Green report card series 2007-2008

 

Recycling symbol.

What's green and what's not?

If you feel an environmentally virtuous glow every time you wash dishes the old-fashioned way, wipe that self-righteous smirk off your face.


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Tour of the Masson Pulp Mill in Gatineau Quebec.  Thursday April 05 2007.  It takes 25,000 of these chips to make up one  600 kilo roll of paper .The mill supplies newsprint to many North American newspapers including the Gazette.

Trying to Do Our Part

In 2007, The Gazette took a look at its business practices and measured its ecological footprint.


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Our newsprint supplier, White Birch meets the Forest Stewardship Council standard which means that the forest management approach and techniques of their wood chips supplier meet the highest standards in the industry.  Our newsprint is made exclusively from post-production wood chips, not from trees.

First step to sustainability

Dawn isn't yet seeping through the curtains when a faint thud tells me a rolled-up Gazette has landed on my doorstep.


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Gazette photographer Gordon Beck toured the Masson Pulp Mill in Gatineau to show how The Gazette's newsprint is made.

Our footprint

An independent look at The Gazette's paper trail finds that after newsprint, delivering the paper has the most significant impact on environment.


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Graphic shows the production of the gazette.

Graphic: Green Report Card

A diagram showing how the newspaper is produced from pulp to press.


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Eighty per cent of the newsprint used by The Gazette is made from wood chips at Papier Masson. Here, at the end of the line: rolls of paper weighing hundreds of kilograms.

Following the paper trail

A mill 30 kilometres east of Ottawa is our first stop on a quest to explore the environmental impact of producing a newspaper that’s read by 290,000 Montrealers every weekday (345,000 on Saturdays).


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Whatever happened to the paperless office?

Paper, paper everywhere

Paper, paper everywhere; Whatever happened to the paperless office? Canadians use more paper than ever before- and The Gazette's office is no exception.



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