How do you recycle paper?

Question

I mean de-inking and whitening it, what chemicals do you use and how and is it possible to buy these chemicals in drugstores or is it somewhere else?

Answer 1

hmm if you want to make funky handmade paper then soak strips of newspaper in some laundry powder and water for overnight. it'll go mushy enough to rinse & squeeze excess water out from through a mesh and let dry to reveal beautifully textured paper~ * you could also add some dye to it before squeezing water out~

Of course you could buy this from the shops for a ridiculous price.

Answer 2

I do it chem-free. I just sort the colors before I soak it to get the best color. If it has a moderate amount of ink, it won't show. For white, I collect the bottoms of pages that have no ink on it, or people save me the dots from their hole puncher.

My method for making recycled paper is here
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070326052444AA2iC2N
.

Answer 3

Your question has actually already been asked on Yahoo! Answers. Here's a link:

http://answer.google.com/answers/threadview?id=97856