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Eureka Recycling's Recycled Paper Co-op

Making Recycled Paper Available and Affordable

Every spring and fall, Eureka Recycling coordinates a buying cooperative that allows individuals, businesses, and organizations in the Twin Cities area to purchase recycled paper at a reduced cost. By combining smaller orders, we get a bulk discount from the supplier and pass the savings on to you. Buying through our co-op is the easiest and most affordable way for you to purchase environmentally friendly copy paper for your office.

Fall 2009 Recycled Paper Co-op has closed. E-mail buyrecycled@eurekarecycling.org to get on the mailing list for next Spring!

About the Paper
Recycled Paper Product List and Pricing
Recycling Labels and Boxes 

Interested in compostable products?
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Ordering Form and Instructions for Recycled Paper
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About the Paper

We offer BPM (formerly Badger Paper) Envirographic 100 copy paper, which is 20# weight, 92 brightness and has the following environmentally friendly features:

100% Postconsumer Recycled Content
Paper made from 100% postconsumer waste is produced entirely from paper that comes directly out of someone’s recycling bin. Using postconsumer recycled paper helps eliminate the need for harvesting more virgin materials, and closes the recycling loop by creating a demand for the paper we recycle.

Processed Chlorine-Free
BPM Envirographic 100 is processed chlorine-free (PCF) from start to finish. Whitening paper without the use of chlorine or chlorine compounds eliminates the discharge of dioxin, a potent cancer-causing gas, as well as other pollutants that contaminate water.

High Quality
We realize that some people have concerns about the performance of recycled paper in copiers and printers, and we want you to know that postconsumer recycled content paper performs as well as virgin paper. In fact, Eureka Recycling and our co-op partners have purchased and successfully used over 12 million sheets of 100% postconsumer recycled paper in the last five years!

Colored Paper and Cardstock
You can buy letter-size colored paper in green, blue and pink with 100% postconsumer recycled content. Canary yellow paper is offered with 50% postconsumer content. We also offer cardstock made with 50% postconsumer recycled content from Cascades Rolland division. White, letter size cardstock is 67# and contains 250 sheets per ream.

See our Buy Recycled Paper Fact Sheet (PDF) for more details on the benefits of purchasing postconsumer recycled paper.

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Fall 2009 Recycled Paper Product List and Pricing

All paper is priced and sold by the carton. The minimum order is one carton.

Each carton contain 10 reams with 500 sheets per ream (unless otherwise noted below).

White copy papers, as well as green,  blue, and pink colored copy papers, are 100% postconsumer recycled content. Canary yellow is 50% postconsumer recycled content. 67# cardstock contains 50% postconsumer recycled content.

The Fall 2009 deadline has passed. Look for us in Spring 2010!

Paper Description Price
White Letter 8.5 x 11, carton (10 reams), 100% postconsumer recycled $41.00
White Legal 8.5 x 14, carton (10 reams), 100% postconsumer recycled $54.50
White Tabloid 11 x 17, carton (5 reams), 100% postconsumer
recycled
$44.00
White 3-Hole Punch 8.5 x 11, carton (10 reams), 100% postconsumer recycled $44.00
Green 8.5 x 11, carton (10 reams), 100% postconsumer recycled $39.00
Canary 8.5 x 11, carton (10 reams), 50% postconsumer recycled $39.00
Blue 8.5 x 11, carton (10 reams), 100% postconsumer recycled $39.00
Pink 8.5 x 11, carton (10 reams), 100% postconsumer recycled $39.00
White Cardstock 8.5 x 11, carton (8 reams, 250 sheets/ream), 50% postconsumer recycled $32.00

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Ordering Instructions for Recycled Paper

Fall Order Deadline was Thursday, October 15, 2009
Spring Co-op to open March 2010

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Looking for Compostable Products?

 

While reusable cups, plates and cutlery are certainly the best choice for the environment, we understand that using compostable products is sometimes the only way to have a waste-free event.

 

We are no longer providing cooperative purchasing of compostable products, but we do have good news!

 

Eureka Recycling will soon offer a new and more comprehensive way to make your backyard barbeques, picnics, parties and meetings waste-free – a system complete with a way to get your stuff composted! Check back for more details or send us an email about your event so we can keep you posted.

 

For several years Eureka Recycling has offered compostable serviceware, cups and plates as part of our purchasing cooperative. In that time we’ve learned a lot about the issues and challenges associated with the use of compostable products. Clearly, the most important issue is the ability to actually compost these products (and your food waste) when your event is over. In order to truly reap the environmental benefits of a waste-free event, the compostable products, food waste and non-recyclable paper must be brought to a commercial composting facility – something most Twin Cities residents do not have ready access to at this time.

 

Our new system, to be launched later this year, will provide a convenient solution to this challenge.


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For More Information

Call us at (651) 222-7678 or email buyrecycled@eurekarecycling.org.

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Last update: October 2009


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