Its roads were dug up, its trees pulped, and its buildings shredded.
The paper itself was found to have been made of plant fiber, not tree pulp, from 1475 to 1640.
The collection, made entirely of Tencel, a fabric made from tree pulp, is sold at Treasure & Bond (350 West Broadway) and Barneys.
Turning a tree to paper requires more water than turning paper back into fiber, and many brands that use tree pulp use polluting chlorine-based bleach for greater whiteness.
She has said not only that she will avoid layoffs and leave the newsroom alone, but that she will also explore environmentally sound alternatives to using newsprint made from tree pulp.
Auria London sells luxury swimwear using recycled polyamide made from products such as discarded carpets and fishing nets, while PhD researcher Dawn Ellams has developed no-cotton jeans made with eucalyptus-tree pulp.
The newspaper is itself an outlandish creation: a smudgy, portable, disposable offline data platform made of tree pulp, mass-produced every day on huge printers and trucked for a fee to your home, or sold from the sidewalk.
Just as the second mate relies on his instruments of wood and words to inspire his narration, so did I use a handful of metaphorical whispering devices to inspire and inform my writing of the novel: five books made from tree pulp, their pages sprinkled with letters.
BAMBOO This quick-growing plant has been used as a replacement for tree pulp and wood in a variety of packaging, including for Physicians Formula's Bamboo Wear line, with a face powder-bronzer in a bamboo compact, and its Organic Wear line, with an eye shadow in a paper compact.
Obviously newspapers are having a lot of trouble, and the herd is being thinned, but delayed media (my term), whether distributed as inky tree pulp or otherwise, will continue to have a place in the party.
