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.
