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made from recycled paper and cement.
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Why Make Papercrete?
If you are considering materials for building a house, add Papercrete to your list of possibilities. There are good reasons to build with Papercrete. It is very inexpensive to make and to build with. You'll be making use of unused (waste) paper, recycling it into a usable shelter. Of all the materials one can build with, Papercrete has little 'embodied energy', the total amount of energy (fossil fuels, for example) necessary to gather raw materials and process them into a product, then ship it for sale to the public. If one considers that the paper is actually discarded waste, the question of its energy doesn't arise, because it has been used and is now available for a second use.

Cement, however, is relatively energy-intensive to produce, so one must come to terms with that fact when selecting materials from which to build. It is possible to substitute some or even all of the cement with clay or clay soil, thus making 'fibrous adobe'. It's properties are similar to Papercrete, but different enough to warrant examination, so experimentation is necessary to determine if it will serve your needs.