STONE VS. WOOD PULP

Stone paper uses ground up waste rock (CaCO3) as the primary content instead of tree fiber, and is the environmentally responsible alternative to regular paper made from wood pulp or synthetic (plastic) paper. Because it is "tree-free" companies using stone paper help preserve forests worldwide and slow deforestation. Even with the best forest management, the use of stone paper replaces a generally finite resource with a ubiquitous mineral, considered as production waste in other industries.

Stone paper requires no bleaches, acids, alkali, or other potentially dangerous ingredients to achieve its white color. Instead, the exceptionally white paper is derived from the high concentration of naturally white Calcium Carbonate. As a result, the manufacture of stone paper does not pollute the air, rivers, or groundwater with any harmful chemicals.

Because growing trees sequester greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, harvesting them to produce wood-fiber paper creates a carbon footprint. Stone paper's carbon footprint is much less than traditional paper because its manufacturing process uses approximately half the energy of it takes to make virgin-pulp paper and approximately one-third the energy of recycled-pulp paper. Furthermore, stone paper uses only electricity for its production, unlike pulp paper production, which uses a wide variety of heavy machinery powered by gasoline and diesel fuels.

Stone paper will never contribute to the worldwide issue of deforestation. While many believe printing and the use of paper is a dying industry, consumption of paper has risen by 400% in the past 40 years, with 35% of harvested trees being used for paper manufacture.

Stone Paper Solutions brought stone paper to market to reduce, and someday eliminate the logging of old growth forests and minimize the ecological effects of monoculture plantation forests. We're excited to work with such an amazing product that helps protect the future of our planet.