PAPER
DearFriends, This posting is about paper. Paper has different forms andthe most widely forms are writing paper, printing paper and Newsprint. Somenostalgic memories of paper are also brought in this posting. I am thankful toall members reading and responding either directly or through group posting. Sincerely, Gopala Krishnan 9-1-2011 Reposted withadditions and updating information on 26-4-2021. R. Gopala Krishnan 1. Respect to paper. We all respect paper. We never touch with feet evenaccidentally on paper. Even a paperlying in the road, we avoid touching with feet. If a paper is accidentallytouch with feet, most touch it with hand and put on eyes as a mark of excusefor the action. Weconsider paper as Goddess Saraswathi. 2. Gowthama Buddah’swords I have read elsewhere that what is not suitable forconsumption by humans would be food for other beings. Nothing is waste in thisuniverse. I recollect about paper and difficulty in production and about thescarcity of raw materials. We should make maximum use of paper as possible. Nowadaysmany use electronic media where paper information is not necessary. Importantinformation are saved in the memory of electronic media like computer, laptop,notebook, smart phone etc. 3. Use of one-sidedpaper. Most of do not waste paper used one side and information nofurther required. We use the non-written side of the paper for rough works on the other side. Balance of Paper used half way, the remaining can be used,collecting all such papers and stitching. My wife often comes to me for paper- written/printed oneside for writing her information. On the telephone table one side used paper is kept forwriting. Earlier it was land phone, now 90% is the mobile phone- onlydifference. Land phone use has very much reduced. I use internet line from BSNL.Most call me in mobile. In my boyhood daysafter the school year was over and examinations passed, the unused paper fromnote books were taken out and stitched and bound and used as rough book. Good qualitypaper covers can be reused for many other preserving purposes. Update- Now rough book is purchased fromstationery shops, slightly less quality paper is used in it. 4. Paper, paper We can see scrap merchants in the street collecting usednotebooks and newspaper. They are actually bundled and send to paper factoriesand re cycled and used to make hard boards and rough papers. A very few percentage is used for packingetc. The merchants either collecting from homes or storing and sending in lorryhave a good profit. I know the case of ascrap merchant who purchased his own mini lorry by bank loan and transporteditems, has now purchased the shop area, and built two floors and occupy onefloor as home. Hard work is required. 5. Different type ofpapers The common papers we get are either news print type orwriting type. In writing type different qualities are there. Special qualitypapers are bond papersand stamp papersused for property registration etc. They have to be reserved for pretty longtime. Another is cheque leaves. I am not forgetting best quality special papers threaded withcotton used to print currency. Now with electronic printers and Xerox special quality Xerox paper has come.Most homes have now small printers, who use computer. The cardboardused for binding, is mostly made from recycled paper. The postal cover,inlands and cards have one time use but they have to travel a long distance and should notget damaged. Similarly the postal stamps. Hence an appropriate quality paper isused to make them. Blotting paper is another type of paper, not muchused except where pens are used. Still many stationary shops have blottingpaper. Manifolding paper, stencil paper were widely used in atime, only typewriters were there. Carbon paper isstill in use, bothdouble sided and single sided, for special uses like issue of demand draftsetc. Even in printing sometimes carbonpaper is in special cases. Thin type colouredpapers are used for many decoration works. Since they are cut to pieces, they are in no way reusable. Similarlypacking papers. For single binding of text books now brown paper is there,waxed one side to give durability. Coloured bound paper are there for miscellaneous purposeslike temporary files etc. 6. Dictionary, Diary andrecord books Very often referred is dictionary. If at all one page islost we feel in a dictionary as a big loss. Incidentally most things we wantedto refer would be of in that page!!! Dictionary is well bounded and safely keptby most having them. Now online dictionary is also available which I use manytimes for convenience. For spell checkand grammar often we use computer itself. This posting is made referring on line dictionary for meaningsand laptop spell check software. Well Learnt members do notrequire either. They are sure of meaning, spelling and grammar. Most people preserve diaries at least for a specific period. The recordbooks and registers in shops are also maintained for a longerperiods. The collegemark sheets, certificates, degrees are all to be preserved forlonger periods. The appropriate quality and thickness of paper are used forthem 7. Pass port. Special quality paper is used for passport. An interesting episode about passport of my wife and me. Mywife being only SSLC, passport was issued with Emigration check required. To eliminateemigration check, I got certificate from Directorate NewDelhi, I am ITS Group A officer and Emigrationcheck was changed to – No emigration check required being a wife of gazettedofficer. Directors issued me permission to apply for passport. I had to produce my DEGREE. For exemption of emigration check exemption, sinceoriginal letter of ITS Group A was taken for my wife’s emigration checkexemption by passport authorities. This was in 2002. Now rules have changedabout emigration check. 7. Epics and religiousbooks. Currently epics and religious books are neatly printed andvery good quality paper are used and even waxing is done so that they are morepreserving. 8. Covers of soaps,ointments etc. Here cover has to preserve the quality of content for alonger period. Hence the quality of paper thickness and quality. Beyond that getting attract. Now people may recollect wrappingwith thin waxed paper for sunlight and Lifebuoy soaps when there was not muchcompetition. 9. Is there any wastageof paper? Normally thick packing of large itemspurchased preserved for re- use. InTrivandrum there were shops collecting and selling jute bags, hard board boxes.It helped very much in packing. Now packers and movers are there. 10 Best quality paperwastage But there are many wastages also. Some of these are un-avoidable. One such is marriage printed invitations. Some spent above 200-00 per invitation paper and cover.Cover is used for putting compliment money. Invitation is simply disposed aftera time putting in waste collector box. There are certain paper documents, which has to be compulsorily destroyedlike paid up promissory note etc. 11. Our office work It was a practice for us in the office to keep one sideused paper for rough works and drafts or for taking scribblinginformation. If my GM wanted fivedetails rather than keeping in memory, I used to write on rough paper anddeleted after completing. 11a. How to disposeHoroscope Sankaracharya has given the following suggestion regardingdisposal of horoscopes received for sons or daughter’s marriage occasion. He has directed to float them in theriver. 12 mini notes,scribbling pad Probably for convenience and avoid more wastage small sizemini notes for merchants are available for Rs 10-00 and 20-00. This also can beused to write small information in home and keep. There are also scribbling padsstarting from Rs 20-00. 12 a Cost Comparing to many items paper cost is less now. Books, notebooks, registers, file covers etc. cost lesser. Even price of diary is less forthe best quality comparing to the price of other items One reason could be from sugarcane waste also paper pulpscould be made now. Other could be lesser usage even by students and in offices. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/281283393.505108.1619430929891%40mail.yahoo.com.
