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Hi,

 

Anyone ever heard of banana paper or paper being made from banana skins? I'm sure I came across an article that said instead of using trees to create paper it could be created from the skins of banana's. Maybe it was a dream?

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I think it was made from banana trees after the banana harvest. That I have seen. None from banana skins.

This could be true. Have you ever used any?

''You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes''. A A Milne

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Put it on the ground and step on it. In case you slip it's made of Banana peels.

If this happened with the paper as well, we'd all be in a sticky mess.

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I have heard of the banana paper, maybe I read the same thing you did. While I've not tried the banana paper I did find some legal pads (I think thru Staples) that were made from sugar cane. Same idea, don't use trees use a byproduct of something else, plus I am a rum lover so the sugar cane paper had an extra something to it.

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You will find a number of reviews of banana paper on FPN if you do a search of the paper review section, looks like a few work well with fountain pens.

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There is such a thing as banana paper but I don’t think that it is made into pads the way sugar cane paper is. Check DickBlick.com they have all sorts of exotic papers and definitely have banana paper.

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