TY  - CHAP
AB  - Paper recycling is an environment friendly technology used worldwide. The process involves turning waste paper into new paper products. According to the Society for Technology and Action for Rural Advancement (TARA), the process includes shredding of waste paper, soaking the shredded paper in water overnight, feeding the shredded soaked paper inside the hydrapulper, transforming wet material into pulp, forming pulp into required and specified size of paper, squeezing out excess water from wet paper, drying the wet sheet on cloth, removing the paper from the cloth, cutting paper into definite size, and finally manufacturing the product. Handmade paper can be used for making different paper products. This simple technology can reduce environment degradation, produce cost-effective paper, inculcate skill development, and create livelihoods. This chapter highlights a specific activity initiated in 2007 by the author in the capacity of then director, UGC Centre for Women Studies, BITS, Pilani. The activity involved setting up the TARA Mini Paper Recycling Unit, sponsored by the UGC Centre for Women Studies, BITS, Pilani, training 10 rural women on the process of making paper from waste paper and making end products out of recycled paper. The outcome of this activity was economic empowerment and helping women acquire skills of making paper from waste paper.
VL  - 20
SN  - 978-1-78190-337-7, 978-1-78190-338-4/0895-9935
DO  - 10.1108/S0895-9935(2012)0000020009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0895-9935(2012)0000020009
AU  - Prakash Nirupama
ED  - Barbara Wejnert
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - Empowering Women Using Environmentally Friendly Technology in Paper Recycling
T2  - Linking Environment, Democracy and Gender
T3  - Research in Political Sociology
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 125
EP  - 136
Y2  - 2024/05/04
ER  -