Total Environmental Assessment for Pulp and Paper Industry in the Philippines

Hardwoods from sustainable forests are a great choice for your home. Not only are they beautiful, but they increase the value of your home and can be stripped and refinished many, many times during the life of your home. Other sustainable types of flooring you might consider are:

4. Using recycled fibers from paper has several advantages, including lower cost to recycle paper than produce pulp.

Mahogany is used for the back. This is a more exotic wood that is harvested in South

The North Pacific Gyre has a mass amount of plastic pollution which affects animals health, human health, and economy. One example, of animals health being affected was the chicks were dying of starvation, so they were digestion plastic in their stomach. Which resulted the stomach to be swollen and the chicks died. On the other hand, when people burn plastic black smoke is formed. Many people are being exposed to the gases that come out of the burn plastic. The two gases that are linked to cancer are dioxins and furans which affects individuals health. An example of plastic pollution affecting our economy is ruining many tourist destinations. The following tourists destinations that are covered in plastic are the Mediterranean sea bed, the

From his information, ““Someone started doing it,” explains one local who has worked in the industry for years. “He made money, so more people did it. The government saw it as a good source of tax revenue and encouraged the industry,”” (Minter). The last guiding question, which questions the lack of choices of impoverished people, is also answered by Minter. Minter, having traveled to an especially impoverished region of China, provided the statistics that, ‘the country was home to roughly 60,000 small-scale, family-owned workshops devoted to recycling plastic. Of those, 20,000 are concentrate in Wen’an County,” (Minter). This shows that impoverished people have a lack of choices if a harmful industry is centered in their living area. This source contains valid information that provides legitimate answers for the guiding research

Pau-brasil is the national tree of Brazil. There is a dye that is extracted from this plant that is now used most commonly for medicinal purposes. The timber from this plant is used to manufacture bows for stringed instruments.

Wood is a great source because you can build fires buildings boats and much more needed items. It shows in document 2 that you can build a lot of stuff with wood that is from the trees that surround them. The reason we need fires is so we

There seems to be little doubt that the present wood supply cannot withstand in-definitely the demands placed upon it, and with increased scarcity economy in the use of wood will become imperative. This effect is already apparent in many wood-using industries, and although the paper industry consumes only about 3 per cent of the total forest cut, it is probable that it will be affected through this economy. Our forests are being cut three times as fast as they grow (USDA).

Timber is commonly harvested from plantation and processed until usable for construction. This process has a large impact on the environment and as I will be using timber to make my computer table I will be researching the impact that the timber I’m using has on the environment. The type of timber I will be using is called Pinus Radiata.

Worldwide we are seeing a devastation of our forests due to paper production. Consumption of wood products has risen 64% since 1961. Globally, pulp for paper, has risen from 40% in 1998, to an expected 60% over the next 50 years. The industry expects that demand to double by 2050. The U.S. consumes 200,000,000 tons of wood products annually, increasing by 4% every year. U.S. paper producers consume 1 billion trees each year (735 pounds of paper for every American). U.S. at 5% of world population consumes 30% of world’s paper. Only 5% of virgin forests remain in the U.S.

JP Morgan Chase believes strongly in the importance of ensuring that the paper they use is sourced from sustainably-managed forests, which provide many significant long-term benefits for the environment and local communities, including timber for paper and other wood products, ecosystem services such as clean air and water, habitat for wildlife and biodiversity, and recreation opportunities. As a result, they seek to maximize the use of paper that has been independently-certified by the Forest Stewardship Council or Sustainable Forestry Initiative. Their primary focus is on office copy-paper and customer-facing paper used in the daily operations of corporate and retail branch facilities, as well as customer-facing paper including statements and

We as a province mainly harvest from the coastal forests for two main reason. First, here we can harvest in greater volumes per square hector. Providing that we are clear cutting. This is because one there is more trees in a smaller area and two the trees are simply just bigger. And finally the biggest reason is transportation of the lumber. We typically harvest close to water ways so we can cut down the trees and then just place them in the water to transport downstream to lumber and pulp mills.

To begin, forest based industrialization is based on forest resources that are used to stimulate economic growth and development. One of the products that have been most important to human economies has always been wood. Wood is durable, light weight, easily worked, waterproof, and a good fiber source. Wood is used in almost every aspect of our lives, for building materials, living, and just surviving. We need wood to build our homes to live in and buildings in which we work and spend the other resource that comes from trees “money”. Studies show that 70% of the products that we use a day are made of some kind of wood. If we were to look around our homes and count all the items that are made of wood we would probably find that 60 percent are made of wood. Without wood humans and other species would never be able to survive.

While manufacturing papers we use wood pulp from trees, producing plastic requires the use of

Logging tropical hardwoods like teak, mahogany, rosewood and other timber for furniture, building materials, charcoal and other wood products is big business and creates big profits. Several species of tropical hardwoods are imported by developed counties, including America, just to build coffins which are then buried or burned. The demand, extraction and consumption of tropical hardwoods has been so massive that some countries which have been traditional exporters of tropical hardwoods are now importing the wood because they have already exhausted their supply by destroying their native rainforests in slash and burn operations. It is anticipated that The Philippines, Malaysia, The Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Thailand will all run out of rainforest hardwood for export within the next five years.