Marcal Small Steps
Marcal has been a standard in the paper industry for a long time. They make all sort of personal paper goods such as tissues, napkins, and the ever so important toilet paper.
Marcal’s line of recycled paper goods is called Small Steps and it’s the small steps these guys take to make their recycled products earth and people friendly. The tissues are not as soft as I’d hoped for, but they work and don’t break apart like the generic brands do.
The paper towels are on par with your average brand and the toilet paper, yeah, that works too. The good thing about supporting Marcal Small Steps is that you are supporting a company that cares about the environment. Marcal’s paper products are not expensive and can be found in most stores including the tiny corner convenience store.
I like to support them also because they are literally about 3 miles from the LGinfo headquarters~! No, seriously, Marcal has been a Bergen County, NJ staple for a long time and I’m happy that they are committed to their new line of eco-friendly paper.
Check them out online or follow Marcal on twitter and stay up to date with what’s happening.
4 Comments
Nick
November 16, 2009 at 3:10 pm
basil baker
January 2, 2010 at 10:20 am
Hank
February 21, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Ecofacts
March 9, 2010 at 4:47 am
Marcal is the biggest air and water polluter in the state of NJ. The EPA has sued them for billions. For them to claim they are an eco friendly company is a joke.
when you print coupons in the news paper for a free item the stores in mr area do not stock the free items so you are forced to make a purchase thanks for nothing
Marcal really is the biggest air and water polluter in the state of New Jersey. They have been fined almost a billion dollars by the EPA, and do much more harm than good. They filed Chapter 11 to avoid paying for the clean up, and also used it as an opportunity to break their union contract. Nice guys, huh? Then when they emerged from bankruptcy, they painted themselves green. For them to claim to be a green, eco-friendly company really is a joke, as well as a lie.
All of us at Marcal welcome valid criticism and open discussion on blogs (and everywhere), but we want you to know that “Hank & Nick” leave comments like the one here anytime he or she sees something written about us…and leaves them anonymously, so there is no way we can get in touch and set the facts straight. The phrases used are always very similar, the kind of pattern that almost shouts, ”spam campaign.” This kind of nameless attack isn’t in the open spirit of blogs, and we think it’s a disservice to readers and to our hard-earned reputation. The simple fact is that we make our products in a manufacturing system designed to minimize our environmental impact.
We invite the person making these attacks to come pay us a visit; we have noting to hide! We think our actions speak for themselves; otherwise, why would a group like the NRDC cite our factory in a discussion of companies leading the way environmentally in the New York metro area? (http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/egoldstein/green_apples_and_bad_apples_nr.html).
Marcal didn’t recently “paint itself green.” We’ve been using recycled paper since 1950, long before green was in. As for the lawsuit, it was settled with no admission of wrong doing, enabling the company to emerge from bankruptcy to protect and grow jobs under a new owner and management team that understands that, if you are going to market yourself as green, you better do things right.
Are we perfect? Of course not, but we are always striving to be better. We invite anyone with questions about our practices to contact us at ecofacts@marcalpaper.com