methodological notes

Perimeters

"From cradle to grave": from the extraction of raw material to its final processing.
For paper, a Life Cycle Assessment includes 8 principal measurement areas:

• Timber harvesting
• Production and transportation of pulp
• Production and transportation of other raw materials
• Paper manufacture
• Transportation of paper to the printer
• Printing
• Transportation of printed pieces to users
• The end of the paper’s lifecycle (storage, incineration, disposal, recycling)

Indicators

There are 13 indicators for the impact on the environment that are generally used in ACV and that guide our operations:

• Energy
  Total primary energy consumption
• Air
  Greenhouse gas emissions
  Emission of greenhouse gases of fossil origin and non-renewable biomass
  Acidifying gas emissions
• Water
  Water pumping
  Water consumption
  The discharge of matter in suspension (MES)
  Discharge contributing to water eutrophication
  Chemical oxygen demand (COD)
  Absorbable halogenated organic compounds (AOX)
• Earth
  Exhaustion of non-renewable resources
  Quantity of non-renewable wood
  Production of ultimate waste