Recycling Newspapers and Magazines for Fertilizer

Old newspapers and magazines make good fertilizers and bedding material for  chicken, pigs, and cattle, according to Shredabed Ltd. Of Devon, England, and English company which claims to have perfected a process of recycling newsprint.

The idea is to shred newsprint into very small pieces so it can be used as livestock and poultry bedding material.

Once the animals manure mixes with the shredded newsprint, which, are evenly scattered all over the pen’s floor, these can be later collected and processed into an excellent soil conditioner and organic fertilizer.

The mixture contains nitrogen, phosphate, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulfate, gypsum, and other trace elements which all come from manure of the chicken, pigs and cattle.  Besides, the recycled fertilizer contains a fast-decomposing cellulose, humus-forming organic material: the newsprint.

To date, the British company sells the fertilizer, packed in one and two kilo plastic bags, it also sells a complete line of processing machines that shred, compact and bale newsprint, and reprocess the bedding manure mixture into soil fertilizer.