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0 pointsimp0cat1y ago0 comments

Papier-mache, to be exact. ;)

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Afaik it wasn't paper mache, it was made of cotton fiber and used some kind of resin as a binding agent.

Paper uses wood pulp.

imp0catOP1y ago

Well, to be precise, it was a resin + cotton + wood pulp mixture.

Also, totally un-recyclable. Good riddance!

Wood pulp and cotton fiber aren’t that different, are they?

They are? Generally fiber length determines how tough a given composite will be. There's a reason why clothes are made out of cotton fiber not wood.

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