Affects on health

Through the processes of making paper, many harmful substance are formed or used and can hurt the people living nearby.

Processes includes:

-kraft pulping

-bleaching: this includes using chemicals such as chlorine, chlorine dioxide, sodium hypochlorite, oxygen, peroxide, and ozone

In some paper mills, they use chlorine compounds to bleach the pulp in the production process but chlorine compounds are the most hazardous industrial compounds if used in large quantities.

Not only are the chlorine products harmful themselves, when used in the process, the chlorine compound themselves produce harmful by products such as organochlorine which includes dioxin and other similar compounds that could harm the human body. These products created can causes cancer as well as developmental, reproductive, and immune system damage as the long term affect.

Not only do they affect people around them but they can also be released into the air, into the water resources surrounding the area and affect a wider range of the surroundings.