Using chlorine-free paper

A Swedish kraft pulp manufacturing mill is using oxygen instead of chlorine in its paper-bleaching process. The paper is not as white, but publishers in North America and Europe have agreed to use the technology. Increases in chlorine-free paper have reduced organochlorine discharges by 25% in Sweden.

1. Protecting against environmental hazards from paper and printing industries

1. Using paper goods
2. Using environmental labelling

1. Taxing chlorine-bleached paper
2. Encouraging green consumer movements
3. Campaigning against chlorine and its products

1. Organochlorine pollution
2. Health hazards of environmental pollution
3. Environmental pollution
4. Environmental hazards of chlorine-bleached paper products
5. Environmental hazards from paper and printing industries
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