Paper made from local, native plants — here bromegrass, little bluestem, and iris leaves — is different from paper you'd usually encounter, and it's the result of a fun and creative process. Connect ...

As the backlash against single-use plastic packaging grows, the market for paper packaging is increasing—but the demand for paper also means more logging, some of which still happens in old-growth ...

Every fall in Coralville, the University of Iowa's Center for the Book hosts one of only two mulberry harvests by ...

Paper is typically made from cellulose fibers derived from wood, and wood isn't plentiful in places where there aren't many trees. In the near future, however, that may not be a problem, as scientists ...

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Introduction Do you recycle paper when you finish using it? New paper comes from trees, which are chopped into tiny pieces and then ground up, mixed with liquid and turned into pulp. The pulp is then ...

Most scholars cite the invention of paper as occurring in AD 105 when an eunuch in the Han court named Cai Lun created a papermaking process that was reported to the Chinese Emperor by Ts’ai Lun, an ...