Sustainability

Bowdoin Bookstore provides eco-friendly products and participates in eco-friendly practices in providing its service. The Bookstore offers a variety of high quality and sustainable goods:

  • Nalgene Bottles
  • Sustainable Bowdoin travel mugs in stainless steel
  • Plastic Travel mugs
  • Earth Write pencils
  • Earthsaver recycled computer/copy paper
  • Bowdoin folders in recycled paper or plastic
  • 3-ring binders made of recycled milk jugs
  • Earthbound spiral notebooks, envelopes and paper
  • Bowdoin College desk pad calendar made from recycled paper
  • Bowdoin Seal notebooks which use recycled paper
  • Recycled one, three and five subject notebooks
  • Recycled Environotes composition books
  • Recycled index cards
  • Re-usable canvas tote bags
  • Recycled greeting cards
  • Whiteboards and Expo products
  • Blue Stik
  • Newsprint, drawing and sketch pads in assorted sizes made with premium recycled paper
  • Strathmore Windpower sketch and drawing paper made with 100% windpower and 30% post-consumer fiber
  • CFL 14 watt light bulbs
  • Sierra Club Calendars

The Bookstore also commits to the following eco-friendly practices:

  • Re-uses bubble wrap and plastic popcorn campus-wide
  • Re-uses other packing materials and boxes internally
  • Recycles printer cartridges
  • No-value textbooks are given to Bridge to Asia
  • Recycle plastic bag program w/drop box outside store

For more on sustainability, visit Sustainable Bowdoin.