How Paper is Recycled?

Paper is one the material that can be easily recycled. Recycled paper is paper that was made from paper and paper products that has already been used and recovered. People need to take their time and save the paper products so that they can be recycled. Paper recycling begins with us. We all need to show our interest in recycling to make it successful. 

The Paper recycling activity can start at school, college, home, office, local community and even at drop off centers. We all need to understand what products can be recycled before staring the recyling process and how to properly prepare them for the recycling.

If you have a keen interest in knowing how the paper is recycled, you can make a visit to your nearby recycling plant and see how the waste paper undergoes recyling process. Most companies share process and information with people to make them understand better how the recycling process takes place and encourage them to participate in this process.

Paper is collected from the bin and deposited in the large recycling container along with the paper from the other recycle bins. This is the first process in the paper recycling process. Once the paper is collected from the recycle bins it is taken to the recycling plant where the waste paper is sorted and separated into types and grades.

The second process is pulping. In this process large amount of water is addded to the waste paper to produce pulp. Once pulp is produced it is then passed through a series of screens to remove larger pieces of contaminants for eg: inks, staples, plastic film and glue. The clean paper pulp is then placed in the machine that uses centrifugal cleaning to spin more of the debris from the paper pulp.

The paper is the left to dry and is rolled up to be sent to shops. Different materials are then added to the pulp to create different paper products such as cardboard, newsprints or office paper. The bleaching process needs to be done if paper is intended to be white.

The whole recycling process for a newspaper takes around 7 days. Study suggests that paper can be recycled approximately seven times. Each time the paper is recycled, it's length decreases which impacts it's strength. These recycled products always bear recycling logo so you can make sure that you buy environmentally safe techniques. This helps in cleaning the environment and reducing the landfills.