Reducing climate change gas emissions by cutting out stages in the life cycle of office paper |
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Authors: | Thomas AM Counsell Julian M Allwood |
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Institution: | aProduction Processes Group, Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering, Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | The paper industry's climate change gas emissions are growing. This article considers how to reduce emissions from cut-size office paper by bypassing stages in its life cycle. The options considered are: incineration, which cuts out landfill; localisation, which cuts out transport; annual fibre, which cuts out forestry and reduces pulping; fibre recycling, which cuts out landfill, forestry and pulping; un-printing, which cuts out all stages except printing; electronic-paper, which cuts out all stages. Un-printing may offer the greatest climate change emission reduction. There are uncertainties in this result, particularly in estimating the proportion of waste office paper would be suitable for un-printing. |
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Keywords: | Climate change mitigation Office paper Recycling Un-printing |
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