The Humble Plantable Seed Paper Pencil
Do you know that for making every Sunday edition of a newspaper, 75000 trees need to be cut? We didn’t know that too, until a year ago. But once we learnt this shocking fact, we, at Indian Superheroes, a social enterprise (founded by Divya Shetty and Vishnu Vardhaan) working with over 800 organic farmers, wanted to do something about it. Which is why we started Pepaa (formerly Plantcil) – to make 100% recycled and handmade paper from discarded newspapers, cotton shreds and other post-consumer landfill waste.
From Pencils to Plantable Seed Paper Products
From our responsible paper, we started making pencils, pens (everything non-plastic sans the refill), coasters, notebooks, bookmarks, cloth tags, and even event invitation cards (Do download our product brochure for the complete list!). The best part - each of our stationery is plantable – that’s right, it will sprout into flowers and vegetables and even trees after you use it! It’s our tiny effort to close the loop of sustainability - to enable stationery to be zero waste like never before.