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- From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
- Newsgroups: talk.environment,alt.save.the.earth
- Subject: Re: make your own paper
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 07:08:09 GMT
- Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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- > I was just in a store called "Natural Wonders" and they sold
- > a paper-making kit for about $25. The box said that you can
- > use old magazines, newspapers and junk mail and within 1/2
- > hour recycle it into usable paper. The process involves using
- > your own blender but the writing on the box doesn't get very
- > detailed into how the kit works.
-
- =\= This sounds like something I bought, but I paid about $20.
- The instructions are indeed a bit too sparse. I'm not wild
- about the blender part -- if you've got a shredder at work or
- something, I suspect that's much more energy-efficient. (The
- bicycle- or foot-treadle-powered food-processor of my dreams
- has not been built yet. :-))
-
- > I'm very curious to hear if anyone has tried this product
- > before. If it works, great! But I'm very skeptical.
-
- =/= It works. White office paper, newsprint, or brown paper
- bags turns out stuff you can actually write or draw on. You
- can make some nifty hand-crafted paper things with it, and
- I've got vague plans to use such to make lamps for my compact
- fluorescent bulbs.
-
- =\= Glossy magazines and junkmail are a different story: you
- can make a colorful paper out of it that might serve as some
- kinda giftwrap, but only if you're giving the gift to a friend
- who likes the industrial collage look. Presonally, I think
- it's pretty ugly.
-
- =/= I've got even vaguer plans to make ugly envelopes out of
- junk mail to send back to junk mailers.
- <_Jym_>
-