With the progress of an “information-based” society, the popularity of various OA equipment has become wide-spread, and consequently, significant volumes of information forms and paper are used and wasted.
Efficient use of recycled paper for information forms and paper faced with a strng demand from the perspective of environmental preservation and garbage disposal problems.
There has been an advance in the technology to process waste paper for reuse, and organization of a recycling system is already under way.
Recently, apart from recycling of paper itself, many reports have been made which concern the use of reversible recording media.
This report introduces the general and technical trends for the use of reversible recording media as one possible replacement to information forms and paper, and briefly discusses future hopes in this aspect.
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