By Jenny Jedeikin
You can feel good about your contribution to the environment when you're preparing dinner on a kitchen counter made from recycled paper. PaperStone offers a variety of attractive, yet highly durable, countertop surfaces made entirely from 100% recycled post-consumer paper pulp.
"It's the greenest architectural surface available in the market," says LEED-certified designer Deborah Crosby from the Green Fusion Design Center. With modern colors like denim, evergreen, leather, mocha and slate, PaperStone is an eco-friendly alternative to marble and granite.
PaperStone is already a darling of the restaurant industry because it prevents the colonization of bacteria. Using just one 5' x 12' sheet of PaperStone saves 1,233 gallons of water, 2.03 million RTUs of energy, 131 pounds of solid water, 254 pounds of greenhouse gases and 55 pounds of petroleum-based phenol. At $90 to $120 a square foot, PaperStone is comparable in price to granite or engineered stone.
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