The purpose of this assignment is to state how Jackson Paper and their affiliates are. Jackson paper is a by-product of the Armour Tannery in Sylva, North Carolina founded by C.J. Harris in 1901. Armour was located in the flats along Scotts Creek in East Sylva. Armour boiled chestnut wood chips to produce tannin extract. They used the tannin extract to tan packer hides. The hides were used to make industrial machine belts and shoe …showed first 75 words of 802 total…

…showed last 75 words of 802 total…the hides, were usually sold to furniture manufactures for use as padding, or carpet manufacturers. Waste chemicals such as lime, acids and ammonia, were likely diluted and discharged to a nearby surface stream. The waste vegetable/wood pulp from the generation of tannins and would have been used in the pulp and paper industry. Solid wastes generated at the Sylva site may have included sludge generated from the treatment of the “black liquor” infested wastewater.