Greenfacts.
7 Number of trees the average American uses each year in paper, wood, and other products. This amounts to about two billion trees per year. 13,000 Number of separate pieces of paper the average household throws away each year. Most is packaging and...

Halsey mill to reopen Monday.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard HALSEY - The former Pope & Talbot pulp mill in Halsey is set to reopen on Monday under new ownership, and the new owners hope to have pulp to sell by the end of the week, the mill's manager said Friday....

Mayor touts improvements to river area; Park to be backdrop for state decree.
Byline: Matthew Bruun FITCHBURG - Mayor Lisa A. Wong celebrated traditions old and new at her weekly news conference yesterday. Many of the events she described revolve around Riverfront Park, which has been selected as the backdrop for the scheduled declaration this month of "rivers...

Uruguay.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An unprecedented dispute has been running for more than two years between two South American neighbours. A new paper mill in the Uruguayan town of Fray Bentos, which is overseen by the Finnish company Botnia, is causing considerable ill feeling. On one side...

Cutting a path through Indonesian forest.
One of the world's largest paper companies and its partners are building a highway that will split an important Indonesian forest in half, according to a new WWF report. Companies working for Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) are constructing a logging highway through the Bukit Tigapuluh forest,...

Brighter future for Housatonic.
Byline: Mary Anne Magiera COLUMN: OUTDOORS After 50 years of serving as a dumping ground for vile pollutants such as paper mill chemicals and PCB's, the Housatonic River will soon be getting a $15 million compensatory restoration job, spotlighting a shunned river that has the...

Know the flow of recycling WORTH REPEATING.
Byline: Alex Cuyler FOR special publications Have you ever wondered what happens to that mix and jumble of materials collected at the curb? Do you doubt it really gets recycled? Well, never fear, it does indeed. Commingled recyclables from Lane County curbsides are shipped to...

SMART Papers Aims to Be Carbon Neutral by 2009.
ENERGY RESOURCE-13 May 2008-SMART Papers Aims to Be Carbon Neutral by 2009(C)2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com SMART Papers has begun construction on a new $30 million high-efficiency energy co-generation facility at its manufacturing center outside Cincinnati that by early 2009 will allow the company to produce all of...

Green energy focus of regional plan; North Quabbin group vision for development.
Byline: George Barnes The following correction was published May 6, 2008: Athol Town Manager David Ames lives in Athol. He owns property in Orange. Because of a reporting error, a story in the Telegram & Gazette yesterday incorrectly listed the town in which Mr. Ames...

Ban on waste paper imports sought.
Byline: Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat The local pulp and paper industry has urged government to ban the export of waste paper saying this would further squeeze the supply of their raw recyclable resource material being used by the industry, which is undergoing a stagnant growth and beset by the...