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The real question for practical purposes is how much of these fine chemicals are actually consumed during the process and how much can be reused. The foul-smell
by scythe 1y ago
The real question for practical purposes is how much of these fine chemicals are actually consumed during the process and how much can be reused. The foul-smelling Kraft process has held on to its title in paper production because the chemicals it uses can be recycled within the plant itself. There are many better, less polluting ways to make paper, but they consume an impractical amount of chemicals which drives the price way out of economic usability.
This process will need to regenerate almost all of that sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfite, or it's just peracetic paper again.
- koverstreet 1y agoI'd rather live next to a leaky paper plant than a teflon plant any day.
- echelon 1y agoI'd rather live next to neither. Paper plants stink.
- itsbenweeks 1y agoI wouldn't. The numerous miscarriages that my grandmother had while living in a mill town, and the cancer diagnoses that followed family who worked at the mill taught me to stay upstream of mill towns.
- gertop 1y agoI think it's clear that you're not familiar with how often paper mills have poisoned the nearby populations.
- zoklet-enjoyer 1y agoVisit Int'l Falls, MN. They have a paper mill and then there's another one on the other side of the river in Canada. It's foul
- Loughla 1y agoAbsolutely not. Paper mills are fucking nightmares.