The History Of Paper & Recycling
The History Of
Paper & Recycling
T
he history of paper dates back almost 2,000 years to when inventors in China first crafted cloth sheets to record their drawings and writings. Before then, people communicated through pictures and symbols etched on stone, bones, cave walls or clay tablets.
Paper as we know it today was first made in Lei-Yang,
China. About 300 years later, during the 8th century,
Muslims (from the region that is now Syria, Saudi
Arabia and Iraq) learned the Chinese secret of paper making when they captured
When Did It
All Happen?
2400 B.C.
Papyrus (a tall reed used before paper)
200 B.C.
First paper made from fishing nets in China
105 A.D.
First paper made from plants in Lei-Yang,
China
700 A.D.
Muslims learned the
Chinese art of paper making 1150 A.D.
First European paper mill built in Spain
1494 A.D.
England supplied colonies with paper
1690 A.D.
First U.S. paper mill built in Pennsylvania
1883 A.D.
Paper grocery bag invented harvested like a crop—specif- fiber from recycled paper. a Chinese paper mill. Later, ically for making paper.
Recycling has always been when the Muslims invaded
Paper mills also use recya part of papermaking.
Europe, they brought this cled paper, as well as wood
When you recycle your secret with them. The first used paper, paper mills will paper mill was built in Spain, chips and sawdust left over from lumber operations use it to make new newspaand soon, paper was being
(whose products are used to pers, notebook paper, paper made at mills all across make houses, furniture and grocery bags, corrugated
Europe. Over the next 800 other things) to make new boxes, envelopes, magazines, years, paper was used for paper. Today, much of the cartons and other paper printing important books, paper we use is made with products. bibles and legal documents. England began making large supplies of paper in the late
15th century and supplied the colonies with
Paper & Recycling
T
he history of paper dates back almost 2,000 years to when inventors in China first crafted cloth sheets to record their drawings and writings. Before then, people communicated through pictures and symbols etched on stone, bones, cave walls or clay tablets.
Paper as we know it today was first made in Lei-Yang,
China. About 300 years later, during the 8th century,
Muslims (from the region that is now Syria, Saudi
Arabia and Iraq) learned the Chinese secret of paper making when they captured
When Did It
All Happen?
2400 B.C.
Papyrus (a tall reed used before paper)
200 B.C.
First paper made from fishing nets in China
105 A.D.
First paper made from plants in Lei-Yang,
China
700 A.D.
Muslims learned the
Chinese art of paper making 1150 A.D.
First European paper mill built in Spain
1494 A.D.
England supplied colonies with paper
1690 A.D.
First U.S. paper mill built in Pennsylvania
1883 A.D.
Paper grocery bag invented harvested like a crop—specif- fiber from recycled paper. a Chinese paper mill. Later, ically for making paper.
Recycling has always been when the Muslims invaded
Paper mills also use recya part of papermaking.
Europe, they brought this cled paper, as well as wood
When you recycle your secret with them. The first used paper, paper mills will paper mill was built in Spain, chips and sawdust left over from lumber operations use it to make new newspaand soon, paper was being
(whose products are used to pers, notebook paper, paper made at mills all across make houses, furniture and grocery bags, corrugated
Europe. Over the next 800 other things) to make new boxes, envelopes, magazines, years, paper was used for paper. Today, much of the cartons and other paper printing important books, paper we use is made with products. bibles and legal documents. England began making large supplies of paper in the late
15th century and supplied the colonies with