Where can I find green-friendly office products and back-to-school supplies?
–Taylor Howe, San Francisco, CA Environmentally-friendly school and office products have been available for decades from specialty suppliers, but in recent years many recycled kinds of papers, pens, pencils, ink toner cartridges, binders, folders and desk accessories have become ubiquitous in mainstream office supply stores. Paper use continues to be the largest source of waste generated by office workers and students, and several paper manufacturers have risen to the challenge of providing recycled and even “tree-free” papers at competitive prices. New Leaf Everest, Badger Envirographic and Eureka! 100 are some of the leaders in recycled paper, while Dolphin Blue makes tree-free paper from recycled scraps of denim, old money, and the plants hemp and kenaf. Buyers can order these papers from online vendors including GreenLine Paper and Treecycle, although office supply retail stores also now carry a wide array of 100 percent post-consumer waste recycled papers. Meanwhile, materials su
