Paper Industry

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The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood as raw material and produce pulp, paper, board and other cellulose-based products.

The industry is dominated by North American ( United States and Canada) , northern European ( Finland, Sweden, and North-West Russia) and East Asian countries ( such as East Siberian Russia, China, Japan, and South Korea) . Australasia and Brazil also have significant pulp and paper enterprises. The United States had been the world' s leading producer of paper until it was overtaken by China in 2009.[ 1]

The industry is criticized by environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council for unsustainable deforestation and clearcutting of old-growth forest.[ 2] The industry trend is to expand globally to countries like Russia, China and Indonesia with low wages and low environmental oversight.[ 3] According to Greenpeace, farmers in Central America illegally rip up vast tracts of native forest for cattle and soybean production without any consequences, [ 4] and companies who buy timber from private land owners contribute to massive deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest.[ 5]

Considering that the pulp and paper industry is a practitioner of nanotechnology, [ 6] then it is easily the world' s largest.[ 7]

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