- Office supplies retailer Staples has cut off business with Indonesia's Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), one of the world's biggest paper companies, due to concerns over environmental issues, The Wall Street Journal said on Friday. The report quoted a Staples executive as saying Staples had severed ties with APP late last month because there was no indication that it was making strides to protect the environment. Environmental groups have said forest-clearing by the APP group is endangering tigers, elephants and orangutan as well as destroying preciously diverse flora.

Uruguay's controversial wood pulp mill produced its first payload on October 15 amidst protests from the neighbouring Argentina and environmentalists across the globe. The first thousand tonnes of

pulp appraisal: A federal court in Australia agreed to expedite an appeal hearing over an Aus $2 billion pulp mill proposal in Tasmania state. Environmental groups had challenged the government's

In a first-of-its-kind venture in India, bamboo pulp is being used in the manufacture of sanitary pads as absorbing material, instead of the regular wood pulp. Bamboo pulp has advantages

No a los papelones, a documentary criticising activists in the Argentine city of Gualeguaych

paper mills and distilleries in Uttaranchal are flouting pollution-control norms even though the State Pollution Control Board (spcb) claims that all is well. A study conducted by spcb in 2006,

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