Join the Movement Why is Retta the first official papertarian? Because like most of us, her life and career were built on paper. And it’s about time we call it what it is: a movement. But if you ...

Did you know that paper and paper-based packaging are among the most recycled materials in the United States? And you can feel good knowing that by recycling, you are reusing resources, making the ...

Making paper is both high-tech and simple. High-tech because of the way trees are processed to create wood pulp, the substance paper is made of, while supporting the circular economy and giving back ...

With each passing day, it becomes a little easier to become detached from the people we care about. Work is crazy, the kids won’t give you a break, you got a new phone and lost all your contacts.

How are pizza boxes recycled? Pizza boxes are recycled along with other paper packaging. Once paper and packaging are sorted at a recycling center, they are collapsed into bales and sent to a paper ...

For more than 100 years, the Defrees family of Baker City, Oregon, has been raising beautiful ponderosa pine. The horses have given way to four wheelers, but not much else has changed. Even though the ...

You’ve heard the term, but do you know the true facts about deforestation? The makers of paper products do. But trust us: Deforestation and another term you’ve probably heard, clear-cutting, are not ...

A papertarian is a fun term coined by the Paper and Packaging Board to highlight someone who lives a paper-based lifestyle. It’s about opting for paper-based packaging, and then recycling that ...

Cardboard boxes, those indispensable catchalls that carry, store and preserve our most prized possessions are a relatively modern invention. It is hard to believe but the cardboard box has only been ...

Game nights are wonderful ways to create social activities for both friends and newly-met acquaintances. They can be fun, educational, and memorable and may even turn into a regular tradition. But ...

If you have kids or attend school yourself, you might have noticed that cursive handwriting—that loopy, continuous written style popular in the 20th century and recently cast aside in favor of ...

The Origins of Cardboard While there is one documented reference to a cardboard box before the 1850s, the cardboard box as we know it today originated in 1856, when two top-hat salesmen rigged up a ...