Canadian Takes the lead in 'straw' paper production

[tay]

The company's first product, copy paper Step Forward Paper, is made of 80 percent agricultural waste wheat straw and 20 percent Forest Stewardship Council certified wood fiber, and is bleached using an elemental chlorine-free sequence. Available in Canada with an American launch in the near future, the paper is a no-brainer: Use the leftover by-product of harvested wheat crops and save trees.


To note:

Prairie Pulp & Paper commissioned a landmark life cycle comparison research study which was conducted by Offsetters, Canada’s leading carbon management solutions provider. The study compared Step Forward Paper with other copy paper types available in North America.

Research results, which were just released, demonstrate that wheat straw-based paper and 100 per cent recycled tree-fibre paper types have the lowest environmental impact across the seven indicators studied.

When using a weighted ranking system for environmental indicators that places greater importance on climate change, Step Forward Paper’s wheat straw-based paper is the best performing copy paper type studied with the lowest overall impact.

Based on samples we tried, there is no distinguishable difference between Step Forward Paper and any other regular copy paper.


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[petros]

WTF is agriclutual waste? Don't you moonbeam know this years straw is next year's soil? What the **** is the wrong with you greens?

 

[DaSleeper]

Just a few problems I can forecast having worked in the industry, one is the number of acres of raw material needed per ton of finished product, then transportation to the mill since I doubt you can pack the same tonnage of even compressed straw that you can with lumber in a truck load.
Then there is the seasonal availability of straw, while trees can be harvested year round....

Those are only a few problems I see off the top.

The main one would be profitability by the manufacturer having to build brand new mills where the raw material is, or transportation costs to existing mills.

 

[petros]

Only outdated grain producers or grain/cattle operations still bale straw and that still ends up back int rhe loop. These days all the straw and chaff is chopped and shot out of the combine for moisture and soil conservation. Baling is a labour intensiving step that has gone bye bye and nobody will ever miss it.

 

[bill barilko]

Can you wipe your ass with the stuff?

Because damn few people use paper for much else these days.

 

[petros]

You may as well just use a wirebrush.

 

[darkbeaver]

WTF is agriclutual waste? Don't you moonbeam know this years straw is next year's soil? What the **** is the wrong with you greens?

The same greens will moan about the loss of biomass on one hand and then encourage the loss of it on the other.

 

[petros]

They are lost bio-mass.

 

[darkbeaver]

They are lost bio-mass.

That will surprise them.

 

[karrie]

Trees are pretty, soil isn't. Save the trees!!

 

[darkbeaver]

exactly it