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Intro To Strategic Sustainability

This document provides an introduction to strategic sustainability and analyzes the pulp and paper industry. It defines sustainability and sustainable development. The pulp and paper industry relies on deforestation and consumes large amounts of water and energy while also polluting water sources. However, opportunities exist to make the industry more sustainable through practices like sustainable forest management, recycling, waste management, and switching to cleaner production processes. The document outlines a framework for strategically addressing these issues and minimizing the industry's unsustainable impacts by raising awareness of problems, envisioning solutions, setting priorities, and managing progress.

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Intro To Strategic Sustainability

This document provides an introduction to strategic sustainability and analyzes the pulp and paper industry. It defines sustainability and sustainable development. The pulp and paper industry relies on deforestation and consumes large amounts of water and energy while also polluting water sources. However, opportunities exist to make the industry more sustainable through practices like sustainable forest management, recycling, waste management, and switching to cleaner production processes. The document outlines a framework for strategically addressing these issues and minimizing the industry's unsustainable impacts by raising awareness of problems, envisioning solutions, setting priorities, and managing progress.

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Intorduction to

strategic
Sustainability
Muhammad Adnan Hanif
Masters in Mechanical Engineering with
emphasis on Structural Mechanics

Sustainability:
When we say the word

sustainability, what do you think


about?
What does it mean to be

sustainable?

Sustainable
development:
"Sustainable

development
is
development that meets the needs
of
the
present
without
compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own
needs."
Brundtland Commission Report,
1987

People are Fantastic!


So whats the problem

THE PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY


ABCD Strategic Sustainability Analysis

Introduction:
Paper

is
a
major
product of the forestry
industry, and is used
widely in our society.
Paper products are used
not only in their obvious
applications
in
the
publishing industry and
for writing on, but also
in a variety of specialty
papers,
cardboards,
brown papers etc.

The Manufacturing
process:
Step
Step
Step
Step
Step
Step

1
2
3
4
5
6

- Wood preparation
Cooking
- Pulp washing
- Pulp screening
Bleaching
- Paper making

(A) Awarness:
Shared Mental Model:

To strategically minimize all the unsustainable


processes happening in or because of the pulp
and paper industry.

(B) Baseline:
List of Problems:
Deforestation
Power consumption
Excessive use of water
Water pollution
Toxication
Chlorination
Atmospheric emission of Oxides of Suphur,

Nitrogen and chlorine

(C) Visioning:
List of opportunities: (Solutions and Visions for

tomorow)
Sustainable forests
Rain water harvesting
Waste water managment
Solid waste managment
Elemental chlorine free bleach plants
Oxygen delignification
Use of ancillary processes
Recycling of Paper

(D) Setting and Managing Priorities:


Tree plantation to achieve sustainable forests.
Create awarness to promote the use of

recycled paper.
Switch to elemental chlorine free bleach
plants
Waste water managment
Solid waste managment
Rain water harvesting

Special Thanks:
Karl-Henrik Robrt, M.D., Ph.D. (born 1947),

is a Swedish cancer scientist and an important


figure
in
the
worldwide
sustainability
movement. He is known for The Natural Step,
a framework that lays out the system
conditions for sustainability, that arose from
his
consultations
with
municipalities,
businesses,
government
departments,
environmental organizations, and the arts
community.

Thank You
Questions are Welcomed...!!

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