Katie Cordrey
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Nakabayashi, a Japanese manufacturer of bookbinding services, paper/office products, and environmentally-friendly products has introduced a machine that turns office waste into toilet paper… on the spot. The production rate is about two rolls per hour. Each roll requires about 900 sheets of A4-sized paper. Distribution of the 1,300 pound, $95K machine is set to commence in August with a sales goal of 60 units the first year. Clearly, given the energy to create such a machine, this is not an efficient use of resources, but the concept may have merit as it is refined.  Just because this thing is expensive doesn’t mean green is expensive. It’s cheaper to light my yard with off-grid solar LED lights than to string up electricity and replace incandescent bulbs. It’s cheaper to recycle aluminum than to mine and extract and refine anew.
Did we stop computer research because the first one cost several million and took up an entire basement in a building and used more electricity than a small town? This may be the first model, but eventually it could be so efficient
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