The PaperWise factory works with tens of thousands of small local farms that produce food in the region. The location was chosen because the region produces sufficient amounts of agricultural waste for paper production. That’s why PaperWise’s graphic PaperWise is produced in Kagithapuram in the province of Tamil Nadu in India. One principle of PaperWise is to keep transportation to a minimum. PaperWise products are used for stationary, brochures, notepads, copying paper, envelopes, magazines, books, labels and packaging materials for fruits and vegetables as well as for snacks and convenience food. The researchers found that PaperWise product reached sustainability indicators that were 47 % better that those of wood-based FSC-paper and 29 % better than those of recycled paper. The researchers assessed the impact of PaperWise Products in a Life-Cycle-Analysis (LCA)- Quickscan study, looking at the impact of natural resources, chemicals, water, energy, machinery and waste on the environment over the span of the whole lifecycle of the product. To ensure that there are no unintended consequences, the sustainability of PaperWise products has been studied by the IVAM University of Amsterdam. Throughout the production process, PaperWise aims at reducing its environmental impact as far as possible while providing high quality paper and cardboard products. The company’s inspiration is a simple motto: Nature knows no waste. They hope that schoolchildren will spontaneously answer the question ‘What is paper made of?’ in several years with: ‘From agricultural waste like leaves and stems’, the company states on its website. He and the PaperWise team have a clear vision. He thought: There has to be a better way and decided to find out how he could turn waste into paper. PaperWise founder Peter van Rosmalen started the company after he saw how agricultural waste was burned on his travels around the world. This process not only uses resources in a responsible way, it also contributes to reducing deforestation. PaperWise has come up with a process that uses the plant residue to produce high quality paper that can be recycled up to seven times. While some parts of the plants are used as animal feed, billions of tons of agricultural residue remain and often end up as waste and are burned or used for energy generation. This accounts for only 15 to 20 % of the plants that are grown for food production. But only certain parts of the agricultural products, usually the roots, fruits, seeds or juices, end up as food. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.The agricultural sector uses huge amounts of resources to feed the 7.4 billion people on our planet. I did not overlap enough, and so my paper has some small square gaps. Overlapping the strips is important because the strips shrink as they dry. Repeat the process for the top layer, but facing perpendicular to the bottom layer. For the bottom, place the strips all going one direction while overlapping about 1/3 of the strip. There is no need to weave the strips together because of the natural glue. Papyrus has a distinct look because of it's layout pattern (picture 2). Place another layer of paper towels on top of this and use the rolling pin to squeeze out the water. Lay out some paper towels and put some of the papyrus strips on it.
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - Īfter 3 days of soaking, the natural glue in the papyrus is ready. You can do this with your fingers, or carefully with an exacto knife. Now take your strips and peel off the green bark (picture 5). Don't worry about getting as many strips out of the stalk as possible. Keep stripping the stalk until there is only a small amount of papyrus left. You may need to hold down the top of the stalk as you are cutting it to keep the strip even. Keep pushing the stalk until you reach the end.
Since the stalk of papyrus is triangular, you can cut it a few different ways (picture 3). Now, using a lot of caution, take the end of the stalk and hold it flat on the planer. You don't have to be exact, so long as you get a strip of papyrus that will not break due to being too thin. Place the blade of the planer to about 2 mm. Place the planer upside down and secure it in a bench vice. The sharper the blade, the easier the cutting. Make sure that the hand planer (usually for woodworking) has a very sharp blade.
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