I'm so glad to see that they are being used. I wish our local authorities
would think of others before trashing everything. People recycle at home
and the council run the standard commercial recycling but it seems hard to
get people to think of true recycling, as humans and nature have done
since time began.
Wayne
>
> Actully the discussion got started when I announced I had several
> hundred pounds of old books for somebody to take before 3 days were up,
> well they are up and we got rid of three pickup truck loads as high as
> we could stack them. Our library asked for them to sell in their book
> sell, 3 for a dollar. I told her if she could get just 15 cents a piece
> she could retire. ha ha
>
> Bob
>
>
> --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, JUDITH WILLIAMS
> <williams_judith@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I think this dicussion got started when someone said they left their
> paper in water for a long time. Then someone else said don't you ever
> have a mold problem.
>>
>> I have had one experience with mold. I formed up a curved wall that
> was actually quite thick. I used 1/4" plywood cut in half to form a 4
> foot square. I wedged it in to curve it and poured it full of
> papercrete. I can't dexcribe the shape of it but it was sort of
> triangular and held a lot of slurry. I left that form on for about
> almost a year I think. I had moved on to other things and just sort of
> forgot about it. Anyway, when I took the plywood off there was an area
> of black mold on one side of the wall. It was small, maybe 2 square
> inches or so. After it was exposed to the sun for a while it went away.
> The mold was on the plywood more than the papercrete so I think it was
> the plywood that infected the papercrete.
>>
>> The Making of Papercrete DVD now available on Amazon.com
>>
> http://www.amazon.com/Making-Papercrete-Judith-Williams/dp/B0040ZNE9A/re\
> f=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1283998627&sr=8-1
>>
>> Follow progress on the new project at
> http://www.papercretebyjudith.com/blog
>>
>> More papercrete info at http://squidoo.com/papercretebyjudith
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
>> From: Spaceman@...
>> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:47:18 -0600
>> Subject: Re: [papercreters] Re: fermented paper / was Several hundred
> pounds of books
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> This discussion makes it sound like mold is a big problem with pc,
> whereas I have never had any mold problem in all the pc I have done,
> which is a considerable amount. Even when I let a mix sit in the mixer
> for a week all I got was a slight smell and a little bubble action from
> bacteria/yeast/whatever.
>>
>> Mike McCain helped make a facility for growing mushrooms in CO, and
> they kept a hose running on the pc roof all the time to keep the
> interior humidity high. There was no mention of mold.
>>
>> Has anyone on the list actually had a mold problem or is it just
> something that we talk about as a possibility?
>>
>> spaceman
>>
>> All opinions expressed or implied
>> are subject to change without notice
>> upon receipt of new information.
>>
>> http://Starship-Enterprises.Net
>> On 9/23/2010 4:19 AM, Nick Boersema wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ozone generators do a fine job on mold. There are lots of build
> instructions to be googled.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:papercreters@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of stick0boy
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 11:12 PM
>> To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: [papercreters] Re: fermented paper / was Several hundred
> pounds of books
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> anyone know if there has been any studies of RFs and mold? or could
> stick a magnetron tube from a old micro in it and stand well back lol
>>
>>
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