Neat recycling machine

[Locut0s]

Turns waste office paper into Toilet rolls:

http://bx.businessweek.com/recyclin...moreover.com/click/here.pl?r2516450879&f=9791

Leave it to the Japanese to think these great things up, this one being more practice and more portable an idea than some of the things they come up with.

 

[zerocool84]

That doesn't look Charmin soft. Looks like it'd tear apart your butt-hole but hey it's cool.

 

[Locut0s]

That doesn't look Charmin soft. Looks like it'd tear apart your butt-hole but hey it's cool.

Yeah I wondered about that.

 

[RoloMather]

ST? Stones? WTF

 

[Born2bwire]

I have a feeling most of my bosses were already using my reports for TP without using this machine.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's pretty cool. Think it's the first time I see a japanese "innovation" that is actually... innovative. I wonder if it has a safety brake in case a hand gets caught, and hopefully the on button is not made by Toyota.

 

[edro]

Toner ass?

 

[Paperdoc]

I agree that the paper quality looks questionable. But there are some VERY serious practical problems with this. The link does comment that it would take 11 YEARS! of operation to pay for the capital cost of the equipment. Now, that is based on a projected cost avoidance of 60¢ per roll, a production rate of 2 rolls per hour!, absolutely NO cost for utilities like water, electricity and sewage treatment, NO maintenance cost, NO cost of operators, and 24/7 operation. Any of those conditions sound reasonable? And yet, someone committed time and money to producing a working model and launching a selling program for this machine, and someone else thought it is all so brilliant that it deserves an award! Anybody want to estimate the $ cost, AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT, of the electricity required to DRY the wet toilet paper inside the machine?

Recycling is not an absolute good. It has to make sense from both a dollar cost and an environmental impact perspective, and this one does not.