The Paradigm Group is responsible for making Eco-friendly products for businesses, and they’ve recently announced their new line of tree-free products. These goodies include 70 percent tree-free napkins, toilet paper and paper towels, as well as completely tree-free paper plates. What’s even more encouraging for businesses is that these products come at a less expensive price than traditional paper products.

So what is being used in these products in place of trees? The ingredient is called bagasse, a residue from juiced sugar cane. It’s renewable, inexpensive and Eco-friendly. It doesn’t use trees, requires no extra land and comes from sugar cane, which is already being grown. And, because sugar cane only takes less than a year to mature, bagasse is plentiful.

Trees on the other hand, take an average of 30 years to mature and the use of trees for paper products has resulted in deforestation. There are also many chemicals needed to produce paper, and these chemicals are emitted into the air, causing pollution. With bagasse, less chemicals are needed for production and the products can in turn be recycled just as normal paper products can.

The Paradigm Group launches this new line as part of the Emerald Brand, which strives to offer cost-effective products to businesses in an effort to get them using Eco-friendly products around the office place. These products cost the same or less than traditional paper products that offer no environmental benefits.

The company recognizes that businesses have a great pressure on them to change their ways and become a more sustainable presence in a global marketplace, yet these changes can be hard to implement. With quality paper products that rival the softness of regular tissues and paper towels, businesses can make the switch and live up to their “green” expectations without disturbing anything around the workplace.

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Reference: Miami Herald

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