neither of the products requires oxygen, light, moisture or heat to break down.

“Our technology utilizes the microbial environment that is living in a landfill or compost bin, and doesn’t degrade without that,” Feinberg said. “This means that our products won’t degrade under the kind of heat that might be encountered on the top shelf of a warehouse or supermarket, which is a problem for packaging products made from ingredients like cornstarch.”

The active ingredients in Repellem and Eco-Smartbags, which Feinberg prefers to keep confidential, take between nine months to seven years to biodegrade, depending on landfill conditions, meaning that the bags themselves will disappear in that time.

“We have two different additive technologies,” Feinberg said. “One makes the biodegradable technology found in Eco-Smartbags and the other makes the Repellum technology.”

Whatever the active ingredients are, Repellem bags were singled out for notice in the 2007 Cool New Product Expo held by Stamford University.

While important to its growth, the addition of Canadian representation is just one part of EcoSmartPlastics’ bigger plan. “We have two production plants in Wisconsin, and others in the U.S. that are on standby,” Feinberg explained. “We’re also finalizing deals to have several U.S. plants that will produce our products for many different retailers, including some larger corporations that are very interested.”

The company is also looking to license its technology for the production of a variety of non-packaging products.

“We’re a little company that wants to grow,” Feinberg said.