4 Things You Should Know About Paper Garbage Recycling Sorting

With the popularization of garbage sorting awareness, more and more people participate in this environmental protection activity. Paper is a widely used stuff in our life, and it also makes countless garbages. There is a problem with paper garbage recycling – it’s hard on the sorting job.

Not all paper garbage can be recycled and reused.

Paper Garbage Concept

Paper garbages including old newspapers, books, magazines, SOS bags, catalogs, delivery packages, milk boxes, carbon paper, wax paper, tissue, paper diapers, etc.

And the recycled paper has a requirement to the fiber state of the raw material; it can not be too short.

Generally speaking, the shredded paper processed by the shredder is suitable for recycling. However, some high-class shredders will break the paper into powder, which is not easy to recycle. So before waste paper products are sent to recovery processing, they need to be sorted.

Paper Garbages Which Easy Recycling

Ordinary White Paper

It typically means the offcut from the paper cutting in the factory. They are best to be unprinted and unlettered.

Inside pages of The Books

The books have never sold out, 100% brand new ones will be great for recycling.

Old Newspapers

The obsolete newspapers and magazines.

Cartons

With the growth of online shopping, cartons have become most of our daily paper garbage. Fortunately, they are easy to recycle. But the tape and sticker on them belong to another type of garbage.

Kraft Paper

Kraft paper is a popular material for making stuff. It has an excellent tear resistance performance and toughness. Grocery bags, envelopes, and file covers are the common kraft paper products.

Paper Garbages Which Hard To Recycle

Under the current technology, some types of paper garbages are hard to recycle and reuse. It costs high and is not in line with economic benefits, especially to the developing countries. They will be compressed to landfills, wait for natural decompose, or be incinerated most of the time.

Daily Necessities

Garbages like tissues, napkins, paper diapers, and food package papers are hard to recycle because they have been polluted by stains like oil.

Printings

Photos, postcards, carbon papers, receipts, and sticky notes had been printed by ink, their components became complicated. It cost high to retexture them.

Paper Disposables

Almost all the paper cups and food containers have a pe-coated inside. It provides great waterproof performance but makes the recycling job become more difficult because it’s hard to separate them.

Paper Garbage Recycling Advocacy

A. To sort out the garbages with high recovery value first before throwing them into the dustbin, make sure they won’t be polluted by the other wastes.

B. Don’t put those garbages which has been polluted into the recyclable bin, such as the food containers and packages. All soda cans should be empty, bottle and the cap should go into different bins.

C. Wastepaper should be subdivided during processing, removing the non-paper accessories. It will be nice to pack the different types of paper stuff separately, making recycling easy.

D. You also need to take care of those paper that contains your private information, such as the express waybills and financial accounts, to avoid privacy breaches.

E. Do not mix the good paper garbages with the others like leftovers, or the papers can not be recycled but only can be landfill and burned away.

Conclusion

The economic value is just one reason for the waste paper reclamation promotion. Nowadays, we can not live without paper products. To recycle paper garbages properly means a lot to the environment.

A ton of waste paper can be reprocessed into about 850-kilogram high-quality recycled paper, saving 3 cubic meters of wood, 100 cubic meters of water, 300-kilogram chemical materials, 1.2-ton coal, 600 KWH. Suppose we plan to produce 20000 tons of recycled paper with waste paper. In that case, we can save about 66 thousand cubic meters of wood, which is equivalent to protecting 520 thousand trees and increasing a large forest area.