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how to implement green initiatives and using eco friendly bags?

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Actually it is not so easy as we thought to "GO GREEN", we have some customer inquiry from hotel and hospitality, restaurants, small designer studios, small business, and also small shopping malls - but seems the add-on cost is sometimes higher than they thought, not just 20%, do you know why? I have to disclose it and let everyone knows why, and hope we can all work together to improve our supply chain and service model, and also market acceptance.

1. quantity of demand: with conventional plastics, the factory doesn't need to change the process for custom made items, but with our biodegradable bags, factory does need to seperate the production line from the conventional plastic bags, so the wastage of material during production cannot be evenly shared by all the conventional quantities - unless the order is big enough
2. what is the definition of "big enough": big enough in commercial production, means minimum order 1MT. That'll be 20,000 pcs garbage bags, or 50,000 pcs shipping bags, or 200,000 pcs dog waste bags. Sometimes it is not so easy for a small business to order this amount at the very beginning.
3. solution: for customers that wish to start the green initiatives and join the GO GREEN Program, firstly please try to approximate your demand quantity for a longer period of time, for examples, you usually place order every month, please extend to 3~6 months since our products have safe service life of 12 month in standard storage, so that'll be good enough to cover the 3~6 month demand, or if you have warehousing space, the period can be longer. Secondly, please try your best to order our standard items or our ready to go items that doesn'y require a MOQ, so you can start earlier and easier. Thirdly, with time being, when we are able to consolidate different customer small orders together to a medium or big orders, then the price will go down, and we will definately provide more discount and compensation for those customers that start with us from the very beginning.  suggested products for this month