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Hot or Not? Machine Turns Office Paper into Toilet Paper

Hot or Not? Machine Turns Office Paper into Toilet Paper

A new machine from Japanese company Oriental might make choosing recycled easier than ever, or it could be an expensive unitasker. You decide!

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Naturally Sustainable Packaging: Sasa-dango

Naturally Sustainable Packaging: Sasa-dango

Talk about sustainable packaging… These Sasa-dangos (mochi pounded rice balls filled with red bean paste and seasoned with mugwort) are wrapped in bamboo leaves and bound with a vine.  You steam it inside the bamboo grass wrap then unwrap and eat.  Simple, functional, beautiful and tasty.  

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