Don't Like Your Boss' Markup? Wipe Your A$$ With It - Literally

TURN OFFICE PAPER INTO TOILET PAPER. ON THE SPOT!


Who hasn't spent all week drafting some TPS Report or other? You stay late, give it your all, turn it in to your boss, only to get it back 20min later, murdered in red ink.

How many of you have arrived at work bright and early, like a good worker bee to the hive that is so loyal to you, to find the nice surprise of printed emails on your desk, each with 1 paragraph of orders and 5 pages of email headers all disclaiming the communication therein from liability as legal or tax advice? You know, the "This is not tax advice. Consult your tax adviser. Seriously, I'm not kidding, this is NOT tax advice." footer...

Well, instead of just tossing it at the recycle bin (really, whoever makes them ALL in?)...

NO SERIOUSLY, WIPE YOUR A$$ WITH IT! IT'S FOR THE ENVIRONMENT!

That's right, thanks to the engineering wizards at Nakabayashi Japan, you can LITERALLY turn recycled A4 (letter-size) printer paper into toilet paper! Alchemy is so seventeenth century. Water into wine? Too biblical. A4 into quilted 2-ply - THAT's where it's at!

IS IT AWESOME?

Well, the idea is, the reality is not. At least not yet.

Sounds cool, right? Just get this machine, stick it between the laser printer and the crappy "commercial grade" Lexmark p.o.s. multifunction scanner/copier in the word processing bay and you're company's all set, right?

Not so fast, there sport.

INNOVATION: NOT ALWAYS BETTER

This Nakabayashi beast weights 1,3000lbs. It costs $95,000. It makes 2 rolls and hour and takes 1,800 sheets to make those 2 rolls. So unless you have a HUGE amount of paper that isn't already being picked up by a recycling service anyway, you're probably better off just squeezin' the Charmin for now. Or if you ARE going to still use the TPS Reports, get 'em wet first - they're much softer that way.

We'll let you know when they come out with one that mounts right in the stall that you can feed "while you work"... THAT would be worth a try!

via Treehugger.com