Polyolefins are used to make stuff like plastic bags and are heavily researched due to their substantial and very negative impact on the environment. So that this stone paper stuff is sold as a more environmentally friendly alternative to paper is just a big hoax. Our oceans are already littered with plastics and aquatic wildlife is heavily impacted. Plastics made out of olefin polymers can survive a whole century - i.e., this "water-free" tech might dump a century worth of plastic paper into our oceans. Nice! :-(

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141391010... http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079670010... asf....

http://www.plasticgarbageproject.org/en/plastic-garbage/prob... http://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/how-plastic-is-har... etc....