Question by Norm: What kind of waste is produced by recycling paper?
Okay, so I’m doing a report for my environmental management course, and I need to know what kind of waste is produced from the process of paper recycling.
In other words, I am the recycling plant. Through the process of which the original paper is recycled and turned into new, recycled paper, what kind of waste is produced from the process of doing so?
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Answer by terc
Every working process have besides effects. Like noise, heat, something must powering engines and if it’s oil so engine produce CO2, if it’s electricity there should be some kind of radiation (electromagnetism for instance).
In present not existing working process witch would be not produce some kind of waste (cutting for instance). We trying to do that but it is impossible right now. We trying minimize these besides effect but completely remove these effects is not possible. We can use these effects – cutting is going back to working process, heat can be use like some kind of energy etc.
In process of recycling used paper they use chemicals to meltdown paper. Use chemicals to cleaning used paper. So the biggest waste of recycling used paper is some kind of chemicals … witch one it’s on you to find it out
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you have to transport the waste paper to your plant, fuel is used, Diesel.
you grind the paper into small pcs. electrical energy is used to power the grinders. Gas or propane is used to move the bails of paper out side of your building and electrical power is used for fort lifts inside the plant.
moving the paper from the grinder to the bleacher is conveyor belts. electrical power again.
bleaching of the paper will take out most of the color and leave you with a gunky mess of ink and fine paper, this isn’t usable waste.
To the dryers next, again in tubs and a fork lift. pour it out and press it down into form and extrude it into the thickness you want and the pattern on the paper you need. i.e. a paper napkin that is a lite brown in color and used to clean up after eating fast food.
so your waste is anything that is not made into paper that comes in with your paper. string, wire, etc. fuels and electrical power. Any water used will be contaminated so it has to be put into a holding pond and then pumped out again to drain and to the sewer system a After it is stirred and cleaned up.