Paper industry is not that harmful for deforestation as you think. Please have a look.

1. IIss YYoouurr
PPaappeerr
CCoonnttaammiinnaatteedd
wwiitthh……
D K Singhal
deveshksinghal@gmail.com

2. CCoonnttaammiinnaattiioonn
Contamination is never desirable.
In general, we want to use products
which are free from contamination.
BBuutt,, wwhhaatt iiff wwee wwiilllliinnggllyy oorr uunnwwiilllliinnggllyy
adding some contamination?
And, that is the point I wanted to highlight
in this presentation.
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3. IIss YYoouurr PPaappeerr……
Is your paper contaminated with
GUILT?
Do you feel trees are being cut,
environment is largely being polluted with
every sheet of paper you use?
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6. DDeeffoorreessttaattiioonn
Major causes for deforestation in India
include firewood, furniture, construction,
space requirement for agricultural farming
aanndd rreessiiddeennttiiaall ppuurrppoosseess..
Paper industry’s share might be just 2% or
even below in deforestation.
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10. WWaatteerr
Often paper mills are blamed for high water
requirement.
Let’s have a comparison.
Sugarcane farming needs 1100-1800mm
wwaatteerr ppeerr yyeeaarr.. TThhaatt ccoommeess oouutt ttoo 11000000--
2000 lit. of water per kg of sugar produced.
If sugarcane was planted in whole area of
most paper mills, the water consumption
would have been much higher, than required
by the paper mill itself.
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12. DDoommeessttiicc WWaatteerr
Man uses water for domestic purposes
also, for bathing, washing clothes, cooking
etc.
IItt hhaass bbeeeenn oobbsseerrvveedd tthhaatt tthhee ddaaiillyy wwaatteerr
requirements per person vary between
100 lit. to 250 lit., sometimes much more.
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17. However, please
do not forget to
send paper for
recycling aafftteerr yyoouu
use it.
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18. Please do not contaminate ‘your’ paper
with GUILT.
If you agree, please do ffoorrwwaarrdd//sshhaarree tthhiiss
presentation with others.
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19. About the Author:
Born in 1968, D K Singhal is B.E., M.E. (Pulp Paper, 1993) from Deptt. of Paper
Technology, University of Roorkee (now IIT, Roorkee). He is a Certified Energy
Auditor and Chartered Engineer also.
With nearly 7 dozen publications, he has emphasized on development of low cost
technologies and management practices for quality and profitability improvement.
With publications on slideshare.net, energymanagertraining.com and
paperonweb.com, he has been constantly contributing to IPPTA (Indian Pulp
Paper Technical Association). He is also serving IPPTA as a member of Editorial
BBooaarrdd..
An initiative by D K Singhal, a cyber campaign initiated against unjustified targeting
of paper industry by “Idea” mobile, in their “Sirjee” advertisement campaign, after
which this advertisement was taken off air.
He also moderates a Facebook group, “PaperTechnology” with nearly 850
members from India and abroad to discuss problems related to pulp paper
making.
He can be contacted at deveshksinghal@gmail.com
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