Online Observations

Convert office paper waste into toilet paper

Yes, you read that title right. Someone created a machine to convert office paper into toilet paper. This is basically a paper recycling plant which you can place right in your office. The machine was created by a Japanese company (nutty inventors, them Japanese) called Oriental. If you visit that link, you will notice that the website is in Japanese. You can try Google Translate on the page to read it in English. The machine is called WhiteGoat (seriously, I couldn’t make heads or tails of the name), and it basically takes your office paper waste in from one end, and throws out toilet paper rolls out the other. Here’s how the website depicts this process:

Basically, you are saving the environment by using this machine (they say). It does operate at 1100 watts, and takes about 30 minutes to convert 40 A4 sheets into one toilet paper roll. Which means that unless you are using clean electricity, you might still be producing a lot of pollution using this machine. Here’s a video about this machine on YouTube from an exhibition where this machine was demonstrated.

 

Oh also, it is supposed to cost $100,000 (couldn’t confirm this from the website), and weighs 600 Kg. Still, it could save you a ton in toilet paper cost and earn you environment points at the same time.