Question

What are the use of paper in our daily life

Answer 1

Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets. It is a versatile material with many uses, including writing, printing, packaging, cleaning, decorating, and a number of industrial and construction processes. Papers are essential in legal or non-legal documentation.

Paper can be produced with a wide variety of properties, depending on its intended use.

For representing value: paper money, bank note, cheque, security (see security paper), voucher and ticket

For storing information: book, notebook, graph paper, punched card, photographic paper

For personal use: diary, note to remind oneself, etc.; for temporary personal use: scratch paper

For communication: between individuals and/or groups of people: magazine, newspaper, art, zine, letter, newsprint, card stock

For packaging: corrugated box, paper bag, envelope, Packing & Wrapping Paper, Paper string, Charta emporetica and wallpaper

For cleaning: toilet paper, handkerchiefs, paper towels, facial tissue and cat litter

For construction: papier-mâché, origami paper, paper planes, quilling, paper honeycomb, used as a core material in composite materials, paper engineering, construction paper and paper clothing

For other uses: emery paper, sandpaper, blotting paper, litmus paper, universal indicator paper, paper chromatography, electrical insulation paper (see also fishpaper, dielectric and permittivity) and filter paper

It is estimated that paper-based storage solutions captured 0.33% of the total in 1986 and only 0.007% in 2007, even though in absolute terms, the world's capacity to store information on paper increased from 8.7 to 19.4 petabytes.[14] It is estimated that in 1986 paper-based postal letters represented less than 0.05% of the world's telecommunication capacity, with sharply decreasing tendency after the massive introduction of digital technologies.[14]

Paper has a major role in the visual arts. It is used by itself to form two and three-dimensional shapes and collages.[15][16] It has also evolved to being a structural material used in furniture design.[17] Watercolor paper has a long history of production and