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What is the Paper Life Cycle Project?

The Paper Life Cycle project is a multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to promote wider understanding and positive action around the key environmental issues affecting the life cycle of paper, and serves as an active online resource that enables companies and customers to make informed environmental decisions about the paper products they purchase, use, and sell.

Exploring the Paper Life Cycle

Click on a section of the Paper Life Cycle diagram to the right to learn more about the challenges and opportunities affecting the inter-related stages of the paper supply chain: Forests, Manufacturing, Use, Recovery, End of Life and Exports.

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IN DEPTH: Deforestation

IN DEPTH: Illegal Logging

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IN DEPTH: Deforestation

High net change in forest area globally (2000 - 2005)

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Source: FAO State of the World's Forest 2007

IN DEPTH: Recovery

Paper Recovery Rates in U.S. and Canada