Paper Trunk prides itself on being one of the first scrapbooking manufacturers to offer recycled cardstock and a greener option for crafting. I wanted to create a place on our website where crafters can come to find resources to scrap greener and live a more environmentally-friendly lifestyle.

(clicking links will take you away from the Paper Trunk website)

Children's Environmental Health Network
A national multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment.

Cosmetic Database
An online safety guide for cosmetics and personal care products.

Earth Day
The Earth Day mission is to grow and diversify the environmental movement worldwide, and to mobilize it as the most effective vehicle for promoting a healthy, sustainable planet. We pursue our mission through education, politics, events, and consumer activism.

Earth Hour
People all over the world turned off their lights for one hour. Read more about it by clicking the link above and see how you can participate next year!

Freecycle
The Freecycle mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit
from the strength of a larger community.

FSC
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a nonprofit organization that encourages the responsible management of the world’s forests and sets standards that ensure forestry is practiced in an environmentally responsible, socially beneficial and economically viable way.

Greener Choices
A Consumer Reports site dedicated to making greener choices.

Green Seal
Green Seal mission is to work with manufacturers, industry sectors, purchasing groups, and governments at all levels to "green" the production and purchasing chain.

Household Products Database
What's under your kitchen sink, in your garage, in your bathroom, and on the shelves in your laundry room? Learn more about what's in these products, about potential health effects, and about safety and handling.

The Rainforest Site
All you need to do is click!

Rainforest Alliance
The Rainforest Alliance mission is working to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.

Toy Safety
The federation of state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG's) brings you information about toys and other consumer products.

CARBON FOOTPRINT, The amount of greenhouse gases released by a person, group, or machine.

BIODEGRADABLE, Biodegradable waste is capable of being broken down into non-harmful products by the action of living things such as microorganisms.

PCW, Post Consumer Waste. The reintroduction of manufacturing scrap (such as trimmings from paper production, defective aluminum cans, etc.) back into the manufacturing process.
*Paper Trunk cardstock is created with this process.

SUSTAINABILITY, Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

RENEWABLE ENERGY, Energy that is derived from continuously available sources that do not rely on exhaustible fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas. Examples of renewable energy are wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal and ocean tides.

TREE FREE, Tree-free means that the paper was made from kenaf, hemp, bamboo, agricultural refuse, old blue jeans or other non-tree fibers.

WIND ENERGY, Electric energy that is produced by wind driven turbines.
*A processed used to create Paper Trunk cardstock.

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