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When given the choice, take the stairs instead of the elevator to save energy and workout at the same time!
Make your own recycled toilet paper!
Image capture from Youtube video
I came across this video on DigInfo’s Youtube Channel. It’s shot during the 2009 Eco-Products exhibition. It’s about a quiet spectacular machine that is supposed to make toilet paper from recycled, shredded paper. The machine is called White Goat (!?) and has all it needs to recycle paper right within itself. You simply put shredded paper in it, then it dissolves it, turns it into pulp, thins it into future-to-be recycled toilet paper and dries it before wounding it into finished toilet paper.
Too bad it’s so big because I like the idea!
By Murielle Ungricht
Tags: DigInfo, Recycling, toilet paper, toilet paper machine, white goat
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