Doing our part, 1 eco conscious product at a time since 89

Our Story

We have become a part of the environmental movement, by offering many products which significantly reduce the use of virgin resources, reduce energy consumption and water pollution plus reduce waste going to landfills and incinerators. To this goal we provide what info we can about the issues of non sustainable products.

Since our 1989 inception in Bozeman Montana, we've grown as a company and offer a larger variety of recycled paper products and biodegradable food service products made out of sugar cane (bagasse) and PLA. We started out small and loyal customers in Bozeman and Helena helped Treecycle get off its feet, then we opened a Missoula Montana office in the early 1990's. Treecycle.com was started in 1997 and it gave people across the world info and access to recycled paper products and lots of biodegradable food service products. Treecycle has customers in 50 states, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.

In 2002, Treecycle became a more efficient company by consolidating Missoula and Bozeman operations to one office in Missoula, Montana. From 2002 until 2005, Treecycle operated out of a turn of the century building at 328 East Main Street in downtown Missoula. We were both a retailer and mail order business in Missoula but hardly anyone stopped by our retail storefront on East Main Street in the middle of downtown Missoula. In addition to the lack of retail traffic, we had sky high utility costs due to the deregulation/demise of Montana Power plus we started to run out of space. We decided it was best to move out of downtown Missoula to focus on the mail order side of the business.

In summer 2005 we moved to a new metal building in Huson, 25 miles West of Missoula. With more storage space and next to zero energy costs, the building made Treecycle.com a much more efficient mail order company. After 3 years out in the woods in our new metal building it became evident that Montana's winter climate was not a good match for mail order business. When the snow arrived, roads became icy, the efficiency of our operation seriously declined during the winter.

Because of this we moved treecycle to Oregon in August 2008 to be in a climate with less winter impacts on our operation. In addition we're closer to numerous Portland Oregon suppliers where we can pick up product and avoid shipping costs we used to incur while in Montana. Treecycle fits right in with the awesome environmental ethnic in Oregon and we now have lots of Oregon customers. In addition, we're right between Washington and California where we have suppliers and lots of customers in both States.

Our eco-groovy staff is a fine collection of conservation-oriented individuals. We are dedicated to offer the best recycled papers and biodegradable food service products at the lowest possible price by reducing overhead everywhere possible and offering few frills and no fancy printed catalogs.

Treecycle's customers include a wide array of individuals, natural food stores, buying clubs, restaurants, bakeries, law firms, conservation and environmental groups, consulting firms, and a whole host of other businesses. We are located in Sherwood, a suburb of greater Portlandia.