The real question for practical purposes is how much of these fine chemicals are actually consumed during the process and how much can be reused. The foul-smelling Kraft process has held on to its title in paper production because the chemicals it uses can be recycled within the plant itself. There are many better, less polluting ways to make paper, but they consume an impractical amount of chemicals which drives the price way out of economic usability.
This process will need to regenerate almost all of that sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfite, or it's just peracetic paper again.
I wouldn't. The numerous miscarriages that my grandmother had while living in a mill town, and the cancer diagnoses that followed family who worked at the mill taught me to stay upstream of mill towns.
This process will need to regenerate almost all of that sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfite, or it's just peracetic paper again.