Cotton waste is then added to the wet straw and the mixture is beaten for a few hours until the resulting pulp resembles papier-mache.

Straw pulp normally gives more serious sticking problems on the press rolls and more frequent web breaks at the wet end of paper machine than wood pulp, thus causing poor runnability in paper making.

This paper introduces the use and the action of Surface active agents in pulp, deinking, wet end, sizing, coating and polutional treatment.