Domtar Blueline

Dan Persica
Sr. Manager, Sustainability Communications, Pulp & Paper Division

Born on the bayou, Dan Persica serves as Domtar’s Sr. Manager, Sustainability Communications. As such, he leads the effort to create interesting and engaging content aimed at simplifying sustainability. Dan is the driving force behind The Paper Trail®, an award-winning transparency tool that provides users with the environmental, social and economic impacts of their paper purchases. A New Orleans native, he enjoys cooking, traveling and expanding his hot sauce collection.

Sustainability Beyond the Forest

Earlier this month over 100 countries celebrated World Environment Day, the date set aside by the UN to encourage the protection of our shared planet.  This year’s World Environment Day theme was similar to that of Earth Day 2018 – “Beat Plastic Pollution”. ...

Learning About Deforestation on Earth Day

Known as the world’s largest environmental movement, Earth Day is just around the corner.  And while the 2018 Earth Day theme is End Plastic Pollution, a central focus continues to be combatting deforestation. ...

The Paper Trail: “Farm-to-Table” for Your Paper

Most of us are familiar with the "farm-to-table" concept, which seeks to provide consumers with greater traceability of the food they eat.  Springing from the public’s desire to know more about where the items they use really come from, along with those products’ wider impacts, movements like "farm-to-table" have become mainstream.  So much so, they have become fodder for parodies like...

The Future of Forestry: Domtar’s Use of Drones

Drones are everywhere these days and quickly becoming the new future of forestry.  Long piloted by the military, today they are used commercially by the agriculture, construction, real estate, and law enforcement fields. ...

Intersection of Tech and Forestry – Windsor Paper Mill

Domtar's Windsor Paper Mill continues to support the local community with new innovation making this the intersection of tech and forestry This year, millions of Canadians celebrated the country’s sesquicentennial, that is, the country’s 150th anniversary. That means the Confederation that unified modern-day Canada happened way back...

Forest Certification 101

Much of the world is under the misconception that paper is a wasteful, environmentally irresponsible product. But the opposite is true. ...