My dad gave us an automatic paper shredder, so now we can be self-sufficient in chicken bedding. When I told my friends, one said: Aaaarrrgh! Why didn't I thinkof that? We shred stuff regularly, but I've always just thrown the resulting shreds away. and then paid for hay for the chickens bedding. Thank you.
We've used quite a bit of shredded paper as packing material for dad's belongings. You can also add shredded paper to the compost heap, or make it into briquettes for burning. Any other uses for shredded paper?
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I saw an artical where a company will reassemble shredded paper for a fee. If cross shredded it was 8,000 dollars a cubic foot. The strips could be a small as 0.8 mm by 11 mm. What amazes me is that anyone cund do anything with strips that small, it seems like it'd be hopeless.
Anyway ,nice site, I remember kohl rabis from my dad's garden, he'd peel one and slice it for me when I was little. I believe the term is actually Italian.
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Don Stockbauer
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Hi Don. That service sounds like a bunch of people with OCD have figured out a way to use their abilities for profit. I'd like to see them reassemble documents after they've been used for chicken bedding.
Mel, did you read the various pieces of paranoia on SSish about using paper in compost? I was left feeling that I might want to use less of it, although not wanting to cut it out all together. I suppose the main difference is that I'm not generating the paper myself, I was handling it as waste from a local surgery.
Oh, and another use for it? Undertakers use it as the padding to go under the satin in coffins. Yes, really.
I read some of the postings, Hedgie, but I just can't believe paper of all things is as dangerous as all that. And if it is that dangerous I'd be extremely worried about the sheer volume of this terribly toxic substance my household seems to get through.
The general point I took from it was that bleached paper contains dioxins, which are stable enough when the paper is... well, paper... but which get liberated when the paper is burned, turned to dust (as in a shredder) or soaked with some run-off (as in a composter). The thing that seems to be lacking is an appreciation of the LEVELS of contamination, which seem to be vanishingly small, but still there. Kind of like the pesticide residue on fruit and veg really; probably not a problem, but not something that you'd want to do too much of.
My own source of paper was shredded presciptions, and after Digiveg's warning about the chemicals used as dyes I did a little search and found... a campaign by a group of medical staff who have displayed skin and breathing reactions to the green prescription forms. Enough said, no more green forms in my compost!
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