National Paper & Stationery Mart Chawri Bazar, Delhi

Recycling paper, is essentially, turning waste paper into new paper. According to Tappi (the leading technical association for the worldwide pulp, paper and converting industry), the paper recycling process, involves mixing of wastepaper with water and chemicals to break it down. The broken residue is then chopped up and heated to convert it into strands of cellulose, called pulp or slurry. This pulp is then cleaned, “deinked”, bleached, and mixed with water and converted into new paper. Recycling paper has a big impact on saving wood that is used to generate the paper. For example, according to the environmental paper network, recycling a tonne of newsprint saves about a tonne of wood, while recycling a tonne of printing or copier paper, saves slightly more than two tonnes of wood. Also, it is believed that recycling paper saves energy.