E.J. Harris / East Oregonian A company in Eastern Washington is developing a new way to make paper pulp — without trees. The mill will instead use a source abundant to the area: straw. Farmers used to ...

Paper is a ubiquitous part of everyday life, but how is it made, and where did it originate? Ancient Egyptians made an early version of plant-based paper using papyrus — which is where the word "paper ...

The expensive, energy-intensive process of turning wood into paper costs the pulp and paper industries more than $6 billion a year. Much of that expense involves separating wood's cellulose from ...

DAYTON, Wash. (AP) A proposed $184 million pulp mill in southeast Washington plans to take straw, a waste product from wheat and alfalfa farms, and convert it into pulp for paper and packaging ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The average ...

CENIBRA Brazil is one of the largest pulp producers in the world. Preserving wide swathes of habitat for endangered birds and native plants is not normally associated with eucalyptus plantations for ...

A good way to recognize the day, and protect the environment, would be to recycle your old newspapers, magazines, catalogs and phone books. Fortunately, there's a convenient way to do that, and help ...

On the surface, Karst notebooks look like those of any other luxury paper brand with colorful covers and smooth white pages. But while the $90.6 billion worldwide stationery industry relies largely on ...