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Pulp and paper mills contribute to air, water and land pollution and discarded paper and paperboard make up roughly 26% of solid municipal waste in landfill sites. [11]Pulp and paper generates the third largest amount of industrial air, water, and land emissions in Canada and the sixth largest in the United States.
A legal team suing the troubled New-Indy paper mill in South Carolina says it has uncovered evidence that dioxin, a cancer-causing material, is seeping into the Catawba River from the more than 60 ...
Catawba paper mill is a paper factory located on a 1,800 acre site [1] in Catawba, [2] York County, South Carolina [3] located approximately 5,000 feet [2] from the Catawba River [4] upstream of Chester, South Carolina. [4] It is owned by Kraft Group subsidiary [5] New Indy LLC, [3] sometimes known as New Indy Containerboard. [4]
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that recycling causes 35% less water pollution and 74% less air pollution than making virgin paper. [19] Pulp mills can be sources of both air and water pollution, especially if they are producing bleached pulp. Modern mills produce considerably less pollution than those of a few ...
South Carolina’s environmental agency director says a paper mill in York County misled the department when the company shut down a pollution control device that could have limited powerful odors ...
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Dryden Mill in 2008. The Dryden pulp mill, also known as the Reed Mill, is a paper and pulp mill in Dryden, Ontario.During the 1960s and 70s, mercury poisoning from the mill caused one of Canada's worst environmental disasters: Dryden Chemicals Ltd dumped mercury into the English-Wabigoon River, upstream of Grassy Narrows First Nation, poisoning the fish which were their staple food. [1]
After a phone call from citizens in Crossett, who believed that the Georgia-Pacific Paper Mill was the source of much of Ouachita River pollution, Cheryl Slavant helped organize Crossett Concerned Citizens for Environmental Justice. Members included Baptist pastor David Bouie, who features in the documentary.