We are proud to make all earth-friendly products!
We know that becoming more and more ecofriendly is a process, and we are fully commited to making our company as "green" as we can.
Here is what makes each of our products earth friendly:
Our jewelry is made with 100% recycled sterling silver. We buy our silver from a mill here in the USA that never mines for its silver. All silver is either bought as scrap metal or bought from other ecofriendly refineries.
Our greeting cards and gift tags are made using 100% recycled (post-consumer content) cardstock.
Our spiral bound journals are made using 100% recycled paper (post-consumer content) and chipboard.
Our hardcover journals are made using 100% recycled matboard and tree-free lokta paper.
Lokta paper comes from the inner bark of the lokta bush, which grows in the mountains of Nepal. Popular as ones of the most exquisite and versatile papers on the planet, Lokta handmade paper has four deckled edges and is a very strong fiber. It is ecofriendly and no chemicals are used in the manufacturing process. This handmade paper is not only acid free and archival, but also accepts laser printing on the smooth side. Lotka paper is harvested in a manner similar to sugar cane; this plant has a distinguished feature that allows it to regenerate to maturity again within few years after being cut.
We also use mulberry paper for our journal cover designs. Mulberry paper is a handmade paper from Thailand. Here is a little bit about the paper-making process:
The tree is coppiced and the bark is stripped from the saplings and dried. The smallest branches of 1-3 inch thickness produce the best quality bark. Once cut these are quickly replenished and can be cut again the following year, while the tree itself lives its natural course. Obtained in this way from renewable sources, mulberry paper is considered to be an environmentally friendly product.
Our notepads are all made using recycled paper. Our white paper is 100% recycled - our colored paper is 30% recycled.
All of our products are packaged using EarthFirst® PLA film. These clear resealable sleeves are made from plants. They are biodegradable, sustainable, and compostable!
We reuse envelopes, boxes, and packing materials whenever we can.
Why Use Handmade Paper |
On average, a person uses more than 750 pounds of paper each year, which is the equivalent of nine big trees. More than half of the wood used by humans goes into various paper products, including boxes, napkins, disposable dishes, gift wrap, etc. These products rarely contain recycled fiber, and most of them are made of freshly cut trees. Each year many of the world's biologically rich forests are disappearing at an alarming rate and the cause is the expansion of industrial tree plantations, which supply pulp to meet worldwide demands for paper products.
With demand for paper expected to double in the coming years and the impact this will have on the worrld's forests, the search for alternative sources of paper pulp has become very important. It takes 60% less energy to manufacture paper from recycled stock than from virgin materials. Production of a ton of normal paper needs 20 trees and 7,000 more gallons of water than a ton of 100% recycled paper. Moreover, chemicals like chlorine are used in the bleaching process of these papers that releases chemical dioxin and other toxins, which pollutes our air, soil and water. Sometimes 1000-year old trees are sliced up and shredded into chips, shipped across the entire world, only to be chemically pulverized, bleached, and flattened to satiate the world's ever-increasing appetite for paper products.
You can make a difference! You can buy recycled and environmentally friendly paper products!
Thank you so much for supporting us and the planet by buying our ecofriendly products! |
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