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International Day of Action on Packaging #MakeThrowAwayGoAway

European citizens want less waste, be it plastic or paper On September 12th 2023, European citizens and organizations from all over the world joined hands to say we need to Make Throw Away Go Away. From Spain to Poland to France, from Germany to Portugal to Sweden, from Indonesia to Italy, from Germany to Finland […]

Borneo communities want their land back!

Deforestation is expanding again in the tropical rainforests of Borneo. And indigenous peoples are not backing down from defending their land. The timber company PT Mayawana Persada is expanding its plantations in the forests of the Dayak indigenous people of Kualan Hilir. PT Mayawana Persada is linked to the conglomerate controlled by Sukanto Tanoto, which also owns APRIL […]

Investigation by NGO coalition stops deforestation in Papua

One year ago, Environmental Paper Network, Mighty Earth, Pusaka, Solutions for Our Climate, Korean Federation for Environmental Movement and Advocates for Public Interest Law released a report exposing the devastation of pristine forests in the remote province of Papua, Indonesia, by the Korean company, Moorim Paper. Immediately after the release of the report, the company […]

Pulping Borneo

Jakarta, 23 May 2023 – A new investigative report, Pulping Borneo, finds that the Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) Group, the world’s largest viscose producer and major paper products company, continues to rely on deforestation in its supply chain despite a high-profile commitment to “No-Deforestation”. The report, co-published by five organizations, also reveals a chain of […]

Unwrapping a disaster – The human cost of overpackaging

The human cost of overpackaging

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

World Bank affiliate IFC approves loan for Suzano’s unsustainable project in Cerrado, ignoring warning from 40+ environmental groups

Christmas came early for Suzano, but at the cost of the world’s most biodiverse savannah: the Cerrado biome in Brazil. Last Friday, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank, approved a USD 725 million loan to Suzano to build a new giant pulp mill project in Mato Grosso do Sul, in […]

Pulp & paper industry expansion in Cerrado risks fires, water shortage and climate damage, says new EPN report

New research released today by the Environmental Paper Network reveals the impacts of the ongoing and massive expansion of the pulp & paper industry in Mato Grosso do Sul, in Brazil’s Cerrado biome. Pulp production in the area around Três Lagoas, in the eastern corner of Mato Grosso do Sul,has exploded from zero to more […]