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| New machine turns office waste into toilet paper - right in the office |
| 2009-06-02 |
| Tokyo-based Nakabayashi offers everything from bookbinding services, child car seats and office products. But the newest (and certainly coolest) product of the 2,000-man company is an in-office machine , which turns used copier paper into toilet rolls, right there in the office. Brillant. The toilet paper machine is able to produce two rolls per hour from around 1,800 sheets (or 7.2kg) of used A4-sized paper, which would have usually been just thrown away. At 600kg, it seems to be a dangerously massive piece of hardware. Distribution in Japan begins in August and Nakabayashi wants to sell 60 units in the first year. Good luck with that, as each machine comes with a price tag of $95,000. Unfortunately, there is no information on operating costs yet, but I canÂ’t imagine these being in proportion. |
| Posted by:Pholush Angaviger6361 |
| #5 Ditto Old Patriot, My grandparents lived with a well and no running water, to wash clothes there was an old wringer washer in the wellhouse, it took 12 buckets to fill it, and also yes, My father showed me how to wrinkle Sears Roebuck Catalog pages properly, and remember to replace the plank cover to keep out the chickens, each poop you sprinkled a cupfull of wood ashes to help digest the poop and kill the smell. |
| Posted by: mstrmech 2009-06-02 20:29 |
| #4 Nah, too easy ... |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-06-02 18:14 |
| #3 Fear the sales demo ... |
| Posted by: James 2009-06-02 18:04 |
| #2 I'm not impressed. I've USED Japanese toilet paper. It's kinda like using the pages of a Sears & Roebuck catalog (yeah, I know that dates me, and also indicates I have a first-hand experience with outhouses. Who cares?). |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-06-02 16:42 |
| #1 New machine turns office waste into toilet paper - right in the office Given the massive level of 'critical' public services that seemingly can't be touched in state and federal government [ie petty bureaucratic empires], we've amply demonstrated any bureaucrat can do that now. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-06-02 15:27 |