How are the books made sustainably?
Walking the talk is KEY to Otesha, so creating a book was certainly a challenge, however we have researched a bunch of options and luckily have found a bunch of solutions (always there… just have to find where outside the box they lie)! First of all, the book covers are made out of old cereal boxes and scrap pieces of material. To stick all this together, we’re using vegan Elmer’s glue. The text is then printed on 100% post-consumer waste paper by a printer that specializes in environmentally sound waterless printing, with vegetable-based inks and processed chlorine free. Get this: the mill where the paper is made is even fueled by biogas from a nearby landfill! Then this lovely little package is bound together by binder rings (made of 25% recycled aluminium) and voila!!! you have it – the Otesha sustainable book recipe! (If you have any other ideas about how to print a book sustainably please send them to us !
