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Posted by Aart van Bezooyen | 9 May 2008
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What can you do with waste paper apart from filling up your dustbin? Jens Praet knows! One Day Paper Waste is a little table/console, obtained by taking shredded confidential documents, mixing them with resin and compressing them into a strong mould... End result: a new interesting object that has the strength of wood.
Every document tells a story. By shredding confidential documents, part of its information remains mysteriously visible. One Day Paper Waste gives new life to these documents, that's the real beauty of this product.
Check out more waste paper concepts at Jens' website (don't miss his "black edition").
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I's perfectly OK using those documents, recycling and all that, but coating the paper with resign ensures that it will remain on Earth for thousands and thousands of years. What's the point of re-using paper if you're turning it into a non-biodegradable plastic? I think it's a totally unsustainable idea.
I agree that the concept of giving new life to old documents is interesting, but mixing paper with an oil based resin kills all possibilities of recycling that paper, lets say that is not sustainable at all but is cool... what do you prefer?