House of cards?

Building houses from "Papercrete" - recycled paper plus cement or
other binders.
Claimed to be cheap, eco friendly, well insulated, ...

This is something James could get excited about.
Would have its place in NZ too.

        http://www.livinginpaper.com/index.htm


Formal tests

        http://www.livinginpaper.com/tests.htm

Buried in the above is a mention of "hammer milling" waste paper as
feed stock. That's possibly an 'enabling technology' for making this a
more repeatable and well defined process.

Looking at the starting point "formulas" it seems that while they are
replacing some traditional concrete components with paper, there are
still a lot of conventional materials involved.

They also discuss

- "paper only" and paper plus other binder solutions.

- The use of paper plus other fillers such as polystyrene.

- Fidobe and Padobe.

- Bug and fire resistance.

- Insulation.

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And really OTW (or in it)

    House built from used telephone directories - NZ site. Serious 
paper.

        http://www.nzsses.org.nz/Conference/Session5/59%20Tonks.pdf

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1st ref: David Reid.


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