Staples' super eco-friendly products.

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With a worldwide movement underway to limit our environmental impact, one place we feel we really can make a difference is with school supplies. Each year, when we pull out the list of materials needed for each child, we're floored by the amount of notebooks--both spiral and composition-writing pads, and filler paper that have to be purchased. We were happy to come across the innovative eco-friendly line of paper products from Staples, Framingham, Mass.

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Made with 80% bagasse--the plant fiber waste remaining after sugarcane is processed and crushed to make the sweetener--the paper has the look and feel of the traditional product, yet it reduces deforestation and promotes a rapidly renewable resource. Sugarcane reaches maturity...