Part 1 will focus on the construction of the briquettes and why I chose the filler media that I did.

Shredded paper takes up way more room than flat sheet and if you aren't careful you will end up with little shreds of paper all over the place if a mischievous pet or rambunctious child gets into the shredded paper pile. This is the faster and easier way to recycle your newspaper and cardboard and create effective, long-burning paper bricks. It stands on four heavy-duty and resilient steel legs, fully adjustable to enable it to be used outside on uneven ground. They burn for between 10 minutes and 1 hour, using waste such as shredded junk mail and newspapers, tea bags, twigs, dry leaves or sawdust.The only downside was the mess and the time involved the time it took to make a greenhouse full of paper briquettes I could have logged several tonnes of firewood. You can also transform a blank template from scratch so you can easily add your official brand logos, fonts, and colors.

The press is made from 2mm mild steel and is welded together forming a strong and reliable long lasting briquette press. Here is how we make compressed paper briquettes, quickly and easily with our Multimate MK2 briquette maker, to use in a wood-burning stove .It's a lot easier to get hold of waste paper than pallets, unless you happen to be in a trade or location where scrap pallets are plentiful. I did look into this, lots of YouTube videos and tutorials available, it looks like a very very messy job, you need to soak the shavings/paper/cardboard until it turns to mush then put it in the compressor and press the water out, then leave it to dry again. At this stage you can add some sawdust or fine straw) Mix it into a pulp using our free mixing paddle, make sure the mix is broken down into fine particles the smaller the bit the better.

It's way too slow a process as it is though and given the availability of free wood I didn't really take it any further. I remember making those paper briquettes as a child, when the whole family were pressed into service, tearing up the bundles of newspapers and adding to large barrels of water, what a mess! Paper log briquette makers compress waste paper into rectangular paper ‘logs’ measuring about 21cm long x 9cm wide x 6cm deep which will burn as well as wood for up to an hour or more in a fire-grate or wood-burning stove.

Their heat is intense, which means there is no delay in generating warmth, and the flame helps even large logs ignite. I'll take some more when I'm home (as currently away for a week in the Lake District) if peeps are interested.