- Books Name
- Class 6 Science Book
- Publication
- PathSet Publications
- Course
- CBSE Class 6
- Subject
- Science
Recycling of Paper
- Recycling is reusing waste materials that are discarded.
- Recycling reduces the wastage of products and pollution.
STEPS TO RECYCLE PAPER
You will require pieces of old newspapers, magazines, used envelopes, notebooks, or any other paper.
- Do not use shiny, plastic coated paper. You will also need a frame fitted with a wire mesh or a net.
- You can also use a large sized sieve in place of a frame. Tear the paper into small pieces.
- Put them in a tub or a bucket and pour water in it. Let the pieces of paper remain submerged in water for a day.
- Make a thick paste of paper by pounding it. Now, spread the wet paste on the wire mesh fixed to the frame.
- Pat it gently to make the thickness of layer of the paste as uniform as possible. Wait till water drains off.
- If required spread an old cloth or a sheet of newspaper on the paste to let it soak up the extra water.
- Now, carefully remove the layer of paste from the frame, spread it on a sheet of newspaper in the sun.
- Keep the corners of the newspaper sheet pressed by putting some weights so that these do not curl up.
- You can add food colour, pieces of dry leaves or flower petals or pieces of colored paper in the paste before spreading it.
It would help you to get a recycled paper with beautiful patterns on it.
- Recycling paper on a small scale is a relatively easy process.
- We should always write on both sides of paper sheets.
- Unused pages from old notebooks can be torn off and made into a new notebook for doing rough work and other miscellaneous work.
- We can also reuse envelopes and covers by using stickers to write new addresses.
- We can also make fresh paper from old newspapers.