How Things Are Made by Lucy Vargas

How is Toilet Paper Made？

2023-10-24 22:02:15 UTC

Wood chips are boiled with chemicals to make pulp.
The pulp is washed and bleached.
The pulp is mixed with a lot of water to produce paper stock, which is sprayed onto screens of mesh to drain the water.
The paper is pressed, dried, and wound onto jumbo reels.
The paper is cut into long strips and perforated into squares by machines.

I prefer to use a washlet (bidet) to wash my buttocks rather than paper. With a washlet, the water washes away the dirt, therefore we don’t need to wipe repeatedly with toilet paper. It also can clean without hurting the skin!!

Satoko Tanaka

October 24, 2023

How Are Peanuts Made ?

2023-10-24 23:16:10 UTC

1. Cut peanut trees and separate the peanuts from the tree.

2. Separate the peanuts and the shells.

3. Blanch and fry the peanuts.

4. Season the peanuts with different flavors.

5. Seal up the peanuts in a can.

I would prefer to be a comfortable peanut consumer than a peanut maker.

Yingyu

October 24, 2023

2023-10-24 23:21:22 UTC

How are Peanuts made

The peanut seed is planted on the ground usually in May.

It germinates and sprouts, emerging above the ground to form stem and oval-shaped green leaves.

The maturing plant blooms and produces special stem-like structures called “pegs.”

On the tip of each peg is a seed pod, then the pegs angles downward and burrow into the ground where the seed pods with peanuts grow and mature.

At the end of the growing season in September or October, the peanut plants are harvested but they are not ready yet because the peanuts need a period of time to dry for the cycle to end.

Sometimes we eat all kids of different fruits that the earth gives us but we don’t think about what the entire process is so that we can enjoy it.

Wendy Reynosa

October 24, 2023

How Silk is Made

2023-10-25 03:13:49 UTC

The larva hatch and lay the eggs while continuously eating until they are adults for about forty five days.
They spin their silk cocoon to become a silk moth that one, strand secreted by salivary glands about one thousand feet long.
The cocoons are loosened in hot water and unwound strands are together into a thread.
Workers painstakingly remove clumps and debris on beside a warping wheel divide the fine silk thread
The most common species used is the larvae Bombyx mori overmore.

I totally disagree with Sericulture because they kill more than two thousand five hundred silkworms to make one pound of silk. This is an insane cruel process. Please do not buy any kind of silk products.

Paxci Carranza

October 24, 2023

How is Toilet Paper Made?

2023-10-25 04:19:54 UTC

The logs pass through machines that chip them into
A massive pressure cooker cooks the wood chips with other chemicals for approximately 3 hours. (called pulp)
The washed pulp is bleached until all the color is removed.
The pulp is mixed with a lot of water to produce paper stock, then the paper stock is sprayed onto screens of mesh that drain the water, and dried.
The paper is scraped off with metal blades and wound on jumbo reels, then the paper is moved to machines that cut it into long strips, and then the paper logs are cut into rolls.

It was my first time researching how toilet paper is made, so I want to know about how recycled toilet paper is made too!

Miho Koge

October 24, 2023

How is soap made?

bayirtali — 2023-10-25 04:23:48 UTC

Add any berries and water to a double boiler and cook until the berries mix and mash well.
When the berries paste is ready, add caustic soda and keep cooking and stirring.
On the other side, take a bowl, add beewax and olive oil, heat until they are well combined, and pour into the berries caustic soda mixture well to make a paste.
When you get a homogenous mixture, put them in the selected molds before it hardens.
When the soap has fully cured, use in your home.

In the care of my skin, I decided to try natural homemade soap to moisturize and clean my skin.

Bayirta Lidzhanova

October 24, 2023

Styrofoam or Polystyrene

2023-10-25 07:51:56 UTC

Resin beads made from petroleum, beads expand by steaming.
The steam is injected into the prefoamer.
The beads that are foamed are sent to the silo to mature.
The matured beads are sent to the molding machine and fill into the mold.
The beads become even more expended and shape into the mold.

In my opinion, I believe that this product benefited many industries such as packing and construction. On the other hand, it is harmful because it is not a biodegradable product. Anything made of plastic will take hundred of years to decompose and end up being waste in the oceans and harming fauna.

Josefina Bautista

How is toilet paper made

2023-10-27 19:34:39 UTC

1-The main material for toilet paper is trees and recycling paper. Manufacturing process trees arrive at the mill, and are debarked.

2-During the cooking of the material, it can take up to 3 hours till most of the moisture in the wood evaporates.

3-The Pulp paper gets sent to multi-stage washing systems, where lignin and cooking chemicals are removed.

4-The matte sheets are transferred into cylinders, then compressed and dried.

5-The papers are loaded onto converting machines, rolled cut, and bound into the finished product.

In my opinion, toilet paper is very important, people need it, a lot.

Noriah Noorzai,

What in a landfill?

2023-10-28 10:52:57 UTC

California using Arizona as dumping ground for tons of hazardous waste.
The 3 most common landfill problems & solutions.
Where will you trash go when there's no room at local landfill?
Leave the ocean garbage alone we need to stop polluting first.
Great pacific garbage patch affecting sea life.
In my opinion,other countries can provide models on how to address the ever-growing waste problem.

Shabana AltafIn my opinion,

Other countries can provide models on how to address the ever-growing waste problem.

Shabana Altaf

How are batteries made?

2023-10-29 06:56:30 UTC

A battery consists of a case with a positive pole, a negative pole, a base plate, and a pin to allow the electricity flow around the circuit.
Batteries have positive and negative poles. The negative is full of electrons.
The materials is used to make the positive pole is manganese dioxide and graphite.
For the battery to work the positive and negative must be kept apart, rubber material is rolled up to create an internal barrier.
A battery is made up two opposites. They have both positive pole and a negative pole by combining zinc powder and gelling agent that mix is very toxic.
Finally they test the batteries and then wrap the battery with stickers.

I am amazed how small and compact batteries are. We use it for our daily appliances. There are a lot of steps to create a functional battery.

Lucia de Leon

How is store bought ice made?

2023-11-11 06:29:57 UTC

The water goes through a filtration and discoloration process.

Ice blocks are formed and then cut into cubes.

The edges and corners are removed to give them the shape.

The cubes are air dried so they last longer and don't stick to the bags.

Last, it goes to the automatic external packing line.

It is interesting to know that they use technology to prevent contamination during the process if people touch them.