The forests provide homes for all kinds of birds and creatures. The dead trees and branches that you collect and burn our essential to the enrichment of the soil. They also are the homes of animals, large and small. Play your part, however small it seems, save the trees and recycle your newspapers.
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Turn that waste paper into bricks to burn
Any alternative to collecting fuelwood from the forests that will burn well
enough to provide domestic cooking and heating is a great help to our forests.
Typically such briquettes are made from paper and sawdust. The mixture is
compressed in a manual machine called a log press and dried out as far as
possible. These can be used as a wood or coal substitute.
Put your junk mail and/or newspapers into a tank of water and get them nice
and soggy. Take the resulting pulp and dump it into the press. Push the levers
down hard, and it squeezes out a load of greyish water. Open the press and
remove the "brick" which is by then surprisingly solid.
Leave to dry for about a month, under cover. They light fairly easily and
burn steadily and hot, leaving a light, fluffy ash. . You can produce about
30 bricks an hour if you have enough scrap paper.
To make colourful burning logs try this:
You need- 1.8 kilosof Copper Sulphur Phosphate
1.4kilos of Rock Salt
4.5litres of Distilled Water
Newspapers
Mix together the copper sulphur phosphate, rock salt, with the distilled water.
Open the newspapers and place each daily paper one at a time in the mixture.
Allow the papers to soak until they are saturated. Roll the papers into logs
and place in a cool dry area to dry. Once they dry store them until they are
ready to be used.
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