waste paper can be a handycraft

Paper here..paper there..paper in the desk..paper in the wall..paper in our wallet..paper around us..
We can see paper everywhere..we cant live without paper..
As we wake up in the morning, some of us look for newspaper, calendar, maybe notes or diary that help us to remind what important thing we have to do along the day
Then, as we spend time at office, we still live with paper, making report, preparing an agreement, finished a new siteplan, or even signing a receipt note from courier that bring us a flower from our beloved (believe me, I never did the last thing..:-p)
After that, when we get home in the night, after maybe we have dinner in favourite restaurant, we sign the receipt bill (I don’t think I have to sign any receipt bill, coz our favourite restaurant is wartenpinglan, means warung tenda pinggir jalan, that serve a great taste of fried rice n noddle soup) we find credit card bill, telephone bill, those are printed in a piece of paper.
Paper is a versatile material with many uses. Whilst the most common is for writing and printing upon, it is also widely used as a packaging material, in many cleaning products, and in a number of industrial and construction processes, and occasionally as a food ingredient, particularly in Asian cultures. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper ..Hmm..i wonder what it taste will be..)
Here I see in my office, everyday we throw paper that not used anymore, say it for 1 employee, about 10-20 sheets of paper size A4 weight 70gr per square meter(16 sheets), that means 0.08 kg waste paper, if we calculated for a month? How if an office got more than 30 employee? Whew..we’ll get a hug heavy waste paper. We can work that garbage so it can be something useful or even hard selling.
Ehmmm.. I am trying to work on it.

First of all, we need to have substance material which will be moist paper porridge.
Material needed : any unused paper
Tools : clean bucket
1. Slice unused paper into the very smallest pieces, we can do it manually, but actually I used papershredder, with shred size 0.2cm x 0.5mm ( ehhmm, you even can not read what written there if the font size <6..:-))
2. Put the crop paper into a clean bucket, and soak it with clean water for about 24hrs, it is okay if we let it till 48 hrs or more, just dont forget to change the water, trust me, it's smell really no good if we so.




3. Crush it with food proccesor or blender, till we get a paper porridge.
4. Then leak it till moist, here is we got the substance material.


We need a mold to work on this moist paper. In this case, I use kitchen good as a mold. I take 2 glasses with different size, trying to make a circle pencil can.


Put some moist paper in to the bottom of the bigger glass till reach about 0.7cm in height. Then put the smallest glass in to the bigger one, start to fill the space between those glasses with moist paper.
Press it hard till solid, when we press it, the water comes from moist paper, drain it with dry towel or dry paper. After we fill all space, put it in dry place, or dry it in the sun.



In the next 2x24hrs or more, if we find it all dried, get off the mold,.. then ..whewww..here is our circle pencil can. At last, finished it with colouring.