Green products are not only paper

Drug Store News, Feb 2, 1991

Green products are not only paper

The "green" trend isn't confined to paper stationery products. Here's a sampling of other new environmentally friendly items in the category:

* In mailing supplies, Tape Inc. is introducing Quilt Wrap and Shoksorb, both made of 100 percent post-consumer recycled fiber. * W.T. Rogers is launching an eight-product line of home office products called Regeneration, composed of 50 percent reprocessed plastic. (The plastic is pre-consumer molded material that's broken down, reground and rerun through the manufacturing process. Regeneration's packaging is printed on recycled paper. * Eldon has three products for the Back-to-School season made of 25 percent post-consumer recycled plastics. * Manco offers self-stick notes (50 percent recycled paper with at least 10 percent post-consumer waste content). * Super Glue claims that the blistercard packaging of its new Stay Fresh glue five-pack is the first packaging in the industry to have both blister and card made from recycled materials. * Acme United's Kleen Earth line includes rulers, scissors and shears for school or office made with discarded styrofoam coffee cups, school trays, burger containers and the like. Waste is transformed into rulers and scissor handles. * Recycled Paper Products has created Earth Day cards for environmentally concerned consumers to send April 22 to friends or to those they would like to nudge toward greater awareness.

Some manufacturers have also arranged tie-ins with environmental groups: Esselte Pendaflex, for example, offers to make a $1 contribution to the consumer's choice among three environmental funds for each EarthWise boxflap sent in, up to $100. Plymouth is unveiling recycled school and preschool products with National Wildlife Federation.

PHOTO : Stuart Hall's Green Leaf line comes with a paper recycling fact sheet.