Apart from recycled fiber, wood chip is also an important raw material in paper industry. For this reason, many people raised a doubt about the sustainability in Botta Packaging’s product; nevertheless, it turns out that forestation and forest management have become the vital part of the eco-friendliness in paper production.
The need for forest management in paper industry
Though wood is a renewable material, more than anyone else, the paper producers know that it takes time for the forest to grow. And they are also doing their best to protect their material source. Two solutions for this matter are the partly usage of recycled fiber and forest management.
A well-planned forest management scheme will result in the sustainability in both environmental and economical aspects. Indeed, the forests grown for making paper has brought back multiple benefits to local economy and inhabitants in remote area, biodiversity and ecosystem balance. The income from selling wood chips to paper producers motivates local people for forestation. According to Two Sides Magazine, between 2005 and 2015, European forest has been added up with 44000 kms no matter that this area provides up to 90% of wood fiber needed by paper industry.
Forest management scheme
The work of managing the forestation and industrial logging are done by Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC). FSC and PEFC will make sure forestation and logging are sufficient for the reproduction of the wood in jungles so that ecosystem is maintained. The legal timber for trading must be from the source certified by FSC or PEFC and, in return, these organizations will be responsible for tracing the source of certified timber. Two Sides Magazine also cited that more than two third (70%) of European forests were certified by one of these 2 organizations.
Finally, solution for sustainability is also from people’s awareness as not many people realize the impact of forest management. Only few people know about FSC and PEFC’s certification and take notice to choose the paper products from certified material source. Industries which are using woods from sustainable sources must give a hand to promote the forest management scheme to the public.
