waste paper

"A girl tosses her old homework paper into a recycling bin and the story follows that paper through the process of recycling until it becomes usable paper again"--Provided by publisher.

Introduces children to what happens to recycled paper, focusing on how some gets made into bags, cartoons, toilet paper, and how some goes to the dump.

Presents thirty-five ideas for transforming unwanted books and magazines into greeting cards, stationery, room decorations, and display scenes.

Explains how to make both white and exotic papers; introduces the decorative techniques of splattering, batik, block printing, and stenciling; and provides ideas for easy-to-make projects including frames, boxes, and cards.

Discusses how paper is produced and how it is recycled. Presents crafts projects using paper discards.

Looks at what happens to paper when it is thrown in the trash, and then looks at alternative things that the reader could make out of it instead of throwing the paper away.

Presents techniques for making several kinds of art with paper, including collages, picture boxes, recycled cards, masks, books, and others, and provides photos of examples.

Demonstrates how waste paper is recycled into useful household products at the Marcal paper mill.