PAPER FASHIONS & ART Paper Recycling Not all recycled paper comes back as paper or paper products WORDS TO KNOW MANUFACTURING • Walk on old magazines. One company makes shoes from Paper Recycling collage – a piece of artwork made by recycled materials, including fiber from old magazines. Throughout cutting materials such as colored paper • News you can wear. Peruvian women make rolled paper and old magazines and pasting them onto History necklaces out of coiled strips of paper cut from magazines. ACTIVITIES & Extras a surface to create a pattern or picture Paper Recycling • Art or Trash? Many artists Paper recycling has been use scrap material in their deinking – removing ink and other One: Tear the newspaper around as long as paper itself work. Henri Matisse used finishing materials, like coatings, sizings A look at our most recycled product different types of found You can into tiny pieces. and adhesives, from printed paper paper and printed material Right from the start to make collages. make paper! Two: Put the newspaper fibers – the long, thick-walled cells that Around 2,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered pieces and all three cups of Pablo Picasso sculpted give strength and support to plants that they could use a thin paste of mulberry water into the blender, cover it three-dimensional heads bark, hemp and rags to make the very first WHAT YOU NEED: landfill – a site where garbage is taken from cardboard and and turn it on medium speed piece of paper. collage materials. • A large square pan, for about five seconds. You’ve – a thick, strong paper about three inches deep paperboard just made pulp! primarily used for food packaging and N • Three cups of SO From rags to paper Place the screen on other containers HN le warm water Three: JO litt Recycling was important in colonial America. Back then, ES l er the bottom of the pan and cover OS al oth M ms his es people did not know how to make paper from wood. • Enough water to fill pulp – a mixture of fibers and water for nd ceiv it with one inch of water. in a e re R ses at h O one-third of the pan from which paper is made mis s th TON They used cloth rags instead. Rags were so scarce that mer OT T WO usto of C . c ds GS uy some mills advertised in the newspapers to urge the • One and one-half kin R A ill b Four: Pour about one cup all S w r recycling – a process where used EN AG k o sheets of newspaper IN F R boo colonists to save rags for use in the paper mills. L S O ory o of the pulp over the screen and ND st tw materials are sorted, cleaned and made OU or a on, P er ribb lve • Fine mesh wire screen prim of twe spread it around evenly with a rd ngs, of into new products ya o ri ngs (like a window screen) one , tw stri les two nine A recycling pioneer your fingers. imb les, fe, th eed kni to fit into the pan od n pen go one Mathias Koops was among the first to ads, . • A rolling pin be pins s of investigate whether he could make paper from Five: Lift the screen and let the water drain. row cheaper, more plentiful materials. He received • A whole section of three papermaking patents in 1800 and 1801. a newspaper Six: Put the screen, pulp side up, on the One was for the removal of printing and writing • A blender (you’ll need section of newspaper. Close the newspaper and ink from wastepaper before it was reused. The other an adult to help you) flip it over so that the pulp is now face down. two patents were for the manufacture of paper from straw, hay, thistles, hemp, flax Seven: Take a rolling pin and roll out and different kinds of the excess water. Open the newspaper and wood and bark. remove the screen.
Ask your mummy During the Civil War, rags became scarce. To get an additional supply of cloth to make paper, Augustus Stanwick imported mummies from Egypt to the United States. The mills made paper out of their linen wrappings. (Don’t try this with your mummies at home.) Eight: Leave the A paperless newspaper open and let school the pulp dry overnight. Until people learned In the morning, peel the how to make paper from “recycled paper” away from wood, paper was so rare the newspaper. Congratulations! and expensive that You’ve just recycled newspaper students used chalk and into a new piece of paper! slates in school to do their lessons. EDUCA TI ONAL IN NA TURE Volume 4, Manufacturing Number 1, Paper Recycling EDUCA TI ONAL IN NA TURE Learning supplements for environmental education. EIN-6 12/06 Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Mummy, TM Chaney Enterprises, Inc. 1997 © 2007 Georgia-Pacific LLC. All rights reserved. Photograph courtesy FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND magazine. www.gp.com/EducationalinNature
PAPER FASHIONS & ART Paper Recycling Not all recycled paper comes back as paper or paper products WORDS TO KNOW MANUFACTURING • Walk on old magazines. One company makes shoes from Paper Recycling collage – a piece of artwork made by recycled materials, including fiber from old magazines. Throughout cutting materials such as colored paper • News you can wear. Peruvian women make rolled paper and old magazines and pasting them onto History necklaces out of coiled strips of paper cut from magazines. ACTIVITIES & Extras a surface to create a pattern or picture Paper Recycling • Art or Trash? Many artists Paper recycling has been use scrap material in their deinking – removing ink and other One: Tear the newspaper around as long as paper itself work. Henri Matisse used finishing materials, like coatings, sizings A look at our most recycled product different types of found You can into tiny pieces. and adhesives, from printed paper paper and printed material Right from the start to make collages. make paper! Two: Put the newspaper fibers – the long, thick-walled cells that Around 2,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered pieces and all three cups of Pablo Picasso sculpted give strength and support to plants that they could use a thin paste of mulberry water into the blender, cover it three-dimensional heads bark, hemp and rags to make the very first WHAT YOU NEED: landfill – a site where garbage is taken from cardboard and and turn it on medium speed piece of paper. collage materials. • A large square pan, for about five seconds. You’ve – a thick, strong paper about three inches deep paperboard just made pulp! primarily used for food packaging and N • Three cups of SO From rags to paper Place the screen on other containers HN le warm water Three: JO litt Recycling was important in colonial America. Back then, ES l er the bottom of the pan and cover OS al oth M ms his es people did not know how to make paper from wood. • Enough water to fill pulp – a mixture of fibers and water for nd ceiv it with one inch of water. in a e re R ses at h O one-third of the pan from which paper is made mis s th TON They used cloth rags instead. Rags were so scarce that mer OT T WO usto of C . c ds GS uy some mills advertised in the newspapers to urge the • One and one-half kin R A ill b Four: Pour about one cup all S w r recycling – a process where used EN AG k o sheets of newspaper IN F R boo colonists to save rags for use in the paper mills. L S O ory o of the pulp over the screen and ND st tw materials are sorted, cleaned and made OU or a on, P er ribb lve • Fine mesh wire screen prim of twe spread it around evenly with a rd ngs, of into new products ya o ri ngs (like a window screen) one , tw stri les two nine A recycling pioneer your fingers. imb les, fe, th eed kni to fit into the pan od n pen go one Mathias Koops was among the first to ads, . • A rolling pin be pins s of investigate whether he could make paper from Five: Lift the screen and let the water drain. row cheaper, more plentiful materials. He received • A whole section of three papermaking patents in 1800 and 1801. a newspaper Six: Put the screen, pulp side up, on the One was for the removal of printing and writing • A blender (you’ll need section of newspaper. Close the newspaper and ink from wastepaper before it was reused. The other an adult to help you) flip it over so that the pulp is now face down. two patents were for the manufacture of paper from straw, hay, thistles, hemp, flax Seven: Take a rolling pin and roll out and different kinds of the excess water. Open the newspaper and wood and bark. remove the screen.
Ask your mummy During the Civil War, rags became scarce. To get an additional supply of cloth to make paper, Augustus Stanwick imported mummies from Egypt to the United States. The mills made paper out of their linen wrappings. (Don’t try this with your mummies at home.) Eight: Leave the A paperless newspaper open and let school the pulp dry overnight. Until people learned In the morning, peel the how to make paper from “recycled paper” away from wood, paper was so rare the newspaper. Congratulations! and expensive that You’ve just recycled newspaper students used chalk and into a new piece of paper! slates in school to do their lessons. EDUCA TI ONAL IN NA TURE Volume 4, Manufacturing Number 1, Paper Recycling EDUCA TI ONAL IN NA TURE Learning supplements for environmental education. EIN-6 12/06 Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Mummy, TM Chaney Enterprises, Inc. 1997 © 2007 Georgia-Pacific LLC. All rights reserved. Photograph courtesy FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND magazine. www.gp.com/EducationalinNature FROM HOMEWORK TO . . . A Limit to Recycling Paper Recycling The Wood that “Woodn’t” Quit! What happens to the Printing and writing papers that you use to do your homework and that people in RECYCLING REUSES — paper we recycle? AND USES UP — RESOURCES ach person in the United States uses offices use for stationery and copy paper Paper is the most recycled product What’s in our recovered material? About 50 percent of all the paper are recycled into: Recycling can make our resources go farther, approximately 749 pounds of paper in the U.S. today. recovered in the United States is • printing and writing paper but when communities have to go a long way a year. Where does it all go? Some OTHER to collect those recyclables, they end up using E 25% recycled into new paper and paper- • paperboard of it goes into books or is used in other MORE THAN 4 OUT OF 10 board products. The remaining amount • tissue even more resources. PAPER AND PAPERBOARD PLASTICS They have to use fuel for the permanent applications like insulation 2% PACKAGES . . . is exported to other countries or reused collection trucks, and they need or roofing shingles for your home. * to make products like compost, which is equipment and people to sort Today, however, more Americans are MORE THAN 6 OF EVERY 10 used as a fertilizer in gardening. the materials. recycling paper products than ever before – NEWSPAPERS . . . GLASS WHERE DO 5% ALL THE over 47 million tons of paper. More paper BOXES GO? ALL PAPER IS NOT EQUAL MORE THAN 7 OF EVERY 10 is now recovered in the United States than More than 70 percent of all CORRUGATED NEWS YOU Not all paper can be recycled into new METALS CAN REUSE old corrugated boxes are goes to landfills. Paper recovery now averages BOXES . . . 11% paper products. 339 pounds of paper per person. Yesterday’s newspapers recycled back into new Some papers have too many contaminants to PAPER & become today’s news as containerboard and ARE BEING PAPERBOARD recycle. Used paper plates and pizza boxes are most old newspapers are paperboard products. What’s in our waste? RECOVERED 57% not made into new paper products because food recycled into new newsprint. cannot be removed during processing. Other PAPER & contaminants include carbon paper or plastic tape. PAPERBOARD There is also a limit to the number of times a OTHER 11.6% 40.4% piece of paper, a corrugated box or other paper The Even product can be recycled. Each time paper is reprocessed, the wood fibers YARD Chemicals and TRIMMINGS 4. SCREENING 5. DEINKING break down. They eventually get so small that 17.6% Recycling Energy are Recycled The pulp is then filtered Paper that had ink on they slip through the screens through a number of screens it – such as newspapers Today, U.S. pulp and paper mills during the screening process Process to remove impurities such as and magazines – must have recover about 98% of all chemi- and become waste that coatings, additives, fillers and the ink removed before it cals used to produce pulp goes to a landfill. THERE ARE SIX MAJOR STEPS loose ink particles. can be used to make a new from wood chips. IN THE RECYCLING PROCESS: paper product. In addition, water is
GLASS 7% The pulp enters a flotation reused throughout the
FOOD 7.4% device. Soapy chemicals are papermaking process. added to help the ink separate Even the energy used from the pulp. Air bubbles are to run a paper mill can blown into the mixture. The ink METALS 8.5% be converted and reused. attaches to the bubbles and rises PLASTICS 8% to the top. The inky bubbles are Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2002 then skimmed off, leaving the pulp ink-free. Recycling paper makes sense because it makes our resources go farther. Paper 1. PICK UP 2. SORTING is also easy to recycle because it is made Different types – or At the recycling center, the grades – of paper are paper is sorted to remove 3. REPULPING from wood, and it separates back into recycled into different contaminants – plastics, At the mill, the bales of fibers when soaked in water. The recycling types of new products. paper clips, sticky notes sorted recovered paper That’s why it’s important and other waste materials process produces a new paper or paper- are soaked in large vats NEW PRODUCTS to pre-sort your recover- that cannot be recycled. 6. board product out of materials that might of water and chemicals, The cleaned and deinked recycled able paper – for example, Then the paper is baled where they separate into pulp often is mixed with otherwise have ended up in a landfill. separating newspapers and sent to the mill. Bales fibers. This creates pulp. new pulp to be made into Recycling is one way to help manage the from magazines – for the can weigh around 1,000 paper products. solid waste we generate each year. people who pick it up. pounds each! *WOOD, RUBBER AND LEATHER. FROM HOMEWORK TO . . . A Limit to Recycling Paper Recycling The Wood that “Woodn’t” Quit! What happens to the Printing and writing papers that you use to do your homework and that people in RECYCLING REUSES — paper we recycle? AND USES UP — RESOURCES ach person in the United States uses offices use for stationery and copy paper Paper is the most recycled product What’s in our recovered material? About 50 percent of all the paper are recycled into: Recycling can make our resources go farther, approximately 749 pounds of paper in the U.S. today. recovered in the United States is • printing and writing paper but when communities have to go a long way a year. Where does it all go? Some OTHER to collect those recyclables, they end up using E 25% recycled into new paper and paper- • paperboard of it goes into books or is used in other MORE THAN 4 OUT OF 10 board products. The remaining amount • tissue even more resources. PAPER AND PAPERBOARD PLASTICS They have to use fuel for the permanent applications like insulation 2% PACKAGES . . . is exported to other countries or reused collection trucks, and they need or roofing shingles for your home. * to make products like compost, which is equipment and people to sort Today, however, more Americans are MORE THAN 6 OF EVERY 10 used as a fertilizer in gardening. the materials. recycling paper products than ever before – NEWSPAPERS . . . GLASS WHERE DO 5% ALL THE over 47 million tons of paper. More paper BOXES GO? ALL PAPER IS NOT EQUAL MORE THAN 7 OF EVERY 10 is now recovered in the United States than More than 70 percent of all CORRUGATED NEWS YOU Not all paper can be recycled into new METALS CAN REUSE old corrugated boxes are goes to landfills. Paper recovery now averages BOXES . . . 11% paper products. 339 pounds of paper per person. Yesterday’s newspapers recycled back into new Some papers have too many contaminants to PAPER & become today’s news as containerboard and ARE BEING PAPERBOARD recycle. Used paper plates and pizza boxes are most old newspapers are paperboard products. What’s in our waste? RECOVERED 57% not made into new paper products because food recycled into new newsprint. cannot be removed during processing. Other PAPER & contaminants include carbon paper or plastic tape. PAPERBOARD There is also a limit to the number of times a OTHER 11.6% 40.4% piece of paper, a corrugated box or other paper The Even product can be recycled. Each time paper is reprocessed, the wood fibers YARD Chemicals and TRIMMINGS 4. SCREENING 5. DEINKING break down. They eventually get so small that 17.6% Recycling Energy are Recycled The pulp is then filtered Paper that had ink on they slip through the screens through a number of screens it – such as newspapers Today, U.S. pulp and paper mills during the screening process Process to remove impurities such as and magazines – must have recover about 98% of all chemi- and become waste that coatings, additives, fillers and the ink removed before it cals used to produce pulp goes to a landfill. THERE ARE SIX MAJOR STEPS loose ink particles. can be used to make a new from wood chips. IN THE RECYCLING PROCESS: paper product. In addition, water is
GLASS 7% The pulp enters a flotation reused throughout the
FOOD 7.4% device. Soapy chemicals are papermaking process. added to help the ink separate Even the energy used from the pulp. Air bubbles are to run a paper mill can blown into the mixture. The ink METALS 8.5% be converted and reused. attaches to the bubbles and rises PLASTICS 8% to the top. The inky bubbles are Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2002 then skimmed off, leaving the pulp ink-free. Recycling paper makes sense because it makes our resources go farther. Paper 1. PICK UP 2. SORTING is also easy to recycle because it is made Different types – or At the recycling center, the grades – of paper are paper is sorted to remove 3. REPULPING from wood, and it separates back into recycled into different contaminants – plastics, At the mill, the bales of fibers when soaked in water. The recycling types of new products. paper clips, sticky notes sorted recovered paper That’s why it’s important and other waste materials process produces a new paper or paper- are soaked in large vats NEW PRODUCTS to pre-sort your recover- that cannot be recycled. 6. board product out of materials that might of water and chemicals, The cleaned and deinked recycled able paper – for example, Then the paper is baled where they separate into pulp often is mixed with otherwise have ended up in a landfill. separating newspapers and sent to the mill. Bales fibers. This creates pulp. new pulp to be made into Recycling is one way to help manage the from magazines – for the can weigh around 1,000 paper products. solid waste we generate each year. people who pick it up. pounds each! *WOOD, RUBBER AND LEATHER. FROM HOMEWORK TO . . . A Limit to Recycling Paper Recycling The Wood that “Woodn’t” Quit! What happens to the Printing and writing papers that you use to do your homework and that people in RECYCLING REUSES — paper we recycle? AND USES UP — RESOURCES ach person in the United States uses offices use for stationery and copy paper Paper is the most recycled product What’s in our recovered material? About 50 percent of all the paper are recycled into: Recycling can make our resources go farther, approximately 749 pounds of paper in the U.S. today. recovered in the United States is • printing and writing paper but when communities have to go a long way a year. Where does it all go? Some OTHER to collect those recyclables, they end up using E 25% recycled into new paper and paper- • paperboard of it goes into books or is used in other MORE THAN 4 OUT OF 10 board products. The remaining amount • tissue even more resources. PAPER AND PAPERBOARD PLASTICS They have to use fuel for the permanent applications like insulation 2% PACKAGES . . . is exported to other countries or reused collection trucks, and they need or roofing shingles for your home. * to make products like compost, which is equipment and people to sort Today, however, more Americans are MORE THAN 6 OF EVERY 10 used as a fertilizer in gardening. the materials. recycling paper products than ever before – NEWSPAPERS . . . GLASS WHERE DO 5% ALL THE over 47 million tons of paper. More paper BOXES GO? ALL PAPER IS NOT EQUAL MORE THAN 7 OF EVERY 10 is now recovered in the United States than More than 70 percent of all CORRUGATED NEWS YOU Not all paper can be recycled into new METALS CAN REUSE old corrugated boxes are goes to landfills. Paper recovery now averages BOXES . . . 11% paper products. 339 pounds of paper per person. Yesterday’s newspapers recycled back into new Some papers have too many contaminants to PAPER & become today’s news as containerboard and ARE BEING PAPERBOARD recycle. Used paper plates and pizza boxes are most old newspapers are paperboard products. What’s in our waste? RECOVERED 57% not made into new paper products because food recycled into new newsprint. cannot be removed during processing. Other PAPER & contaminants include carbon paper or plastic tape. PAPERBOARD There is also a limit to the number of times a OTHER 11.6% 40.4% piece of paper, a corrugated box or other paper The Even product can be recycled. Each time paper is reprocessed, the wood fibers YARD Chemicals and TRIMMINGS 4. SCREENING 5. DEINKING break down. They eventually get so small that 17.6% Recycling Energy are Recycled The pulp is then filtered Paper that had ink on they slip through the screens through a number of screens it – such as newspapers Today, U.S. pulp and paper mills during the screening process Process to remove impurities such as and magazines – must have recover about 98% of all chemi- and become waste that coatings, additives, fillers and the ink removed before it cals used to produce pulp goes to a landfill. THERE ARE SIX MAJOR STEPS loose ink particles. can be used to make a new from wood chips. IN THE RECYCLING PROCESS: paper product. In addition, water is
GLASS 7% The pulp enters a flotation reused throughout the
FOOD 7.4% device. Soapy chemicals are papermaking process. added to help the ink separate Even the energy used from the pulp. Air bubbles are to run a paper mill can blown into the mixture. The ink METALS 8.5% be converted and reused. attaches to the bubbles and rises PLASTICS 8% to the top. The inky bubbles are Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2002 then skimmed off, leaving the pulp ink-free. Recycling paper makes sense because it makes our resources go farther. Paper 1. PICK UP 2. SORTING is also easy to recycle because it is made Different types – or At the recycling center, the grades – of paper are paper is sorted to remove 3. REPULPING from wood, and it separates back into recycled into different contaminants – plastics, At the mill, the bales of fibers when soaked in water. The recycling types of new products. paper clips, sticky notes sorted recovered paper That’s why it’s important and other waste materials process produces a new paper or paper- are soaked in large vats NEW PRODUCTS to pre-sort your recover- that cannot be recycled. 6. board product out of materials that might of water and chemicals, The cleaned and deinked recycled able paper – for example, Then the paper is baled where they separate into pulp often is mixed with otherwise have ended up in a landfill. separating newspapers and sent to the mill. Bales fibers. This creates pulp. new pulp to be made into Recycling is one way to help manage the from magazines – for the can weigh around 1,000 paper products. solid waste we generate each year. people who pick it up. pounds each! *WOOD, RUBBER AND LEATHER.
PAPER FASHIONS & ART Paper Recycling Not all recycled paper comes back as paper or paper products WORDS TO KNOW MANUFACTURING • Walk on old magazines. One company makes shoes from Paper Recycling collage – a piece of artwork made by recycled materials, including fiber from old magazines. Throughout cutting materials such as colored paper • News you can wear. Peruvian women make rolled paper and old magazines and pasting them onto History necklaces out of coiled strips of paper cut from magazines. ACTIVITIES & Extras a surface to create a pattern or picture Paper Recycling • Art or Trash? Many artists Paper recycling has been use scrap material in their deinking – removing ink and other One: Tear the newspaper around as long as paper itself work. Henri Matisse used finishing materials, like coatings, sizings A look at our most recycled product different types of found You can into tiny pieces. and adhesives, from printed paper paper and printed material Right from the start to make collages. make paper! Two: Put the newspaper fibers – the long, thick-walled cells that Around 2,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered pieces and all three cups of Pablo Picasso sculpted give strength and support to plants that they could use a thin paste of mulberry water into the blender, cover it three-dimensional heads bark, hemp and rags to make the very first WHAT YOU NEED: landfill – a site where garbage is taken from cardboard and and turn it on medium speed piece of paper. collage materials. • A large square pan, for about five seconds. You’ve – a thick, strong paper about three inches deep paperboard just made pulp! primarily used for food packaging and N • Three cups of SO From rags to paper Place the screen on other containers HN le warm water Three: JO litt Recycling was important in colonial America. Back then, ES l er the bottom of the pan and cover OS al oth M ms his es people did not know how to make paper from wood. • Enough water to fill pulp – a mixture of fibers and water for nd ceiv it with one inch of water. in a e re R ses at h O one-third of the pan from which paper is made mis s th TON They used cloth rags instead. Rags were so scarce that mer OT T WO usto of C . c ds GS uy some mills advertised in the newspapers to urge the • One and one-half kin R A ill b Four: Pour about one cup all S w r recycling – a process where used EN AG k o sheets of newspaper IN F R boo colonists to save rags for use in the paper mills. L S O ory o of the pulp over the screen and ND st tw materials are sorted, cleaned and made OU or a on, P er ribb lve • Fine mesh wire screen prim of twe spread it around evenly with a rd ngs, of into new products ya o ri ngs (like a window screen) one , tw stri les two nine A recycling pioneer your fingers. imb les, fe, th eed kni to fit into the pan od n pen go one Mathias Koops was among the first to ads, . • A rolling pin be pins s of investigate whether he could make paper from Five: Lift the screen and let the water drain. row cheaper, more plentiful materials. He received • A whole section of three papermaking patents in 1800 and 1801. a newspaper Six: Put the screen, pulp side up, on the One was for the removal of printing and writing • A blender (you’ll need section of newspaper. Close the newspaper and ink from wastepaper before it was reused. The other an adult to help you) flip it over so that the pulp is now face down. two patents were for the manufacture of paper from straw, hay, thistles, hemp, flax Seven: Take a rolling pin and roll out and different kinds of the excess water. Open the newspaper and wood and bark. remove the screen.
Ask your mummy During the Civil War, rags became scarce. To get an additional supply of cloth to make paper, Augustus Stanwick imported mummies from Egypt to the United States. The mills made paper out of their linen wrappings. (Don’t try this with your mummies at home.) Eight: Leave the A paperless newspaper open and let school the pulp dry overnight. Until people learned In the morning, peel the how to make paper from “recycled paper” away from wood, paper was so rare the newspaper. Congratulations! and expensive that You’ve just recycled newspaper students used chalk and into a new piece of paper! slates in school to do their lessons. EDUCA TI ONAL IN NA TURE Volume 4, Manufacturing Number 1, Paper Recycling EDUCA TI ONAL IN NA TURE Learning supplements for environmental education. EIN-6 12/06 Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Mummy, TM Chaney Enterprises, Inc. 1997 © 2007 Georgia-Pacific LLC. All rights reserved. Photograph courtesy FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND magazine. www.gp.com/EducationalinNature