Paper
Tips on how to recycle Paper, 2010, 2011.
How to Recycle Paper
Paper recycling is the practice of salvaging waste paper and crafting it into new paper merchandise. The three types of paper that can be recycled are pre-consumer waste, miil broke, and post-consumer waste. As ordinary citizens, what we can recycle at home are the post-consumer waste papers that we generate at home. This will include old newspapers and magazines, computer papers and other office papers, old telephone directories, old corrugated containers, and other residential mixed papers. Don’t throw away your old telephone directory, old newspaper and magazines, computer paper and all other used paper and make your own recycled paper. This will lessen waste at home, save trees and a big help in the efforts to save mother earth.
The things you will need to recycle paper:
• Waste paper – old newspaper and magazines, etc ( cut them into 2-inch squares)
• A blender or food processor
• A wooden frame or wire hanger
• Pair of panty hose or Insect screen
• White glue
• Big water bucket with 4 inches of water
• Flat iron
Here’s how to do it:
• Each piece of paper that you will make needs a frame. It could be a wooden frame or an old wire hanger that you can form into a frame by straightening the hanger and bending it into four-sided frame shape.
• Stretch a panty hose or insect screen flat and tight over the frame
• Use a blender to or food processor to reduce the waste paper into mush, make sure that there is a correct combination of water and paper to keep the machine moving smoothly and until you have all the paper dissolved into a gray mixture of paper pulp
• You can add some color by adding some red or brown onion skin to the mixture while it is being blended
• Transfer the paper pulp into the water pail and add 2 teaspoon of white glue and blend the mixture thoroughly with your hands
• Scoop the mixture with the frame and lift the frame slowly, allowing the water to drip off and drain from the frame.
• Allow the mixture to dry completely under the sun or better yet hang it on a clothesline.
• Slowly peel off the dried paper from the frame
• Iron the paper using the hottest setting to steam out the paper
• Repeat the process to make more paper but be sure to blend the mixture well every time you make another piece of paper.
If you want more color on your paper, you can use food coloring to get the color you want. Texture can also be added to the paper by adding leaves or lint to the mixture while blending the pulp in a food processor or blender.
Ways to Recycle, 2010, 2011 Tips
Ways to Recycle, 2010, 2011 Tips
If recycling was a new thing in the late 20th Century, in 21st it has become mandatory, if we are going to preserve what precious little resources we have on the planet. Often cited motto reduce, reuse, recycle is becoming a new mantra for future generations. Today, recycling is not just some new fancy thing; it is a tool for survival. There are plenty of ways to recycle almost everything, from batteries to cars. Most often recycled materials are metal, paper, wood, glass and plastic.
Recycling starts with you. The first step is sorting out waste, either by using specialized bins or by collecting recyclables and turning them over to local recycling centers. Most counties have some sort of reward paid for every pound of recyclable waste you turn over. Some of it will be recycle right there, but most of the waste will be taken to huge recycling facilities which process it. Scrap metal will be melted in smelters and reused, as well as paper and plastic. Glass bottles will be washed and returned to service. Some companies specialize in recycled spare parts for cars. Junk cars can be stripped of everything that can be reused, like windshields, windows, spare parts and wheels before being sent to processing yard which will cut it to pieces ready for melting. These spare parts are later sold, labeled as reused or recycled at considerable lower prices.
Electronic waste is also becoming a large source of raw materials, especially since manufacturers are required to pay special tax for every item that is not recycled. It is much cheaper for them to organize recycling centers which will gather old products and process them in the proper way. Special care is being paid to hazardous parts, like cell phone batteries and batteries in general, as these items can harm the environment.
Advantages of Recycling
Advantages of Recycling
Reduce, reuse, recycle is the new mantra for the 21st Century. Even though the advantages of recycling have been long known, it is not until last few decades that it has become clear to almost everyone that if we are going to survive, we have to recycle.
Did you know that one and one-half acres of rainforest is destroyed every second? Most of it is used for timber, but significant amount of it is used for paper production. If you recycle one ton of paper, you have saved approximately 17 trees, about 7000 gallons of water and three cubic yards of landfill space. All that from just one ton of recycled paper. And that is average monthly paper consumption for a medium office. Imagine that on a large scale. Entire forests can be saved by simply altering our purchasing habit to recycled paper.
One other office item that can be recycled is a printer cartridge. In United States alone, about 700 000 cartridges are thrown away every year. Each time you buy a remanufactured printer cartridge, you have prevented about two and a half pounds of metal and plastic going to a land fill and saved about half a gallon of oil. If all cartridges in United State would be remanufactured it would mean 1.75 million of pounds less waste in our landfills and saving of 350 000 gallons of oil.
There re many examples like these all around us, and that is just considering the savings we can made. The impact on the environment is whole different ball game, as the effects of our behavior are already starting to hurt us. If we do not change our habits, the world we leave to our children will be drastically worst than the one we inherited from our parents.
