PortWest Recycled Paper Journals (made in Kent)

PortWestLDN are A5 journals, made in Kent from a blend of post-consumer recycled paper and upcycled coffee cups, with a handy page marker. Choose from 192 lined or dotted pages. Made using green energy.

The company also offers ‘second’ notebooks for a little discount, due to minor blemishes due to transport or storage (usually little things like faint cover scratches, unevenly rounded corners or the odd print misalignment).

The recycled sketch pads are wire-bound and feature heavy recycled card and inside recycled paper, with non-plastic coated recycled metal wire (85 blank pages).

Why Choose Recycled Paper Notebooks?

Although most virgin paper is FSC-certified, ‘sustainable forests’ often mean old-growth trees are chopped down (which provide homes for wildlife) and replaced by fast-growing saplings that are grown with toxic pesticides. Some of this paper is also bleached with chlorine, which pollutes waterways and harms wildlife.

Creating paper from old paper is a great way to close the loop, and also uses less water and energy. It also helps to save our forests, and all the creatures that live within them.

Recycling 1 tonne of paper saves 17 trees and 26,000 litres of water. And also cuts up to 74% air pollution and reduces methane emissions at landfills.