by John Mullinder | Oct 23, 2019 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News, Forestry
Vancouver-based environmental group, Canopy, has launched a global campaign against paper packaging, claiming that three billion trees “disappear into packaging’’ every year leaving “a trail of deforestation, degraded forest systems, threatened species, and an...
by John Mullinder | Jul 29, 2019 | Deforestation, Recycled Content
Most boxes and cartons manufactured in Canada are now 100% recycled content, made completely from old boxes and other used paper material collected from the back of factories, supermarkets, office buildings, or from residential Blue Box programs. Some 13 mills across...
by Kristina Urquhart | Mar 4, 2019 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News
As the executive director of the Paper & Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council for the past 28 years, John Mullinder has heard his share of (mis)information about forestry and paper practices in Canada – namely, that the clear cutting used in the industry is...
by John Mullinder | Jan 10, 2019 | Canada, Deforestation
The permanent (or long-term) reduction of Canada’s tree canopy cover (deforestation) was 39,700 hectares in 2015, according to recent estimates of the National Deforestation Monitoring Group of the Canadian Forest Service. What percentage of total forest was that?...
by Martin Fairbanks | Dec 14, 2018 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry
If you’re working in the forest products industry you’ve probably had a similar experience to this. At a social occasion, somebody asks you what you do for a living. Then he or she brings up something they’ve heard in the media – deforestation,...
by John Mullinder | Oct 15, 2018 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News, Forestry
Well not all of them yet. But I am honoured to summarise some very positive reviews of my recently published book: Deforestation in Canada and Other Fake News. Here’s a selection of them. For full review go to the Reviews page here. “The first chapters set out clear,...
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