Intensively feeding animals can be a costly exercise, and as a result many producers are exploring innovative ways to reduce their input costs. Commercial by-products from the human food industry (eg brewers grain, citrus pulp and apple pulp) have recently become popular in animal production. Bakery waste displays favourable characteristics for animal production, however, limited information is...

Introduction The pulp and paper industry is the second largest industrial water consumer in Europe with a usage of 35 m3/ton paper and a production of 85.2 M tons/year. Its effluents cause considerable damage to the receiving waters if discharged untreated since they have a high biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and contain chlorinated compounds, suspended solids (ma...

2 aCknowledgements This framework has been developed by the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI, see www.cepi.org). Through its 17 member countries* CEPI represents 800 pulp, paper and board producing companies across Europe, ranging from small and medium sized companies to multi-nationals, and 1,200 paper mills. The European paper industry is one of the most competitive and sustai...

this study has been conducted in order to investigate the effect of using onp recycled fibers on the mechanical and optical properties of local mixed hardwoods kraft pulp at iran wood and paper industry (chooka). onp and virgin kraft pulp have been prepared from chooka’s waste paper storage and pulping digester, respectively. onp has been repulped in the common method as used by paper recycling...

Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp and Pa Technology, Tianjin 300457, China. E-m 60602226; Tel: +86-22-60602226 State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 10009 Jiangsu Province Biomass Energy and Ma Industry of Forest Products, CAF, Nanjing 2 State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China † Electronic supplementary informa 10.1039/c6r...

This paper investigates the impact of environmental regulations on market structure using a Markov analysis to quantify relationships among macroeconomic variables, environmental regulation expenditures and firm size distribution in the pulp and paper. Results show that environmental regulation affects the probabilities of capacity moving from one company size category to another and of staying...