Yup!
Paperbacks are the worse with that plastic glue they use. If you are grinding it really messes up the blade. Not so much on a tow mixer On hardback books, ya gotta take the covers off unless you use a hammermill?? maybe? But if you take the covers off and soak them a day or two, they slurry up real fine. Except for the strin used in holding the sections together. Tear up some old books to see where and how they are put together. Using the pressure washer to slurry them old books work fine and the plastic and string just get incorporated with the rest of the paper. The hard covers are another thing. I just throw them away. I have tried shredding them and all that gets is a upset shredder and you got to shut it off, and get the fabric out of the blade. The covers are landfill material in my opinion.
But it is like an arm pit, everybody has two.
C&H <amar@organicfarmland.com> wrote:
Has anyone use shredded books for making papercrete? In our area of
central New York state after library book sales, the libraries almost
always landfill the remaining books. Most are hard cover (they can't be
recycled with the covers on). Seems as though the paper would work just
fine for pc, but was wondering what you all think of the covers. I would
either have to tear off the covers or run the books through a hammermill
to sufficiently shred the covers. Also wondering about the glue used in
the binding? Would that interfere with anything?
Chris
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