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CHICAGO, Nov. 10-- Modern culture's gift-giving often comes at the expense of our environment (during the month of December, it's been estimated that households generate and extra 1 million tons of garbage per week). The holidays are the perfect opportunity to make a significant, long-lasting difference for the environment - by giving gifts that actually help people consume less, preserve natural resources and save money.

"We pioneered the concept of gifting reusables five years ago," stated Vincent Cobb, founder of Reuseit.com. "With each reusable you gift, you effectively empower the recipient to reduce thousands and thousands of disposables. The net effect is enormous." Reuseit.com is a one-stop-shop for hundreds of innovative, high-quality, eco-friendly reusables that continue to give back after every use. 

To help consumers select the right reusable for anyone, the company has created a comprehensive Gift Center to make the process easy, with buying guides, videos and hand-picked gift ideas For Him, For Her, For Kids and more. Below are the company's Top 10 overall reusable gift picks for the holidays - innovative, well-designed products that help replace some of the most common disposables.

Top 10 Reusables that Make Great Gifts & Make a Difference

1. ACME Silicone Shopping Set - The World's Smallest Shopping Set - 4 shopping bags fit into a compact stuff-sack (the size of a grapefruit). Each bag holds up to 30 pounds.
2. Happy to Serve You and I am not a paper cup - a classic coffee cup and a New York City Icon, these reusable mugs are designed to look like the real (disposable) thing, providing all the benefits of coffee house cups and replacing hundreds of throwaway cups.
3. Mu Microfiber Cleaning Cloths - Replace paper towels: Super absorbent, hold 7x their weight in liquid, fast-drying and traps bacteria.
4. ACME snack and sandwich bags - Smart replacement for plastic baggies:  durable and great for hot or cold items. Selection of basic, two-tone solids, 100% made in the USA.
5. SIGG and Klean Kanteen Bottles - safe, high-quality bottles with dozens of styles, sizes and colors to chose from. Selection includes gorgeous prints, sports bottles, kids' sippy cups, wide-mouth bottles and more.
6. Alchemy Recycled Ad Bag - unique, colorful bags made of outdoor ad banners. Each is one-of-a-kind and handmade in the USA.
7. Eco-circle shopping bag - a new take on the best-selling original ACME workhorse ultra-compact bag - made from 100% post-consumer PET (plastic bottles, polyester fibers, etc.) - a truly sustainable, reusable bag.
8. Light My Fire Titanium Spork - an innovative, convenient replacement for disposable utensils at cafeterias or fast food restaurants. Unique 3-in-1 design fits almost anywhere, so it's always available.
9. Swissgold Coffee Filters - Replaces paper filters: cut down on kitchen expenses. Works just like a paper filter and easy to clean, it's one of the simplest "reusable" habits to get into.
10. Ultra-compact shopping bags - perfect stocking stuffers- most comprehensive selection of bags that fold into tiny, portable pouches and expand into durable, reusable shopping bags. Dozens of styles, colors and sustainable fabrics from top brands like ACME Bags, Flip & Tumble, Baggu, Envirosax and more.

Reuseit.com helps consumers make an even bigger impact by providing options to skip the gift wrap and packaging gifts with reusable gift wrap or even a reusable bag.

About the Company

Reuseit.com is the new name for Reusablebags.com's store. It is the leading online source for high-quality reusable products and provides information on the problems related to over-consumption of use-and-toss items. The company has grown to provide hundreds of high-quality reusables in more than 30 categories, including water bottles, lunch items, home goods and more, empowering 200,000+ customers to reduce consumption of use-and-toss items by more than 750 million units. Recognized as a leader and innovator, the company won the prestigious Green Business of the Year, People's Choice Award in 2007 and is a BizRate Circle of Excellence Gold Honoree. Reuseit.com is an authentic, triple-bottom-line company, supporting Fair Trade Practices and donating one percent of all sales to environmental causes through 1% For the Planet.

Launched in 2003, Reusablebags.com quickly established itself as the preeminent website dedicated to the promotion of reusable shopping bags as a pragmatic solution to over-consumption of single-use plastic shopping bags. Reusablebags.com still exists as a sister site and information hub, providing myth-busting articles, news and more on issues related to over-consumption. Reusablebags.com has been featured in hundreds of news stories, including NPR's Marketplace, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and was endorsed in An Inconvenient Truth.

Contact Info: Sarah Hubbard, +1-307-733-3065, for Reuseit.com

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