by John Mullinder | May 14, 2021 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry
An American environmental group is lashing out at Canadian logging companies and their customers for not supporting its preferred certifier of sustainable forest management, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). New York-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)...
by John Mullinder | Apr 18, 2021 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry, Paper
Perhaps Indigo publisher and CEO Heather Reisman should stick to something she knows something about. She clearly doesn’t know much about forest and paper issues if her recent coffee-table book is anything to go by. It’s so loaded with false and misleading claims...
by John Mullinder | Oct 1, 2020 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry
As a long-time admirer of Canadian broadcaster and author David Suzuki’s pungent style, it’s tough to have to point out three major errors in his latest opinion piece. I do so because his claim that paper does not represent a circular let alone a sustainable...
by John Mullinder | Mar 17, 2020 | Canada, Deforestation
Vancouver-based environmental group Canopy continues to make embarrassing boo-boos about paper packaging in Canada. In a blog entitled “What’s in the Box? Canopy answers its own question with a bald-faced lie, giving the impression that paper boxes are mostly made...
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...
