| Canadian Magazine Makes Pulp History | 23 May 08 |
 Canadian Geographic magazine made history May 22nd. Its annual environment issue is the first magazine in North America to be printed on paper made with wheat straw waste.Scientists at the Alberta Research Council have been researching the development of wheat sheet for 10 years. It's made from 20 percent wheat straw, 40 percent recycled paper, and 40 percent wood pulp. Markets Initiative (a Canadian environmental group), Canadian Geographic, the Alberta Research Council and the magazine's printer, Dollco Printing planned the special issue together. Adding agricultural waste to pulp from trees could offer farmers a new source of revenue. It could also reduce demand for pulp from the continent's boreal forests and temperate rainforests. Straw from Canada's wheat harvest could produce 8 millions of tonnes of pulp - equivalent to paper volume used by North American newspaper industry every year. That is a saving of 100 million trees each year. The processing of wheat into pulp is less energy intensive and has about half the ecological footprint than wood processing. View May 22, 2008 Markets Initiative, Canadian Geographic magazine, Dollco Printing and Alberta Research Council press release View May 22, 2008 Globe and Mail article View May 21, 2008 CBC article Sources: CBC, Globe and Mail, Markets Initiative, Canadian Geographic magazine, Dollco Printing, Alberta Research Council |
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