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Policy promotes preferred practices
PRINTED AT SIX SITES ACROSS Canada, The Globe and Mail sells almost 306,000 copies each weekday and over 380,000 on Saturday. Only the Toronto Star uses more newsprint.
Given its reach and consumption, the G&M commitment to using paper not derived from forests most in need of conservation matters in a country with so much fiber to provide but so much forest to protect.
G&M aims since June - to avoid fiber from sources like the boreal forests or temperate rainforests, use more recycled papers of all sorts, reduce overall paper use, and consider non-wood fibers' papermaking potential - led Nicole Rycroft, executive director of environmental publishing advocate Canopy, to call it the first big North American national daily "to develop an Ancient Forest Friendly policy."
Before she chaired the voluntary 15member Project Green committee, the newspaper had a...