HOW IS PAPER RECYCLED AT HOME?

To recycle paper, several pieces of scrap paper are collected.

* The collected scrap paper is torn into small pieces and is put into large buckets. If you need the recycled paper to be in color, just add small pieces of colored scrap paper in the bucket.
* Then one gallon of warm water along with a tablespoon of bleach is poured into the bucket.
* Now more water is added to cover the paper pieces completely.
* The scrap paper should be allowed to soak for atleast one hour.
* Next, place about one cup of soaked paper into the blender. Add two more cups of bleach water into the blender, too. Blend this paper and water mixture on high. If it doesn't blend easily, you need to add more water to the blender. This forms the slurry.
* Pour the slurry into another bucket and repeat the process until all of the paper has been blended.
* Different paper products like cardboards, newsprints, office papers are made by adding suitable materials to the slurry.
* The slurry is spread using large rollers into large thin sheets.
* The wet paper is then left to dry, and is rolled up in to sheets, ready to be cut.

FACTS:

1. To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
2. If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
3. The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
4. Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!
5. The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
6. Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.