kirk Meyer

Green Company Helps Recovered Alcoholics Attain Financial Stability

Ecomugs announces the launch of its new Web site. The company creates lead-free mugs that provide a green alternative to paper cups, and at the same time, provides a healthy work environment and support system for recovering alcoholics.

Ben Lomond, CA – Ecomugs, a company that creates personalized, eco-friendly coffee mugs, announces the launch of its Web site, www.ecomugs.com. Ecomugs is a green solution to an everyday problem. The company helps recovering alcoholics by providing a healthy work environment and financial support system.

Ecomugs are made of lead-free ceramic and are personalized with water-soluble inks. The company’s founder, Kirk Meyer, put together a system to economically imprint one personalized mug at a time. The new Web site allows Ecomugs to propel its affiliate program just in time for the holidays. Web sites that host and sell Ecomugs products receive 25 percent of every sale.

"Ecomugs helps keep 20 million paper and Styrofoam cups from going up in smoke every day," Meyer says. "Not only does the company provide a green solution for our world, but it helps change the lives of others, including my own."

Meyer has managed to rebuild his life from the inside out. At age 50, he hit rock bottom, with a tanked business, tanked marriage, ruined relationships and a feeling of spiritual emptiness. Meyer began step work and going to meetings, but noticed that he and many of his fellows were always broke; they had lots of spirituality and tremendous skills, but no money. In most cases, booze had crippled them completely. No more job, no more kids, no more home or self esteem. Former business leaders and industrial laborers were walking shells of their former selves.

At one meeting, two topics resonated: raising money for repairs and finding a way to stop serving coffee in paper cups because of the ecological impact and cost. Then, while visiting a friend in the hospital, Meyer saw a notice above a coffee cart: "Please keep your cup and use it throughout the day. Over 20,000,000 paper cups go in the landfill every day." Meyer took this as a sign from above. Within 30 days, he obtained start up funds from a friend and started Ecomugs.

Meyer initially made five free mugs for senior members of his fellowship and hung them on the wall above the coffee maker. Within two weeks, members ordered more than 100, covering the wall and bringing a tidy profit, including a portion to help the fellowship.

Meyer spent the next month making free mugs featuring logos and names for coffee shops, fellowships, real estate offices, his bank and recovery centers. The company has blossomed ever since, and orders are now coming from as far away as Singapore.He states there is a big spike in orders every month when cities like Capitola or Ventura, Ca.. ban all styrofoam cups from restaurants.

All Ecomugs employees are trained in-house and hired from local recovery centers and women’s shelters. Ecomugs is in talks with the nonprofit www.safe-havens.org to create a women’s shelter in the spring of 2008, complete with in-house employee living, mug administration, production, life and work training and 12-step fellowship meetings.

"It wasn’t me who made this happen," Meyer says. "The miracles happen to us all, but just not on our time. Sometimes opportunities are right in front of us. A lot of luck, God, friends and action.

"I'm truly blessed for the second act."

For more information on Ecomugs, please visit the company’s new Web site at www.ecomugs.com.

Contact:

831 336 5406

info@ecomugs.com

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