RECYLCING WASTE PAPER TO MAKE NOTICE BOARD AND PAPER BAG
CE 261-GROUP-1, 2018 PROJECT
PAPUA NEW GUINEA UNIVERSUTY OF TECHNOLOGY. CIVIL DEPARTMENT. ENGINEERING MATERIALS (CE 261)
RESULTS
BACKGROUND MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY
RESULTS FOR THE NOTICE BOARD
• If you walk around the university and the city, you will see lots MATERISALS USED The finished notice board looks solid, strong and has the similar
of waste papers lying around and not made use of causing • Waste papers ( any waste paper) capabilities as those manufactured. During compression the
waste pollution. So this project is based on making use of these • 100 L drum paper particles were slightly compressed, so that now when
waste papers to reduce pollution and to make use of the waste • 1 roll of Cotton thread putting up notices on it the pins can go in easily without much
papers. • 1 inch nails trouble.
• Our main purpose for choosing this topic to do our project was • Home made glue ( made from petrol and old polystyrene cups )
because we see this issue of used papers not being utilised • Off cut plywood and timbers RESULT FOR THE PAPER BAG
which is a big waste, so our main aim in this project is to
The finished product (the paper bag) looks strong and durable.
highlight some ways that waste paper can be reused. METHODOLOGY
•
Addition of cotton thread and home made glue (mixture of petrol
Steps on recycling of waste paper to make notice board and paper bags
and polystyrene ) made the paper bag rain proof, flexible and
1. Collect waste papers.
strong.
OBJECTIVES 2. Reduce the size of waste papers by cutting them up into small bits
3. Soak the cut up paper in water for a week then mechanically break them up into very tiny bits.
4. Make two moulds with dimension according to the designed product size, one for the notice board CONCLUSIONS
•. To reduce the amount of papers disposed by recycling
and the other for the paper bag. Recycling of waste paper contributes to the reduction of
them.
5. For the paper bags, nail pin tags all around the end of the mould and crisscross cotton thread along deforestation and littering. In our project we made use of waste
•To soak waste papers into water and construct notice board
those nails. 6. Pour the broken soaked papers into the paper to create a notice board and a paper bag which are very
after drying it.
moulds, for the paper bag make it as thin as possible. useful and cheap to produce. For the notice board ,there is no
•To come with ways in which to make paper bags that are
7. Compress the soaked papers in the moulds. chemical substance used in the production to give more adhesive
strong durable
8. Put the compressed soaked papers still in the moulds in the sun and let them get dry. strength to the paper particles but just pure water. It took two
9. After they get dried, take them out of the moulds, for the paper bag make a layer of glue on both weeks for the paper particles to dry and be fully compressed
sides of the paper. 10. For the notice board, make a ready to be used. For the paper bag, addition of petrol and
frame and put the dried paper from the mould into the frame, for the paper bag cut the paper according polystyrene mixture made it rain proof, flexible and strong. Only
REFERENCES to the design of the paper bag you want and also make handles. waste materials were used to produce both the paper bag and the
1.British council,(2016).starting waste paper 11. Paint the notice board using a paint colour you like. notice board, it did not cost anything but the end result was great,
recycling projects in urban schools: Retrieved and the products are going to be very useful.
from PHOTOGRAPHS ILUSTRATING CYCLE OF THE STEPS GIVEN ABOVE ( FROM STEP 1 TO 11)
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8&client=firefox-b-ab Trash paper is easy to work with.
The recycling of paper is very
2. Cleanipedia,(2018).Paper recycling: how to economical and can be beneficial, if
recycle paper at home. Retrieved from the proper tools are used the quality
:http://www.cleanipedia.com/gb/sustainability/p
of the products produced can be very
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good.
3.Worlldcount, (2014).Environment We recommend that every one
sustainability: different ways to recycle paper, should follow the simple steps in this
Retrivedfromhttp://mobile.dudasite.com/site/elgi project to recycle their own waste
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