# Stone paper is the worst

- Link: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2024/05/30/stone-paper-is-the-worst/
- Published: 2024-05-30T10:59:31+03:00
- Author: Andrei Draganescu

Buy the paper that saves the trees which is made of plastic but we call it stone
paper to hide the tactile obviousness.

“Stone” paper is one of the worst inventions ever. And so many companies jumped 
on the weird idea just to score dumb environmental points. Someone must have won
the jackpot – wait actually stone paper is the same colonialist “discovery” story
ha, two dudes “discovered” a Taiwanese company making paper out of stone and s~tole
~ transformed the idea and turned into a separate business. I wonder did the Taiwanese
company get any patent royalties? In their [origin story](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbird1/2024/03/20/aussie-brands-speed-dating-and-live-streaming-to-success-with-alibaba/?)
they don’t say.

Anyway – it’s not even a good product. The eco friendliness is built on bad mouthing
traditional paper brands and hiding the HDPE – plastic – it contains. The paper 
itself ha ha. Just try anything sharp enough. A mechanical pencil is effectively
unusable, thicker nibs dry out while writing. The sun shining on your desk ruins
your notebook.

It’s a terrible idea pumped up by making a business out of sustainability. Easy 
as that. If this will replace cellulose paper it may very well replace pet bottles
as the no one source of plastic in oceans, rivers and in your body if you like pen
and paper and you write a lot 🙂