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What was paper used for?

Updated: 9/16/2023
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Obviously, writing

They also used paper for sending notes, newspaper, packaging, film, books, sanitary uses like toilet paper, and napkins. The first paper was made around 200 B.C and it was the Chinesewho used old fishing nets to make the worlds first piece of paper.

In the U.S, paper accounts for two-thirds of all the packaging material recovered for recycling, more than glass,metal,and plastic comibined. Everyday, the U.S paper makes recycle enough paper to fill a 15-mile long train of boxcars.

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