Friends,
This is a cute story about some environmentalists:
A Canadian magazine will be making history Thursday — Canadian Geographic is publishing its annual environment issue on paper made from wheat, a first for a North American magazine.
The issue is being printed on sheets made with wheat straw — what’s left of wheat after the grain harvest.
The magazine says adding agricultural waste to pulp from trees could offer farmers a new source of revenue and cut the demand for pulp from the continent’s boreal forests.
Sounds great! Use the waste from food production. Besides, one of Canada’s largest crops is wheat. What a perfect use of a domestic resource…
The wheat-straw pulp used in the making of the issue was imported from China, where papermakers have been using wheat and rice for centuries.
Importing wheat straw! That’s rich! Next you’ll tell me that a Canadian team won’t contest the Stanley Cup this year.
Oh, sorry.
– bob