Recycling Waste Office Paper into Toilet Paper.!

The thing about going green is that there’s always someone wanting to make an easy buck out of it! In our march towards sustainability and a greener tomorrow, there are numerous companies and businesses out there that would like to exploit this public attitude to sell their product. While this new machine that we wish to discuss in this article seems like a fascinating invention it would serve us well to put it under the microscope before we commit.

White Goat?

Is the new machine developed by Oriental Co., based in Japan.

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What does it do?

It converts used or waste office paper into rolls of toilet tissue.

How?

The pulping and rolling processes are automated inside the machine. All you got to do is provide the machine with electricity, water and 40 sheets of paper and-Voilà!- a roll of toilet paper pops out in 30 minutes!

So all that sounds good. Seems like an efficient way of saving 60 trees annually as the company claims… right? Well…we are not quite sure.

Product Specification

The dimensions?

The machine is massive! And it weighs approximately 63,000 pounds! That’s a LOT of weight and moving something that heavy uses up a considerable amount of energy.

Secondly the machine still requires electricity. And water. That electricity needs to be generated and that’s a move back towards our current energy issues.

Thirdly, the machine costs a whopping 100,600 US dollars! Such a price tag would ensure that it would take years of toilet paper usage before one could recover that cost.

Also personal preference plays a big role when it comes to items like toilet paper and you cannot have your comfort guaranteed here.

And besides there are several technologies out there that focus on recycling waste paper in a much less expensive manner.

Green technology is always welcome and efforts to develop revolutionary inventions must be appreciated. However it must also be mentioned that some technologies out there that are touted as green, need to be reexamined to get a better understanding of their true worth.