We might be living in the digital age, but the average American still uses "the equivalent of nearly six 40-foot trees' worth of paper each year," said Mike Murphy at Quartz. Epson's new Paper Lab — essentially an on-site recycling plant for your office — could save some of those trees from getting the chop. The hefty machine breaks down used paper and presses it into fresh, new sheets, producing up to 6,720 letter-size sheets in an eight-hour workday.
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