The expensive, energy-intensive process of turning wood into paper costs the pulp and paper industries more than $6 billion a year. Much of that expense involves separating wood's cellulose from ...

E.J. Harris / East Oregonian A company in Eastern Washington is developing a new way to make paper pulp — without trees. The mill will instead use a source abundant to the area: straw. Farmers used to ...

Nanocellulose and lignin, derived from wood fibers, are on the verge of becoming available in larger commercial quantities, bringing the possibility of replacing a range of oil-based products with ...

DAYTON, Wash. (AP) A proposed $184 million pulp mill in southeast Washington plans to take straw, a waste product from wheat and alfalfa farms, and convert it into pulp for paper and packaging ...

Image contributed by Columbia Pulp Construction is underway for the Columbia Pulp plant near Lyons Ferry, Wash. The facility will use wheat straw, as opposed to wood, for tree-free paper products.