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Paper Task Force report

Tips for buying, selecting and reducing paper

A new way to buy paper [PDF]: The lifecycle approach to reducing the environmental impacts of paper use

Synopsis [PDF]: Recommendations for purchasing and using environmentally preferable paper

Table of contents [PDF]: Task Force members and acknowledgements

Chapter 1 [PDF]: Setting the Stage for Purchasing Environmentally Preferable Paper

Chapter 2 [PDF]: Source Reduction

Chapter 3 [PDF]: Buying and Recycling Recycled Paper

Chapter 3 update [PDF]: Figures 2, 6-9 (February 2002)

Chapter 3 update [Excel]: Tables A-1 to A-5 (February 2002)

Chapter 4 [PDF]: Forest Management

Chapter 5 [PDF]: Pulp and Paper Manufacturing

Biographies [PDF]: Task Force members and a glossary

Paper Task Force white papers

Paper Performance

• No. 1 [PDF]: Functionality Requirements for Uncoated Business Papers and Effects of Incorporating Postconsumer Recycled Content
• No. 8 [PDF]: Functionality Requirements for Coated and Uncoated Publication Papers and Effects of Incorporating Postconsumer Recycled Content
• No. 6A [PDF]: Functionality Issues for Corrugated Packaging Associated with Recycled Content, Source Reduction and Recyclability
• No. 6B [PDF]: Functionality Issues for Folding Cartons Associated with Recycled Content, Source Reduction and Recyclability

Recycling and Used Paper Management

• No. 2 [PDF]: Economics of Recycling as an Alternative to Traditional Means of Waste Management
• No. 3 [PDF]: Lifecycle Environmental Comparison - Virgin Paper and Recycled Paper-Based Systems (Updated February 2002)
• No. 9 [PDF]: Economics of Manufacturing Virgin and Recycled-Content Paper

Forest Management

• No. 4 [PDF]: Environmental Issues Associated with Forest Management
• No. 11 [PDF]: Economic Considerations in Forest Management
• Glossary [PDF]: Terms for White Papers 4 and 11

Pulp and Paper Manufacturing

• No. 5 [PDF]: Environmental Comparison of Bleached Kraft Pulp Manufacturing Technologies
• No. 7 [PDF]: Economics of Kraft Pulping and Paper Bleaching
• No. 10A [PDF]: Environmental Comparison - Manufacturing Technologies for Virgin and Recycled-Content Printing and Writing Paper
• No. 10B [PDF]: Environmental Comparison - Manufacturing Technologies for Virgin and Recycled Corrugated Boxes
• No. 10C [PDF]: Environmental Comparison - Manufacturing Technologies for Virgin and Recycled Coated Paperboard for Folding Cartons
• No. 12 [PDF]: Comparison of Kraft, Sulfite and BCTMP Pulp and Paper Manufacturing Technologies
• Appendices [PDF]: White Papers 10A, 10B, 10C and 12
• No. 13 [PDF]: Nonwood Plant Fibers as Alternative Fiber Sources for Papermaking

Posted: 28-Jul-2008; Updated: 25-Feb-2009