Welcome to Tree-Free

Tree-Free Greetings was formed with a commitment to the environment. We are the first greeting card company to work aggressively toward the use of 100% tree-free paper. Thanks to our rapidly expanding customer base, we are making a difference.

Our company is FSC Certified (Forest Stewardship Certified) and partners with paper mills and printers that are the same whenever possible.

Our cards and envelopes tell you their content – either 100% tree-free, 100% recycled, or FSC Certified mixed sources and they are printed with soy-based inks.

Our catalog utilizes a cover stock which is 50% Sweetpaper™ and 50% Post Consumer Waste, is an FSC Certified paper, 100% Green Energy Certified and is Certified Processed Chlorine Free. Our text stock is FSC Certified mixed uses and has 10% post consumer waste fiber content.

 

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Kenaf Paper
We use kenaf paper as often as supply allows. Our envelopes use 100% kenaf uncoated paper whenever available. Our vibrant and colorful card images require naturally coated (with clay) kenaf paper. (This paper didn't exist before we made it!)

Sweet-Paper™
Our Sweet-Paper™ cards and envelopes are made from 50% Sugar cane bagasse and 50% recycled fiber, including 30% post-consumer. Sugar cane bagasse is a waste product of the sugar refining industry; it is the fibrous material remaining in the sugar cane after the sugar is removed. By using this waste product as paper pulp, we are putting to good use a product which would otherwise be land-filled!

Bamboo Paper
The bamboo fiber used in Tree-Free’s paper is farm-grown specifically for manufacturing purposes under environmentally responsible conditions. Bamboo is known to be one of the fastest growing, renewable crops available.

*Buyer Beware: Unless it says post-consumer recycled or Tree-Free, "recycled" paper may legally contain a high content of wood fiber from virgin forests and/or unsold "pre-consumer" waste. Such paper is bad for the environment.