OUR STANDARDS

Paper products have the potential to create significant environmental impacts throughout their lifecycle, from raw material sourcing and manufacturing of pulp and paper to the disposal of the paper product.

These impacts can include unsustainable management of native forests; effluents from the manufacturing processes containing oxygen depleting substances that affect plants and animals in receiving waters; release of toxic and bioaccumulative substances including for example sulphurous compounds and halogenated organics (from e.g. bleaching); usage of significant amounts energy and production of greenhouse gases during pulp and paper manufacturing processes; and impact from the packaging and disposal of the product at the end of its life.