Redopapers

From leftover prints & banners to notebooks & planners

Redopapers rescues leftover prints, posters, banners and misprints from Antwerp’s cultural houses and print shops, turning them into beautifully designed planners, journals, notebooks and calendars. No new paper, no recycling process, just smart solutions for available waste streams.

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Leftover posters and misprinted sheets transformed into finished Redopapers agendas and notebooks | Waste Alchemists

About the alchemists

Redopapers was founded by creator Linde, and over the past 10+ years the team (including Olivia and others) has grown into a warm, humorous, and incredibly creative collective. What stood out during our coffee conversation? Their honesty about entrepreneurship: you can’t plan everything, partnerships matter, and humour keeps a circular team healthy. And trust us, their energy is contagious, you leave their workshop feeling inspired and grounded.

square meters

of forest saved from being cut down

kg of paper

rescued in 2025

square meters

of old banners got a second life

About the waste

Most people don’t realise how much “perfectly good” paper is discarded every single day: exhibition posters, cultural house banners, misprints, leftover sheets, offcuts from print shops, all clean, unused, and full of colour. This paper is simply thrown aside just because it didn’t fit a layout, a print run, or a client order. Redopapers steps in before it is recycled by reusing it directly. In other words, instead of immediately going into the recycling bin, the paper gets a second life first.

About the process

Redopapers works backwards compared to traditional design. They don’t start with a product and then look for materials, they start with the waste. The team visits local printers and cultural spaces, selects leftover sheets and banners, then brings them to the studio where they’re sorted by hand based on colour, weight, texture, and size. They cut, trim, assemble and bind everything themselves. No fibre destruction, no recycling steps, and no new materials added. The waste determines the design, and the result is always one-of-a-kind.

About their creations

From the rescued paper streams, Redopapers crafts planners, bullet journals, calendars, notebooks, and reusable covers. Shapes and layouts depend on the waste they find, which means the products are as unique as the prints they come from. Even their packaging stays circular, your new agenda might arrive wrapped in what once was a cereal box. Their business clients can even turn their own leftover prints into customised notebooks or planners, creating a full-circle story for their workspace.

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When software learns to upcycle

One of the coolest things? Their partners adapted their printing software so potential waste is automatically flagged and instantly transformed into sheets for Redopapers. In other words: instead of waiting for waste to happen, the system now prevents waste by redirecting misprints straight into Redopapers’ hands. It’s a glimpse of what the future could look like if every printer worked this way.