Sharp NP-20CX-S Kitchen Waste Composters

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Sharp NP-20CX-S Kitchen Waste Composters

September 13, 2004 at 11:56 AM in

Sharp has released two new handy devices for the Japanese kitchen that use a proprietary "Composting Bio Mix" to breaks down organic kitchen waste for "Dramatically Reducing Disposal Volume and Minimizing Odors During Processing."

Japanese robots that consume red meat, robots that eat flies, and now this. Do appliances that consume organic material and rely on organic "humans" to feed them not make anyone else nervous? Machines that eat organic material are just a bad idea in my book. Sharp should expect large initial orders from both Skynet and Mafia organizations worldwide.

Sharp Introduces Two New Household Kitchen Waste Composters [via JapanToday]

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Reader Comments

birq @ September 13, 2004 04:54 PM

This thing will coordinate the attacks by your Aibo and Battle Bot so that when they knock you unconscious, you'll fall on your Roomba so it can drive your lifeless body directly into the composter. Your robot overlords laugh hysterically every time somebody buys one of these.

David Adam Edelstein @ September 13, 2004 08:39 PM

Weird. I have a bin full of redworms that does the same thing, plus I get to use the end product on my plants.

Do you think the worms will rise up to defend us from the robots?

birq @ September 14, 2004 02:51 AM

They're our only hope.

Dancing Dog @ September 14, 2004 06:19 AM

One thing that wasn't made clear in the Sharp press release was *why* they are marketing this device in Japan.

Pratically every municipality in Japan has mandatory source separation for garbage into "burnable," "non-burnable" and "organic" waste. I've heard (but can't confirm) that some cities have introduced a system where they make you buy special color-coded plastic bags to dispose of organic waste. So there's an economic incentive to reduce the volume of organic waste (which is mostly water anyway) before you dispose of it.

I don't know how they prevent people from sneaking "organic" garbage into one of the other waste streams, but I'm sure they've thought that problem through, too (the "Garbage Police"?).

-- D.D.