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Recently I had a chance to visit my father?s office (a reputed MNC in Oil & Gas Field). I saw a lot of environment friendly initiatives adopted by the Company to save our mother earth which includes very elaborated system of collecting used plastic bottles and papers to be sent for recycling purpose. But when I learnt that a huge amount of waste/used papers are sent for recycling each week from the office (2500 people work there), I am astonished. Recycling is a good thing, but not the best thing?The best is obviously reduce and then Re-use. I started searching on how we can at least re=use the papers generated at office. One option is to insist all the employees to use both side of the papers all the times? But what about re=using the printed papers?? But today, technology has advanced such that we have 3-d printers that can create models of things that we would have to build before. I found out a new type of printer from Toshiba which is trying to make printers more eco-friendly. They have launched the E-Studio printer that can erase the ink on the existing paper and print on it again. It can reuse paper upto 5 times. It also doesn?t deteriorate the color of the paper. This printer helps to reduce the CO2 emissions by over 60% and that is a huge amount of saving. How it manages to do this is very interesting. The printer uses a special toner whose color is removed by passing the paper through high temperature. The machine also has ability to sort paper into reusable and un-reusable sheets at the same time as removing the toner color, and to digitize the documents prior to erasing. Normally, documents that have been used, for example, at a meeting, are either filed away or scrapped, but with this system, the contents of the documents can be converted into digital data and saved for future use. Technology is the king these days and we should all follow this kind of technological innovations as and when possible? |
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Interesting printer! I should google more about it! Thanks for sharing Unmesh :D
Posted 31-03-2014 10:15
Humaid : Thx a lot...In my father's office I have seen one small printer attached to one big writing board (this in turn can scan the entire board and send print signal to the printer- so that once the meeting discussions/diagrams drawn on board are complete, they can print the same before erasing the board...but that's a different one...I need to check up if this one(what I have talked about) has come to the market today...
Posted 30-03-2014 19:17
Thx Dharmendra, Burton, Barbara, Ramal for your comments ....really technological advancement is amazing and we all need to look for using it for better life
Posted 30-03-2014 19:08
Thx Christy...Yes re-using the same paper is the key and it's amazing...
Posted 30-03-2014 19:07
Whoa! We are really making wonderful progress in the execution of the policy of Reuse, Reduce and Recycle. Way to go technology!
Posted 29-03-2014 00:20
Innovative.....Great to know that your father's office is taking these great steps to preserve and protect the environment.
Posted 28-03-2014 18:59
Interesting! That would save the earth a lot of trees. I hope that printer comes into commercial production very soon.
Posted 28-03-2014 17:48
Wow thanks for posting this awesome article
Posted 28-03-2014 17:33
Amazing...That's why i love science. Indeed it's really surprising.I have never heard about it. Thanks For Sharing :) :)
Posted 28-03-2014 15:04
Wonderful science! Thank you for sharing, Unmesh. It's really surprising. Removing inks on used-papers and using it 5 times again? Wow... it will definitely reduce quantity of paper use :D
Posted 28-03-2014 13:41