What’s more, it’s “regenerative” as the Bridepalla brand has it, presented by Promotred. It uses plants and seeds to make its various gift product, such as the cute, customisable, cookie-like shapes for planting to create colourful gardens of various plants, or pencils with shavings that give life to new plants, as well as paper created from cotton waste and enhanced with seeds, which turns to grass when you place it in a vase with soil.

Si-ri’s repositionable note pads, with chemical solvent-free glue based on water microcapsules, are made with paper containing grass fibres, making them 100% biodegradable, compostable and recyclable. Once used, the sheets can be planted to give rise to a positive cycle of continuous renewal.

The pens in the Erga GreenLine line are also made of 100% recycled ABS from plastic. When collected, cleaned and processed, it becomes a product that closes the circle, diverting plastic from the landfill to the desk, allowing it to become a powerful green message.

Staying with writing, Bic attended PTE with the new EcoLutions line and its desktop must-have, the famous 4 Colours ,which has been updating itself since 1970 and is now also available in a Wood version with wood effect.