Pepal, a specialized paper trading company based “I heard that they started their business with a sheet of paper,” said Mr. Kazuya Yada, the com-pany’s director. Paper Pal was founded in 1890 in the old city of Nara and has been involved in the paper business in Nara ever since, adapting to the changing paper demands from Japanese paper to Western paper. As the company expanded, it moved to its current location in the Ike-da-cho Industrial Park, Nara City. The company has been supplying various types of paper, mainly used for printing and packaging materials, mainly in the Kansai region, lo-cated in the central-western part of Honshu, Japan’s main island. In addition, the company collaborates in paper de-velopment based on customer requests. Originally a trading company, it now also offers a range of proprietary products, with one of its notable strengths being its product develop-ment capabilities.Even for “vegi-kami carrot”, which uses carrot peels from food processing plants to achieve this design, the method of crushing carrot peels was adjusted many times, and numerous prototype patterns were created in pursuit of a “mashed” texture. The result is a “bumpy” tex-ture that captures the subtle color of the carrots”.Mr. Yada with “kome-kami BOX”“CRAFT BEER PAPER” adoption curry package28in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, has been pro-moting the reduction of food waste by upcycling dis-carded food materials into paper through “food-waste paper” made with discarded foodstuffs since 2020. One percent of the proceeds are donated to support food banks. In this article, we introduce new food waste paper products such as “vegi-kami carrot,” which uses discarded carrot peels, and “CRAFT BEER PAPER,” which is made from malt residues from craft beer brewing, in addition to the paper material “kome-kami,” which is made from stockpiled rice for disaster relief.PepalFrom a single sheet of paper in NaraAiming to solve the problem of food wasteAt an event, Mr. Yada met Associate Professor Yu Yamashi-ta of Shiga University’s Department of Economics, who studies food waste issues. Dr. Yamashita had a desire to eliminate food waste by creating a system to support food banks in the form of a business. Mr. Yada sympathized with this desire and came up with the idea of “upcycling” wasted food into paper and donating a portion of the proceeds to the food banks. This idea has materialized into a paper ma-terial, known as “kome-kami”.Designing the Individuality of the Material“All food waste paper, including kome-kami, is designed and textured to give the impression of upcycled materials. Mr. Yada explains his goal with the example of “CRAFT BEER PAPER”. The idea is to make something valuable out of malt waste by using food waste paper. Therefore, CRAFT BEER PAPER is designed with a pattern that makes it easy to recognize malt as the raw material. Converting food waste into paper: Converting food waste into paper: Food-Waste Paper 'kome-kami'Food-Waste Paper 'kome-kami'
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