Do you think that there is too much paper being wasted in your office? Well, the smart folks over in a Japanese company called Oriental have come up with a machine called White Goat. If you’re wondering what a machine with such a funny name does, it converts your normal paper into toilet paper. Just pop in about 40 sheets of paper, and wait for 30 minutes, and you’ll get a nice toilet roll for your efforts. The process involves shredding the paper, after which it is dissolved in water, thinned out, dried and wound into toilet rolls. Pretty cool. The company says it costs 10 Yen ($0.11) to churn out 1 roll, and regular usage of this machine will save up to 60 cedar trees annually. This would probably be a great machine to boost your eco credentials, though there is one snag: you might be cool with it being 1.8m tall and weighing 600kg, but it’ll be priced at $100,000 when it goes on sale in Japan this summer.
$100,000 would wipe me out.
In more ways than one, Mike.
$100k? Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! BWA-ha-ha-ha-ha!
(But. . . but. . . we’re GREEN!)
My ‘roids would be screaming with that rough toilet paper. 🙁
I’m just waiting for Scott to show up! He’ll be on a roll!
dose it smell like a pulp mill.
Mike – I see what you did there….
Staples dude staples.
Laugh if you want, but wouldn’t some of you just love to put in your old marriage licenses and divorce papers and old love letters from your ex-spouses in this thing and have something really useful like this come out?
Or for the rest of you…
From office paper to orifice paper.
Go Scott go, and use the new toilet paper.
What happens when the “Paperless Office” happens?
Remember they told us this in the 90’s?
Wrong, they just made it easier to create more paper in the office.
A very practical and fantastic idea indeed! White goat is a must have in big companies, universities, hospitals or in subdivisions. This will encourage the people to use recycled paper. Wouldn’t it be nice too if you could shred your credit card bills, failed exam, or your love letters from ex-boyfriend, and turn it into a toilet paper and then wipe your ‘thing’ with it?