Our Roots
Recycled Paper Printing®, Inc. is a printing and mailing services company which only prints on recycled papers. We are the nation’s oldest printing company which uses, exclusively, recycled papers.
The company’s founder, Todd Truesdale, was a rainforest biologist in Borneo, Indonesia. After he observed widespread clear-cutting outside the rainforest research camp he helped create, he decided to forego graduate school and found a company which would improve our environment. Thus, was Recycled Paper Printing®, Inc. born. And, it wasn’t easy! Recycled Paper Printing® was a leading pioneer in creating the market for recycled papers. As such, there weren’t many recycled papers to be found. We helped create the market that created the demand that created the supply that fuels the consumption of the papers you recycle! Before we came along, there were just a few mills making recycled papers in this country. When we asked them to make papers for us, they said, “Sure. As long as you don’t tell anyone our papers are recycled.” You see, back then recycled papers were considered...
