Posts Tagged ‘desk tidy’

Practical Action – recycled stationery from Corporate Express

Monday, February 1st, 2010 by Admin

Office supplies and stationer Corporate Express has a range of different products for organising your files and office stationery with a lower environmental impact as they are made from recycled content. Here is the full range.

The EXP Green range is made from up to 80% recycled polypropylene and includes magazine files, desk sorters, drawer tidies and a waste paper bin (although we hope the paper put inside it gets recycled!).

There is also the “I could have been landfill” range. Made in New Zealand (green marks for this) the pencil tub, desk tidy, magazine file and bins are made from 100% recycled HDPE  (High Density Polyethylene).

And lastly and possibly the best option is the Earth series range which uses 100% recycled and 100% recyclable fibreboard (pre and post consumer waste) to make a magazine file, desk tidy, organiser file, stackable trays and even a CD rack. They look stylish and have been promoted as “strong, durable and biodegradable” as well as being coated in “non-chemical inks”.

Here at SIFT we are very low consumers of office stationery but like to see waste from other soures being used for everyday items that others might use. Here are some pics of the Earth Series range:

Corporate Express Earth Series File Organiser

Corporate Express Earth Series File Organiser

Corporate Express Earth Series Magazine Holder

Corporate Express Earth Series Magazine Holder

Corporate Express Earth Series Multi Document Holder

Corporate Express Earth Series Multi Document Holder

Great use of Styrofoam Meat Trays

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 by Admin

As you may remember the first competition we held was on what to do with un-recyclable styrofoam meat and vegetable trays (all 25 million that go to landfill in Christchurch). We had a stash of trays left over and our new temp Ally has used them, quite cleverly, as a desktop sorter and it looks great.

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Image - copyright SIFT

Don’t forget to check out our e-waste competition which is still open. We are looking for great ideas on how to reduce e-waste. You can enter here.