Environmental Issues
Disposable pads and tampons are made from something known as paper pulp. Pulp mills devastate the communities and ecosystems that surround them.
Every fifth tree cut down ends up as paper! A report from BBC
Trends in World Bleached Chemical Pulp Production: 1990 - 2000 From the Alliance for Environmental Technology
Pulp mill leavings remain, and the question is how dangerous they really are
Monday, February 26, 2001
By GORDY
HOLT
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
PORT ANGELES -- Nearly four years after timber giant Rayonier closed its waterfront pulp mill here, the effort to erase its toxic legacy has left a cloud of uncertainty over this Olympic Peninsula community... (cont)
It's Your Health! A Canadian Government document on Pulp and Paper Mill Effluents (1991)
Russian Pulp Mill Waste Pollutes Europe's Largest Lake with pesticide concentrations up to 12,000 times permissible soil limits (1999)
Effects of Pulp-Mill Effluents on Estuaries (1997)