Sentences with phrase «wood pulp used»

If every country recycled as much of its paper as South Korea does, the amount of wood pulp used to produce paper worldwide would drop by one third.

Not exact matches

Hemp fibers can also be used to make paper that is stronger than most of today's paper while using a method that is more environmentally friendly than the traditional chemical - intensive process of taking wood and turning it into pulp.

Chemical wood pulp might also be used as an intermediate.

Xylitol is often a by - product of the pulp and paper industry, and isn't limited to just birch — corn, nut shells, and wood chips are all used to make it as well.

First synthesized more than a century ago, DMSO is a natural by - product of wood - pulp manufacture and has been used for decades as an industrial solvent, paint thinner and additive in a number of chemical products.

Disposable diapers generate sixty times more solid waste and use twenty times more raw materials, like crude oil and wood pulp.

The savings in water usage, detergents, plastics consumed, trees used for wood pulp, chemical production methods, not to mention non-biodegradable landfill, and unsustainable, non-organic cotton farming are very significant for the earth.

It uses the Forest Stewardship Council - certified wood pulp.

Seventh Generation «s Free & Clear Diapers have an absorbent core that uses chlorine - free wood pulp — making them a greener disposable diaper.

Seventh Generation Baby Diapers uses a wood pulp at its core that has been taken under the certification of FSC.

Heather McNamara: Yeah, so then there are some diapers out there that don't include the super absorbent polymer so they're just mostly like, a cotton fluff and wood pulp that they use as the absorbent.

The wipe material used in this product is a blend of wood pulp, polypropylene and polyethylene, all mild, non-harmful components.

The team achieved better hydrogen yields using methanol and ethanol as starting materials but because glucose can be derived from plant waste such as wood pulp, straw and leftovers from corn production, the scientists will continue to work on their approach.

The new method involves breaking down wood pulp with enzymes and then fragmenting it using a mechanical beater.

So the researchers, including materials scientist Lars Berglund of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, used enzymes and a blender to chew standard wood pulp into a stew of much finer particles — about one - thousandth their original size.

Until then Range Fuels will source its wood chips from whole trees — not a waste product at all, but a commodity used to make paper pulp.

The Earth Island Institute, among other groups concerned about forest loss due to paper consumption, would instead like to see more research into using agricultural waste to make paper instead of wood pulp or bamboo.

In recent years, researchers have tried using wood pulp extracts to tackle this issue.

Clean rayon production is possible: Austrian company Lenzing, which makes a type of rayon fabric from wood pulp, uses a «closed loop» process that recycles essentially all the required chemicals.

«You can use the waste product from the distilling process or any number of other sources of biomass, such as switchgrass or wood pulp.

Nutritional yeast — or nooch, if you're really into it — is different from live yeast (used for making bread) or brewer's yeast (the stuff you make beer with) and is usually grown from sugar - cane, beet molasses, or wood pulp.

Unfortunately, while inexpensive, traditional paper towels made with virgin wood pulp are still a wasteful choice considering the slow growing trees used to make them.

Still, I'm used to inked wood pulp, I like physically browsing in L - space.

Leather, wood pulp, oil and organ meat could be used to meet the nutritional requirements for dog food.

If you decide to use vinegar, it is important to only use only organic white or red vinegar because some commercial vinegars are made from wood pulp.

Megazorb: Available primarily in the U.K., this is a dried wood pulp product originally used for horses.

You can also use small animal litter made from wood pulp.

«Since 1985, the trend has been towards thinner sanitary pads using less wood - based pulp and increased use of synthetic super absorbents made from petroleum.

Tier II sources include: waste coal, large - scale hydropower, municipal solid waste, integrated combined coal gasification technology, utilizing wood pulping, employing distribution generation systems, and demand - side management use.

WASHINGTON, DC (17 February 2015)-- More than 30 percent of wood used by Indonesia's industrial forest sector1 stems from the unreported clear - cutting of natural forests and other illegal sources instead of legal tree plantations and well - managed logging concessions, 2 according to a new study analyzing Indonesian Ministry of Forestry and timber industry data to assess the sustainability of the country's booming pulp and paper industry.

Pulp made from hemp's bast fiber is superior to short - fiber wood, and is an ideal additive to strengthen recycled post-consumer waste (PCW) pulp, thus expanding PCW's Pulp made from hemp's bast fiber is superior to short - fiber wood, and is an ideal additive to strengthen recycled post-consumer waste (PCW) pulp, thus expanding PCW's pulp, thus expanding PCW's use.

This analysis focuses on the pulp and paper sector, which comprises 80 percent of Indonesia's wood use.

1 As defined by the Ministry of Forestry's annual reports, this includes sawnwood, plywood, veneer, pulp, and other «processed» items produced in mills that use more than 6,000 m3 of wood per year.

Most forest biomass used for energy in these countries is recovered from indirect sources, including black liquor from wood pulping and other wood residues (Steierer et al., 2007).

Speaking of trees, it was the development of Tencel, a new man - made textile that uses a renewable natural feedstock (wood pulp), that spurred a forest of similar fibres.

Environmental advocates have been trying to get Kimberly - Clark to use recycled pulp and sustainably harvested wood pulp for years.

Even the relatively small use of biofuels in Europe that relies on North American wood pellets is already causing land - use impacts in the southeastern United States (John Upton of Climate Central has recently published an excellent report on this titled Pulp Fiction).

I have no idea if they are correct or not, but I am definitely impressed with the creativity, animation, directing skills and rappelling ability of the people from Greenpeace who are protesting toy maker Mattel Inc.'s use of wood products obtained from Asia Pulp & Paper, a Singapore company.