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Environmental Consequences of Pulp and Paper Manufacture

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Pulp and paper companies have faced environmental issues for many years because of the resource-intensive nature of their industry. The pulp and paper mills represent a major source of polluting materials which are very different regarding their characteristics and quantities. The most significant environmental impacts of the pulp and paper manufacture result from the pul** and bleaching processes: some pollutants are emitted to the air, others are discharged to the wastewaters, and solid wastes are generated as well. The environmental consequences of pulp and paper manufacture are presented in this chapter. A special attention is focused on the pulp bleaching as the most pollution process of the chemical pulp manufacturing.

Some excerpts taken from Bajpai Pratima, “Environmentally Friendly Production of Pulp and Paper” John Wiley & Sons, (2010) with kind permission from John Wiley & Sons Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA, Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Bajpai, P. (2015). Environmental Consequences of Pulp and Paper Manufacture. In: Green Chemistry and Sustainability in Pulp and Paper Industry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18744-0_3

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