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Why environmentally friendly recycled paper?
Simply because it is ecologically vital to recycle paper for two basic reasons:
1. Save natural resources.
Less paper, more trees, more trees, more planet EARTH.
- Wood: For every ton of classic paper, 3 tons of wood are deployed. Whereas to produce recycled paper only old paper is needed.
- Water: For every ton of classic paper, 440m3 are deployed. For the same amount of recycled paper only 1,8 m3 are needed.
- Energy (electricity, steam): The production of recycled paper requires less than 2,750 kWh; to produce the same amount of classic paper 7,600 kWh are required.
- Recycled paper is more ecological, and more economical.
2. To avoid waste accumulation and to evaluate
the paper-waste.
- Nowadays recycled paper offers an excellent quality.
In fact most of recycled papers used in the printing industry are the result of a mixture of both virgin and recycled pastes. It is important to acknowledge that a paper is considered as recycled when it contains at least 50% of recycled fibers. - The production and treatment techniques are regularly improved which allows to increase the proportion of recycled papers among different types of paper.
- Is it possible to recycle recycled paper?
The answer is yes. One fiber of paper can be recycled several times.It is only after continuous recycling that the paper fibers start to weaken, at this moment the mixture with virgin fibers is justified.
The Vegetable-based inks. The Vegetable oils.
The vegetable-based ink is a real alternative to the traditional offset inks (especially in regards to the toxic levels of standard inks containing high levels of mineral oils), in particular the food packaging realm. And it it is right here, where the products of natural origin contained in the packaging present big odor problems. On the other hand this is not the case with the vegetable-based inks in regards to the taste and smell characteristics present in the packaged food.
Vegetable-based inks' composition.
The composition of Vegetable-based ink is basically the same that the one present in the traditional ink, except when the mineral oils are partially replaced by vegetable oils. Oils are normally classified by their siccative properties, that is their capacity to dry by the presence of oxygen. This fact is much more significant than the saturation's levels present in the oil. Their saturations contents is measured by the iodine's index.
The printing industry has an impact on the environment. In most of Europe many of the printing houses generate dangerous waste: film developers, plates and films' fixers, used solvents and cleaning tissues.
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