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Unwrapping a disaster – The human cost of overpackaging

April 28, 2023

The human cost of overpackaging

NGO perspectives on the urgent need to reduce paper packaging in the EU

April 23, 2023

The EU is currently revising its rules around packaging and packaging waste. It is important that such legislation
aims to do away with single-use rather than driving material substitutions like replacing single-use plastic with single-
use paper.

Flushing the Climate 2023: A Follow Up Scorecard on Which U.S. Stores are Still Selling the World’s Most Destructive Toilet Paper

April 19, 2023

Three major brands of toilet paper in the United States – Fiora, Livi, and LoCor – manufactured by Solaris Paper, are made from fiber supplied by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) or affiliated companies. Fiora, Livi, and LoCor tissue brands are high-risk products linked to Asia Pulp and Paper’s destruction of tropical forests, climate […]

Environmental Paper Network Statement on the Suspension of the EPA Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines for Office Paper and the Availability of Recycled Papers

April 10, 2023

In response to a fire that caused a temporary disruption in the production of several major US suppliers’ 30% post-consumer recycled content (PCRC) white copy paper, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) recently suspended the requirement that it comply with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG) for office paper. We strongly encourage […]

Fears that forest biomass burning will expand to fulfil the EU’s renewable energy target, with serious implications for forests and climate

March 30, 2023

In a decision made today, EU negotiators have rejected the European Parliament’s call to constrain the burning of forest wood for energy.

Paper Excellence whistleblowers and investigative journalism project lead to calls for parliamentary hearings in Canada

March 22, 2023

In November 2021, the relatively small and privately owned company, Paper Excellence, acquired Domtar, a major, publicly-traded North American uncoated freesheet paper and packaging producer that today has 11 pulp and paper mills and 9 manufacturing and converting facilities in the U.S.and Canada, in a transaction valued at $3 billion USD. Not long after, in […]

On International Day of Forests, NGO’s demand an end to subsidies for burning forest biomass in pulp mills in Portugal

March 21, 2023

National and international organisations demand the end of subsidies for burning forest biomass in pulp mills in Portugal A report released on the International day of Forests (21st March) exposes the impacts of burning huge quantities of wood in power plants attached to Portugal’s pulp mills each year. This has implications for tackling wildfires in […]

Chile on fire. Civil society had warned about the risks and demanded to change the forestry model

February 9, 2023

Five days of raging fires have already burned more than a thousand homes and more than 200,000 hectares,[1] with more than 200 active outbreaks[2] and the loss of 26 lives between the regions of Ñuble and Los Ríos, territories dominated by exotic monoculture tree plantations controlled by the Chilean forestry and cellulose industry business. “Forest […]

Australia excludes native forest biomass as a renewable energy

December 21, 2022

In a world leading move, Australia has excluded native forest biomass from eligibility as renewable energy source under the national Renewable Energy Target, and electricity it generates cannot be used to create tradeable Large-scale Generation Certificates. This decision recognises community concern about the impacts on forest biodiversity. Australia has the highest rate of mammal extinctions in […]

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