(Sweden) Swedish paper manufacturer, Grycksbo Paper, is to invest 130 million SEK (approx $21.5m) to install a biomass boiler, which will meet the paper mill’s entire need for steam when it comes on-line during the second half of 2009... read more »
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(USA) General Motors has made an investment in a US company that is working on ways to convert non-grain sources, including the waste pulp from paper mills, into biofuels. read more »
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(USA) Simpson Tacoma Kraft Co. LLC, one of Washington’s oldest continuously operating forest products companies, intends to bring on line a project that would produce renewable biomass energy at its pulp and paper mill in Tacoma, Washington. read more »
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(USA) Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, one of the world's largest paper recyclers, will feature the company's recycling solutions and use of advanced waste sorting line technology at the 40th annual Waste Expo May 6-8 at the McCormick Place Convention Complex in Chicago... read more »
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(USA) Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation's recycling division has partnered with Waste Services, Inc., to operate Waste Services' materials recycling facility (MRF) at its Taft MRF and transfer station, near Orlando, FL. read more »
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(USA) The University of Maine and Red Shield Environmental in Old Town now have the financial backing to build an ethanol refinery... read more »
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(USA) Global packaging leader MeadWestvaco has announced that it has received chain of custody certification to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative(R) (SFI) program and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC) chain of custody standards... read more »
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(Canada) A pioneer in sustainable development, Cascades Tissue Group is encouraging Canadians to check their Environmental Facts on Cascades(R) enviro products this Earth Day to realize the importance of changing their environmentality(R)... read more »
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(Canada) Environmental group Greenpeace is attacking Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KBM) for its forestry practices on the eve of the paper-goods giant's annual shareholders' meeting... read more »
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(Russia) he Irkutsk Court of Arbitration has postponed hearings on the damage the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill has caused to the world’s largest, unique body of fresh water till May 20, an official of the environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor told Itar-Tass... read more »
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(Chile) A group of mainly Mapuche indigenous fisherfolk opposed to the installation of a pipeline to dump waste from the Celulosa Arauco y Constitución (Celco) paper pulp mill into the ocean in southern Chile complain that they have been the target of attacks by other fishermen... read more »
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(USA) Rainforest Action Network (RAN) issued a letter to Weyerhaeuser CEO Steve Rogel calling on him to follow the lead of Boise Inc. and suspend his company’s contract to buy wood from the traditional territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwest Ontario... read more »
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(China) A new energy saving services program was successfully launched last week by an alliance of international leaders in energy efficiency and energy financing. The launch event was attended by senior executives of major companies from the textile, pulp and paper and other energy-intensive... read more »
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(Russia) The governor of the Irkutsk region, Alexander Tishanin, has called on the government to remove a pulp mill from Siberia's Lake Baikal accused of polluting the world's largest freshwater body. read more »
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(Canada) Canadians are printing out 30 pages of documents a day and then promptly discarding nearly four out of ten of those pages, according to a new survey... read more »
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(USA) As paper recovery reaches an all-time high in the U.S., the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) has honored a school, university, business, and community for their outstanding paper recycling efforts... read more »
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(USA) A paper processing company faces a proposed $3 million fine for failing to clean up waste contaminated with dioxin. The Central Valley Water Board has issued a civil liability complaint against Winemucca Trading Co. Limited. read more »
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