Is paper biodegradable or non-biodegradable? Because it's made of wood.?
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biodegradable...it breaks down over time.
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Plastic , because im trying to save the trees. Besides mother earth is highly upset how we been treating the earth these days.
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Wood is a renewable resource, which means it recycles itself.
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I believe rubber is the actual product, natural, derived off of trees, plastic is petroleum based and/or manufactured.
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you mean rubber, right?\nummm, what about the kind made of corn? it's biodegradable
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LMFAO!!!  Awesome pic, great question, and no, I don't think you've seen the end of the woodchucking wood question.  =P
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Polystyrene is not bio degradable and virtually 100%water proof. It also does not allow any fungal growth also known as 'rot'. Only physical destruction can disintegrate polystyrene, so in answer to your question, no it doesn't
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Paper, thin sheets of compressed vegetable cellulose fibers. Paper is used for writing and printing, for wrapping and packaging, and for a variety of special purposes ranging from the filtration of precipitates from solutions to the manufacture of certain types of building materials. Paper is a necessity in modern civilization, and the development of machinery for its high-speed production has been largely responsible for the increase in literacy and the raising of educational levels of people throughout the world.\n\n\nThe basic process of making paper has not changed in more than 2,000 years. It involves two stages: the breaking up of raw material in water to form a suspension of individual fibers and the formation of felted sheets by spreading this suspension on a suitable porous surface, through which excess water can drain.\n\nIn making paper by hand, the raw material—straw, leaves, bark, rags, or other fibrous material—is placed in a vat or trough and is pounded with a heavy pestle or hammer to separate the fibers. During the first portion of this operation, the material is washed with running water to remove impurities, but after the fibers have been sufficiently broken up, they are kept in suspension, and the water in the vat is not changed. At this stage the liquid material, called half stuff, is ready for the actual process of papermaking. The chief tool of the papermaker is the mold, a reinforced sheet of metal mesh having either a square mesh pattern, called a wove pattern, or a pattern of more widely spaced longitudinal wires held together with smaller transverse wires, called a laid pattern. The mold pattern imprints itself on the finished sheet of paper, and thus handmade papers that are not given special finishes are identified as wove or laid papers, depending on the style of mold that is used in their making.\n\nThe mold is placed inside a removable wooden frame called a deckle, which forms a low rim around its edge. The papermaker dips the mold and deckle into a vat containing the half stuff; when the mold and deckle are removed from the vat, the surface of the mold is coated with a thin film of fiber-water mixture. The device is then shaken forward and backward and from side to side. This shaking has two effects; it distributes the mixture evenly on the surface of the mold and causes the individual fibers to interlock with those adjacent, giving strength to the sheet. While the device is being shaken, much of the water from the mixture drains out through the mold mesh. The device, with its formed sheet of wet paper, is then laid aside until the paper is sufficiently cohesive to permit the removal of the deckle.\n\n\nAfter the deckle has been taken from the mold, the mold is turned over and the sheet of paper is laid smoothly on a sheet of woven woolen cloth, called a felt. Another felt is laid over the sheet of paper, and the process is repeated; the process of placing the paper between two felts is known as couching. When a number of sheets of paper have been interleaved with felts, the entire pile, called a post, is placed in a hydraulic press and subjected to a pressure of 100 or more tons, expelling most of the water remaining in the paper. The sheets of paper are then separated from the felts, stacked, and pressed. The process of pressing the stack of paper is repeated several times, and each time the stack is built up in a different order with the individual sheets in different positions relative to one another. This procedure is called exchanging, and its repetition improves the surface of the finished paper. The final stage in papermaking is drying. The paper is hung, in groups of four or five sheets, over ropes in a special drying room until its moisture has almost completely evaporated.\n\nPapers that are to be used for writing or printing with ink require additional treatment following drying, because without such treatment the paper would absorb ink and yield fuzzy lines or impressions. The
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It is not a type of tree that produces what you are looking for.  It is a process of converting the wood/pulp to papper and layering it with layers of plastic to give it those properties.
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Wood is made up of cellulose (see above) and lignine. The lignine is the glue that makes wood wood. All plants are built out of cellulose.
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different microbes, usually fungi, can be used instead of bleaching and other chemicals in papermaking. these microbes can break down the pulp in a more environmentally friendly way. i highly recommend this site http://TomVolkFungi.net \ni learned about this topic during one of his lectures.
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paper made from straw
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Paper contains acid that was used in making it. Water is a solvent, that when it comes in contact with the paper immediately begins to break down the fibers. Oil, on the other hand is inert, and does not break the fibers down. Just as a sidenote though, ever notice how cotton clothes are harder to rip when they are wet?
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T.P. is very porous and lightweight, most likely so it flushes and degrades easier and faster.  Since it's so porous, less paper is used so it doesn't cost as much to produce.\n\nAlso, I'm sure that a lot of recycled paper is used in the production of it.
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Most boards at the minute are made of 5 or 7 ply Canadian Maple. which is pressed into shape and given a concave for added strenght, and then coated to give it a smooth finish,\n\nas for the future. i have to agree ^^^^^^ Carbon fibre is amazing, but at this moment in time, its hella expensive!
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Plastics last forever.  They are not biodegradable.
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It depends on the stage of processing.  Since you didn't specify at what stage, I'd have to say yes.\n\nBacteria populations can soar in pulp, and actually contaminate it.  At other stages, the pulp could become dispersed too fine for the quality of paper being made.  There is a standard recipe for a batch, and when something goes awry, it is easier to discard it than to figure out how to make it work.\n\nPapermaking has many variables to it, and because it is done on such a large scale to make it economical, no one would want to run the risk of wasting tens of thousands of dollars on chemicals to process a batch when the results are uncertain.  The wood pulp is probably the cheapest part of the paper.  The chemicals and processing are definitely more expensive.