| Cards
By far, the largest array of environmental
paper choices is in greeting and holiday cards. Check those
cards at your local drugstore or cardshop. Three of Hallmark's
lines have recycled content - Shoebox Greetings, My Thoughts
Exactly, and Comedy Club. You'll find a number of specialized
lines in retail stores, as well, such as Leanin' Tree's Western
and Native American art, Peaceable Kingdom's illustrations
from favorite children's books, Pomegranate's photos and illustrations,
and exclusive artist lines from Recycled Paper Greetings.
Lots more are available online and through the mail.
You can send cards for the holidays and support
your favorite cause by buying recycled content cards that
benefit groups like the Sierra Club, Audubon, UNICEF, Ducks
Unlimited, or even the National Railroad Museum and the Motorcycle
Hall of Fame Museum.
"Holidays" are not limited - the
more the better! There are cards for whatever means the most
to you, with inspirational zen messages from Brushdance accompanied
by unique artwork, celebration cards from Alternatives for
Simple Living, and Solstice cards from Rossetti Designs.
You can plant the cards from Green Field Paper
Company and grow the seeds embedded in them, or see how they
turn junk mail into something useful. Many of these sources
and a lot more have year-round greeting cards and note cards,
as well.
Getting married? We're often asked where to
get wedding invitations printed on environmental paper. What
a delight to find several suppliers of both invitations and
announcements, including stock and custom designs!
Gift Wrap Paper
Environmental paper choices suddenly shrink
when looking for gift wrap. You can buy unique designs on
tree free paper from Ecosource. You may also have more access
to recycled content gift wrap than you realize. The Sally
Foster gift wrap that many schools sell as a fundraiser includes
several designs on strong, high quality recycled paper, designated
in the catalog by recycling logos (with an explanation in
the back pages).
Gift wrap is a "converted" product.
This means that the producer buys large rolls of paper from
a paper mill to print the gift wrap designs and then cuts
the printed paper down into the rolls and flat folded papers
with which we're all familiar. Sadly, most of the major converters
and distributors of gift wrap use a type of bleached packaging
paper that has very little environmental content production.
Gifts
Can you imagine a clock made out of corrugated
boxes? Okay, now can you imagine it being one of the most
intriguing, beautiful artworks you've ever seen tell time?
Maybe you'd rather have unique picture frames or a backgammon
board or even innovative tables. You have to see Luci Lytle's
recycled corrugated art, made from "found" corrugated
boxes that Luci finds exquisite ways to reuse.
Conservatree has given the clocks as awards
to high-achieving environmental paper buyers and we've been
impressed with their beauty and sturdiness.
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Buy Recycled Paper? | Recycled
Copy Paper | Give
A Gift To The Environment |
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Best Results and Precautions |
Carbonless
Paper | Paper:
Quality Tested | Choosing
the Right Paper |
The
Creation of the Copier
| Disadvantages
of a Laser Printer
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You Ready for a Paperless Office? |
