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The article reports on the importance of the polyacrylamide (PAM), a water soluble polymers to the paper chemicals industry in China. It states that PAM are used by paper producers as dry strength agents, retention agents and fiber dispersion agents. It infers that PAM is a strong demand in waste paper recycling and paper-making wastewater treatment in terms of strengthening of environmental protection.

The article offers information on the first carbon footprint assessment in China. The carbon footprint assessment is designed to help companies in reducing energy consumption and dominate in environmental protection. Through carbon footprint assessment, the waste discharge and carbon dioxide emission of the papermaking industry have declined from 17% to 35%.

The article reports the completion of the footprint assessment case for APP China Group Ltd. and its six pulp paper making factories by Camco. It relates that the assessment will help the company reduce energy consumption and help in environmental protection. Meanwhile, China is enforcing a new emission standard for papermaking effective May 1, 2009, which will force to reduce the chemical oxygen demand (COD) emission to 950 000 tons in 2009, and to 434 000 tons in 2015.

The article reports that the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MOEP) of China has issued 11 terms of standards for pollutant emission. These standards are issued together with the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China, and will be effective from August 1, 2008. These standards have been introduced for pollutant emission in the pulp and paper making industry, pollutant emission in electroplating, and pollutant emission in pharmaceutical industry.

The article discusses how membrane filtration technology substantially cut the cost of caustic cleaning solutions of Beijing Mint, a banknote printing plant in China. The printing plant's hollow fiber ultrafiltration membrane system recycles causting cleaning chemicals, thus recovering approximately 90% of the caustic solution and producing one-fifth the volume of waste. It also slashed by 50% the plant's consumption of flocculants, coagulants and acids. The membrane technology increased Beijing Mint's operations efficiency, while providing protection to the environment.

The article discusses the guiding regulations of environmental permissions issued by the Zhejiang Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau (ZEPB) for three industrial sectors in China. These sectors include the chemical active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), papermaking from wastepaper and dyeing/printing sectors in Zhejiang. The standardization in site selection in the chemical API sector, emphasis on production scale in waste paper sector and process technology in dyeing sector are cited.

The article reports that over thirty environmental protection technical innovation projects have been submitted to the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China (MEP). Yueyang Paper Co. Ltd. has submitted its recovering black liquid soda form paper making slurry to manufacture calcium carbonate as fillers for paper. Shenzhen Leveking Bio-engineering Co. Ltd has developed the innovative technology of making feeds additives alkali copper chloride from the waste water of etching industry.

The article reports that China will launch its first national pollution survey in February 2008 which will seek to identify sources of industrial, agricultural and residential pollution and find information on the number of pollution treatment facilities operating. According to Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan, the fact-finding mission will help obtain baseline data for future environmental protection measures. The state will also ban free plastic bags to customers from June 1, 2007 because of the environmental problems it poses and the high cost of refinement.

The article reports that the Changchun North Suburb Sewage Treatment Plant, Jilin Sewage Treatment Plant and Songyuan Sewage Treatment Plant which passed the environmental protection appraisal has started functioning in Songhuajiang River in Jilin, China. The Jilin Environmental Protection Bureau states that the operation of the three sewage treatment plants will help control pollution to the river reaches. 93 paper mills that failed to complete rectification in time were closed.

The article reports on the prohibition of plastic bag usage in China for environment protection. It is stated that the State Council has issued a notice for restricting the production, sales and uses of plastic shopping bags to save resources, curb pollution and promote energy conservation. In addition, it is noted that the government encourages the production and applications of low-priced degradable plastics as an alternative to normal plastic shopping bags.