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Paper Recycling: Let's Reduce Waste and Protect the Environment

Discover the importance of paper recycling in reducing waste and protecting the environment. Learn about the benefits of recycling paper and how it can lower energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Explore the history of papermaking and the modern efforts of Italian municipalities in promoting paper recycling.

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Paper Recycling: Let's Reduce Waste and Protect the Environment

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  1. COMENIUS PROJECT “Let’s know, let’s love, let’s protect our environment” PAPER RECYCLING

  2. RECYCLING Nature doesn't know "rejection". The waste of others is useful to nature.

  3. People are constantly producing goods for their own consumption, if these are not recycled, they produce huge amounts of waste which pollutes the environment.

  4. It’s possible to reduce consumption of energy and of materials:1) reducing the production of non-reusable material2) recycling efficiently the used materials

  5. RECYCLABLE WASTE PLASTIC GLASS ALLUMINIUM ORGANIC WASTE DRY WASTE PAPER

  6. PAPER Paper is a thin layer of cellulose fibers or of similar material (wood pulp, waste paper), superimposed and pressed, to which other ingredients are joined during processing: fillers, adhesives and colorants.

  7. ELECTRIC ENERGY CELLULOSE DERIVED FROM TREES WATER RAW MATERIALS CHARGES (to compact the fibers and increase the white) DYES (to color the paper) ADHESIVES (to avoid the absorption of the inks)

  8. • 16Paper consumption 60 Kg: amount of paper consumed annually by each Italian 300.000.000 tons: world consumption of paper per year is equivalent to a pile of copier paper as tall as the distance from the earth to the moon multiplied by 16.

  9. PAPER CONSUMPTION IN THE WORLD

  10. Belgium consumes the most for the bureaucracy in Brussels. • Despite the new digital media in the last 30 years, the paper consumption in Europe has increased by 50% which is the equivalent of 6 more trees per person a year. • Italy doesn’t appear in the chart but it is in the ranking between Switzerland and Netherlands.

  11. Information related to paper thin sheets for writing (39%) uses of paper thin sheets for sanitary uses (17%) percentage thick paper for packaging (35%)

  12. Paper can be easily recycled Paper used The new life of paper

  13. Advantages of the recycling of paper • Lower use of raw materials (water, cellulose, energy) • Reduction of waste to send to garbage dumps • Lower number of garbage dumps (smaller use of territory ) • Reduction of CO2

  14. COMPARED TO… To produce a ton of paper from cellulose we need: To produce a ton of waste paper we need: 15 trees 440.000 liters of water 7.600 kWh electric energy 0 trees 1.800 liters of water 2.700 kWh electric energy

  15. Lower environmental impact 3.000.000 tons:amount of paper and cardboard collected in 2011 in Italy and recycled= saves 26 landfills Recycling 70 kg of paper saves a tree

  16. REDUCTION OF EMISSION OF CO2 • recycling a ton of paper and cardboard there is a saving of 1.3 tons of co2. • Starting to recycle 100 grams per day of paper and cardboard means do not enter the atmosphere 27 kg of CO2 (carbon dioxide) per year

  17. 105 ADTs'ai Lun a Chinese dignitary of the court presented to the emperor his first paper he made ​​using old rags, fishing nets and bark of trees. In China, the paper was initially used as clothing …A BIT OF HISTORY

  18. . From 750 ADafter a long period in which papermaking was confined to China, a Chinese prisoner, dealer by profession, taught Arab people how to produce paper and thanks to them, the paper quickly spread throughout Europe. 1100 AD: The paper imported from Europe arrived to Damascus, through Constantinople 1268 : in Fabriano in Italy, the first European paper mill begins to prepare the dough for the card with a faster processing, such as the grinding of rags (first manual), the sizing with gelatine animal leaves, reducing costs and improving quality. The monopoly of the Italian paper lasted until the fourteenth century

  19. Since 1844 the problem of making paper using a cheap raw material was solved . In Germany it was deposited the first patent for the preparation of paper from wood.

  20. Since 2009 Italian municipalities are required to collect paper and the other waste in different recycling bins. In Italy in recent years, 9 out of 10 packages were recovered and recycled 90%of newspapers are made of recycled paper. In some regions of Italy we recycle the 80 % of paper.

  21. Percentage of recycling municipalitiesin Italy

  22. 1293 Italian municipalities have reached 65% recycling of waste. 330 municipalities are waste free.

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