How do people actually "recycle" paper?

Question

I mean, how do they? Please dont say put it in the recycling bin. I was doing this report on recycling, and i came up to this question. How DO people recycle paper? nobody has actually told me! I cant think of any good answers. Do they wash it? Do they cut it into little tiny pieces? Someone please tell me! Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

Simple: Collate them and send them to recycling centers.

They will do the job for you so don't have to worry about what do to with them.

One thing that you should do is to maximise the use of paper. I know of a student who maximise the use of paper: Write his homework on one side with pencil, continue with the other side with pencil, erase them all, carry on with his homework in pen, for both sides. Finally, that paper is put inside recycling box.

Very smart.

Answer 2

Hello Turtlelu

Papper is made of tree pulp. We are all wasting lot of Paper Daily.

Recycle of Papper as follows.

1. We send the Papers/News Pappers/Potal Pappers etc for Papper Mill and we can make papper on that.

2. We can Make News Pappe as Paper Bag as a packing

Materials in Small Shop/Stree Vendor who is selling Nuts/Somaosa/Vadas/Puffs etc.

3.Waste Papper can used as to make Paper Toys/Bowels/Plates/Bags etc.

4. Waste/Used papper can used as packing Materials for Fruits Like Apple/Papapaya/Banana.

5.Waste papper can used as Packing Materials in Packing items like Machinery/Pumps/Motors.

Answer 3

the recycled paper type {newsprint,box board,cardboard}gets put into a large food processor type grinder,it gets made into a thick slurry which is then poured on a conveyor belt form there it can be added to other paper fibre materials or thinned out cooked or dried out and formed into paper and rolled out in a nut shell look up Abitibi paper products and processes you may find a more detailed description there

Answer 4

allot of the paper is now being used as paper again such as companys that use alot of advertising through the post has a stamp on it to say it has been recycled . i think this is a great idea as its the general public that are being penalised and constantly targeted for recycling when big companys get away with leaving a heauge carbon footprint.

Answer 5

The recycled paper makes it way back to the paper mill. At the mill there is a big "blender" that is built in the floor where they take a bale of recycled paper and put it in. In the "blender" they add chemical to help to break down the paper and to remove the ink. There it is pumped to the paper machine and there it is sprayed on this felt belt.  It runs on the felt belt for a distance and then the paper is separated to go though the dryers.  The dryers are around 3 story tall and the paper goes up and down up and down in this dryer in one continuous sheet. At the end the paper is wound on a roll that is 10' wide. After the roll get full, the machine will automatically cut the sheet to start the next roll. The paper machine runs continous. If the paper breaks in the dryer they use the term "making hay".

The finished roll is not finished yet. It will go to a slitter/rewinder. There it unrolled into a machine that slits the paper down and rewound into rolls  to the size that the customer wants.

Some of the corragated mill will have a corragator that will turn the paper back into boxes.

The other customers are called converters. They convert the rolls of paper into a finished product. Newspapers, books, copier paper, picture frames backs, components for Ready To Assemble furniture(RTA), Point of purchase displays..........

Each mill will specialize in a certain paper grade. One will make paper for books, one will be for chip board (furniture backs, picture frame backs)

The link will tell you how to make paper at home. It is the same process that the mills use, but on a very small scale.

I hope this helps. I worked in the paper industry for 17 years.

Good Luck

Answer 6

Not sure if this relates to your question, but we recycle our laser printed paper by turning it over and printing on the blank side. We print a couple of dozen pages a day, so this also saves money. (On the other hand, we pay more per case of recycled printer paper at Staples.) When both sides have been printed on, we turn the paper over to our local recycling facility.

Answer 7

Well there are many ways of recycling paper.  One of the ways people are using paper lately is they are making purses out of paper. People also make jewelry, art pieces and even furniture out of paper. Just do a little brainstorming and I'm sure you could come up with some good ways of recycling paper.

Answer 8

i pretty sure it all goes in a big grinder and gets grinded together