People do not have the original timber of paper, Germany to encourage the use of recycled paper

Modern life can not be separated from paper, wood for paper production will be consumed. How can we save and make full use of the paper, less consumption of wood to protect this forest? Many of the Germans we should learn from practice.

The euro officially began in Germany in circulation, the Government recovery of the failure of the German mark bank notes. Recently, a large number of German mark notes were sold to paper used to produce tissue regeneration. The move, the Germans considered to be taken for granted.

Germany Greenpeace There is a slogan: "Only when the last tree was cut down, we will find that the original can also use other materials of paper production." Europe, North America and Latin America's manufacturers have begun to use other than wood pulp The other fiber materials for paper production, but production of toxic waste generated by the large number of energy consumption, as well as the limited space technology development. In the search for new raw materials for paper production, production and promotion of the "recycled" campaign has also quietly rising. In this regard, the Germans go in front of the world.

Tissue, toilet paper is recycled

Germans refuse classification known as the habit of every family in front of the general trash 3, Recycling an ordinary garbage, plastic products, such as a recovery, another is dedicated to recycling paper. In the train station, hotels and other public places have special bins for recycling paper or plastic bags. At present, the recovery was the old paper, wood pulp and fiber materials have constituted the three major German paper raw materials. The recovery of the old paper first to use bad blisters, and then isolated not suitable for the production of paper, after a break down the old paint colors, some printed on paper and so on. At this point the old pulp is in itself a variety of different lengths of fiber mixture, and then will be able to produce according to the needs of different types of paper.

In Germany, there are a lot of recycled paper products, from students with the day-to-day practice of the sales girls to use paper receipts from the post office with the envelopes, stamps to a variety of newspapers and magazines, from the restaurant's toilet paper napkin to the toilet paper.

Environmental safety of recycled paper

Recycled paper is more readily identifiable. Generally speaking, the color of recycled paper Chengdan gray, then white as ordinary paper, the feel, a little recycled paper to be a little rough. 100 percent recycled paper is to recover the old paper as raw material made of, and recycled paper also does not contain any allergens, carcinogenic substances or color of raw materials, so from the use, recycled paper is completely safe.

The quality of recycled paper is not worse than ordinary paper. Other environmentalists also pointed out that the process for the production of recycled water and energy consumption has decreased significantly, the production of recycled paper for other aspects of environmental protection also should not be underestimated.

According to Greenpeace Germany's statistics, over the past few years the Germans utilization rate of recycled paper has improved. From 1986 to 46% to 58% in 1995, by the utilization rate of recycled paper in 1996 reached a peak of 60%, to 1997 after returning to the 59% level. The utilization rate has been regarded as the Germans in the history of the development of environmental protection is a big step forward. In Western Europe as a whole the average utilization rate of recycled paper to 49%, from the point of view the world as a whole is 43%. In Germany, the paper was awarded the "Blue Angel environmental" good reputation.

Recycled paper exercise books cheap

Recycled paper market in Germany has a 17-year history. Recycled paper in Germany there was such a high utilization rate of Germany and the good tradition of environmental protection and environmental education are inseparable.

In the primary and secondary schools often have a major Greenpeace members of the students to send leaflets calling on students to make full use of recycled paper as raw material made of this practice. In order to allow students to use more recycled paper in this exercise, carried out from the price control, recycled paper products are generally cheaper. Take the same 80-page exercise books, exercise books of paper prices in general are 2 euros, or more than 3 euros, not paper logs, paper and other fiber made from this general practice in the 1 euro and 2 euros, and Use of recycled paper made from color-deep in practice this is more than 1 euro below. In addition, many states of the Federal Government has recommended the use of recycled paper.

Last year, Greenpeace Germany Deutsche Post on the use of ordinary paper into envelopes, writing pads, stamps and carried out protests, the protests eventually won, as one of Germany's largest companies, said Deutsche Post from the original to give up the use made of wood pulp The envelope. Before that they used in paper pulp from Finland's forests.

In spite of Germany to promote the use of recycled paper has made a series of remarkable achievements, Germany's environmentalist or dare not take it lightly. The main reason lies in the people's demand for paper increased. According to statistics, every German consumption of 214.6 kg per year of the paper, higher than the world average of 51 kg. So environmentalists solemnly pointed out that to promote the use of recycled paper has a long way to go, and is equally important that people reduce consumption of paper than to promote the use of recycled paper is more meaningful.