Comments on: It’s Not Magic, It’s Science. Researchers Develop A Method to Make Ink Disappear from Copy Paper

By: memphisbelle

memphisbelle — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:07:35 +0000

Doesn’t this raise huge security questions, as in signed contracts, etc?

By: Bob Leonard

Bob Leonard — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:53:01 +0000

As a first thought, recycling rather than “removing” the ink/toner and re-using the paper on site seems to be reasonable. However, recycling has its’ own expenses: collection, storage, transportation, processing for re-use and transportation again for redistribution. If it were possible to double or even triple the useful life of a sheet of paper at the end user’s location by the use of a simple and cheap erasing method, I say go for it. As with any new technology or process, there is research and development which may seem expensive and cumbersome at the beginning. But it may lead to a better way. Then again, it may not. We’ll never know if nobody tries.

By: Bob Myers

Bob Myers — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:26:36 +0000

They would be better of to have recycled the used sheet and not worry about “saving” the tree.
Trees are not cut from “wild” forest for the paper industry.
they are harvested from tree farms owned in part by the paper mills. The idea of saving the trees is akin to save the corn. Trees are a crop!