I remember when I was considerably younger, my school help a newspaper drive. The newspaper drive was an important part of the year because it gave all of the students the opportunity to save the Earth by bringing in our old newspapers to be recycled. This drive was a big deal because recycling saves trees. At that time, school taught that there was a hole in the ozone layer and recycling newspapers would help repair that hole. Now, the hole is closing but the message of recycling is an important one.
Regardless of your views of the environmental movement, the Biblical truth that we are to be good stewards of creation is an overarching mandate for Christians to be concerned about the environment. We have been entrusted to care for the creation and to nurture it for the next generation until Jesus returns. With this said, I was interested to see this week an article in Fast Company magazine about the Epson “Paper Lab” recycling system.
The Epson “Paper Lab” is “the world’s first compact office papermaking system capable of producing new paper from securely shredded waste paper without the use of water.”
Amazingly, this system will take the waste paper from an office and convert it into new paper. I am not sure how it will work, but the thought of this is mind-boggling. The implications of this system are incredible. In several years, offices will be creating their own paper from recycled old paper. The Army can take this downrange and the paper used to communicate can be recycled after it is used and returned without having to leave the company. Furthermore, secret documents will simply be erased after they have been processed through this machine.
This machine will ultimately save money for businesses, as well as reduce the amount of trees needed to produce the amount of paper we use every day. It seems that the newspaper drive will one day come to an end, as we will simply recycle it all in our office.
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Photo from Unsplash.com and from Epson