Earth Friendly Back to School Products

Combining 'going green' with back to school shopping is a great idea. What better way to teach your children to care for the environment? By purchasing earth friendly products for your back to school shopping, you will be helping the earth and educating the next generation.

There are many types of back to school products that are more earth friendly these days. Below is a list of several of the best.

Earth Friendly Back to School - Recycled Paper Products

Recycled paper products are perfect for earth friendly back to school supplies. Brands such as Environotes and Ecology offer recycled loose leaf paper, composition notebooks, graph paper, index cards, and spiral bound notebooks. Some are post-consumer recycled paper. You can also find three-ring binders that are formed from recycled cardboard. 3M also offers recycled post-it notes.

Earth Friendly Back to School - Recycled Writing Tools

If you look hard enough, you can find recycled pencils and pens. The wood is post consumer waste and construction scrap, chewed up and pressed into an earth friendly pencil. The plastic for the pens is recycled as well.

To be really earth friendly, consider using a refillable pencil or pen instead of disposable.

Earth Friendly Back to School - Backpacks and Bags

PVC and Vinyl are notoriously bad for the environment. Chemical dyed canvas is not much better. Consider purchasing an earth friendly organic cotton twill or hemp backpack or knap sack. These fabrics are strong, durable, and earth friendly. You should also include a reusable, washable lunch sack in one of these earth friendly fabrics. Every child going back to school needs one of those.

Earth Friendly Back to School - Classroom Supplies

At the beginning of the school year, many classroom teachers require students to bring in boxes of tissues or paper towels. Rather than bringing one of the major brands of bleached, lotioned, and scented toilet tissues, why not try an earth friendly recycled toilet paper instead?

Earth Friendly Back to School - Back to School Wardrobe