Archive for the 'Sustainable forestry' Category

Paper with a conscience

I saw a rep from this company give a presentation a while ago. They look like a good company with a good product.
Sustainable paper products from Domtar.

Major Logging Operation Shut in the Amazon

I found this one on Yahoo, just before going to sleep. From Yahoo!
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Environmental authorities shut down an illegal logging operation in the Amazon on Monday, confiscating dozens of felled tropical hardwood trees in an area that only recently was pristine rain forest.

The rain forest lost 7,300 square miles — an [...]

Half Price and Good for the Environment

Yes, it’s true. Just about every year edition X+1 is published for the incoming fall class. The book is most frequently a mirror of its ancestor with maybe a footer addition or just enough copy to push the content of page 223 to page 224 and make the student nervous enough about the 6-month old [...]

Common Myths About Recycled Paper

MYTH: All paper is recycled now, there is no need to ask for it.
FACT: Even at the height of its success, recycled paper only had about 10% of the printing and writing paper market and even those papers contained mostly virgin materials. Now distributors, printers and paper mills say that demand is dropping because buyers [...]