Swedish Editors Push for FSC Certified Paper
8/25/99
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Title: Swedish Editors Push for FSC Certified Paper
Source: Environment News Service
Status: Copyright 1999, contact source for permission to reprint
Date: August 25, 1999
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 25, 1999 (ENS) - Thirty-five editors of
Swedish consumer magazines have called on the country's pulp and
paper industry to ensure that printing papers they supply come from
woodlands certified as sustainably managed by the international
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
In an open letter to the industry, the editors write, "Please give us
printing paper that is not only chlorine free, but also FSC-
certified!"
"Our readers are getting increasingly environmentally conscious and
therefore demand that the papers they read are produced with to the
highest environmental standards available," they continue. "We have
now used totally chlorine free paper for some years, but we don't
know where this paper is coming from."
Published in the latest issue of the newsletter published by the non-
governmental organisation the Swedish Society for Nature
Conservation, the editors' letter urges any producer who could offer
FSC-certified and chlorine free printing paper to come forward.
"Give us a call when you can deliver this kind of paper," it reads.
"We don't want to use paper that may originate from the remaining old
growth forests, populated by species and animals threatened by
extinction."
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