Repell-em Blog

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.

We all want to do as much as we can to help the environment, but there are some things we just can’t do without!  Disposable trash bags are one of those things.

With EcoSmart Repellem trash bags, however, you can have the convenience of a large, strong trash bag AND the knowledge that you are doing a little bit to help the environment!

EcoSmart Repellem products are made of 100% natural ingredients, and are 100% biodegradable.  EcoSmart Repellem products are also ideal for so many other purposes around your home and the outdoors, as well!

Our products will help keep your home clean and green, and will also help keep your children safe, because Repellem products will not harm your children or your pets.  EcoSmart Repellem products do not kill any animal or insect; they REPEL them.  Our products in your home are one of the easiest and most convenient ways for you to be clean AND green!  Our products in your home will always mean that your home will have no insects or mice whatsoever.

They’re perfect for outdoor barbecuing and camping!

Better still, they’re on sale right now if you order them from Cabela’s!

Summer vacation is winding to a close; school starts in just a week in some areas!  Families are trying to spend as much “together time” as possible, and this means, for many people, CAMPING!

Of course, trying to sleep or even just relax inside a tent on a hot, humid, summer night doesn’t always work out, either. When the night is hot and humid, the insects come out with a vengeance and a passion for human blood that has to be experienced to be believed. No amount of bug spray can keep them away.

In fact, there’s only one thing that effectively keeps the mosquitoes, flies, chiggers, gnats, and other insects out of your tent, and that one thing is EcoSmart Repellem.

We make all kinds of camping products: tent mats, tent covers, tablecloths, trash bags. . . and our products are not only superior in every way, they also keep away the bugs!

If you take EcoSmart Repellem with you on our camping trip, you will be able to sleep peacefully, for there will be no whines, buzzes, wings, stings, or bites. Not a single one. Your nights will be spent in blissful dreamland, with not a bug anywhere near.  Think how much safer your children will be!

EcoSmart Repellem products will also keep the possums, raccoons, skunks, and other animals away from your campsite.

Before you even begin to load the car for your camping trip, be sure you’ve got EcoSmart Repellem. Without it, you’ll be stung and itchy; with it, you’ll have a blast!

Buy EcoSmart Repellem right here!

Our products are made of 100% natural ingredients and are 100% biodegradable!

Summer is camping time, and whether you’re going on a long-term serious camping trip or just putting up a tent in the back yard for the kids, camping is great!

However, sleeping outside brings another problem:  bugs.

This problem can be solved by using EcoSmart Repellem’s tent mats and covers, along with the trash bags and tablecloths.

Spread a tent mat underneath your tent’s floor, and spread another over the top of your tent.  Now you’re protected from almost every kind of insect and animal that exists!  You’re also protected from the rain!

Wouldn’t it be a lot more pleasant to camp with EcoSmart Repellem products?  You wouldn’t have to worry about insects or animals - while you’re sleeping AND while you’re eating around the campfire.

Your family would be a lot safer and less itchy if you included EcoSmart Repellem products in your gear.