Paper Recycling Throughout History PAPER FASHIONS & ART Paper recycling has been Not all recycled paper comes back as paper or paper products around as long as paper itself • Walk on old magazines. recycled materials, including fiber from old magazines. • Right from the start News you can wear. necklaces out of coiled stripsOne of paper company cut frommakes magazines. shoes from Around 2,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered • that they could use a thin paste of mulberry Art or Trash? Peruvian women make rolled paper bark, hemp and rags to make the very first use scrap material in their work. Henri MatisseMany used artists piece of paper different types of found . paper and printed material to make collages. Paper Recycling MOSES JOHNSON Pablo Picasso sculpted informs all little From rags to paper three-dimensional heads misses and his other Recycling was important in colonial America.from Back cardboard then, and customers that he receives ACTIVITIES all kinds of COTTON OR people did not know how to make paper collagefrom wood. materials. L INEN R AGS. T WO They used cloth rags instead. Rags were so scarce that P OUNDS OF R AGS will buy a primer or a storybook or some mills advertised in the newspapers to urge the one yard of ribbon, tw You can o colonists to save rags for use in the paper mills. thimbles, two rings, twelve WORDS TO KNOW good needles, two strings of make paper! & collage beads, one penknife, nine Extras rows of pins. A cutting materials– a piece such of artwork as colored made paper by recycling pioneer WHAT YOU NEED: One: Mathias Koops was among the first to and old magazines and pasting them onto into tiny pieces.Tear the newspaper • investigate whether he could make paper fr A large square pan, a surface to create a pattern or picture cheaper, more plentiful materials. He received about three inches deep Two: deinking three papermaking patents in 1800 and 1801. • Three cups of pieces and Putall threethe newspaper cups of finishing materials,– like coatings, sizings One was for the r warm water water into the blender, cover it removing ink and other and adhesives, from printed paper ink from wastepaper before it was reused. The otherom • Enough water to fill and turn it on medium speed two patents were foremoval the manufacture of printing ofand paper writing from straw, one-third of the pan for about five seconds. You’ve fibers • just made pulp! give strength– the andlong, support thick-walled to plants cells that M One and one-half ANUFACTURING sheets of newspaper Three: landfill • Fine mesh wire screen the bottom of Placethe pan the and screen cover on – a Paper Recycling (like a window screen) paperboard site where garbage is taken hay, it with one inch of water thistles, hemp, flax to fit into the pan primarily used for food packaging and and different kinds of • – a thick, strong paper A rolling pin Four: other containers wood and bark. • . A whole section of of the pulp overPour theabout screen one andcup pulp A look at our most recycled product a newspaper spr – ead it around evenly with fr a mixtur Ask your mummy • om which paper is made During the Civil War, rags became scarce. To get an A blender (you’ll need your fingers. e of fibers and water additional supply of cloth to make paper, Augustus an adult to help you) recycling Stanwick imported mummies from Egypt to the United materials are sorted, cleaned and made – a process where used States. The mills made paper out of their linen wrappings. into new products (Don’t try this with your mummies at home.) Five: Lift the scr A paperless Six: een and let the water drain. section ofPut newspaper the scr Until people learned how to make paperschool from flip it over so that theeen, pulp pulp is now side faceup, ondown. the Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Mummy, TM Chaney Enterprises, Inc. 1997 wood, paper was so rar . Close the newspaper and Photograph courtesy FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND magazine. and expensive that students used chalk and e Seven: slates in school to do the excess water.Take Opena rolling the pin newspaper and roll andout remove the screen. their lessons. Eight: newspaper openLeave and the let © 2007 Geor the pulp dry overnight. gia-Pacific LLC. All rights r EDUCA In the mor eser “recycled paper” away from ved. TI ning, peel the ONAL IN NA the newspaper. Congratulations! Learning supplements for environmental education. You’ve just r TURE into a new pieceecycled of paper! newspaper Volume 4, Manufacturing Number 1, Paper Recycling EIN-6 12/06 EDUCA TI ONAL IN NA www.gp.com/EducationalinNature TURE Paper Recycling Throughout History PAPER FASHIONS & ART Paper recycling has been Not all recycled paper comes back as paper or paper products around as long as paper itself • Walk on old magazines. recycled materials, including fiber from old magazines. • Right from the start News you can wear. necklaces out of coiled stripsOne of paper company cut frommakes magazines. shoes from Around 2,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered • that they could use a thin paste of mulberry Art or Trash? Peruvian women make rolled paper bark, hemp and rags to make the very first use scrap material in their work. Henri MatisseMany used artists piece of paper different types of found . paper and printed material to make collages. Paper Recycling MOSES JOHNSON Pablo Picasso sculpted informs all little From rags to paper three-dimensional heads misses and his other Recycling was important in colonial America.from Back cardboard then, and customers that he receives ACTIVITIES all kinds of COTTON OR people did not know how to make paper collagefrom wood. materials. L INEN R AGS. T WO They used cloth rags instead. Rags were so scarce that P OUNDS OF R AGS will buy a primer or a storybook or some mills advertised in the newspapers to urge the one yard of ribbon, tw You can o colonists to save rags for use in the paper mills. thimbles, two rings, twelve WORDS TO KNOW good needles, two strings of make paper! & collage beads, one penknife, nine Extras rows of pins. A cutting materials– a piece such of artwork as colored made paper by recycling pioneer WHAT YOU NEED: One: Mathias Koops was among the first to and old magazines and pasting them onto into tiny pieces.Tear the newspaper • investigate whether he could make paper fr A large square pan, a surface to create a pattern or picture cheaper, more plentiful materials. He received about three inches deep Two: deinking three papermaking patents in 1800 and 1801. • Three cups of pieces and Putall threethe newspaper cups of finishing materials,– like coatings, sizings One was for the r warm water water into the blender, cover it removing ink and other and adhesives, from printed paper ink from wastepaper before it was reused. The otherom • Enough water to fill and turn it on medium speed two patents were foremoval the manufacture of printing ofand paper writing from straw, one-third of the pan for about five seconds. You’ve fibers • just made pulp! give strength– the andlong, support thick-walled to plants cells that M One and one-half ANUFACTURING sheets of newspaper Three: landfill • Fine mesh wire screen the bottom of Placethe pan the and screen cover on – a Paper Recycling (like a window screen) paperboard site where garbage is taken hay, it with one inch of water thistles, hemp, flax to fit into the pan primarily used for food packaging and and different kinds of • – a thick, strong paper A rolling pin Four: other containers wood and bark. • . A whole section of of the pulp overPour theabout screen one andcup pulp A look at our most recycled product a newspaper spr – ead it around evenly with fr a mixtur Ask your mummy • om which paper is made During the Civil War, rags became scarce. To get an A blender (you’ll need your fingers. e of fibers and water additional supply of cloth to make paper, Augustus an adult to help you) recycling Stanwick imported mummies from Egypt to the United materials are sorted, cleaned and made – a process where used States. The mills made paper out of their linen wrappings. into new products (Don’t try this with your mummies at home.) Five: Lift the scr A paperless Six: een and let the water drain. section ofPut newspaper the scr Until people learned how to make paperschool from flip it over so that theeen, pulp pulp is now side faceup, ondown. the Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Mummy, TM Chaney Enterprises, Inc. 1997 wood, paper was so rar . Close the newspaper and Photograph courtesy FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND magazine. and expensive that students used chalk and e Seven: slates in school to do the excess water.Take Opena rolling the pin newspaper and roll andout remove the screen. their lessons. Eight: newspaper openLeave and the let © 2007 Geor the pulp dry overnight. gia-Pacific LLC. All rights r EDUCA In the mor eser “recycled paper” away from ved. TI ning, peel the ONAL IN NA the newspaper. Congratulations! Learning supplements for environmental education. You’ve just r TURE into a new pieceecycled of paper! newspaper Volume 4, Manufacturing Number 1, Paper Recycling EIN-6 12/06 EDUCA TI ONAL IN NA www.gp.com/EducationalinNature TURE 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.