I'm a recycle fanatic.

About 25 years ago my  mom bought Energrill. It's a 5-part 3-layered tin stove where you use crumpled newspaper for fuel. I can say it's good in place of LPG if you have lots of old paper to crumple.

I found a better way, though. It's better to start when the sun is more frequent to show than rain to fall.

Procedure:

1. Get a container that can hold all your scrap paper (newspaper, phone directory, notebook, bond paper, manila paper, cartons, etc.).

2. Tear them to as small as 1/8 the size of a bond paper. Do not cut. Just tear with your hands.

3. Put them in your container.

4. Fill the container (that's already filled with paper) with water.

5. Let steep for an hour at least.

6. When the paper had softened, it's ready.

7. Get some enough to be the size half your fist when you squeeze out the water and your paper crumpled to a "ball" just like the normal charcoal size.

8. Set to dry under the sun (atop your roof would be better).

9. When it's fully dry (about 2 days of sun-drying), it's ready to be used as charcoal.

Quality is less than real charcoal but better than mere crumpled paper.

Try it...and save some trees.