Identifying environmental improvement opportunities for newsprint production using life cycle assessment (LCA)

Pulp and Paper Canada

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 32-38

  Salazar, E ^a   Samson, R ^a   Munnoch, K ^b   Stuart, P ^a  

^a Université Laval   (Canada)

^b Tembec Spruce Falls Inc ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Analysis newsprint; Deinked Stock; Life cycle; Models; Pollution control; Pulps; Thermomechanical

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS NEWSPRINT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); PRODUCTION CAPACITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLOBAL WARMING; LIFE CYCLE; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; THERMOMECHANICAL PULP;

NEWSPRINT;

DEINKED STOCK; LIFE CYCLE; NEWSPRINT; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 33845786105     PISSN: 03164004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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