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See book keywords and concepts | | Formaldehyde, a preservative that is used in paints, medications, fabric finishes, paper products, household cleaners and cosmetics.
•Cobalt chloride, a metal that is found in medical products, hair dye, antiperspirant and metal-plated objects, such as snaps, buttons and tools. Also found in cobalt blue pigment.
•Bacitracin, a topical antibiotic.
•Quaternium 15, a preservative that can be found in cosmetic products, such as self-tanners, shampoo, nail polish and sunscreen, as well as in industrial products, such as polishes, paints and waxes. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  These clippings could be made into other paper products instead of being thrown away.
Postconsumer content, on the other hand, is the material that was previously used by consumers: newspapers, magazines, office paper, packaging, paper cups, and paper plates. The efficient use of postconsumer paper waste closes the circle of recycling and also helps reduce our need for landfills, improving our community environment and health.
Among those products meeting federal standards are those from Office Depot and Staples, plus the following companies:
Aspen Xerographic?(Boise Cascade) Colorsource? | | The company is identifying forest regions both in the United States and globally that are adversely impacted by its paper purchases and they are working with Dogwood Alliance, Forest Ethics, and the Natural Resources Defense Council to ensure that it purchases paper products only from sustainably harvested forests.
As a large paper purchaser, my company, Freedom Press, is increasingly seeking to improve its environmental record. | | So we know there is a lot of recycled content going into their paper products. The company partners with over six hundred different sources of recyclable paper in more than forty states and provinces and operates six state-of-the-art recycling facilities that rely on postconsumer recycled fiber to make paper. They offer a strong market case for environmentalism. They are saving trees, being a good corporate citizen, and the company is making money. | | Fraser Papers can now apply rhe FSC recycled logo to its 100 percent postconsumer paper products.38 Fraser Papers operates nineteen paper machines ar mills in Maine, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin in the United States, and in Quebec and New Brunswick in Canada.
?Visit www.greenerprinter.com. This sheet-fed printing company, based in Berkeley, California, now enables us to do The Doctors' Prescription Healthy Living reprints on 100 percent recycled New Leaf paper srock wirh soy-based inks at competitive prices. | | State of the art papermaking technology transforms office paper, magazines, and boxes into clean and sanitary Green Forest paper products."
Green Forest was 100 percent recycled content but only 10 percent postconsumer paper—well, that could be better.
I also researched Seventh Generation, which is the company that has the most transparency and what would appear to be the very best product. According to Seventh Generation, their products are 80 percent postconsumer recycled. | | Replacing just one three-pack of white 70-sheet, two-ply paper towels with Seventh Generation paper products in all U.S. households would prevent the release of almost 63,000 tons of greenhouse gases.
?If every household chose just a single 500-pack of their one-ply napkins over their usual nonrecycled brand, we would save 120,930 tons.
?Doing the same with a 12-pack of 400-sheet, two-ply bathroom tissue would save 170,317 tons.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Chandler: It costs about the same as regular paper products. It's not a premium-priced product at all.
Mike: Is that the initial attraction, then, the compost ability?
Chandler: The compost value and people realizing that, price wise, it's comparable to what we would call ordinary plastic-lined paper products now. We made a conscious decision to be price competitive with the more traditional products, because we felt that, in the past, too many of the newer technology products that are still coming on line, like some of the potato starch products, are pricing themselves too high. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Hollender: If they're white, we have used oxygen or hydrogen peroxide to get those paper products white, which are non-reactive and don't create any of the organo-fluorides and organo-toxins that bleaching paper with chlorine does.
Mike: So, what are some of the other traits of your products, then?
Hollender: Wherever possible, we're using vegetable as opposed to petroleum ingredients. We will only use ingredients that are known to be safe, so we need thorough affirmative proof that the chemical is not even suspected of having any health or environmental problems. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
See book keywords and concepts |  Although soy protein isolate (SPI) was certainly in use prior to 1958, it was only as an industrial product to bind and seal paper products, not as a food. It does not qualify as a product having a long history of safe use in the food supply and it is also known to include toxins and carcinogens.
In 1979, the Select Committee of GRAS Substances (SCOGS) took a look at safety issues in the manufacture of soy protein isolate. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  They also make non-bleached paper products, such as towels, napkins, paper plates, and bathroom tissue. These natural cleaning and paper products are sold in natural foods markets, grocery stores, co-ops, and online. Use the "store find" selection and punch in your zip code.
Tree of Life (www.goturtle.com)—Tree of Life products include automatic dishwasher concentrate, household cleaners, and other cleaning products that are widely available in natural foods stores. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  Sustainable Forestry
¦¦¦¦l Wood and paper products might seem to be an environmentalist's best friends. After all, they're made of a renewable raw material—unlike, say, plastic bags, each of which sends a dollop of petroleum on a one-way trip to the dump. But the devil is in the details. Factors such as economic desperation, lax regulation, and greed have conspired to make logging a problematic venture for both wildlife and humans.
Some environmentalists would have us believe that every logging job is as bad as a clear-cut—that parkland is the only good use of a forest. | | Take the pulp and paper industry: is it in the business of turning trees into paper products, or is it in the "forests and fibers" business, managing forests for the long term and recycling paper for the things we need? Paper or forests?
Or take the petroleum industry: is it in the business of pumping and refining fossil fuels from the earth's crust, or is it really in the business of providing energy, which might increasingly take the form of renewables or biofuels? Oil or energy? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Chandler: The compost value and people realizing that, price wise, it's comparable to what we would call ordinary plastic-lined paper products now. We made a conscious decision to be price competitive with the more traditional products, because we felt that, in the past, too many of the newer technology products that are still coming on line, like some of the potato starch products, are pricing themselves too high. They're trying to get rich on their first sale, and that's not the way to do it. |
Earth RightH. Patricia Hynes
See book keywords and concepts | | It is important that the Massachusetts Port Authority join the many other state and local governments and institutions nationwide in substituting the use of these harmful products with biodegradable paper products.
This policy will be implemented in the following ways:
1. The Massachusetts Port Authority will initiate no new purchases of polystyrene products of any kind and attempts will be made to renegotiate existing contracts in order to substitute paper products for polystyrene materials. |
Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts | | Yes, this is the active ingredient in embalming fluid, but it's being used in a lot of other places besides dead bodies these days: in plywood, paneling, fiberboard, plastics, upholstery, carpeting, paper products, cosmetics, eye makeup, nail polish, and even in permanent-press clothing. It can be an extreme irritant to the lungs, sinuses, and liver. Low-level exposure to formaldehyde is associated with eye irritation, headaches, asthma, and depression.
Another problem for those living or working in sealed environments with closed ventilation systems is bacterial contamination. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | These natural cleaning and paper products are sold in natural foods markets, grocery stores, co-ops, and online. Use the "store find" selection and punch in your zip code.
Tree of Life (www.goturtle.com)—Tree of Life products include automatic dishwasher concentrate, household cleaners, and other cleaning products that are widely available in natural foods stores. |
Earth RightH. Patricia Hynes
See book keywords and concepts | | The Massachusetts Port Authority will initiate no new purchases of polystyrene products of any kind and attempts will be made to renegotiate existing contracts in order to substitute paper products for polystyrene materials. Coffee rooms throughout the Authority's Logan, Bridge, Real Estate, Maritime and State Transportation Building offices will be stocked with paper products only. Caterers will be required to comply with the policy when doing Massport business. |
Hemp TodayEd Rosenthal
See book keywords and concepts | | Hungary has made significant progress in producing higher quality consumer goods, both as garment quality textiles and in paper products. Their advances are set against the backdrop of new initiatives in the Ukraine and Kazakhstan, forming a region that sprawls from Europe to China. These countries have little idea of modern global market demands and how or where to get the equipment and information to make rapid progress. | | Schlichten will contract with us over a long term of years for all the hemp hurds necessary to make all the paper and paper products we want to make. He will contract not to sell or otherwise dispose of for any purpose any hurds until our orders are filled. He will, within a reasonable length of time, raise and treat hemp so as to supply us the hurds nearby the Scripps Eastern Newspapers.
FIRST: We make paper from an "Annual" and thus help to preserve the forests, the streams and the soil;
SECOND: We make paper at a lower cost than is possible from wood, for the following reasons:
A. | | According to Hunsigi (1989) interest in the use of agricultural fibers as a source of paper pulp has been renewed due to concerns about the environmental impacts of using trees as the primary source of paper products. The production of paper from plant fibers is not at all limited to hemp. Hunsigi contends that paper can be manufactured from any plant material containing cellulose, the chief component of plant cell walls. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Paper and paper products constitute over one-half of the trash in landfills. The researchers found that much of the paper was, in effect, mummified, with newspapers deep in some landfills legible decades later. This may be positive in some respects: Rapid degradation would allow the release of ink and paint toxins into the surrounding soil.
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Hemp TodayEd Rosenthal
See book keywords and concepts | | At this moment the economic feasibility is severely handicapped by low prices of flax byproducts (tow) which are used in the same pulps and paper products as hemp. The Federation Nationale des Producteurs de Chanvre however thinks hemp has a future in France, and works vigorously to promote hemp.
Mr. Mathieu thinks economic prospects will improve as flax prices are bound to rise. He also feels that the general attitude towards hemp is positive, as it is a crop which requires a low fertilizer input and which is grown without pesticides. | | One can buy hundreds of separate hemp items: cookies, candies, cloth, clothing and accessories, macrame, carpet, stationery, paper products, soaps, cosmetics, pouches, soft luggage, and so on.
The BACH strategy combines a business association with an outreach program of local representatives who promote hemp's merits to a targeted community network. It set about changing the way people talk and think about cannabis. |
Earth RightH. Patricia Hynes
See book keywords and concepts | | Coffee rooms throughout the Authority's Logan, Bridge, Real Estate, Maritime and State Transportation Building offices will be stocked with paper products only. Caterers will be required to comply with the policy when doing Massport business.
The Pro-Environment Packaging Council represents paper companies that manufacture paper goods and paper packaging, using molded pulp and paperboard that can be substituted for foam products. They provide names of alternative packaging products and suppliers.
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Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
See book keywords and concepts | | You'll see this symbol most frequently on plastic and paper products. Recycled products are made from materials that have been recycled. To keep the cycle going, both types of products need to be purchased and recycled in balance. Recycling doesn't wotk if you buy only recyclable products and never buy theit recycled countetparts.
E3 Recyclable U Recycled
Despite its clear advantages, in the past recycling has not been widely adopted, primarily because the matetial generated by recycling has often exceeded the needs of manufacturers buying recyclable matetials. |
Earth RightH. Patricia Hynes
See book keywords and concepts | | Box 3335 Madison, WI53704 (608)256-5522
Recycled paper products for home and office. Composting
Community Composting Education Program "Home Composting"
710 2nd Avenue, Suite 750 Seattle, WA 98410 Free
Rodale Guide to Composting (1979)
Rodale Books
33 East Minor St.
Emmaus, PA 18098
$14.95
Kitchen Design
The Smart Kitchen: How to Design a Comfortable, Safe, Energy-Efficient, and
Money-Saving Workplace (1989)
David Goldbeck
Ceres Press
Dept. GM, PO Box 87
Woodstock, NY 12498
$17. | | Ledger and computer paper are higher grades of paper fiber and can be recycled to manufacture new paper products, such as writing paper, computer paper, and paper towels. High-grade waste paper is generated by commercial printers in clipping waste. Mixed paper is one of the largest components of residential waste, including cereal boxes, junk mail, telephone books, paper packaging, and grocery bags. Because it is made of a mix of low-grade papers, many paper recycling programs do not accept mixed paper with newspapers and high-grade office paper. |
Grace Ross Lewis
See book keywords and concepts |  Chlorine is used industrially to bleach paper products; this process results in highly toxic compounds known as di-oxins.
Precautions: Moderately toxic by breathing. A human mutagen (changes inherited characteristics). Some respiratory system effects by breathing are changes in the trachea or bronchi, emphysema, chronic pulmonary edema or congestion. A strong irritant to eyes, nose, and throat.
Synonyms: CAS: 7782-50-5 ? BERTHOLITE ? CHLORINE MOL. ? | | HYDROXY-2-(HYDROXYMETHYL)-4-PYRONE]
L / ft V % / ft
LACQUER_
Products and Uses: Cellulose esters or ethers in coating materials used on metal, protective, or decorative coatings; also in paper products, textiles, plastics, furniture polish, and nail polish.
Precautions: Variable toxicity depending upon concentrations of products. May cause allergic reactions. A dangerous fire hazard due to the highly flammable solvents commonly used. A severe explosion hazard in the form of vapor when exposed to flame.
Synonyms: NITROCELLULOSE-ALKYD LACQUERS ? NITROCELLULOSE ? VINYL RESINS ? |
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