Digital BW, The Print

Frank Jay wrote:
> Ernst...you can start at this site
>   http://www.forest-trends.org/documents/publications/ChinaFiberSupply.pdf
>   Frank in NJ

Gone through it fast but it illustrates more or less what I 
have written on the subject here concerning China's 
paper/pulp import + export and manufacturing. Russian and 
Indonesian pulp resources not reliably controlled, high 
pollution in Chinese (waste) paper factories, big import of 
US waste paper that the US doesn't recycle itself, not 
enough figures about local pulp production and not a word 
about bamboo but some mention of agricultural waste pulp 
that's only good for packaging. What is considered 
environmentally safe is imported pulp from Western and 
Australian/NZ forest controlled sources + Brazil, however 
the conclusion is that they could as well import the paper 
from there as it is more economic than importing pulp and 
making it in China. Modern mills are not labour intensive. 
Meanwhile new paper mills are build in China and no pulp 
resources there to feed them.

Next try to convince me that bamboo is environmentally safer 
than forestry as we know it today in the western world.

BTW, someone mentioned earlier in the thread that the new 
owner of Ilford  (inkjet papers Swiss) a big Japanese paper 
mill has big plans for bamboo plantations. I followed that 
trail. Its website tells nada about bamboo as 
environmentally safe or plans for bamboo plantations. Nor in 
the pages about sustainable management. A Google for that 
company + bamboo delivers some hits but nothing related to 
the rescue of the forests by bamboo.

http://www.ojipaper.co.jp/english/

more specific on the 100% increase of their use pulp sources 
expected before 2011

http://www.ojipaper.co.jp/english/sustainability/procure_policy/index.html

Wood pulp from certified forests is their goal.


Use that Hahnem\ufffdhle Bamboo paper, it is nice but warm as I 
understand it but please don't think you are the better guy 
than your neighbour that got his paper from Minnesota poplar 
trees.


-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst


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