Woody Harrelson Wheat Paper Saves Trees And Energy
Written by Vegetarian Star on October 25th, 2012 in Actors, Business, Environment-Eco-Green.
Woody Harrelson is behind an innovative company that has spent more than a decade perfecting an eco-friendly wood-free paper.
Prairie Pulp & Paper is a Winnipeg-based company co-founded by the vegetarian and environmentalist actor that has created paper made from wheat straw–a product considered field waste by farmers that is often burned.
“I had a meeting with this engineer who is very knowledgeable about the making of non-wood pulp and paper mills,” Harrelson said. “I asked him who was the closest to making this happen in North America.”
The engineer was working for Jeff Golfman, who would later co-found Prarie Pulp & Paper with Harrelson and be named as president of the company.
In addition to saving trees, making the wheat-based Prarie Pulp & Paper products is less energy intensive than making paper products from wood.
Prairie P&P’s straw paper consumes on average half the energy as paper made from 100 per cent virgin wood and emits at least 40 per cent less greenhouse-gas emissions.
Photo: David Shankbone/Creative Commons
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