The expensive, energy-intensive process of turning wood into paper costs the pulp and paper industries more than $6 billion a year. Much of that expense involves separating wood's cellulose from ...
Greasy Pizza Boxes Grease and oil are two of the worst contaminants in paper recycling, and greasy pizza boxes are one of the ...
Pulp Green Tech Holding (PGT), an R&D-focused company that owns Thai Gorilla Pulp Ltd., announced this week that it has successfully achieved a high-grade paper pulp made from empty palm fruit bunches ...
The chemical pulping process was discovered in the nineteenth century, and allowed wood to be pulped for strong, white, long-lasting paper. The goal of chemical pulping is to remove all the parts of ...
Aidan Anne Frierson at work in the Chicago Pulp studio. Credit: Reema Saleh In a basement studio in Bridgeport, Aidan Anne Frierson and Dave King are turning wet, squelchy pulp into handmade paper. On ...
Pablo Päster is an energy and sustainability management consultant who wrote a weekly advice column for Treehugger from 2009-2012. Joel Penner/CC BY-NC 2.0 Dear Pablo: I have a tough one for you: ...
Timber, pulp and paper constitute a vital nexus in today’s sustainable bio‐economy, merging centuries‐old forestry traditions with modern industrial innovations. Timber is not only a renewable ...