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THE ENVIRONMENTAL CASE FOR PAPER HENRY COPPENS Sappi emissions and energy technical specialist

THE ENVIRONMENTAL CASE FOR PAPER HENRY COPPENS Sappi emissions and energy technical specialist. Riddle #1. WOW Factors. Riddle #2! - a thing, device, machine, giant factory?. WOW factors. Makes own energy. 2. Guzzles Carbon Dioxide. 3. Can Re-use its product.

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THE ENVIRONMENTAL CASE FOR PAPER HENRY COPPENS Sappi emissions and energy technical specialist

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  1. THE ENVIRONMENTAL CASE FOR PAPER HENRY COPPENSSappi emissions and energy technical specialist

  2. Riddle #1

  3. WOW Factors • Riddle #2! - a thing, device, machine, giant factory? • WOW factors • Makes own energy 2. Guzzles Carbon Dioxide 3. Can Re-use its product 4. Outputs (products, waste) biodegradable 5. Contributor to Life itself 6. Quarter mile times What is this ‘THING’ ? A perpetual motion device ? Almost – anyway, the nearest you’ll ever get to one

  4. Sappi, Mondi Plantations

  5. The Sappi Story • Straw • WWII – raw material shortages • Build its own machine • Starting from a base of zero resources. • Amazing example of zero based raw material development not reliant on a natural door step resource • Amazing by-products LET’S EXPAND ON THE WOWFACTORS

  6. 1. Makes own energy Nearly 50 % of the energy used to make paper by Sappi & Mondi comes from the raw material – the wood chips This means this energy is:  It’s renewable  Non -fossil  Carbon neutral

  7. Wow Factors • WOW factors • Makes own energy • Guzzles GHGs/ LOCKS UP Carbon • Re-uses its output • Outputs (product, wastes) biodegradable • Contributor to Life itself • Quarter mile times

  8. 2. GUZZLES GHGs • BIOMASS cultivation is the ONLY means we have to clean up the GHG mess • Trees are the most efficient species at doing this • Our plantations have specially developed trees that are 6 - 10 times more • efficient at doing this than the trees of the northern boreal forests, tropical forests • This ‘machine’ that our industry has built is one of the largest built and developed GHG clean-up devices in the world.

  9. 2. GUZZLES GHGs (cont.) • Our paper mills draw wood from this huge machine! – 1 200 000ha plantations • This ‘machine’ absorbs 27 million tonnes CO2 annually – 1 kg/hr • This ‘machine’ produces 19 million tonnes O2 annually – 600 kg/hr • No other man made type of machine comes anywhere close to doing this!!! • If it were not for the forestry industry world wide operating over 150 years the GHG level in the atmosphere would be 5% higher than it is at present. • USA National Council for Air And Stream Improvement

  10. 2. GUZZLES GHGs (cont.) • The BIG difference between Forestry industry and virtually all other: • ITS ABILITY TO TAKE UP CARBON FROM THE ATMOSPHERE • AND LOCK IT UP. • Other industries certainly lock up carbon but this is – fossil carbon – a limited resource. • Sugar industry nearest, but they don’t lock up for very long, can’t recycle sugar • When lock up of this carbon ends, as it eventually will – where does it go – INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.

  11. Manufacturing (Raw/recycled) Total Fossil Raw Material Prod’n Final Fate CO Release 2 2.97 t CO2 Paper per ton Product 5.3t CO2 * Plastic per ton polyethylene * Based on 1.75t petroleum per ton of polyethylene produced. 2. GUZZLES GHGs • CARBON FOOTPRINT (tonne CO2/tonne product) • Check on boundary conditions: We use CRADLE to GATE but take into account final fate of paper

  12. 3. Re-uses its input

  13. WOW factors • WOW factors • Makes own energy • Guzzles GHGs • Re-uses its output • Outputs (product, wastes) biodegradable • Contributor to Life itself • Quarter mile times

  14. 3. Re-uses its input • Up to 80% of kraft packaging paper in SA is recovered for recycling • We consumes almost 3.5 million tonnes of waste paper • Sappi has one entire paper mill that ONLY uses recycled paper • Recycled paper has zero carbon footprint • Paper fibre can be recycled up to 6-7 times. • Unlike other materials, paper waste needs no segregation before recycle • processing. Simply put it all in the same pot and make paper • Waste paper collection is a significant player in the informal labour sector – • benefiting thousands of otherwise unemployed people.

  15. Wow Factors • WOW factors • Makes own energy • Guzzles GHGs • Re-uses its output • Outputs (product, wastes) biodegradable • Cause of Life itself • Quarter mile times

  16. 4. Biodegradation • All paper products biodegrade readily • When they do they do not harm the environment • Paper does contribute as a species of • ‘Our National Flower’.

  17. Wow Factors • WOW factors • Makes own energy • Guzzles GHGs • Re-uses its output • Outputs (product, wastes) biodegradable • Contributor to Life itself • Quarter mile times

  18. 5. Contributor to Life itself • The CO2 that the plantations absorb and O2 produce is what sustains life • We only have one atmosphere • To continue sustaining life, especially in the age of fossil fuel gluttony we need to reduce fossil fuel consumption. • We can reduce by 10% without affecting life • style, but to go greater than this – what is necessary to reverse climate • change – is very difficult since we are so dependent on fossil fuels.

  19. 5. Contributor to Life itself (cont.) • We can develop CO2 storage/absorption systems like ocean storage, disused mine CO2 absorption. • All very expensive and far from being operational • THERE IS A BETTER WAY, A MUCH BETTER WAY • PLANT MORE TREES! • How do we do this? • Commercially is best – create a demand for more trees • How do we do this? • Create a demand for paper products!

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  22. 5. Contributor to Life itself (cont.) WATER USE Two prime users  Plantation water use  Paper making process water use

  23. 5. Contributor to Life itself (cont.) PLANTATION WATER USE • Compare plantations with other cultivated agriculture – NOT with indigenous • forests • Sappi plantations may look like forests – but they are an exotic cultivated • agricultural commodity like virtually all SA agriculture - maize, wheat, cabbages, • fruit etc • Sappi plantations divert more rainfall back to the atmosphere (evaporation) than • to streams when compared to other agriculture BUT

  24. 5. Contributor to Life itself (cont.) • To make all other SA agriculture sustainable, vast expenditure is required on agriculture support and infrastructure (fertiliser, insecticides, dams, canals, etc - all of which are not required for Sappi plantations • This is because Sappi plantations NEED NO IRRIGATION. • All moisture is derived naturally. (80 – 85% of SA agriculture is dependent on irrigation). • Sappi plantations are thus far closer to being naturally independently sustainable that virtually any other SA agricultural product or commodity.

  25. Water use by sector in S.A. 4.1% Irrigation 2.7% 2% Domestic & Urban 6% Mining and Industry 23% Power generation 62.2% Paper Manufacture Rural use 5. Contributor to Life itself (cont) PAPER PROCESS WATER USE 2.7% of SA water is used in the process of paper manufacture.

  26. WOW Factors • WOW factors • Makes own energy • Guzzles GHGs • Re-uses its output • Outputs (product, wastes) biodegradable • Contributor to Life itself • Quarter mile times

  27. 6. Quarter mile times • Talking about tree growth • Traditional fibre sources are the northern hemisphere temperate and boreal • forests and the tropic forests. They can take up to 100 years to be ready as pulp wood. • The trees in our plantations are ready after 7 (gum) to 12 years (pine). • times faster than the prime source of paper fibre in the northern hemisphere • So they produce fibre 8 – 13 times faster than forests in the northern hemisphere. • So they are 8 – 13 times faster at absorbing CO2 and producing oxygen. • All this at approx 1/6th the land area of Northern Hemisphere & • Tropical forests.

  28. Conclusion Carbon contained in raw material Carbon used in manufacturing Recyclability Biodegradability Paper 100% renewable – carbon neutral when burned Almost 50% derived from renewable 100% recyclable, 55% recovery rate for paper in SA, 80% recovery rate for kraft papers Biodegrades without harming soil or water Other (glass, plastic, metal) Not renewable – increases carbon in the atmosphere when burned 0% derived from renewable energy Recycling rate in SA 25 % for glass and 32% for plastic. Plastic needs to be segregated. Neither plastic nor glass biodegrade readily. Plastic can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade. When plastic photo-degrades, it causes harm to soil and water.

  29. Conclusion Where to we fit in?

  30. Conclusion • Be part of the Climate change SOLUTION – not part of the Problem • We are one of the few industries whose business is naturally aligned to climate change remediation. • Thanks to its forestry operations and its use of renewable energy our industry in SA is right up there as one of the very few , if not the best, that is most aligned to the Climate Change Solution in the world. • THANK YOU!!!! Any questions?.

  31. Conclusion • One more thing!!!! • “Please consider the environment before printing this e-Mail……………” • GO AHEAD - PRINT A MILLION OF THE DAMN THINGS!!! And do your bit • for cleaning up the atmosphere and the environment. • THANK YOU!!!! Any questions?.

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