So is reflex the only supplier of paper that is derived from chips coming from old growth logs from our native forests?Do they use recycled paper also.What percentage do they use in their papers.
Maryvale paper mill in the Latrobe Valley is now owned by Japanese interests (from 2009). Maybe our gov earn ment got caught with a bad deal regarding supply? I dunno.. But it is a half billion dollar a year enterprise (600,000 tons of paper p.a). A new recycling plant there takes 80,000 tons of waste paper p.a..
I am sure that the mill would prefer plantation trees. But Portland claims to be the largest exporter of plantation blue gum chips in the world, just divert some and everybod should be happy?
But from Wikipedia:
" Australian Paper has a contract with the Victorian Government for the period 1996-2030 of buying wood at a 1996 fixed price on the logs. This includes
mountain ash timber, deemed by scientists to be of high conservation value.
[8] In August 2011 Australian Paper withdrew from
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification, in order to be able to use wood from
old-growth forest logging by
VicForests, but remained under the certification of the Australian Forestry Standard. Their previous auditor SmartWood was suspended in September 2011 as result of an FSC internal audit.
[9] Later the company announced that its FSC certification has been retained for all products except Reflex paper.
[10] As of 2013, the Reflex 100% recycled paper is FSC certified.
[11]"