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The Papermaking Industry: Mechanical Pulping
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The Papermaking Industry: Mechanical Pulping

Mechanical pulping methods avoid many of the environmental impacts created by the Kraft pulping process. Several different mechanical pulping methods are commonly used today, but they all rely primarily on energy rather than chemicals to convert wo...

The Papermaking Industry: Recycled Pulping
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The Papermaking Industry: Recycled Pulping

Approximately forty percent of the fiber in U.S. paper products is recycled, or secondary, fiber. Re-pulping fibers that have already been processed shortens them and weakens their bonding capacity, so secondary fiber is often mixed with virgin fib...

The Papermaking Industry: Papermaking and Pollution Control
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The Papermaking Industry: Papermaking and Pollution Control

From pulping, to bleaching, to forming sheets on the paper machine, papermaking creates air emissions, water emissions--or effluent--as well as solid waste. However, the environmental impacts of the process are mitigated by a variety of treatment m...