How To Make Eco Friendly Grocery Paper Bag
Just being well aware about the side effects of using plastics and polythene alone would not help. One has to take some steps to avoid their use and save the nature from pollution which will make a difference. Nowadays most of the people while making their visit to any store will end up using the plastic bags instead of the paper grocery bags, which is a wrong practice.
The process to make an eco friendly paper bag is almost the same as that of making a normal paper making process.
1) Harvesting: The initial step of manufacturing a grocery paper bag is harvesting trees. The trees used for making grocery paper bags must be dried 3 years before they could be used. Mostly the trees those are grown purposely for getting the paper pulp accounts’ for the major pulp as the older grown trees accounts too less.
2) Cooking: The harvested wooden chips are digested in the big digesters with the help of acidic or basic liquids so as to get the cellulose which is the only important ingredient for producing the best quality paper. The dehydrated fibrous matter that has been separated chemically or mechanically either from wood or the wasted paper is known as pulp. So the kind of pulp being used in manufacturing of a grocery paper bag plays the major role. The pulp so obtained is brown and not much clean so it is processed further. During the process of cooking and concentrating a large amount of steam is produced which may be used to run the turbine to generate electricity.