| Green is the new "black" when it comes to the bottom | | | | barley, oat, rye, and rice straws or non-cereal straws |
| line. With the rising development of large corporations | | | | such as red fescue or rye grasses, and bamboo. The |
| all the way down to small businesses using sustainable | | | | advantages of using alternative-fiber in the production |
| business practices and green technology for the | | | | of green-office-supplies and paper is that agricultural |
| greater good, the path is opening for the production of | | | | residues have the advantage of providing fiber without |
| tree-free alternative fiber paper products. Green office | | | | growing anything beyond what is already produced. |
| supplies made of alternative fiber are available as a | | | | Example of Green-Office-Supplies Made of |
| viable source of recycled products. | | | | Alternative-Fiber: |
| What is alternative-fiber? There are plenty of sources | | | | Paper, envelopes, disposable coffee cups made of |
| of alternative-fiber that can be used - such as paper | | | | Bagasse - Sugar Cane Pulp. Sugar cane being the |
| pulp - producing green office supplies, many of them | | | | world's largest crop. Using is agricultural bi-product as |
| producing paper of finer grades than is possible by | | | | an alternative-fiber has a direct effect on the |
| wood pulp alone. Examples of more common | | | | environment as a sustainable resource of tree free |
| alternative-fibers are hemp and kenaf.These | | | | pulp. |
| alternative-fibers have been used in products for some | | | | The production of alternative-fiber as a source to |
| time but in the United States the use of hemp has | | | | green-office-supplies is on the rise. With the support of |
| issues and is not a common viable source. More | | | | corporations and businesses of all sizes looking to |
| recently, alternative-fiber sources for paper production | | | | improve their bottom line for a brighter and greener |
| are recycled from agricultural by-products. These | | | | future by using green-office-supplies. |
| viable sources are sugar cane bagasse pulp, wheat, | | | | |