1. 4.1.1 Product Lifecycle (Newspaper)
April 17th, 2012

2. Product Lifecycle Five Steps
Definition: The total process of creating, using, and disposing of consumer products made from the earth's resources. 2

3. Plantation to paper and paper to paper:
The Publishers National Environment Bureau (PNEB) is the association of Australia's leading newspaper and magazine publishers, working since 1990 to promote the sustainable recovery of old newspapers and magazines. 3

4. Raise and Extract Logging Industry: Deforestation of Pine Trees
Transportation to Lumber Mill
New trees are planted
Video: Logging
Use examples: Coal, wood, etc.

5. Video: Manufacturing Lumber
Material Processing
Rinsed of Impurities
Debarking drum for logs
Chipper for unusable wood
Thermo-mechanical Refiner
Pulping Operation
Video: Manufacturing Lumber
Raw materials ready for use to make products vary on the material being used.

6. Video: Newspaper Production
Manufacture
Paper Making Machine
Wood fibers seperated
Papermaking stock (99% water) sprayed on screen
Pulp fibers form a mesh as water drains
Fiber mat is squeezed with rollers (60% water)
Steam heated rollers dry fiber mat as fibers come closer together
Print Production
Typesetting
Image Transference
Plate-making
Printing
Video: Paper Pulp
Video: Newspaper Production
All products have different manufacturing processes

7. Use Home Delivery News Stands Read once or twice Reused Scrap Wrapping
Packaging
Rag
Arts and craft
Mention to students examples of products that have a long useable rates and some with short useable rates.
Appliances have long useable rates as opposed to a disposable razor etc.

8. Dispose Can be recycled if Transported to Landfill Biodegradable
Clean condition
Hasn’t been recycled before
Not too gray
Transported to Landfill
Biodegradable
2 to 5 month
Mention to students the importance on products being made of a material to help save environment

9. Recycle Collection Sorting Transportation Storage Re-pulping Cleaning
Deinking
Refining, Bleaching, Color-Stripping
Papermaking

10. Video: Plantation to Print
Overview
Video: Plantation to Print

11. References
Welcome to Paper University!. (n.d.). Paper University. Retrieved May 21, 2012, from
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