Sustainable
Trophies:
Eco-Friendly Recognition for Any Occasion
In today’s world, where environmental awareness is at its peak, the demand for sustainable trophies has never been greater. As a pioneer of sustainable trophies, Eclipse Awards is proud to offer a wide variety of eco-friendly awards designed for every occasion—from corporate ceremonies and sports competitions to academic achievements and community recognitions. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the benefits of sustainable trophies, the materials used, and how you can choose the perfect award for your event.
What are Sustainable Trophies?
Sustainable trophies are awards crafted from eco-friendly materials and processes. They not only recognize achievements but also help to reduce environmental impact. Sustainable trophies are made from materials such as recycled glass, bamboo, reclaimed wood, and biodegradable substances. By opting for sustainable awards, you are making a choice that reflects your values and commitment to the planet.
Sustainable trophies are an excellent choice for demonstrating environmental responsibility and aligning with eco-friendly practices. Unlike traditional trophies that can be resource-intensive, sustainable trophies minimize ecological impact. By choosing these options, you not only contribute to environmental preservation but also enhance your brand image and customer loyalty through demonstrated ethical practices. At Eclipse Awards, we offer unique designs crafted from materials like bamboo and recycled metals, ensuring your awards stand out. Our sustainable trophies can be customized to fit any event, with personalized engravings and various sizes to match your theme.
Why Choose Sustainable Trophies?
By opting for these eco-friendly awards, you not only support ecological preservation but also enhance your brand image!
Environmental Responsibility
By selecting sustainable trophies, you actively contribute to environmental preservation. Trophy manufacturing can be resource-intensive, often leading to waste and pollution. In contrast, sustainable trophies are designed with a focus on minimizing their ecological footprint.
Positive Brand Image
For businesses and organizations, choosing sustainable trophies enhances your brand image. Demonstrating a commitment to sustainability shows your stakeholders that you prioritize ethical practices, which can strengthen customer loyalty.
Unique Designs
Sustainable trophies often come in unique and innovative designs. Materials such as bamboo and recycled metals allow for creative craftsmanship that can make your awards stand out. At Eclipse Awards, we offer a diverse selection of eco-friendly designs that cater to every occasion
Versatility
Whether you’re organizing a corporate event, a sporting competition, or an employee recognition ceremony, sustainable trophies can be customized to suit any occasion. From personalized engravings to various size options, our trophies can be tailored to align with your event’s theme.
Types of Sustainable Trophies:
1. Bamboo Trophies
Bamboo is a highly sustainable material due to its fast growth and low environmental impact. Bamboo trophies offer a modern and elegant look, making them perfect for a variety of events. They can be easily customized with engravings to commemorate the achievements being recognized.
2. Recycled Glass Awards
Recycled glass awards are both stunning and eco-friendly. These awards showcase intricate designs and vibrant colors while utilizing post-consumer glass. They can serve as a beautiful reminder of accomplishments while embodying the principles of sustainability.
3. Reclaimed Wood Trophies
Reclaimed wood trophies add a rustic touch to any event. By repurposing wood from old fixtures or furniture, these awards not only celebrate individuals and teams but also promote the idea of reusing materials. Each piece is unique, giving a personal touch to your award presentation.
4. Biodegradable Trophies
Biodegradable trophies are made from materials that break down naturally over time, making them a perfect choice for events where long-lasting physical awards are not necessary. These trophies embody the spirit of sustainability and can serve as a temporary recognition that ultimately has a minimal environmental impact.
Why are wood plaques made by Eclipse Awards special?
Our wood plaques, wood awards and wood trophies are all very popular, partly because sustainability and earth-friendly options are on everyone’s mind. But even more so because people love the warm and organic feel they offer. Our wooden plaques and awards convey a sense of authenticity and modesty that many people appreciate. In fact, some clients find it easier to present or accept wooden plaques because they express appreciation without feeling showy or extravagant. We even offer wooden perpetual plaques if you want to recognize people regularly over time.
Our wood plaques are made from salvaged windfallen trees, reclaimed urban timbers, and other recycled woods. We primarily work with Big Leaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum) because of its warm grain, its beautifully distinctive bark, and it is native to and abundant in Southwestern BC.
For every wood plaque we make, we plant 2 mangrove trees! And don’t forget, we offer free solar laser engraving on all wood plaques!
There’s something warm and reassuring about holding our earth-friendly wooden plaques, especially when they are engraved with a personalized message of appreciation. Organizations love to present our custom wood award plaques because people love receiving them! A handcrafted wooden plaque will be coveted for a lifetime as a heartwarming reminder of feeling recognized, appreciated, and celebrated.
When to present wood plaques?
Present wood trophies whenever you want to mark a very special occasion or accomplishment with a lasting tribute. These days, wood awards can be used for all types of recognition, though they are particularly effective when recognizing leadership in sustainability, conservation, and environmental leadership. Many people appreciate the authenticity and subtlety offered by wooden plaques, but make no mistake, using wood award plaques at your event will help capture people’s attention and create a feeling that something extraordinary is happening.
Custom wood plaques work well in any of these occasions or programs:
- Conservation leadership
- Donor recognition
- Retirement gifts
- Sustainability excellence
- Safety awards
- Energy conservation
- Wood sign plaques
- Real estate transactions
- Attaining fundraising goals
- Years of service awards
- Volunteer awards
- Exemplary leadership
- Student Awards
- Employee recognition awards
- Years of service awards
- Top sales awards
- Corporate product launch
- Board gifts
- Golf trophies
- Teamwork awards
- Certification programs
- Green product launch
Our eco-friendly wood plaques can be personalized for any event, accomplishment, milestone, or occasion. Plus we know how to make them look great, which means you’ll look and feel great when your awards are presented.
Do you have a wooden trophy or award plaque design idea you’d like to explore? Get in touch, we’d love to help!
Where to order wood plaques online?
As many trophy stores and retail showrooms are still closed, it makes sense to order your wooden plaques online. But not every trophy shop specializes in, or even offers wood plaques.
Wherever you are in the world, visit an online trophy shop like EclipseAwards.com/wood-awards where you can order wood plaques from the comfort of your home or office desktop, and have them personalized and delivered within 2 weeks!
Our Guarantees
For your peace of mind, we provide 4 solid guarantees to ensure that your awards will be produced professionally and delivered on-time, as promised:
On-time delivery guaranteed - or it’s free.
We assure on-time delivery, or your order's free. After all, how much are your awards worth if they arrive after your event? Order confidently—your awards reach you by your chosen date or earlier. Our reputation thrives on punctual, promised deliveries, no excuses. We ensure your awards arrive ahead of your demand.
Safe delivery guaranteed - or we’ll replace it.
Don't worry about damage in transit because we guarantee secure delivery for all orders. With 25 years of packing and shipping expertise, our breakage rate is less than 0.2%! If your order is packed by and shipped directly from Eclipse Awards, we confidently ensure safe delivery and will replace any pieces damaged in transit.
Accuracy guaranteed - or we’ll remake it.
Your approved artwork will be exactly the same as the artwork on your awards, or we'll replace them at no charge. Our processes and our attention to details set us apart. Every order includes professional graphic design and digital artwork proofs for your review and approval, preventing any errors BEFORE production.
Green guarantee - every order is earth friendly
At Eclipse Awards, sustainability is a priority, not an afterthought. All of our awards and trophies use eco-friendly materials like wood and glass — avoiding plastics, acrylics and toxins. Eclipse Awards is 100% powered by green energy, including rooftop solar panels. We're carbon neutral and plant 2 trees per award.
How much do wood plaques cost?
Eclipse Awards offers personalized wood plaques at fixed, all-in prices to remove uncertainty from budgeting. Our prices include all layout and design, digital artwork proofs, individual personalization, solar laser engraving, and guaranteed on-time delivery. Only shipping is extra. With no setup charges or hidden fees, you can order with confidence knowing the price you see is the price you will pay!
Wood plaques cost between $75 to $200 each, with options at every price point. Cost is determined by size, shape, species, thickness, and finish of the wood.
Pro tip! Ordering “off-the-shelf” wood plaques from our catalog saves you both time and money because the product design has already been done. We simply create custom artwork for your chosen pieces, then laser engrave that artwork to produce beautiful wood plaques, branded and personalized exactly as you wish.
We do not charge taxes on any orders shipped directly to the US or Internationally. However, taxes are applied to orders shipped within Canada, determined by the province of delivery.
How to order wood plaques?
There are 3 ways to order custom wooden plaques from Eclipse Awards:
- Web: visit https://www.eclipseawards.com/awards/eco-friendly, add your favorite wood plaques to your cart and let us know when you need them by. Add your personalization details during the checkout process, or email them to us later. Don’t worry, we never charge your card or produce anything until we have your signed artwork approval.
- Email: your details to orders@eclipseawards.com with as much or as little as you have available. Your dedicated service representative will follow up to gather any remaining details and get your order underway.
- Phone: call us at 888-294-7121 and speak to real people who are here to help you.
However you choose to order, the first thing you will see from us is an email order confirmation summarizing your order and timeline. If any details are missing, we will reach out to you to gather them. Then we begin a design process to create the custom artwork for your wood plaques, which we email you as a digital artwork proof (pdf).
Please review your artwork proof as soon as possible to keep your order moving. You can either approve it if everything looks good, or request design changes. We offer unlimited design revisions at no charge, until you approve your artwork proof. Note that we cannot start engraving your order until you have approved your artwork.
Once you approve your artwork, no further design changes are possible because production begins immediately. We then engrave your wood plaques, clean them, inspect them for quality, safely pack them for shipping, then let you know when your order ships out.
Throughout the whole order process, we keep you in the loop with a series of email updates that let you know what stage you are at. Of course you’re always free to check in on the status of your order anytime by phone or email!
How to choose a wooden plaque supplier?
When selecting an online vendor of wood plaques, ask a few of these questions to help you choose a good supplier partner:
- How long have you been in business?
Eclipse Awards has been making awesome plaques & trophies since 1998 - Do you have any setup charges or design charges?
Eclipse Awards has no setup charges, minimum orders or hidden fees - What guarantees do you provide?
Eclipse Awards provides guaranteed on-time and safe delivery, or your order is free. - Do you provide artwork proofs with every order?
Eclipse Awards provides free graphic design services and free digital artwork proofs with every order. Change requests are free and unlimited. - Where is your wood sourced from?
Eclipse Awards uses salvaged windfallen trees, reclaimed timbers, sustainably harvested wood - How do you contribute to the community or environment?
Support the companies you believe in, that share your values. Sustainability, regeneration, community building....here's what we're up to!
Asking a few of these questions will help you select a great wooden plaque maker that will be both a good supplier and reliable partner.
Wood Plaques by Eclipse Awards - Why Choose Us?
Eclipse Awards is on a mission to make earth-friendly plaques and recognition awards that celebrate the human spirit! Over the past 20 years we’ve created thousands and thousands of customized and personalized wood plaques that people cherish, covet, and love! Our designers know how to make wooden plaques look amazing and our experienced artisan engravers bring the plaque designs to life with our solar powered laser engraver. We create value by delivering one of a kind, individually personalized wood award plaques that you can use to recognize, uplift, empower and engage the special people in your community.
We only offer popular and time-tested wooden wall plaque styles so that you can order with confidence, knowing that your order will be made to the highest standards with care, attention to detail, and a dash of magic to make each of your wooden plaques stand out!
Eclipse Awards has been powered by renewable green energy since 2004 - first via BC Hydro’s Green Power Certificates, then via Bullfrog Power since 2009. Over the years, we’ve continually reviewed our processes and taken steps to reduce our energy use where possible. Then we secure green energy sources for the remaining electricity and natural gas that we consume. In 2019 we installed a photovoltaic solar panel system on our rooftop, which generates clean solar energy to power our laser engraver and other equipment! And we plant two trees per every award you order to help revitalize environments and communities.
Ready to get your wooden plaque order underway? Let us help you make something special for the people that are important to you.
