W EEKLY EDITION JAN 3, 2018
Quite the Exotic Recyclable
Who knew that a panda could produce paper from its poo?
New to the Chinese market, you can now purchase paper
products made from panda poop! The Qianwei Fengsheng
Paper Company is working with the China Conservation and
Research Center for the Giant Panda to capture and recycl e all
the poo and food waste. The chemistry needed to turn
bamboo into paper happens right inside a panda's digestive
tract, and with 10kg of poo a day plus 50kg of food waste spit
out from each panda, that's a fine paper product - making
machine!
READ THE STORY
Note: The PSAI is committed to bringing Members industry news. It creates original content and it
aggregates news that appears in other sources. Unless otherwise stated in organizational documents or in
Association Insight newsletters, the PSAI does not have or take a position on the content of news items
from other sources.
PAGE 17
Put Your Money Where Your Potty Is
With how important sanitation is in public restrooms,
perhaps businesses should consider higher wages for
their janitorial and cleaning staff
Have you ever wondered how much more business a
company gets when it is well known they have clean
toilets? Chan ces are, they get quite an increase over
those who provide a restroom most wouldn't want to
step foot into again. If clean restrooms are so
im portant to the public, then how much should we
pay the people who clean them? Is minimum wage
enough for these rar ely seen folks who help
commerce succeed? Morton J. Marcus raises the question of whether our nation's janitors are under -
valued and challenges us to think about a fair compensation.
READ THE STORY
