From landfills, plantations, coffee and tea factories, parks and reserves. Our treeless notebooks not only help to save forests but also to clean up a bit.
SeeAn uncle, grandma and grandpa, a brother-in-law - most of us remember or have someone in our family who used to store "junk". Someone who found it difficult to throw away a piece of wire or an old washing machine because, after all, it could still be useful somehow. And this was often the case. In the past, almost nothing was disposable. Family items and appliances were repaired and improved at the family's own expense, giving them a second, and sometimes a fourth or fifth life. A coffee grinder could become a flowerpot and the casing of a broken TV set could become a comic book shelf. It was advanced household recycling - although no one even knew the word yet.
In this age of a return to the philosophy of reusing materials, all you have to do is look carefully around you. The leaves left at the bottom of your cup after drinking your afternoon tea are a great material to recycle! And it's not just them - also coconut shells, banana shoots (which only bear fruit once) or some leftovers from the herds of elephants that pile up in natural parks and reserves around the world. Combined with the pulp created from scraps of cotton cloth, they make for an extremely attractive craft paper.
... then let's reuse. Using the same things many times may have been a bit embarrassing in the past (shredded jumpers and pulled-out tracksuits from your cousin), but now it's very much in vogue. Why throw things away when you can use them? It will come in handy!
Let's talk over tea about this wood-free paper!
Black tea leaves, usually considered waste, have just been given new life. Converted into pulp, thinly pressed and dried, they have finally created an excellent paper for the cover of this notebook.
Each tonne of tea paper saves around 24 trees! In addition, the recycling of tea leaves reduces the greenhouse gases produced during the decomposition process.
🌿 65% tea leaves
🌿 35% cotton waste
The exotic fruit of the coconut is not only delicious and healthy, but also environmentally friendly!
Did you know that the fibre of the coconut shell (found between the hard shell and the outer layer of the nut) is a cellulose-rich material that can be used to make paper? It really is!
One tonne of coconut shells saves 12 trees that would be needed to produce the same amount of wood paper.
60% coconut shell fibre 🌿
40% cotton waste 🌿
A super herb that helps save the Earth!
Hemp is one of the fastest growing plants on the planet. It reaches maturity in 4 months, providing a sustainable source of cellulose-rich material for paper production. Not only does this mean that paper can be produced faster than traditional wood pulp - hemp also absorbs more CO₂ per hectare than trees, making it an excellent solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Hemp needs no pesticides and no chemicals are used in the paper production process.
This hemp paper can be recycled up to 12 times - many times more than standard paper made from wood.
🌿 70% hemp fibre
🌿 30% cotton waste
And the fourth wagon - full of bananas...
Each tonne of delicious fruit sent out into the world means about 270 banana trees that will no longer bear fruit and will wither. However, these stalks are full of valuable fibre, which was used to make the cover of our notebook. The agricultural waste has been turned into a valuable resource, providing farmers with an additional source of income besides fruit sales. Banana stalks are naturally moist, making the paper-making process much more water-efficient than traditional paper.
70% banana fibre 🌿
30% cotton waste 🌿
This coffee is an environmental wake-up call!
Some say coffee doesn't ask questions - coffee understands.
We argue that the cover of this notebook, made from coffee husk paper, is an ally in the fight against climate change. The humble husk, a by-product of coffee bean processing, is a cellulose-rich material that can help protect trees. Shells are obtained from small coffee plantations. This gives farmers additional income and stimulates the local economy. It also reduces greenhouse gas emissions, as the decomposition of coffee husk waste in landfills generates large amounts of methane.
🌿 65% coffee bean husk
🌿 35% cotton waste
This notebook hides a dirty little secret...
It has a cover made from elephant poo paper. Seriously!
These majestic animals consume huge amounts of fibre-rich plants and produce around 100 kg of dung per day. Since most of the plants pass through the elephant's digestive system relatively undigested, it is therefore possible to process these fibres further. The result is an unconventional paper that provides a planet-friendly alternative to traditional wood paper.
And it makes people smile!
95% fibre from grass undigested by the elephant 🌿
5% cotton waste 🌿