Pulp and paper: Bleaching and the environment
Pulp and paper: Bleaching and the environment
Industry Commission inquiry report
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Preliminaries
 Cover, Copyright, Signing Page, Terms of Reference, Contents, Abbreviations, Overview and Findings
1 The Inquiry
 1.1 Inquiry Procedures
 1.2 Summary of participants' views
2 Bleaching Technologies and their Environmental Impacts
 2.1 What is chlorine bleaching?
 2.2 Bleaching technologies
 2.3 Environmental impact of bleaching technologies
 2.4 Reducing the environmental impact of bleaching
 2.5 Environmental regulation
3 Markets and Prospects for Unbleached and Non-chlorine Bleached Papers
 3.1 Domestic markets
 3.2 Export markets
4 Non-wood Feedstocks
 4.1 Soiurces of non-wood fibre
 4.2 Current Australian proposals for non-wood feedstocks
 4.3 Environmental impacts
 4.4 Prospects for non-wood feedstocks pulp
5 Governments and Pollution Control
 5.1 Setting and Implementing Environmental Standards
 5.2 Policy Approaches to Environmental Objectives
 5.3 Coordination and Predictability of Policy
Appendicies
 A Organisations Companies and Individuals Consulted
 B Submissions
 C Pulping Processes
 D Reducing the Environmental Impact of Chlorine Bleaching
 E Commonwealth standards
Glossary
References
 Pulp and paper: Bleaching and the environment (PDF 312.4 KB)
Pulp and paper: Bleaching and the environment (PDF 312.4 KB)