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**Done by**

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Eman Y. Abdulkarim

P. O. Box 40138, Hamad Town, Kingdom of Bahrain

Home phone: 00973 17422022

Cell phone: 00973 39810565

E-mail address: emanbre90@hotmail.com

**School:** Yathreb Intermediate Girls\' school

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**Recycling paper**

Everything started when I decided to clean up my room. After a few hours
of doing that I found a big pile of paper in front of me. At this moment
my imaginations took me to another world. In this world I found the
machine I wanted. It\'s a machine for recycling paper at our homes.
Another reason that made me want to invent such a machine was after I
had a telephone call with one of the employees at \"The United Paper
Industries\" in Bahrain. I spoke to \"Elva Yab\" who gave me some
information about this industry. I was told that they get the paper from
the United States of America and Europe, and turn the paper they get
into cardboard. They produce 50 tons of cardboard everyday. When I asked
them if they recycle paper, they answered with a \'no\'.

Everyone would ask me: why do you think recycling paper is so important?
I would say: we are cutting hundreds and thousands of trees and forests
everyday to produce paper. If we recycled paper at home, fewer trees and
forests would be cut down, and I am sure that we all know how important
trees are. If we think about all the factories that produce paper and
especially in the Arabian Gulf we will find out that they use a lot of
petrol to make these factories work. If we recycled paper at home, we
wouldn't lose the big amounts of petrol which is very important these
days. Another point to mention is the air pollution that these factories
cause. If we recycled paper at home, we would cause less air pollution
than usual.

All I am trying to say is the more we recycle paper, the less we need to
produce new paper. All these reasons are driving me to this invention or
this machine which makes us able to recycle paper at different places
such as schools, kindergartens, science centers, local libraries or
maybe even at our own homes.

**Material needed**

1.  A big rectangular plastic box which is similar to a small copy
    machine in its size

2.  Electrical wires or springs

3.  A metal box or container

4.  Sharp blades

5.  A blender with its sharp blades

6.  A coat hanger or a simple photo frame

7.  Gauze

8.  Water

9.  White Glue

10. An electric iron

11. Two small dryers (similar to hair dryers)

**Abstract**

This machine is a composition of familiar or every-day equipment that
has been designed to work together smoothly.

It is a recycling machine that has a rectangular shape and it consists
of three divisions: shredding / blending / drying.

First, users have to feed the machine with scrap papers. The horizontal
input opening on the right side of the machine shall take care of this.

Next, the shredding process begins when sharp blades cut the paper and
shred them into small pieces. The small paper pieces fall into a box or
container. The container is connected to an electrical spring. The
spring compresses when the container is filled. The shredding process
shall last five minutes which actually depends on the amount of paper
that is pushed into the machine. Therefore, a digital watch is fixed at
the top of the machine to check the time.

Then, the container is emptied out into the blending division through an
automatic door. After that, water is poured through the water inlet
funnel (the amount of water depends on how much paper is pushed into the
machine, every 25 grams of paper need 400 ml of water). The water funnel
is placed at the top of the machine. Then, two table spoons of white
glue are poured into the machine through the white glue funnel which is
placed next to the first funnel.

After that, the blending process begins. The digital watch counts 5
minutes. Then, an automatic door opens and the mixture is pushed into
the drying division. The mixture will flow on a frame. The frame is made
of a coat hanger which we bend into a square shape with gauze (you could
use a pantyhose) pulled over it. The frame is connected to another
electrical spring which will compress once the complete amount of
mixture is spread over the frame. Dryers that are placed in the upper
corners of the division will take care of drying the mixture. The drying
process shall take 15-20 minutes before the mixture turns into a
recycled paper and comes out through the out-put opening.

All you need to do now is to iron the paper in case it is not flat
enough and cut the edges. Write on the paper and see how strong and good
it is!

**Results expected**

Less new paper will be produced which has many advantages such as:

-   Fewer trees and forests will be cut down.

-   Less petrol will be used in the factories that produce paper and
    especially in the Arabian Gulf.

-   Less air pollution will be caused. Then, we will be able to breathe
    fresh air.

> **Limitations**

The machine is difficult to build but once it is produced, the results
make up for the effort.

It may also be too expensive to build, or too expensive for people to
buy and keep at their homes. Therefore, it is suggested to buy the
machine and keep it in kindergartens, schools, universities or some
local libraries and make it available to the people living nearby.

**References**

**Websites:**

> [www.google.com](http://www.google.com/)
>
> [www.bonus.com](http://www.bonus.com/) Beakman and Jax by Jok Church

**Other:**

Microsoft Encarta 97 Encyclopedia

The *United Paper Industries* in Bahrain

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