Although paper consumption has halved since the 1980s, the average American still uses the equivalent of nearly six, 40-foot trees’ worth of paper each year. Epson has a solution for reducing that—well, at least in the office work space, that is. The Japanese electronics company has created a device called the Paper Lab that companies can install in their offices to turn shredded paper back into sheets of paper. According to Epson, it would be able to produce 6,700 sheets of paper in an 8-hour workday. Having a paper recycling process in the office not only cuts down on waste, but eliminates the need to transport paper to the office and away to a recycling company. Epson also said it is the first paper-producing system that doesn’t need water—traditional methods use three gallons of water just to make a single sheet.
This machine can recycle waste paper into new sheets of paper
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