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Office machine churns out toilet rolls

Juniper Foo  |  Jun 03, 2009

From the copier to the can. (Credit: Nakabayashi)

Never thought to see the day when I would be wiping my rear with used copier paper straight from an office machine. Butt seriously, thanks to Japanese ingenuity, this could soon be smart waste management, employed in corporate buildings to recycle all that paper we're guilty of overusing into toilet paper.

There's just one wee catch. Nakabayashi's pricey US$95,000 office machine requires a whopping 72kg of discarded paper (or about 1,800 A4 sheets) to churn into... just two rolls of (hopefully pliable) loo paper. But at least you can now say you've cleaned your behind with your boss' memo.

Via CrunchGear
Filed under:  Green Tech
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