Posted on July 17, 2007 by sdcastudent
Over the last few years China has been importing a massive amount of waste paper. This is being recycled and saving millions of trees along the way. The paper industry in China imported almost 20 million tonnes of paper in 2006 with almost 60% of the fibre used in producing the paper being recycled. [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2007 by sdcastudent
I often think about this when I take the subway in Paris and I saw one or several people trying to palm free daily newspaper as “Metro” off onto me. I have to confess that I am quite happy when I have it because it fills the time. There is everything: brief and quality news, [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2007 by sdcastudent
In addition to oil companies, another type of “non sustainable business” could have been mentioned in our “good, bad and ugly” presentations.
In fact, I am not sure that anybody noticed it yet, but paper industry is really concerning too.
Paper production is the fourth source of greenhouse gases emmissions.
We do not even realise but paper [...]
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