Money makers

Indonesia gets angry

Battle over paper

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A reprieve for the paper industry

Jute fibre, which could provide a solution to the increasing crisis in procuring wood pulp, could be science's gift to the paper industry.

New role for earthworms as sewage cleaners

A Pune-based research institute has developed a process that employs earthworms to remove impurities from waste water.

Is paper the new plastic? 

The processing phase of virgin as well as recycled paper is highly water and energy-intensive

Effluent music

A PEOPLE'S VERDICT

Waste wizards

Entrepreneurs experiment with poop and pomace to make paper, and provide an opportunity for reducing burden on forests, landfills

Trash to cash

Paper mill recycles cartons, makes tissue paper, furniture

Timber wastes land

What we know about blastomyces, the fungus that killed 1 & infected 100 at a Michigan paper mill

The fungus is found in Michigan but an infection is very, very rare

Strange ink

Killer chlorine

Death in Sirpur Paper Mills

Betrayal via bamboo

Largest paper manufacturer is using most of the bamboo in Maharashtra, leaving little for residents

Peatlands of Indonesia: in conversation with Myrna A Safitri

Indonesian peatlands are being burnt for palm oil and paper industries. Last year at the COP 21 in Paris though, Indonesian President Widodo …

Practise what you preach

Forest to farms

India's paper industry now sources more wood from farmers. Why does it still demand forestland?

Bookish bacteria

Bacteria can be used to produce paper

If you want to read a book

...the near universal necessity of being the owner of a book to read it needs immediate and drastic revision

Green goes red

Rules on paper

Label trouble

Sprucing up

Chinese paper industry in for a makeover

Getting the chop