A Startup Making Paper Out of Stone, Not Trees

Re:A Startup Making Paper Out of Stone, Not Trees by doikor on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:18AM (#14567001)

Can confirm from selling some wood from inheritance lands to pay the inheritance tax. Basically the good trees get sold for lumber and the ones not good enough become cellulose/paper (with the big machines you always do a full clearing as its more economical this way so you don't get to leave the small ones to grow etc.). This is from Finland.

And as others have pointed out most of the raw material going into the local paper mill was saw dust from the local sawmills.

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Re:A Startup Making Paper Out of Stone, Not Trees by Maakuth on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:58AM (#14567915)

This is not completely accurate either, you don't necessarily do full clearing even with the big machines. Typically there's couple of thinnings in the growth cycle from sapling stage to old forest, the whole cycle taking something like 70 years. Mostly you do full clearing at the end and then replant. This is my experience, also from Finland.

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