Next-Generation Recycling Using Industrial Waste Paper

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Kankyo Keiei Sougou Kenkyusyo is currently developing a variety of products made from industrial waste paper.

The Institute has already developed environmentally friendly, reusable chopsticks that contain a recycled paper content of over 50 percent. These chopsticks can be washed over and over and still be reused.

The Institute is also in the process of developing "Mapka" which is a food container made primarily out of recycled paper. These products are created out of a molding material using kneading technology that combines waste paper powder with a polyolefin-based resin. Mapka containers are a new kind of material that maintain the properties of paper as well as possess the elasticity of plastic. After use, they can be recycled like paper products and have potential as a plastic substitute

In the Institute's Earth Republic line of business, waste paper is mixed with a special starch with a polyolefin-based resin in order to produce foam. These foams are manufactured by extruding foam through steaming the mixture. Currently, these foams are in demand by various manufacturers to be used as packing materials or as heat insulation material.

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[dayspeace]

this is wonderful. It is nice to know that institutions and people continue to find ways to recycle things.

[tsunayoshi987]

@TheRealGrendelKhan

dood u can totally use recycled paper into more recycled paper, just ground it to a pulp with water and baking soda, then let it dry and then reuse the pulp and ground it but this time with bleach and baking flour and dry it on a large box to a paper consitency

[TheRealGrendelKhan]

@htsuji More research into the product shows that they use paper that cannot be recycled back into paper. The shredded paper they use as the source for the ground product (which is then compounded into polypropylene) has cellulosic fibers that are too short for use in standard paper production. The ground paper also enhances some properties of the polyolefin.

[htsuji]

Some purists say this kind of paper recycling is not a proper way that should have done because the paper powder is just a filler, which is not necessarily made of paper, and the products are practically plastic castings.

But I'm sure it's better than nothing. Currently, it needs roughly equal amount of plastic to bond some paper powder but it'll be reduced in the future.

[DjArpegius]

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