Tearing of paper is said to be a change that cannot be reversed. What about paper recycling?

Academic Chemistry NCERT Class 6

Recycling of paper is also an irreversible change because the quality, colour and texture of the paper changes on recycling and we get a different type of paper, not the original one.

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Updated on: 01-Feb-2023

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