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do, but that's usually because they suffer a psychological disorder involving eating just about anything). So will cellulose harm you if you consume some in your ice cream, yoghurt or toothpaste (in which the pulp helps bulk out the product, keeping it stiff, not too runny and more easily handled)? The answer is no. Cellulose is completely inert as far as the human digestive system is concerned. If properly processed it will simply pass through you and may even do you some small good by adding some fibre to your diet. Even in its final form as, say, a fabric made of viscose, it will not in itself do you harm, short of clogging up your bowels if you were silly enough to eat a dress made of the stuff, for one ridiculous example. In short, this stuff is about as safe as a modern chemically-created product can be. The real issues, if you are concerned about your and the environment's health, lie at production stage, and that has already been covered. Not that all producers are as fussy about their eco-impacts as Sappi has become (having in previous times been guilty along with most others of having caused some significant harm to the environment, mostly to rivers from plant effluent as well as some air pollution, and then having spent many hundreds of millions putting right its wrongs). In China, for example, where most of the new cotton linter pulp production capacity resides, pollution from the production process is a big problem – and there the producers will in due course find it an ever-increasing battle to sell their products while they still have a big fat negative eco footprint attached to them. So the bottom line as to why you are reading this story ends here with this: one of mankind's oldest resources, wood, serves us today as first it did when we learnt how to use that material for a variety of applications aeons ago. Plus it is used, in its pulp form, in a very wide range of day-to-day and hi-tech products. Like everything else, it is in the detail where the devils and the angels live – and the details, in the case of Sappi and its dissolving wood story, lead us to believe that we have a global player in a major and important industry which is trying its best to be a good corporate citizen. It's not perfect, but then none of us are. We can only see where improvements are possible and make these changes as soon as we can – something Sappi has done, despite the economic pain that that has caused. Each one of us can relate that corporate story to our own personal journeys through the modern world of products and consumption. In the end, it is by aspiring to a higher standard of conduct and a conscious awareness of our role in the order of things, that we are each, as individuals or as corporations, able to make a serious and lasting difference that will leave the world better than we found it.? O
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flexibility of supply, leading-edge technical knowledge and market leadership in DWP intermediate product segments like viscose and lyocell. Indeed, Sappi has been producing
DWP since the early 1950s and pioneered the use of
Eucalyptus wood for DWP production.
Wood pulp & the consumer
What, you may ask, does any of this mean to me, a simple consumer walking the aisles of the local supermarket in search of well-priced and wholesome foods and goods for your family? It means that, without being aware of it probably until you read this article, our old friend and ally, wood, has been providing us with many of the modern conveniences and useful products that we take for granted on a daily basis. Which is why we wrote this article in the first place – to help each of you to be more empowered and knowledgeable consumers, aware of what you are using, where it came from, how it was made, and what impact each product you use has on the environment.
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