Various everyday materials such as paper, glass, and plastic are recycled. Useful for many situations, these materials have many uses; however, paper is one of the most valuable and sustainable common materials.
Read below to find the plethora of benefits of regularly recycling paper.
How Does It Happen?
Before shredding occurs, workers at the paper mill sort the paper into categories, including glossy, printer, newspaper, and many other types of paper.
Process of Recycling
The shredding of the paper includes injecting many chemicals and water into the paper. The paper must also be inspected and checked for any non-paper materials in the mush; this inspection occurs before and after the paper is turned into mush.
With this inspection, a process known as de-inking occurs; this process aims to remove the printing ink and glues. To further clean papers that need it, some papers enter a floatation process in which the ink attaches itself to small particles and floats to the surface of the floatation device, hence the name.
Similar to the floatation process, some paper must be bleached to reach the desired color.
The final step in the recycling process of paper is the stretching and drying of the paper; after this step, the recycled paper is sent off to many companies so that businesses can use it for their respective purposes.
Benefits to Recycling
Recycling saves valuables such as trees, water, oil, and energy. It also reduces CO2 emissions, preventing dangerous greenhouse gases from entering our atmosphere. Paper can be recycled multiple times, proving its incredible usability. Along with the many environmental benefits of recycling paper, there are many economic benefits. Recycling reduces the taxes and fines that governments enable due to immense waste.
Materials That Use Recycled Resources
- Cardboard
- Printer paper
- Water bottles
- Utensils and many more
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