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The Waste Paper Recycling Process
from:For most people that recycle, the actual process used is a bit of mystery. As long as the collection company picks up your recyclables or you drop them off yourself, the how and why of waste paper recycling doesn’t top your list of things to worry about. Of course, if you are sending your paper goods to a reputable recycling plant, how the whole thing is done really isn’t that important to your daily life, but it is kind of interesting how your used office paper, newspapers, and magazines get new life. Just for an interesting bit to add to your next green living conversation here is a brief look at the paper waste recycling process.
Naturally, the first part of any waste paper recycling process is to get the stuff to the plant. Some communities offer pick up services either for a small fee or free of charge. In other places, residents are responsible for getting their waste paper to a receptacle bin or to the recycling plant itself. Once the paper products arrive there, they are divided into one of three categories and placed in the pulping machine. The machine adds water and agitates the paper to begin removing ink and debris from the soon to be new paper. Screens are then used to force out any debris that is larger than the paper fibers. This is a crucial step in waste paper recycling.
Much like a washing machine, after facing the screens, the pulp undergoes centrifugal cleaning. Spinning is used to separate the paper materials further from the debris it contains. This is an important part of waster paper recycling. The flotation part of the process adds a surfactant to the mixture, which is used to remove ink from the paper. The ink particles float to the surface where they can be removed.
The washing step of the waste paper recycling process is exactly what it sounds like. Fresh water is added to the paper pulp and the final tiny particles of ink or debris is forced out of the paper. If the paper is intended to for copy paper or a paper product that should be white, either bleach or peroxides are used to get the crisp white color we are familiar with. At this point, the paper is processed and made into sheets just like any other batch of paper.
Any waste from the paper recycling method is either burned to make energy for the plant to function on, is buried in a landfill, or can be used as clean, pure fertilizer by the local farmers. The idea is to keep this process as clean as possible from the beginning to the end.
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Northside wins telephone book recycling drive - Opelika Auburn News
Northside wins telephone book recycling drive Opelika Auburn News Northside Intermediate School recycled the most telephone books in the 2011 phone book recycling drive, Project Redirectory. The students at Northside recycled a total of 3581 books, with Melissa Cook's fifth-grade class recycling the most. |
Phone Book Recycling - WNEP-TV
Phone Book Recycling WNEP-TV By Bob Reynolds Fewer people are finding that they need phone books anymore thanks to the internet, but rather than throw them away where they would take up landfill space, elementary students in Carbon County are collecting them to recycle. |
Phone book recycling equals cash for library books - Signal
 KHTS Radio | Phone book recycling equals cash for library books Signal By Signal Staff Santa Clarita residents with old, outdated phone books can rid themselves of clutter and help the Santa Clarita Public Library in one step if they recycle the books at a local branch this month. YP Real Yellow Pages will donate 10 cents ... Recycle Phone Books, Help Friends Of The Library Buy New Materials |
Phone book recycling drive ends Tuesday - Laurel Leader Call
Phone book recycling drive ends Tuesday Laurel Leader Call The organization launched its “Telephone Book Recycling Campaign” co-sponsored by “AT&T the Real Yellow Pages” on Dec. 15. Known as “Project ReDirectory,” the campaign is scheduled to end at 4:30 pm Tuesday. “Things have been going really well,” said ... |
Service promises to end junk mail in Santa Monica - Santa Monica Daily Press
Service promises to end junk mail in Santa Monica Santa Monica Daily Press By Ashley Archibald That's how much mixed paper waste Santa Monica homes sent in 2010 to the Allan Co., City Hall's contracted recycling company. City officials hope they've found a way to make it easy for Santa Monica residents to reduce that number ... |