Office and School

Supplies

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Unfortunately, stores are already advertising back to school items and we are not even half way through the summer.

 

When shopping back to school or for your office think plastic free!

• Buy in bulk

• Avoid plastic wrapped items

• Invest in refillable pens

• Buy metal coil bound notebooks and/or recycled cardboard binders

• Go old school and use a wood pencil

• Choose paper or cardboard duo-tangs and dividers

 

Electronics

• When purchasing electronics, it is very hard to avoid plastic, so to help decrease the footprint of electronic plastic:

• Avoid electronics manufacturers who have not committed to phasing out PVC and other toxic chemicals in their production

• Check out Greenpeace’s Greener Electronics Guide

• Buy from companies that pledge to “take it back” when you are finished with the item

• Responsibly recycle electronics

 

School Bags, Brief Cases, Lunch Boxes and Pencil Kits

• Choose natural material: hemp, linen, cotton, leather

• Reusable cloth or metal lunch box

• Avoid the shiny plastic bags (they break over time and are hard to repair and are usually plastic!)

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Please check out:

Center of Health Environment & Justice

Back to School Guide to PVC Free School Supplies

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