Business Assurance Thought and Link of the Day, March 27th, 2009
27th March 2009 by Alex Briggs2 Comments
Today’s Business Assurance link of the day is to a website that sets out to dispel the myths associated with the paper industry, “There are two sides to every paper.”
Today’s Business Assurance thought of the day is taken from the arguments used to counter Myth 5,
Modern paper mills producing virgin fibre paper, whose energy source is nuclear, hydro or internally bio-fuelled, may well have a lower carbon footprint than a mill making recycled paper, powered by fossil fuels.
The paper industry has eight representatives in the UN’s list of the world’s 100 most sustainable companies, more than any other industry’
Promotion of Paper
Australian Paper Industry Association, 2008
What is the myth they are trying to defeat?
recycled paper is always better for the environment that virgin paper.
What do you think?
29th March 2009 at 8:58 am
Good Thought!
2nd April 2009 at 5:53 pm
I think each time we attempt to correct what as perceived to be wrong with how we live by way of transportation, industry, etc, we find out that we ultimately are being counter intuitive. It’s laughable when we take our efforts to be “green” to such an extreme that we ultimately come back full circle. This would be funny if not for the economic crisis we face means we waste more $ than is necessary.
Perhaps so long as we all “feel good” about ourselves, the ends will justify the means… or not!