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 ...

A back-to-school countdown turns the big day into an event. Make the journey something kids will look forward to with these three school countdown calendars that are fun to create as a family.

In today’s digital world, the role of paper in education is often overshadowed by technology. However, Dr. Naomi Baron, a linguistics professor at American University, has seen the learning process ...

The Future of Recycling” is a quick glimpse into the investments we’re making to keep up that great success. About the kinds of big things we’re doing to pay off the billions of little things you do ...

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 ...

One trait all papertarians have in common is a deep love of forests. Whether we show it by camping among the trees or just gazing at them through our windows, we want to take care of them. And that’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world’s oldest known forest may offer valuable insights into the role that modern, purposefully regenerated forests play in the U.S., helping convert carbon dioxide into clean air and keeping ...

With 65% of Americans drinking coffee every day, asking whether disposable coffee cups are recyclable is just good sense. But as with so many questions surrounding recycling, the answer isn’t as ...

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.

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 ...