http://chrislang.org/2008/09/19/fsc-stop-certifying-monoculture-tree-plantations/ Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:59:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://chrislang.org/2008/09/19/fsc-stop-certifying-monoculture-tree-plantations/#comment-993 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:17:39 +0000 http://chrislang.wordpress.com/?p=750#comment-993 Hi Lila, Thanks for your comment. There are several alternatives to the expansion of large scale industrial tree plantations. One of these is to use recycled paper. We also need to reduce demand for paper – this would mean that we don’t need to keep expanding the area of industrial tree plantations. The paper industry, of course, wants to keep expanding. The point of the article is to illustrate how FSC is helping to support the paper industry, rather than helping to support local struggles against industrial tree plantations.

]]> http://chrislang.org/2008/09/19/fsc-stop-certifying-monoculture-tree-plantations/#comment-992 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:13:27 +0000 http://chrislang.wordpress.com/?p=750#comment-992 Hi Chris,
This article left me a little confused. So if plantations are deemed not fit for certification, then what is the other alternative? And please don’t say recycled papers because I’ve learnt that fibres can only be recycled a limited amount of time before it gets to short and can no longer be used.

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