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Green Back to School Supplies

The best places to shopt for green back to school supplies

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Today, we have more choices than ever when it comes to buying green back to school supplies. Parents can find eco-friendly versions of everything from pens and pencils to staplers and notebooks. It's easy to green your back to school shopping with these websites that offer an array of green back to school products you and your kids will love.

1. Stubby Pencils Studio

Stubby Pencil Studio

This great resource for green back to school supplies offers an array of earth-friendly school supplies such as dry highlighters that have no ink solvents and are biodegradable; eco-friendly glue; soy crayons, and pens made out of recycled materials.

2. One Small Step

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Among the fun, cute, and green school supplies you can buy on this site are Arvee Greencils Pencils, which are made completely out of recycled paper; Arvee EcoStaplers, which fastens paper together without staples; and lead-free and BPA-free kids' Built NY Munchler lunch bags (compare prices) in fun designs

3. GreenLine Paper Company

GreenLine Paper Company
You’ll find everything from notebooks, binders, and student composition books made from recycled materials to -- this is so cool -- jeans pencils and jeans rulers made out of old blue jeans and money pencils and money rulers made out of money on this environmentally-friendly office products site.

4. Grassroots Environmental Products

Grassroots Environmental Products
This site offers a wide array of green back to school supplies including biodegradable pens made out of corn, journals with covers made out of old hardcover books (such as Dr. Seuss' Fox in Socks, for example), and recycled folders and binders.

5. Green Office Products

The Green Office
You’ll have to do a little digging on this site to find the best eco-friendly options (the site offers conventional products alongside the green ones, and many of the green products are not completely made out of recycled materials). But you can find green back to school supplies such as HB Earth Write Woodcase Pencils made out of recycled newspapers and 100 percent recycled construction paper.

6. The Ultimate Green Store

The Ultimate Green Store
This comprehensive green consumer site features great eco-friendly back to school supplies such as washable organic cotton backpacks in cute kid-styles, refillable pens by Zebra made out of recycled materials, Post-Its made out of recycled paper, and even bento lunch box kits.

7. Forest Choice

Forest Choice

These pencils are as beautiful as they are earth-friendly. They are made from Incense-cedar wood, which give them a dark-amber luster. The pencils also come in colored versions. Even the packaging is made from recycled paper.

8. Clementine Art

Clementine Art
The gorgeous and elegant paints, modeling clay, crayons, markers, and other art supplies by Clementine Art are all natural, environmentally-friendly, and non-toxic. And the packaging is made of 100 percent post-consumer recycled and reusable materials to boot.

9. Green Paper Studio

Green Paper Studio

You can find cool paper clips made out of paper or pretty recycled 3-ring binders in blue or green among other genuine green school supplies on this eco-friendly stationery products site.

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