Sentences with phrase «virgin wood fiber»

Their use of virgin wood fiber is going down, as they reduce packaging and use more recycled materials.

Then there's the added energy cost of production, packaging, and transporting to stores and homes and away to landfill, where disposable plates and cups — which can be made of plastic, Styrofoam, virgin wood fibers, plastic - coated paper, post-consumer recycled fibers, or agricultural waste products such as bagasse, and are usually non-recyclable because they are contaminated with food residue — will sit for hundreds of years, slowly decomposing and releasing methane gas.

Not exact matches

100 % to the person who buys the recycled paper (the wood fiber in a 100 % recycled ream of paper could have no forest Footprint, since the footprint of that wood fiber was already allocated to the person who bought the virgin paper),

100 % to the person who recycles the paper (a person purchasing 100 % virgin paper who recycled all of it would have no Footprint for the wood fiber in that paper, since all of it is reused later, assuming that no fiber is lost in the recycling process), or