Straw Used in Paper for Special Editions of Margaret Atwood’s New Book

“I joined Canopy in this trial to show that we can meet our paper needs using low-footprint straw instead of relying on endangered forests,” says Margaret Atwood. “Second Harvest Paper is the kind of practical innovation that could make paper from endangered forests ancient history.”

Canopy arranged the rare Atwood special edition to demonstrate the viability of Second Harvest Paper as an alternative to conventional papers. Second Harvest Paper is part of a broader Canopy campaign to diversify the North American paper fibre basket in order to reduce the stress on endangered forests by kick starting commercial scale development of straw based papers.