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...
by John Mullinder | 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 John Mullinder | 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,...
