Use for shredded paper in the workshop

[Goldstar31]

I'm getting fed up with shredding paper to conceal identity and then go to infill .
There must be a use for it that is not for compost- I grow bloody big trees and have massive lawns for that. I don't have hamsters- I might eat them. I don't want papier mache masks- I'm ugly enough. I want something useful.

During the War, we tore up newspapers into little squares, used animal glue and Paris Plaster to make a huge relief map for the Headmaster's Home Guard unit.

Is there any modern day equivalent, please?

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It's all this re-cycling thing that has set me off. Delete if you must.

Norman

[Bearcar1]

wad it up and use it in the pot belly when you go to put the afternoon kettle on for a boil.


BC1
Jim

[Goldstar31]

Sorry Jim,
                 Thanks but we live in a smokeless zone. Even our trees are numbered-- and protected.

We aren't but I digress.

[zeeprogrammer]

Not sure where you are. Do you have recycling available?
All our newspapers, magazines, and cardboard get recycled.

[Goldstar31]

Ordinary paper etc is re-cycled but not shredded confidential/private waste paper.

[zeeprogrammer]

I don't have much to suggest then.
Any local community service?
Contact businesses that have a large amount of paper for removal?
Start a community service?
Contact your waste management company?
Use as packing material?
No doubt you've thought of these and I'm out of ideas.

[Goldstar31]

I was thinking of my small(ish) requirements.

 I gave up 'work' or should I say paid work some 27 years ago. Obviously, I'm still involved with charitable and whatever I fancy but this was, as I mentioned purely becoming fed up with the futility of having a fair  amount of what could be useable material just  to waste/waste.

This stuff that I made as a kid had a purpose, so why not now?

Maybe, I'm tilting at windmills- who knows.

Norman

[tel]

Only things I can think of are as packing material (become an ebay seller and post lots of stuff in boxes) or ..
as nesting material for the chooks (fowls, hens) i it is quite good for that.

[zeeprogrammer]

If it's decent material for making paper mache (sp) or other creative/artsy things...maybe donate to a local school? Or donate to someone who does have a need for packing material.

Otherwise you may have to go ahead and get some hamsters and change your diet. 

[Bezalel]

 Hi Norman


I can suggest a very modern use for it, you could cut it into little squares, use animal glue and Paris Plaster to make a huge relief map for the local TA unit.


The principals of War never change and those basic tools of war are as useful today as they were 80 years ago. (you could probably add any number of zeros to that number and still be correct)


I used shredded paper to feed to the tiger worms I was breeding, they'ed turn the paper into very rich topsoil and I would turn the worms into nice fat crayfish,      have you got any Dams on your property for crayfish?
Just don't use the common Yabby, Charex Destructus his name describes exactly what he will do to your dam walls.


Bez   

[tel]

Hmmm ..... curried hamsters and eggs perhaps?

[tel]

Alas, Cherax destructor are the only ones that will do any good around here. What are you using Bez, marron?

[Bezalel]

Quadracarinatus - Red Claw





His Tropical cousin

[Goldstar31]

This was intended as a serious question-- and now look  at it.

Come to think of it--- NICE

[zeeprogrammer]

Yeah I was wondering about that.

From shredded paper to lobsters. 

Reminds me of the old game of whispering something in someone's ear and then gets whispered down the line of 10 people and how the original message changes.

My only conclusion here...you apparently asked the wrong people. 
Happens all the time to me.

[AussieJimG]

I put it in the compost bin together with the vegie peelings. It mulches down and absorbs the excess moisture.

Jim

[Arbalest]

I put it in the compost bin together with the vegie peelings. It mulches down and absorbs the excess moisture.

Jim

That's what we used to do but we burn our confidential papers now.

[Goldstar31]

We shred 'confidential' papers, the rest go out  for pulping. I'm simply looking for something better than into  an infill site.

I simply thought that a brighter approach using younger brains( eh?) might be constructive.

Lobsters- indeed. There's enough flooding- no lobsters yet  but fresh water crayfish are a possibility. Do they like wet paper?

Had a urban fox's tracks in the snow this AM but it was too quick to ask if it needed a warm bed.

Well, really?

Norm

[Jo]

I both burn paper for heat and use the ash on the compost heap (not all of the paper always burns and the potash is good stuff for the veggies).

I find that storing shreaded paper in the workshop is both good insulation and it is good at absorbing any excess moisture. A friend keeps wood  in his workshop for the same reason.

Jo

[Goldstar31]

Ah yes, but I live in a smokeless zone- and cannot burn anything.

Joan of Arc would have had a field day 

[Lew Hartswick]

Ah yes, but I live in a smokeless zone- and cannot burn anything.

Well the first thing I'd recommend is MOVING away from such a place. There is bound to be a whole lot of
other idiot restrictions there as well.
   ...lew...

[Goldstar31]

Move away? Whatever for? It is next door to a lunatic asylum and at my age, one should not travel too far

Cheers

N

[Bearcar1]

Move away? Whatever for? It is next door to a lunatic asylum and at my age, one should not travel too far

Cheers

N

Yes, but that is only if at our age one can remember where it is ..... 


BC1
Jim

[Raggle]

Yes, but that is only if at our age one can remember where it is .....     

Trick is to leave a trail of something so you can find your way back ...

... little bits of shredded paper should do nicely 




Ray

[Bezalel]

Yes, but that is only if at our age one can remember where it is .....     

Trick is to leave a trail of something so you can find your way back ...

... little bits of shredded paper should do nicely 




Ray

If you can remember it was a trail of paper you left behind -
 
Er in doors recons finding the shed is easy - follow the swarf trail  

[Goldstar31]

'Er in doors recons finding the shed is easy - follow the swarf trail'

Nah not really- Bezalel, followed a trail of papyrus

( Well, I was being serious-honest)

[Jo]

Er in doors recons finding the shed is easy - follow the swarf trail

Tell her to be thankfull that the trail does not lead into the bed.

Jo