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The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and the American Forest &
Paper Association (AF&PA) initiated a life-cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate
the environmental impact of four North American grades of printing and
writing (P&W) papers.
The...
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The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and the American Forest &
Paper Association (AF&PA) initiated a life-cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate
the environmental impact of four North American grades of printing and
writing (P&W) papers.
The specific products examined are: 1) a ream of office
paper made of uncoated freesheet; 2) a telephone directory made primarily of
uncoated mechanical paper; 3) a catalogue made primarily of coated freesheet;
and 4) a magazine made primarily of coated mechanical paper.
The study is the most comprehensive ever conducted for North American
printing and writing papers.
The data was collected from 72 mills in the U.
S.
and Canada, which produced 22.
4 million short tonnes of printing and writing
papers in 2006-07.
This represents approximately 77 percent of all North
American production within that time period.
The LCA was conducted by
the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc.
(NCASI) — an
independent, nonprofit research ins
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