Get Paper Industry, A Hand Made Paper Products Cooperative, is a hand made paper and paper products making unit. It uses waste materials like cotton rags, waste paper, agriculture waste like banana fibbers, straw and water hyacinth. The production process is environmentally friendly and paper drying is based on sun light. There is waste water treatment plant to process waste water.

Get Paper Industry is established as a hand made paper company in 1985 as General Paper Industry. It used to use Lokta plant as a raw material. After building relation with The Body Shop in 1988, GPI learnt about the recycling technique from the Consultants of The Body Shop. It was with the help of Mara Amat and Sam Roddick, daughter of Dame Anita Roddick OBE and Gordon Roddick of The Body Shop International that GPI learnt about production of recycled paper and paper products.

After learning about recycling technique, GPI became a fair trade supplier (that time known as Trade Not Aid Supplier) of The Body Shop International in 1989. As a result the number of people working in the company increased from 14 during 1989 to 117 in 1993. From 2005, GPI is constituted as a cooperative with all the staff as members of the cooperative.

Get Paper Industry has received different awards for significant contribution to the business world, for its prestigious performance. Awards like 1998 AWARDS FOR BUSINESS EXCELLENCE IN RESPOSNE TO HIV/AIDS awarded by The Global Business Council, BEST INDUSTRY AWARD FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN 1995 3rd prize awarded by Save The Environment Foundation are some of the example.