At last! A guilt free way to get rid of all those bloody ugly cables

Cables. Ninety per cent of them are useless, but they cost you such a ridiculous price in the first place, you can' bear to throw them away. So they clog all your spare storage space. I've got draws full of the buggers. I could quit smoking easier than chuck them away. They must be worth something!

Empty your drawers

You can't throw them out and you can't find anyone who needs the ones you've got.

They’re the office equivalent of an anaconda. They slowly envelope you, until one day you find you can’t move any more. Then it’s too late.

You’d give them away to someone else, but nobody ever seems to want the ones you’ve got.

Now you can dump these plastic coated copper monstrosities with a clear conscience. A Japanese company, Matsushita Electric Industrial, has developed a recycling technology to recover metals from plastic-coated wires and plastics used in electric and electronic equipment - without causing hazardous side effects.

In other words, they won’t just burn them, like your local scrap metal merchant would.

They use the catalytic properties of titanium oxide to recover of inorganic substances – like metals – while transforming plastics and other organic substances into harmless gases.

Thanks to this new technology mixed plastic waste, usually regarded as non-recyclable and destined for incineration or landfill, is treated and changed into non-toxic gases.

Brilliant! It really upsets us that plastic ends up in landfill. Unless it gets sent to China, of course, when it ends up in a furnace and is recycled as toxic fumes.

So hats off to Matsushita. They nullified all waste, AND cut carbon dioxide emissions, since hardly any external energy source is needed in what the Nikkei calls the ‘gasification process’.

We're gonna have a cable clear out

At last! A guilt free way to get rid of all those bloody ugly cables

At last! A guilt free way to get rid of all those bloody ugly cables

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