Summary
Few things can seem as environmentally unfriendly as a school- supplies shopping trip.
Filling the cart with folders, notebooks, binders, crayon boxes and pencil cases can make parents lament not just the dollars spent but also the resources consumed and the chemicals released into the environment -- all so our children can have a ream of bright-white pages to fill with a rainbow assortment of unnaturally bright colors.See the full content of this document
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Eco-Friendly School Supplies
The regret is sometimes compounded the following June, when some of those must-have supplies arrive back home looking barely touched.
"There are so many trees cut down each year just for paper and notebooks for students, and parents are becoming more aware of the impact to the enviro...See the full content of this document
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