The pledge was made as part of Greenpeaces saveordelete.com campaign, which is urging UK publishers to follow the example of Canadian publishers, 35 of which are committed to phasing out ancient forest fibre material from their books.
A new report, The Paper Trail, has also been issued as a guide to sourcing what Greenpeace terms as ancient forest friendly paper for the book publishing industry.
Last month several Finnish paper and forestry firms refuted allegations of old growth logging in Finland, as Greenpeace stepped up its forest action campaign (PrintWeek, 25 September).
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