Sprucing up

Chinese paper industry in for a makeover

Getting the chop

Rs 3,300 crore omission

Subsidies given annually to industries for pollution control are unmonitored

Dutch firm develops green paper cups

Technology ensures the cups are fully compostable and recyclable

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8% FOREVER

Per capita emissions will remain competitively low  

Some sectors will struggle to be the best, some can’t as they operate in tropical India

Don’t say bamboo

Aparna Pallavi travels to Gadchiroli district to find out why villages relinquished forest rights

Genetically engineered trees can clean up paper industry

With the application of the new technique, residue from trees can also be used in making adhesives, carbon fibers and paint additives

A pampered paper industry cries wolf

Sterling enzyme

The paper society

Japan's trashbins give it back half the paper it uses and reuses

Missing the woods for the trees

Moneyspinning forests

PAPER PLAY

Sensing pressure using paper

This sensor is made of plain and corrugated cellulose papers coated with the chemical tin-monosulfide

Moneyspinning "cashcows"

Initially born as the good samaritan environmentalist's brainchild, recycling now smacks of a lot of hard cash

Writing off the world's forests

As the global demand for paper rockets, forests in the Asia-Pacific are being targeted for paper plantations

Bamboo under siege

Gadchiroli villages relinquish forest rights to Ballarpur paper mill

Crank it up

Paper cups as bad as plastic ones for environment: Research

Bioplastic coating on paper packaging does not degrade effectively; contains at least as many chemicals as conventional plastic

Seeing land for trees

Crank it up

Sugar mills in India are doubling up as power generators by burning crushed sugarcane or bagasse. But with the price of bagasse rising, their …

Smokestacks lightening?

Emissions are bound to increase. The power sector improves, but others will spew more, especially iron and steel

Green way to recycle paper

Bacterial enzymes can replace chemicals in recycling