May 22, 2023
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 […]
Read MoreApril 28, 2023
The human cost of overpackaging
Read MoreApril 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.
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 […]
Read MoreApril 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 […]
Read MoreMarch 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.
Read MoreMarch 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 […]
Read MoreMarch 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 […]
Read MoreFebruary 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 […]
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