What is wood-free paper? Where it is used?

Answer 1

Apparently you can make paper out of a lot of different materials. I saw a program (ok, by "program", I mean Blues Clues) where people were making paper out of worn out jeans. I'm guessing if you can make paper out of jeans, you can make it out of a lot of things.

I also used to work in a stationery store where some of the paper was made from flowers and other non-wood materials. It wasn't easy to write on, let me tell you! There was another type of paper called vellum that looked sort of plastic. If you wrote on it on one side with a marker, you could see what you wrote on the other side.

Answer 2

Woodfree Paper

Answer 3

Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibers. The fibers used are usually natural and composed of cellulose. The most common source of these kinds of fibers is wood pulp from pulpwood trees, (largely softwoods) such as spruce. However, other vegetable fiber materials including cotton, hemp, linen, and rice may be used.

Paper made in the west since the industrial revolution has been almost exclusively wood based, except for a few specialized papers like those used in banknotes. However, at least one company (Cloudy Bay Cotton) has recently tried to introduce cotton based tissue papers to westernised countries as an alternative to wood based ones. Their reasons for doing this are that the cotton based tissue papers are less abrasive, less likely to cause allergic reactions, and far more environmentally friendly than wood papers, as they are made from renewable materials. The type of cotton fibres used for making paper are discarded as unusable waste from the textile industry, and can be manufactured using fewer chemicals and less energy.

Some manufacturers, notably AMD, have started using a new, slightly more environmentally friendly alternative to expanded plastic packaging made out of paper, known commercially as "paperfoam". The packaging has very similar mechanical properties to some expanded plastic packaging, but is biodegradable and can also be recycled with ordinary paper. [1]

With increasing environmental concerns about synthetic coatings (such as PFOA) and the currently higher prices of hydrocarbon based petrochemicals, there is a recent focus on zein (corn protein) as a coating for paper in high grease applications such as popcorn bags. [2]

Synthetics such as Tyvek and Teslin have been introduced as printing media as a more durable material than paper.

Answer 4

Paper today is usually made from wood because timber companies were given the land at knock-down prices by governments to "develop" forested land.
So it has been a cheap resource to be mined without suitable cosytng for replacement or preservation of the rest of the eco-system, eg water run off and water table changes, landslides, loss of bio-diversity, loss of indigeneous cultures and knowledge, loss of gene bank, loss of non-timber economic outputs such as rubber, herbs, nuts, hunting ...
Governments also provide the infrastucture such as roads, ports, and don't enforce water pollution and illegal trade laws.

Paper can be made from any fiberous materials and there are many better than wood pulp.
the word is from egyptian Papyrus made from reeds.

Hemp paper was used for the draft of the US constitution because of it's long lasting (low acid) qualities.
Hemp also required no agro-chemicals, little water in growing or processing, improves soil structure, all parts are useful - seeds are high in omega oils; hemp oil is a good bio-diesel, fibers can be used in clothing, straw can be used in bricks and plasitics ... Henry Ford produced car body parts from Hemp, and Levi jeans were originally hemp canvas.

Hemp paper can be used anywhere wood pulp is used, but because of the subsidies for wood mentioned, and some governments restrictions on growing hemp which might compete with their cotton, steel, oil and timber companies, hemp is more expensive so only used where top quality paper is required, like university degree certificates

Answer 5

Most paper is made out of wood pulp. There are other kinds of materials used to make paper, such as cotton rags, or other types of plant materials...and also such things as vellum, which is animal skin.

Answer 6

wood free paper is made with recycled news papers. they recook it with water to make pulp again then make paper again.

Answer 7

I think its hand-made paper....not coming from trees or something like that.........i dunno whr its used.