Paperstone – Office life, work and fun

Office Supplies

Waste office products ‘filling up’ the developing world

By Paperstone on 30 November 2006 in Office Supplies with 0 Comments

Developing countries are being forced to cope with waste office products and equipment thrown out by Western businesses, according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Speaking at the Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, UNEP executive director Achim Steiner claimed that many of these office products brought with them […]

Continue Reading »

Office supplies enter the 21st century

By Paperstone on 24 November 2006 in Office Supplies with 0 Comments

An Indian student is about to revolutionise data transfer by using simple office supplies. Sainul Abideen has demonstrated a new system for data storage that uses Paper, turning an everyday office product into 21st century technology. Entitled Rainbow Versatile Disc (RVD), he claims that the new use of office supplies works by encoding data in […]

Continue Reading »

Top