Epson PaperLab: office equipment that produces new waste paper

While the world community, concerned about the reduction in the area of forest stands, is looking for ways to solve this problem, they continue to cut down the forest. And one of the main consumers of wood is the world pulp and paper industry, because paper production is increasing annually. Of course, to obtain it, you can also use waste paper, whose share in the feedstock can reach up to 40%, but you still can’t do without cutting new trees. To produce 1 ton of paper, it is necessary to cut more than 20 trees, not to mention the waste of the rest of the planet’s resources - water, fossil fuels and clean air.

But there is another side to this problem: paper waste. Every year, tons of used office paper around the world are sent to landfill. Basically, it passes through a document shredder and goes to the trash bin, sometimes it is collected and delivered together with other waste paper and cardboard for further processing. But even so, it is necessary to spend a significant amount of resources, including time, in order to get a new blank sheet out of unnecessary paper. However, the creators of an office machine called Epson PaperLab offer a rather compact solution to the problem of recycling paper and conserving forest resources. A Japanese corporation specializing in the production of office equipment offers to produce paper directly in the office, and unnecessary waste will serve as a raw material for it.

New equipment will allow recycling of waste paper directly in the office, which will greatly simplify this process and make it more efficient. After all, it is no secret to anyone that it is much easier to throw a used sheet of paper into the bin than to arrange with the organization for the collection of waste paper, and then accumulate the amount of paper necessary for removal. With Epson PaperLab, you can avoid all these inconveniences.

The main advantage of the new technology is work without water consumption. That is, if the classic waste paper recycling scheme requires a significant amount of water, then Epson PaperLab can do it without it. This technology is called Dry Fiber. The machine crushes the loaded sheets of paper, and then mixes the resulting raw materials and bleaches. Next, special ingredients are added to the fibers, which ensure their bonding and the ability to form the desired paper size. The process is quite fast, and in 1 minute the mini-waste paper recycling plant can produce 14 sheets of new paper.