When You Use Shredding Source, You’re Doing Your Part to Go GREEN Through the Recycling Process. Each One of Us Can Help Protect Our Environment.
WHERE DOES PAPER COME FROM?
Paper products are a collection of cellulose fibers pressurized
together by glue and heat. Cellulose fiber comes from trees that
are uniquely suited to produce quality paper products. Raw
materials (mature trees) enter the mill as logs. The logs are run
through a debarker to remove all of the bark. The debarked logs are
then chipped into uniform pieces to facilitate the cooking process.
The chips are screened to remove any large or small pieces and then
sent to the pulping area.
PULPING
Pulping is the process of cooking wood chips at a certain
temperature and pressure with specialized chemicals. Cooking
transforms the chips into pulp, a watery slurry of limp fibers that
resembles a large batch of oatmeal. After cooking, the pulp is
washed to remove chemicals and then sent to the bleach plant.
BLEACHING
After being transported by pipes and pumps, the pulp is exposed to
a bleaching agent, then neutralized, then bleached again. This
process occurs over and over to achieve the desired whiteness
without degrading the fibers.
CREATING THE SHEET
At this point in the process, the water is drawn out so that the
pulp can be formed into a sheet. At the end of this conveyer screen
(called a wire), the wet, flimsy sheet goes through a series of
rollers to extract still more water. Then it proceeds to drying
(either on heated rolls or in an innovative system that involves
floating through heated air) and a jumbo roll of formed sheet comes
out the other end.
ON ITS WAY TO YOU
Once the roll or bale has been cut, wrapped, and marked according
to the customer's specifications, the product is stored for future
shipment or shipped directly to you, the customer. It is then used
for presentations, email prints, records of all types, folders,
envelopes, all sorts of paper products.
HOW THE RECYCLE PROCESS SAVES TREES
SHREDDING SOURCE SHREDS YOUR PAPER
Shredded paper is compressed into rectangular bales that weigh
1,100 pounds. They are stored at Shredding Source until 36 bales
have been created, enough for a truckload of material. The bales
are loaded onto a closed trailer and locked during their transport
to the paper mill.
YOUR BALED PAPER ARRIVES AT THE PAPER
MILL
The entire process starts with bleaching, where the recycled
materials are placed in tanks Hot water and bleach are added to
break down the material into pulp. Once in a recycled pulp, paper
towels and toilet paper are created. Cardboard is recycled in the
same process and it is turned into new cardboard.