Green Apple School Supplies

As back to school winds down, we want to share at least a couple more backpack essentials for you or yours.

With Green Apple School Supplies, the name says it all.  Right now, we've got their all natural rubber erasers, pens and pencils, and rulers--all staples for any desk.

The pencils are made from wood scraps in a pencil-making factory, proving that going green eliminates waste and looks naturally better, too. 

Same goes for the pens, made from all recycled plastic parts.

As for the rulers, invention is taken a step further.  Not only is the plastic recycled, but most of material for these rulers comes from recycled yellow pages!  Gotta love that.

Smencils

Pencils, Shmencils, now there are Colored Smencils!  Smencils are pencils made from recycled newspapers that have bold, creative, gourmet scents, naturally. 

Why settle for regular pencils, especially when you get get unwooden ones invented from a recycled materials that will keep you alert with your favorite yummy scent?  Smencils are environmentally-friendly in other ways too, like their biodegradable erasers and safe fragrances.  You can also recycle the tube they come in and even that ring of metal below the eraser (called a ferrule, a fact we share in the spirit of sharing learning that's new to us).

Here are some tree, pencil and newspaper facts from the Smencil website for you to chew on, instead of your new Smencil eraser:

"Recycling a single run of the NY Times saves 75,000 trees."

"The average tree can filter about 60 pounds of air pollution every year."

"If everyone in the U.S. recycled just 10% of their newspapers, we would save about 25 million trees each year."

So, here's to a new school year of writing that recycles, smells good, and completes your assignments to boot.

rebinders

Finally, there's a binder that's totally sustainable and fulfills all your bindery needs.  Plus, it's a blank, beige slate, ready for your unique doodles and decorations.

We've got rebinders in stock (small are 2.50; large are 6.99). We've got super plain notebooks in the same vein for all your notetakery needs as well.

Each is made of cardboard/chip board from 100% recycled fibers (which shakes out to about half post-consumer waste and half post-industrial waste).  And when you're done with it? That's right.  The cycle  continues.