Sugarcane Paper - Bagasse

O'BON now offers A5 and A6 notebooks.  These have great designs including our fruit and wildlife series art.  They are extremely attractive, and these notebooks are receiving rave reviews.  Orders are extremely good.  But, what I wanted to mention about these notebooks is our paper.
The paper is not recycled, but rather comes from the pulp and fiber of sugarcane.  This is called bagasse.  Many environmentalists know this word and know about this paper.  For others, bagasse might be a new word.  Bagasse is the byproduct left over when sugarcane juice is extracted from the sugarcane plant.  The leftover fiber is easily converted to paper.
So, our bagasse notebooks fall under the reuse and not the recycle idea of the 3Rs. From an eco-friendly standpoint, bagasse is great.  So little energy is required to grow sugarcane and to turn the pulp into paper.  Less energy, less pollution, no toxic chlorine to whiten the paper - sounds great doesn't it?  You can go here to learn more about bagasse and its wonderful qualities.