Sawdust in making Charcoal Briquettes?

How to make sawdust briquettes?

• what binding agent is used in making sawdust briquettes and shreded paper briquettes

• Answer:

  When making paper logs I don't use any binding agent, just soak the shredded paper for a couple of days with a little bleach added to help breakdown the fibers. Then just compact them. With sawdust it is harder to compact by hand and you need allot of pressure to hold it together, you could add some pva additive to the mix and try that. The commercial sawdust logs you can buy use several hundred tonnes of pressure to compress them.