CALIFORNIA PAPER NAPKINS

World Centric: Palo Alto-based World Centric makes user-friendly, reasonably priced, environmentally friendly disposable products.  They offer two types of napkins.  One is made from wheat straw fiber, the discarded fiber from growing wheat.  The other is 100% post-consumer waste (PCW) recycled paper.  In my experience, World Centric’s wheat-straw-fiber products are especially absorbent and soft to the touch. 



Natural Value: Sacramento-based Natural Value makes affordable, relatively environmentally friendly paper napkins.  Their brick-and-mortar and online distributors are listed on their website: http://naturalvalue.com.