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Nothing is wrong. It’s “reflective”, not “glow in the dark”, and there is a big difference!
Glow-in-the-dark products make light on their own, and have a built-in energy source. It can be a battery or a chemical reaction (like in glow sticks that you need to “pop” before they light up). Eventually they run out of power and stop emitting light. Glow-in-the-dark products often emit light in all directions and light up the nearby surrounding.
Reflective (or more correct “retro-reflective”) means reflecting light back to where the light came from. If you shine a flash light on a pedestrian reflector (or a reflective road sign) the reflector bounces the light back to the flash light. The closer you hold the flash light to your eyes, the brighter the reflector appear. We like to put the backend of the flash light on our noses and aim the other end at the reflector to simulate a driver with the car head lights. Reflectors work with any kind of light source – flash light, car light, sun light, even candle light – as long as the reflective material is clean and NOT broken, scratched or painted over.
Reflective and glow-in-the-dark is not the same and the products have different purposes. Glow-i-the-dark toys are good at lighting up the immediate surrounding. Reflectors are good at bouncing back the car head light to the driver at a long range. Choose wisely!
The ball chains are intentionally not too strong. In case you get stuck, the chain is supposed to break before you get hurt or your jacket is ripped. After all, a reflector is cheaper to replace than a torn jacket or backpack zipper.
Please contact us if your chain broke and you need to replace it.
The safety reflector tags come with short ball chains that makes it easy to attach them to bags, backpacks and jacket zipper pulls. If the chains catch on to something or get stuck, they are meant to break before you get hurt or your bag or jacket rips.
Without reflectors, a driver can se a pedestrian at night at from about 100 feet. With good quality reflectors, the visibility increases to up to 500 feet. Look for the EN13356 mark to ensure adequate reflective power. A smaller sized reflector or one made with inferior reflective material (read cheaper) may not increase visibility as much.
Under ideal conditions (dry weather and along dark empty road without distractions), we have measuredthe funflector® reflectors to be visible from at least 600 feet.
Good safety reflectors save lives by significantly increasing pedestrian visibility up to 500 feet.
Yes, please recycle your safety reflectors when they have reached end-of-life!
Reflective tags as vinyl.
The outer part of slap bracelets as vinyl, also the suede like layer.
Chains and interior of slap bracelets as metal.
Labels as paper.
Clear bags as grocery bags.
Clear plastic box (for some 2-packs) is PET plastic. (We are working on replacing them with a more sustainable material)
Reflective material recycle as vinyl, which has the recycling symbol with a 3 in it.
Reduce, reuse, recycle! Eliminating waste and protecting our environment requires a community effort. We do our best to keep down on waste and packaging material and kindly ask you to do your part to recycle packaging material and, at the end of their lives, the reflectors.
If your local recycler doesn’t take the vinyl, please send it back to us and we will make sure it stays out of landfills. (It’s cheaper and easier for you to mail them if you recycle the metal parts yourself.)
Please send it in a recyclable envelope to: glimling.com LLC Attn: Recycling 814 Dobson St Ste 3W Evanston IL 60202 USA
If you include your email we’ll send you a 30% discount coupon for your next purchase in our webshop!
If your safety reflector becomes damaged, scratched or dirty, it looses its reflecting power. A dirty safety reflector is best cleaned with a damp cloth and a damaged one should be replaced. For maximum lifetime, store dark and cool when not in use.
We recommend checking your safety reflector regularly and clean or replace it when needed. Especially children’s reflectors should be checked often.
A good place to hang reflectors are on backpacks. However, when school children throw their bags on the ground while waiting for the school bus, the reflectors will likely need to be replaced after a semester or two.
A funflector® safety reflector tag comes with a short ball chain to hang on jacket and backpack zipper pulls and on bags, purses, strollers, wheelchairs or dog collars. Here are a few things to think about:
Use two or more reflectors and hang them front and back or left and right to increase visibility from multiple directions
Hang them low. That’s where cars’ head light beam hits.
Let them dangle. The dangling makes the light flicker to the driver and motions draws attention.
Please check out these blog posts for more information on how to use our pedestrian safety reflectors!
Hang safety reflectors on jackets, backpacks, bags, purses, strollers and dog collars.Hang funflector reflectors from zipper pulls on jackets, bags and backpacks. Zipped side pockets are perfect for funflector® pedestrian safety reflectors! Here is the photon from the Particle Zoo collection.
Can you imagine how hard it is to see a polar bear in a snow storm? Seeing a pedestrian with dark clothes at night along or crossing a road is equally difficult for a driver. As Anthony Foxx, the former U.S. Secretary of Transportation put it: “Everyone is a pedestrian” when we step out of our cars. You never know when you’ll have to park further away than planned or you end up running errands in the dark.
funflector® safety reflectors are stylish accessories that add a personal touch to jackets and bags also in day light. Let a couple of fun, pedestrian reflectors dangle from your clothes and bags. That will help drivers see you well ahead of reaching you!
In the US, ANSI standards specify the reflective and conspicuous power of reflective work wear for road workers, first responders etc. However, for reflective accessories, there is no standard to lean on to know if we are doing our job or not to manufacture effective pedestrian safety reflectors. That’s why we turn to the EN13356 standard.
The European EN13356 standard for “Visility Accessories for non-professional use” has instead become the defacto world standard. Manufacturers and resellers use it everywhere from the Far East to the Americas. It specifies minimum size and minimum reflective power at different angles. Read more about the standard here.
The higher the quality of the reflective material, the smaller the safety reflector tag can be and still have enough reflective power. For the smallest allowed size, only a few manufacturers make reflective material that is powerful enough. 3M is one of them. The three little triangles on the reflective material tell you that they are made from 3M™ Scotchlite™.
funflector® moose safety reflector showing the typical triangles of the 3M Scotchlite reflective material helps identifying EN13356 standard compliant reflectors
The funflector® tags have the same high quality 3M Scotchlite layer on the back as on the front. When they dangle, they reflect equally well from both sides.
The funflector wrap has a suede like back to make it more comfortable on bare wrists and ankles. It also keeps it from sliding when wrapped around a sleeve or pant leg.
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