Environment and Agriculture

Have you ever looked at a package of recycled office paper and wondered how it can look so clean and crisp? Most people think recycled office paper has to be tan or gray; but fortunately great strides in the recycling industry have made remarkable advances in producing high quality, recycled content paper products.

Businesses are increasingly aware of the importance of using green office supplies to contribute to a more sustainable world. Many companies are “going green”. There are a myriad of methods to make your office “green”, and you don’t even have to be the boss to put some of them into effect immediately. The green office supplies for your office should be recycled, compostable, biodegradable, non-toxic, certified to be sustainable, or reusable.

Plastic shopping bags make millions of pounds of litter on land, oceans, coastlines, and landfills. They injure and kill wildlife by entanglement and accidental ingestion. Plastic bags photodegrade, breaking down into toxic particles that contaminate soil and water and enter the food chain.Plastic shopping bags are manufactured from polyethylene which is made from oil, furthering our dependence on foreign oil.