shredded paper

herbwormwood · Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:05 am

I have bought a cross cut shredder and now I am wonderig what to do with all the resulting shredded paper. I know it can be used for small animal bedding but I don't have any animals, the only people I khow with pets have cats and dogs!
Any ideas?

floraadora · Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:19 pm

I compost all mine.

Thomzo · Post: # 72474Post **Thomzo** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:24 pm

Hi
Try offering it on Freecycle as small animal bedding.

Soak it and make it into recycled paper. Then sell it on ebay.

Zoe

Merry · Post: # 72510Post **Merry** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:08 pm

I compost mine.
I wondered what the narrow strips of plastic were in my compost and realised they were the remains of window envelopes

fenwoman · Post: # 72540Post **fenwoman** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:19 pm

I am always desperate for shredded paper. I asked on freecycle and a lady comes and brings me some regularly and I give her eggs and marmalade in return. I use it in the dog kennels the cat kennel/shelters, the chicken houses and the ferret courts. When it is dirty, I compost it.

mrsflibble · Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:38 pm

Thomzo wrote:Hi
Try offering it on Freecycle as small animal bedding.

Soak it and make it into recycled paper. Then sell it on ebay.

Zoe

damn that was going to be my comment!!

shove it into jars and sell on ebay as snacks for supermodels?

possum · Post: # 72927Post **possum** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:25 am

i have a few bags of it and i am going to be putting it as a base layer onto the new raised border that i am building, in the hope it will aid moisture rentention ( and eventually just be compost)

Thomzo · Post: # 72980Post **Thomzo** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:03 pm

mrsflibble wrote: shove it into jars and sell on ebay as snacks for supermodels?

PaulDK · Post: # 79349Post **PaulDK** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:16 am

I put all my shredded paper into a bowl of hot water, add a squirt of washing up liquid which binds the paper together, and make balls off paper squeezed tightly and left to dry....
Throw them on the fire at Xmas time...extra coal for the fire and free too

red · Post: # 79352Post **red** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:57 am

hi Paul - welcome to the forum

yes we make paper logs out of shredded paper.

kimmie · Post: # 79419Post **kimmie** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:45 am

i use my shredded paper for the chooks! free and easy for composting! but making paper mache items would be a good use for them too!

ina · Post: # 79420Post **ina** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:48 am

I don't need a shredder - the cats are doing it for me! After using their tray, they are so intent on scratching that the entire thick wad of newspaper that I have under the tray gets shredded to bits... Sometimes they even shred the spare loo rolls.

So if anybody has anything to shred, just send it along!

marshlander · Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:09 am

Yes, agree, great for the compost heap, especially when mixed with grass cuttings. We also make logs and line the bottom of the runner bean trench to help retain moisture.

old tree man · Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:42 am

mrsflibble wrote: shove it into jars and sell on ebay as snacks for supermodels?

thats excellent might even buy some myself could do with losing some excess

ina · Post: # 82116Post **ina** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:20 am

old tree man wrote:
mrsflibble wrote: shove it into jars and sell on ebay as snacks for supermodels?

thats excellent might even buy some myself could do with losing some excess

Loo paper inbuilt, sort of?

Sorry, couldn't resist!