With a recent announcement of the first in-office paper recycler, it seems like localized life cycles are finally here. According to Treehugger, their process (which only requires tap water) is comparable in efficiency to industrial paper recycling, without the need to ship heavy paper to the recycling plant, to China and back. Plus it’s billed as a radical way to shred documents – so powerful that even the secret yellow tracking dots on laser prints might wash out.
The recycled sheets show a little speckling from the remaining ink – they are said to be recyclable 10 times before they degrade too much.