GPI-GET PAPER INDUSTRY

Get Paper Industry, A Hand Made Paper Products Cooperative, is a handmade paper and paper products making unit. It uses waste materials like cotton rags, waste paper, agriculture waste like banana fibers, straw and water hyacinth. The production process is environmentally friendly and paper drying is based on sun light. There is water treatment plant to process waste water... Get Paper Industry is established as a handmade paper company in 1985 as General Paper Industry. It used to use Lokta plant as a raw material. After building relation with The Body Shop in 1988, GPI learnt about the recycling technique from the Consultants of The Body Shop. It was with the help of Mara Amat and Sam Roddick, daughter of Dame Anita Roddick OBE and Gordon Roddick of The Body Shop International that GPI learnt about production of recycled paper and paper products.

Also known as: Get Paper Industry, GPI

Registration numbers: 1998 (W)