I’m cruising along and see a Shell station - only down two bars (out of eight and red bar gas gauge) but no idea how far away the next station is so stopped - only $27. And the guy was really nice so I bought the next three days of water from him. It’s only two days to go before I’m home, but you never know. I was washing the back window and see this massive pile of logs on the rail line. Now where is that going? It’s an awful lot. More pulp than lumber I’m thinking - small diameter is the giveaway. Look at the size of that crane! Bet half the kids in town lined up to watch that being built.
Turns out I was at the entrance of this wonderful sounding name. It was the name of the location of a book in our school library. Our Geography teacher - THE best teacher my whole life - gave us an assignment in September. W were encouraged to volunteer in one of the school clubs. I read a lot so I volunteered on the Library club. The teacher was the Grade 5 Home Room teacher. The library was a room with racks of book shelves, I was in my element - design and organization. A system for filing and one for lending. And a whole room of books from which we could take anything we wanted home to read. Us volunteers got to do it all. Lunch hours were the best part of the day. One of the books was set in Kapuskasing - a magical name. On the shelf was a book set on the Red River and another on totem poles. And one about kids our age in Red Deer. All these image producing names were in Canada. Imagine! So I dawdled for an hour
The destination for some of those logs. A pulp and paper town and not a wiff of smell. Not like Port Hawkesbury where Dad drove us by really fast. Two transport trucks left while I was wandering around. The sign is Kap Paper - I copied out their product below. Imagine! All this gets produced in this small town.
All pulp mills are on water. My understanding is that paper mills recycle water 10 times or more, then it is cleaned to meet
water quality standards and approximately 90% is returned to its source.[1] About 1% remains in the manufactured products, and the rest evaporates back into the environment.
Sorry about the U.S data, but I tried to find a similar quick and easy to understand data set for Canada. Great obtuse academic documents, bureaucratic language government documents, and all kinds of technical language from everyone else. I gave up.
It wouldn’t surprise me that the Canadian government standards are similar, and the Canadian mill have produced similar success.
Stayed tuned, someone may see this and correct the data accordingly.
