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TRAILBLAZERS OF ECO-OFFICE MOVEMENT, GREENLINE PAPER OFFERS BUSINESSES GREEN RESOURCES, SUPPLIES, AND EVEN CERTIFICATION

( York, Pa.) — Before everyone was eco-chic and recycling became as popular as reality TV, GreenLine Paper Company opened as a fully green, online office supply store. Since 1992, well before the country’s more universally recognized environmental movement, owner and environmentalist Steve Baker has been dedicated solely to the sale of quality, environmentally sound products.

GreenLine’s online and print catalog offers hundreds of products from 100 percent recycled copier paper to compostable coffee cups and non-toxic cleaning products — even organic and fairly traded coffees, teas, sugar, and chocolate. The catalog’s products can be used for a vast number of applications in the office, food service, hospitality industry, schools, and home.

GreenLine is dedicated to selling only recycled and tree-free papers and many of the paper products are whitened without chlorine. The company reduces shipping waste by reusing shipping cartons and packing them with only recyclable paper or biodegradable peanuts. No new boxes are used for shipping unless they are already manufacturer packaged, and o nly post-consumer recycled or tree-free fiber paper is used for catalogs. The company’s vision is to grow with the support of satisfied customers and help lead the office products industry to higher levels of environmental sustainability. 

GreenLine Paper offers a Green Office Certification to companies and other organizations which meet environmentally friendly certification requirements. Applicants must use energy wisely, recycle, use recycled products, and be environmentally savvy. Questions concerning topics like energy, building construction, supplies, recycling, and transportation determine the company’s green ranking. Companies which fulfill the requirements will receive a certification graphic for their Web site, which when clicked, will show the date of certification. GreenLine also offers their monthly Green Office News e-newsletter with environmental news and tips on greener office practices.

“People all over the country are getting serious about going green. With our 16 years of experience in green product sales, we’re glad to answer their questions concerning green products.” Baker says. “Consumers need not worry about quality issues like they did in the 1990s. Modern green products are rock-solid performers.”

Office products are generally deemed to be environmentally friendly if they are manufactured from recycled materials thereby conserving natural resources and reducing waste. Others are compostable, biodegradable, non-toxic, certified to be sustainable, or simply reusable. Every product in the GreenLine catalog is environmentally responsible and scrutinized for authenticity of manufacturer claims. Revolutionary new technologies are bringing scores of new products into the marketplace that not only help save the planet but also offer a high degree of quality and performance. Examples include biodegradable food containers and eating utensils made from PLA, a corn-based clear “plastic,” and tree-free, bagasse containers made from the waste fibers of the sugar manufacturing industry.

Supporting an exclusively green products company like GreenLine helps them to grow and increase their economic clout in the marketplace. By investing in companies which don’t mix “100% virgin” paper products with recycled products, consumers create more demand for higher post-consumer content in paper products and cleaner manufacturing methods.

The GreenLine catalog is free and available upon request at 800-641-1117, by e-mail at info@greenlinepaper.com , or may be electronically downloaded at www.greenlinepaper.com .

Why Buy Recycled Paper?

Paper is made from one of the most valuable resources on this planet – trees. For every sheet of virgin paper used, trees must be cut. Paper products generally have a short life cycle and are thrown away after being used. Trees, on the other hand, take many years to grow. In North America, many forests are cut and later turned into tree farms. Tree farms are not biologically diverse like forests, and the result is a worldwide loss of precious wildlife habitat.

Using recycled paper reduces the pressure on the world’s forests because recycled paper is made from paper, not from trees. Paper mills require lots of energy to make paper from wood fiber. Paper fiber called cellulous must be separated from a tree’s natural glue called lignin. Several energy intensive steps must be performed to finally produce a paper sheet. Hazardous chlorine is also often used to bleach the pulp. Paper mills fulfill some of their energy needs by burning coal, oil, wood scraps and also often must purchase additional energy from the local power companies. Additionally, an abundance of water is also required to manufacture paper.

Manufacturing recycled papers is advantageous because:

• It saves more than 40 percent of the energy resources.
• It requires less water.
• It saves on landfill space.
• Manufacturing of recycled papers requires fewer chemicals and bleaching materials as compared to the virgin paper production.
• Recycled paper production significantly decreases air and water pollution.
• Recycled paper companies are comparatively more earth-friendly. They not only produce less waste but are also reducing the need to landfill or incinerate our paper waste.
• Paper recycling helps conserve our forests.