Marcal Paper Products - Recycled and Affordable - Who Wouldn't use them?
In our constant search to find a more sustainable affordable solution to the huge issue of household paper products, we have found a company in New Jersey called Marcal Paper to be the answer. Marcal Paper makes a number of lines of products including the commonly available Fluff Out brand of tissues, Sofpac toilet paper and Marcal brand of papertowels as well as others.
The company motto is "Paper from Paper not Trees." Marcal's products are 100% recycled most with a minimum of 30% post consumer recycled content many of their products have much higher PCW content (click here for a list of PCW content by product), are processed chlorine free and best of all are inexpensive.
We use Marcal papertowels, toilet paper and their Fluff Out Tissues and find them as good as any other major brand out there. Their products actually feel and seem more similar to the major non-recycled brands than most other environmentally friendly products we have tried. We all have tried green products that felt like sandpaper instead of toilet paper! Not these from Marcal.
To make their products, Marcal recycles more than 200,000 tons of paper products each year, much of which is generated from the community, businesses and schools. The company is a great example of taking community recycled paper goods and recycling them.
Where can you find Marcal? They are carried by Stop and Stop and Shaw's Supermarkets in the Eastern US, and at Staples office supply stores nationwide. Please feel free to post other places where you can get them.
Marcal products are inexpensive and the company is built on the idea of Paper from Paper not Trees, we think they are a great example of a company doing business in a forward thinking responsible fashion - and think they are the type of company we should support.

