I recently was in a store looking for a greeting card and noticed an interesting looking card on the rack. As I picked it up to read it, I couldn’t help but notice how good the quality of paper seemed for a card. When I flipped it over to read the back, I saw that it had a paragraph or so description about the material it was made of. The card was printed on treeless paper made from some plant called Kenaf. This plant called Kenaf is grown on farms and apparently grows over 15 feet in under 6 months, so it is ideal for use in paper. I had never heard of treeless paper, so I decided to look into it when I got home. I found other alternatives other than the Kenaf paper as well. There are also synthetic papers that are made primarily of resin and calcium carbonate. I wanted to make sure to mention this on our site, even though we focus primarily on conserving energy, since the paper industry is popularly believed to be the most destructive to the environment and it’s great to discover that there is something we can do about it. Below are links to just a few of the companies that I discovered that make treeless papers.

Check them out… 

http://www.rock-paper.com/index.html

http://www.conservatree.org/index.shtml 

http://www.visionpaper.com/

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