Is the paper industry sustainable?
The wood and paper industry is probably the only large-scale industrial system which is genuinely capable of satisfying future requirements for sustainable development. With its renewable raw material, ecologically adapted forest management techniques, environmentally-neutral processes and recyclable products, the wood and paper industry has the unique potential to become an integral part of an integrated carbon cycle based on photosynthetic conversions of water, carbon dioxide, nutrients and solar energy into a renewable woody biomass, making it one of the greatest natural cycles that control our climate and environment.
