A Life-Cycle Approach to Purchasing and Using Environ mentally Preferable Paper A Summary of the Paper: Task Force Report

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 15-46

  Blum, Lauren ^a   Denison, Richard A ^a   Ruston, John F ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Life cycle assessment; Materials choice; Paper recycling; Procurement; Pulp and paper industry; Sustainable forest management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0642307725     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jiec.1997.1.3.15     Document Type: Article

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