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Cardboard Has Taken Over Our Lives. Where Does It Come From?

Entire forests and enormous factories running 24/7 can barely keep up with demand. This is how the cardboard economy works. ....

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There's a Booming Business in America's Forests. Some Aren't Happy About It.

Thereâs a Booming Business in Americaâs Forests. Some Arenât Happy About It.
The fuel pellet industry is thriving. Supporters see it as a climate-friendly source of rural jobs. For others, itâs a polluter and destroyer of nature.
A tree being dragged to a wood chipper, a first step toward being transformed into wood pellets and shipped overseas.Credit.
Photographs and Video by Erin Schaff
Gabriel Popkin and Erin Schaff traveled to Northampton County, N.C., to examine the climate controversy over a fast-growing industry.
April 19, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
GARYSBURG, N.C. â In 2013, Kathy Claiborne got a noisy new neighbor. Thatâs when a huge factory that dries and presses wood into roughly cigarette-filter-sized pellets roared to life near her tidy home in one of the stateâs poorest counties. On a recent afternoon in her front yard, near the end of a cul-de-sac, the mill rumbled like an uncomfortably close jet engine. ....

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The biomass bait-and-switch: From scraps to whole trees

Several Enviva mills were soon processing material from logging sites and sawmills throughout the region. Environmental groups say they have documented truckloads of logs and whole trees, not just leftovers, entering pellet mills. Publicly available images show logs stacked at mills, and a reporter outside a pellet mill entrance saw trucks of logs entering.
Pellet makers’ pledges to rely on waste wood “painted them into a corner,” said Robert Abt, a forest economist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, because the wood-products industry already used its supplies relatively efficiently, leaving little waste.
Around 2009 or so I got into a protracted (online) debate with an NC State grad student about burning biomass as a replacement for coal. I could not get him to admit that, eventually, the industry would grow to the point it would need to consume whole trees instead of detritus. Which he stubbornly claimed would be more than enough to satisfy demands. B ....

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