Nightmare on Recycled Paper Street

Since The Papermill appears to not be in operation anymore, I have continued to search for recycled paper.
B&F looked promising. They even had this dinky lil calculator, where you could find out how friendly each paper was to the environment.
But their email bounced.

9lives got back in touch though:

Hello Rowena,

Thank you for your enquiry.  Normally we do not sell to the public, however we will try to help.

We have 9 Lives Offset:

100gsm, 1,000 sheets of SRA3, (320 x 450), white recycled colour @ $122 excl GST

300gsm400 sheets of SRA3, (320 x 450), white recycled colour @ $165 excl GST.

Hope this helps.

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Regards, Andrew

Andrew Chuah Internal Sales Representative
M. +64 27 263 7392
T. 04 587 1960 F. 04 589 9589
33 Bouverie Street, Petone, Wellington
www.spicersnz.co.nz www.cpsonline.co.nz
Part of the global PaperlinX group

The only problem being that we probably won't be needing 1000 nor 400 sheets of the stuff...

I also went to Gordon Harris and they have no stock that is recycled. All sorts of other papers, of course.

Then I went to Warehouse Stationery. They have recycled A3, but it's just the same as the paper in the printers at uni and we'd have to buy a ream. 

They do have four colours of recycled A4:

They also have pads of watercolour paper, which has a lovely texture:

And I wonder if 150gsm is too thick to go through the school printers. I don't know.

So.........If we're going to stick with recycled paper, looks like it's A4 and spiral bound. If we want A3, then it's whatever comes out of the printer, maybe?

Discuss.