Recycling Lab

Noelle J, Zoe H, Cloe U.

What’s our goal?
- To produce recycled paper from a variety of paper
- Newspaper
- Lined paper
- White paper

- To test the durability of recycled paper, and manufactured

paper

- Create a paper that is both efficient and pleasing to the eye

(smooth)
Why did we choose this?

“ We chose this subject to elaborate on a more for a clear

understanding of how recycled paper is made, and if it’s
effective to produce, use, and substitute for, ultimately, a
better environment and ecosystem.”
What are the methods?
- To make pulp (paper material + lint + water) of an isolated concoction or
mixture of two papers.
- Test the durability by applying weights to the middle of the paper.
- Continue to play with how much weight each paper can hold, with the
goal to see which can hold on longer, and which breaks the easiest.
- Produced new recycled paper made from the strongest durability of the
recycled paper (Newspaper + Lined paper)
What are the results?
- Majority of recycled paper have weak bonds
- Lined Paper
- White Paper
- Newspaper/White Paper
- Newspaper/Lined Paper

- Majority of processed of paper have stronger bonds

- Lined Paper
- White Paper

Newspaper (recycled) outweighed the manufactured paper.

Data of Recycled Paper
The amount of grams (weight) that the recycled paper is capable of holding
before tearing.

Lined Paper White Paper Newspaper Newspaper/Wh Newspaper/Li

ite Paper ned Paper

918g 918g 610g 2058g 1110g

Data of Manufactured Paper
The amount of grams (weight) that the manufactured paper is capable of
holding before tearing.

Lined Paper White Paper Newspaper

1670g 2965g 300g

Recycled Paper
Discussion
- The paper had changed durability in the process of recycling.
- When we tested the original un-recycled paper, we found that the
strongest paper was plain white printer paper, the weakest being the
newspaper.
- The strongest paper was the newspaper.
- The density of the water-paper mixture had a lot to do with the results.\
- The newspaper was a lot thicker when in the water mixture and we
couldn’t control the consistency.
- Our final products came out with different thickness so that also
affected how much weight it would hold.
What did we conclude?
- The goal of our project was to determine the durability by comparing the
developed recycled paper and manufactured paper.
- We learned that from our process and observation, the processed paper has more
durability compared to the majority of the recycled paper.
- We also learned that from experimenting with the amount of material used to
make one sheet of recycled paper can determine the density/durability of itself
when tested.
- We recognize that we did not monitor the amount of pulp made up of paper(s)
and lint, which we knew affected our results.
- The recycled newspaper was thicker and therefore more durable to held more
weight than the un-recycled newspaper due to the amount of pulp we padded on,
during the process of laying our paper.