Day 7 again with the getting up late. Today I got my day started at 2 and waked up a big fucking hill to democracy park. Great view up here, also the typhoon stopped so I could actually see.
Sadly the walk, and enjoying the view, and writing this post took two and a half hours so I've got to head back or else nick will be locked out of his apartment again.
Nick told me this was a city of moutuans. He wasn't kidding, I had to walk over two in order to make it back to his house people that talk about cougar calves should visit busan and see what a town of real hills looks like, seriously this place is worse than Seattle.
Tonight Michael gets here and tomorrow we head to Fukuoka. Should be an interesting night...
Random thoughts: when ever I visit Korea I'm always reminded how the threat of war and communisum here is actually real and how it influences all the tourist areas, if not daily life as well.
Lots and lots of old dudes just sit and play Chinese chess with each other all day, I've seen at least 10 games.
In the evening we again went out drinking, but this time to a bar literally built into a cave. I got dripped on quite a few times. It would have been a great place except for the tables were made out of stone and build for Koreans... Not the best. Anyway it was still a cool place.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Day 6
Day 6
Well today I got up early, walled through a typhoon to get my stuff from busan station, walked back through a typhoon chilled out on the Internet while my stuff dried and decided it was time for a nap until 3. When I finally got out to see the city. I decided to walk to Seoul tower, fairly close, where the event that made my day happened.
I was actually kind of bored due to the typhoon and lack of visibility, when some kid like maybe 10 is eyeing me and I can tell he wants to know how tall I am. I flash up a two thinking he is Korean, and then he asks me in Japanese how tall I am, turns out I ran into a school trip from nagoya. I of course answer in Japanese, and that's when the rest of the group just goes insane. I get like 30 kids surrounding me and asking me my height, and taking pictures, and basically just having a good time. I was really enjoying it. As I walked away some kids were still trying to jump up and be at my height. Best observation tower ever. Oh also it didn't hurt that they had a picture of the space needle.
After that, just for Geoff, I walked into the world model boat display. The displays were not as good as his, but I got some pictures anyway.
Then I tried walking from Seoul tower to a place called democracy park. It was 4 at the time and I had to be back at 5 so I didn't quite make it.
In the evening nick and I had a very Korean night of eating pizza drinking beer and watching archer and the usual suspects. At least I had an asahi black. That makes it more Korean right?
Well today I got up early, walled through a typhoon to get my stuff from busan station, walked back through a typhoon chilled out on the Internet while my stuff dried and decided it was time for a nap until 3. When I finally got out to see the city. I decided to walk to Seoul tower, fairly close, where the event that made my day happened.
I was actually kind of bored due to the typhoon and lack of visibility, when some kid like maybe 10 is eyeing me and I can tell he wants to know how tall I am. I flash up a two thinking he is Korean, and then he asks me in Japanese how tall I am, turns out I ran into a school trip from nagoya. I of course answer in Japanese, and that's when the rest of the group just goes insane. I get like 30 kids surrounding me and asking me my height, and taking pictures, and basically just having a good time. I was really enjoying it. As I walked away some kids were still trying to jump up and be at my height. Best observation tower ever. Oh also it didn't hurt that they had a picture of the space needle.
After that, just for Geoff, I walked into the world model boat display. The displays were not as good as his, but I got some pictures anyway.
Then I tried walking from Seoul tower to a place called democracy park. It was 4 at the time and I had to be back at 5 so I didn't quite make it.
In the evening nick and I had a very Korean night of eating pizza drinking beer and watching archer and the usual suspects. At least I had an asahi black. That makes it more Korean right?
The rest of day 5
The rest of day 5
Well I got into busan without a hitch, it was after I exited the train station that the hitches started...
As a side note I really really need a working cellphone.
Anyway, I called up nick and he was out drinking with some friends. Unfortunately I didn't think I would be able to being all my luggage into the bar he was at (turns out I totally could have) so I sent a half hour looking for a locker to put my shit in (turns out there were lockers at the station he was drinking near) I eventually found one in Seoul station. So I hopped on the 45min subway ride to get to his station (a very nice beach) and got off a station to early. I figured out I wasn't in a drinking area after about a half hour of wandering around a yhat club. Anyway I got to the station finally, and took two more wrong turns before finding the complex that held the bar. Turns out the bar was on the second floor, unlabeled, and behind not one but two blind turns.
When I finally got there thought it was really nice, actually like walking into a little slice of America.
So we sat and drank and played cranium and had a great time. When I was leaving though there was this guy who over the course of the night had been saying things that I found oddly familiar. When we were walking out the door he started talking about his friend that lived in tokyo, and went to George tech. He kept on saying stuff like "a town down" finally I asked him if his friend was named Julian Prokay by any chance. Turns out it was, Julian, the guy who lived 3 doors down from me for a year had visited this guy in busan no more than two months ago. After that my mind was so blown I went home.
Before I got hone thought I had to pick um my luggage from Seoul station, turns out the station closes at 23:00 so my stuff was stuck there until the next day, kind of a bummer meant I had to sleep in contacts.
After that I was so bummed had mcdonalds (fairly good here, but doesn't compare to japan) and went to bed.
Well I got into busan without a hitch, it was after I exited the train station that the hitches started...
As a side note I really really need a working cellphone.
Anyway, I called up nick and he was out drinking with some friends. Unfortunately I didn't think I would be able to being all my luggage into the bar he was at (turns out I totally could have) so I sent a half hour looking for a locker to put my shit in (turns out there were lockers at the station he was drinking near) I eventually found one in Seoul station. So I hopped on the 45min subway ride to get to his station (a very nice beach) and got off a station to early. I figured out I wasn't in a drinking area after about a half hour of wandering around a yhat club. Anyway I got to the station finally, and took two more wrong turns before finding the complex that held the bar. Turns out the bar was on the second floor, unlabeled, and behind not one but two blind turns.
When I finally got there thought it was really nice, actually like walking into a little slice of America.
So we sat and drank and played cranium and had a great time. When I was leaving though there was this guy who over the course of the night had been saying things that I found oddly familiar. When we were walking out the door he started talking about his friend that lived in tokyo, and went to George tech. He kept on saying stuff like "a town down" finally I asked him if his friend was named Julian Prokay by any chance. Turns out it was, Julian, the guy who lived 3 doors down from me for a year had visited this guy in busan no more than two months ago. After that my mind was so blown I went home.
Before I got hone thought I had to pick um my luggage from Seoul station, turns out the station closes at 23:00 so my stuff was stuck there until the next day, kind of a bummer meant I had to sleep in contacts.
After that I was so bummed had mcdonalds (fairly good here, but doesn't compare to japan) and went to bed.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Vacation day 2
Day two so far
So I figured out where I was going to sleep last night, a capsule hotel. Everything there was great except for bed. They had a fantastic rooftop sento (a type of onsen or hottub) and free toothbrushes and razors. I think there was even free porn, but I was to stupid to realize that video in Japanese is code for porn.
The bed however sucked. It was to small, to hard, and most importantly there was no ac in my room meaning it was hot as balls the entire night. I don't think I've slept so badly sense I was in a hammock camping illegally in the middle of Tokyo getting eaten alive by bugs.
Thankfully i didn't have to sleep that long I woke up at 7 to get to the international terminal on time. Thankfully I stayed close to hakata but even so I had a hell of a time finding the bus stop (there are like 10 stops all spread out) and as a result cut it very close (10 min to spare) making it on the boat.
The boat was great, it was a hydrofoil so there wasn't any turbulence and I was able to catch up on the sleep I didn't get in the capsule hotel.
Making into busan was uneventful except I think it's going to become tradition to be had by taxi scams in this damn country. I suffered an off by one bug when paying the cabbe and instead of giving him 3000 won for a 5 min trip I gave him 30000. About 30$ Damnit.
After that I wandered around the city a bit before my train ride to Seoul. Fairly uneventful, the cities port is beautiful if not a bit run down in places. Thankfully no more scams where to be had.
For lunch I played it safe and ate at mall food. Holy fuck I forgot how spicy food can be. This will take some getting used to. I'll figure it out after my mouth stops smoking.
As I write this last part I'm waiting for a train to seoul. I'm meeting up and staying with Michael tonight and we'll see where things go from there. I'm excited to see another face from Seattle.
Well I got into Seoul without a hitch, it was after that the hitches started. I needed to get into contact with Michael, but my phone was at 10% battery life, so there was a time limit. On top of that I couldn't find wifi in the station so I had to wander around for like 30min before finding anything I could use.
I finally got through, and it turns out Michael was halfway across the city. So over I went. When I got there I realized we hadn't set a meeting time or place and worse yet, there wasn't any Internet so I couldn't contact him or find his number. Queue wandering to each exit for the next half-hour before finally finding free Internet and being able to make contact. I met Michael with 2% battery life on my phone, talk about cutting it close.
The rest of the night was uneventful. We had dinner and caught up. Tomorrow I guess I'll go hiking in the afternoon, and drinking in the evening.
Here are my random thoughts of the day:
If you thought english in japan was bad, come to Korea. I've seen more engrish errors here in 2 hours than in the last 2 months I spent in japan.
I've also realized that I overpacked, badly. Who needs two coats, gloves and a hat in the middle of summer, my bag is already pushing 20kg. Anyway I'm working on a plan to get this stuff out of my pack, but in the mean time it's a bitch to carry around.
Korea, at least the parts I woke up to see is a really beautiful country once you get out if the cities. The same can be said about the islands around fukuoka. When I go back I want to visit them. I might dedicate a day here just to hiking as well.
I forgot just how much Seoul loves it's high-rise apartments. In japan due to earthquakes it costs a lot of money to build to far up. So the suburbs are generally only 10-12 stories high. Here it looks like 20 stories is the minimum.
So I figured out where I was going to sleep last night, a capsule hotel. Everything there was great except for bed. They had a fantastic rooftop sento (a type of onsen or hottub) and free toothbrushes and razors. I think there was even free porn, but I was to stupid to realize that video in Japanese is code for porn.
The bed however sucked. It was to small, to hard, and most importantly there was no ac in my room meaning it was hot as balls the entire night. I don't think I've slept so badly sense I was in a hammock camping illegally in the middle of Tokyo getting eaten alive by bugs.
Thankfully i didn't have to sleep that long I woke up at 7 to get to the international terminal on time. Thankfully I stayed close to hakata but even so I had a hell of a time finding the bus stop (there are like 10 stops all spread out) and as a result cut it very close (10 min to spare) making it on the boat.
The boat was great, it was a hydrofoil so there wasn't any turbulence and I was able to catch up on the sleep I didn't get in the capsule hotel.
Making into busan was uneventful except I think it's going to become tradition to be had by taxi scams in this damn country. I suffered an off by one bug when paying the cabbe and instead of giving him 3000 won for a 5 min trip I gave him 30000. About 30$ Damnit.
After that I wandered around the city a bit before my train ride to Seoul. Fairly uneventful, the cities port is beautiful if not a bit run down in places. Thankfully no more scams where to be had.
For lunch I played it safe and ate at mall food. Holy fuck I forgot how spicy food can be. This will take some getting used to. I'll figure it out after my mouth stops smoking.
As I write this last part I'm waiting for a train to seoul. I'm meeting up and staying with Michael tonight and we'll see where things go from there. I'm excited to see another face from Seattle.
Well I got into Seoul without a hitch, it was after that the hitches started. I needed to get into contact with Michael, but my phone was at 10% battery life, so there was a time limit. On top of that I couldn't find wifi in the station so I had to wander around for like 30min before finding anything I could use.
I finally got through, and it turns out Michael was halfway across the city. So over I went. When I got there I realized we hadn't set a meeting time or place and worse yet, there wasn't any Internet so I couldn't contact him or find his number. Queue wandering to each exit for the next half-hour before finally finding free Internet and being able to make contact. I met Michael with 2% battery life on my phone, talk about cutting it close.
The rest of the night was uneventful. We had dinner and caught up. Tomorrow I guess I'll go hiking in the afternoon, and drinking in the evening.
Here are my random thoughts of the day:
If you thought english in japan was bad, come to Korea. I've seen more engrish errors here in 2 hours than in the last 2 months I spent in japan.
I've also realized that I overpacked, badly. Who needs two coats, gloves and a hat in the middle of summer, my bag is already pushing 20kg. Anyway I'm working on a plan to get this stuff out of my pack, but in the mean time it's a bitch to carry around.
Korea, at least the parts I woke up to see is a really beautiful country once you get out if the cities. The same can be said about the islands around fukuoka. When I go back I want to visit them. I might dedicate a day here just to hiking as well.
I forgot just how much Seoul loves it's high-rise apartments. In japan due to earthquakes it costs a lot of money to build to far up. So the suburbs are generally only 10-12 stories high. Here it looks like 20 stories is the minimum.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Ryokoo (vacation) pt1
After one final frantic day of preparations I'm finally on my way. I woke up in Tokyo today early to try and finish my errands and checking out early.
Things were going well until I realized my duffel bag was way to big to ship by post. I ended up having to make a very expensive detour to donki (a kind of superstore) and buying a piece of luggage for 100$. I then had to ship both prices of luggage for 200$, ouch. At least they are going to my new home in San Diego.
That detour lasted for a good 4 hours. I finally set off to catch my train at 6. I said goodby to everyone went out with my luggage, which is already to heavy, and promptly realized I forgot my keys so I had to go back.
Turns out they weren't there, or anywhere else I looked. Thankfully there was nothing of value on the keychain so I just forgot about it and went on my way.
I'm now riding the nozoni Shinkansen (the one that regular tourists can't ride) to Fukuoka (also apparently known as balata). It's super nice, quiet, fast and maybe even cleaner than a regular Shinkansen. I can see why they keep tourists out.
I have no idea where I will stay tonight, hopefully that will work itself out. I'm thinking magakisa (basically like an Internet cafe)
Tomorrow I leave for busan by ferry, and maybe Seoul. We'll see what I feel like doing.
Oh for people who don't know my schedule it's this:
Aug 4 - arrive in Korea
Aug 10 - back in Fukuoka
Aug 17 - fly to shanghai
Aug 19 - Beijing by rolling death aka their Shinkansen
Aug 24 - shanghai again by the fastest way to die on the planet
Aug 28 - Taiwan
Sept 2 - Tokyo
Sept 5 - Seattle
Sept 13 - San Diego to start grad school
All blog posts will be typed from an iPhone so as normal don't expect high quality, but hopefully the mobileness will let me post fairly quick updates.
Things were going well until I realized my duffel bag was way to big to ship by post. I ended up having to make a very expensive detour to donki (a kind of superstore) and buying a piece of luggage for 100$. I then had to ship both prices of luggage for 200$, ouch. At least they are going to my new home in San Diego.
That detour lasted for a good 4 hours. I finally set off to catch my train at 6. I said goodby to everyone went out with my luggage, which is already to heavy, and promptly realized I forgot my keys so I had to go back.
Turns out they weren't there, or anywhere else I looked. Thankfully there was nothing of value on the keychain so I just forgot about it and went on my way.
I'm now riding the nozoni Shinkansen (the one that regular tourists can't ride) to Fukuoka (also apparently known as balata). It's super nice, quiet, fast and maybe even cleaner than a regular Shinkansen. I can see why they keep tourists out.
I have no idea where I will stay tonight, hopefully that will work itself out. I'm thinking magakisa (basically like an Internet cafe)
Tomorrow I leave for busan by ferry, and maybe Seoul. We'll see what I feel like doing.
Oh for people who don't know my schedule it's this:
Aug 4 - arrive in Korea
Aug 10 - back in Fukuoka
Aug 17 - fly to shanghai
Aug 19 - Beijing by rolling death aka their Shinkansen
Aug 24 - shanghai again by the fastest way to die on the planet
Aug 28 - Taiwan
Sept 2 - Tokyo
Sept 5 - Seattle
Sept 13 - San Diego to start grad school
All blog posts will be typed from an iPhone so as normal don't expect high quality, but hopefully the mobileness will let me post fairly quick updates.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Asahi Beer Tour
I should really emphasize that everything here was at amazing scale. I don't think that comes out in my writing.
Asahi Beer
Factory Study Tour
For our second factory study tour of the quarter we went to the Asahi Beer Factory in Kanagawa prefecture. The Asahi Beer Factory is an eco friendly factory where the Asahi beer that gets shipped to the Kanto region is produced. Recently the emphasized lots of eco and energy friendly technologies to make the production of beer more efficient.
This factory study tour was much more touristy than the other tours that we have gone on. The guide was a paid guide who spoke very good english, and the walkway that we went on had posters and signs describing all sorts of information pertaining to the brewing, or in this case production of beer.
The introduction was a video produced to give an overview of the brewing process and also was one giant advertisement for Asahi beer and its various products. The video covered all aspects of brewing, from raw goods acquisition to the bottling and shipping of the finished product.
After the video we started the tour. The first stop on our tour was the mash room. Mash is what later gets fermented into beer by yeast. To create mash one must first bring the barely to a boil and physically mash it up. After the barley has been mashed it is then added to another vat that contains hops. The whole thing is stirred until its dissolved and then the solid seeds of the barely and hops are filtered out, leaving only the mash.
The mash is then transferred to fermentation units outside. These units are where the mash is converted to beer by yeast fermentation. It takes about 10 days to ferment the mash into beer. The process is carefully controlled and watched to make sure the entire process occurs at 0 C. A single fermenting column contains something like 50,000L of beer
When the beer has been created the yeast must then be filtered out of the final product. Yeast makes beer taste bad, and has, various other health effects. Therefore the yeast is filtered out.
After the filtering process, the beer is moved into the sterile bottling area. I found out something new about metal bottles that day, they originally come in two parts, the top and the bottom. The bottom is filled with beer, the top is placed on and then the top has a lip that gets folded and pressed into the bottom to seal the can.
When the bottling is done packing occurs. Because the demand for beer in Tokyo is very high one 24 pack of Asahi beer is produced every second in the plant. It was a really cool sight to see.
The tour ended with a 30min nohihoadai, which was a lot of fun. The tour guide showed us how to pour a beer the “proper way” although I disagree. Her instructions were as follows: first you need a chilled mug (I agree with this), then pour the beer into the cup so that a head is formed. Then til the cup so head is no longer created while pouring and fill the cup up all the way. The end result should have about 1/3 of the cup filled with head, and the rest beer. In my opinion thats way to much head on a beer. Actually beer should be so thick it doesn't even form a head.
Asahi Beer
Factory Study Tour
For our second factory study tour of the quarter we went to the Asahi Beer Factory in Kanagawa prefecture. The Asahi Beer Factory is an eco friendly factory where the Asahi beer that gets shipped to the Kanto region is produced. Recently the emphasized lots of eco and energy friendly technologies to make the production of beer more efficient.
This factory study tour was much more touristy than the other tours that we have gone on. The guide was a paid guide who spoke very good english, and the walkway that we went on had posters and signs describing all sorts of information pertaining to the brewing, or in this case production of beer.
The introduction was a video produced to give an overview of the brewing process and also was one giant advertisement for Asahi beer and its various products. The video covered all aspects of brewing, from raw goods acquisition to the bottling and shipping of the finished product.
After the video we started the tour. The first stop on our tour was the mash room. Mash is what later gets fermented into beer by yeast. To create mash one must first bring the barely to a boil and physically mash it up. After the barley has been mashed it is then added to another vat that contains hops. The whole thing is stirred until its dissolved and then the solid seeds of the barely and hops are filtered out, leaving only the mash.
The mash is then transferred to fermentation units outside. These units are where the mash is converted to beer by yeast fermentation. It takes about 10 days to ferment the mash into beer. The process is carefully controlled and watched to make sure the entire process occurs at 0 C. A single fermenting column contains something like 50,000L of beer
When the beer has been created the yeast must then be filtered out of the final product. Yeast makes beer taste bad, and has, various other health effects. Therefore the yeast is filtered out.
After the filtering process, the beer is moved into the sterile bottling area. I found out something new about metal bottles that day, they originally come in two parts, the top and the bottom. The bottom is filled with beer, the top is placed on and then the top has a lip that gets folded and pressed into the bottom to seal the can.
When the bottling is done packing occurs. Because the demand for beer in Tokyo is very high one 24 pack of Asahi beer is produced every second in the plant. It was a really cool sight to see.
The tour ended with a 30min nohihoadai, which was a lot of fun. The tour guide showed us how to pour a beer the “proper way” although I disagree. Her instructions were as follows: first you need a chilled mug (I agree with this), then pour the beer into the cup so that a head is formed. Then til the cup so head is no longer created while pouring and fill the cup up all the way. The end result should have about 1/3 of the cup filled with head, and the rest beer. In my opinion thats way to much head on a beer. Actually beer should be so thick it doesn't even form a head.
Factoty Study Tour report Kawasaki Eco town
As normal I figure people might want to see this so I'm posting it as well as turning it in.
I really should keep this more updated. I've done a lot of cool things recently, stated dating, went to the gibiri museum, walked around some really nice parks, and I'm planning on going on a crazy fun vacation soon. Maybe I'll post here with more memories when I get some free time.
With that here is my really really badly written Kawasaki Eco Town report.
Kawasaki Eco Town
Factory Study Tour
For our first factory study tour of the quarter we went to the Kawasaki Eco Town in Kawasaki city. The Kawaasaki Eco town is actually a combination of a few different factories in the same area that are all united in providing ecologically friendly factory conditions, and recycling of materials. It is probably the greenest factory we have been to so far.
We began the visit by waiting briefing room for a bit before we were introduced to the a factory head. He gave a brief introduction, and then described the basic layout of the factory and the techniques and technology used inside.
The introduction and the tour followed the same basic pathway so I will describe them in simultaneously.
The factory that we toured that day was a factory for making toilet paper out of recycled goods. All the toilet paper was 100% recycled and they were able to make many different kinds of paper, which I will describe later on.
The first part of the tour we saw the reciving area, where the factory received the goods that have been recycled and fed them into the rest of the supply chain. In the receving area there were trucks and boxes of various things, paper from companies, train tickets, and milk containers . Milk containers were the best paper to make toilet paper out of because of their high fiber count.
Right after the reviving area there was a basic separation station. There the paper and large metal objects were separated out, via centrifuge. However this was not enough to create pure paper for recycling. Staples and other things that can't be recycled were still left in the paper.
That brought us to the next container, which was a giant vat of water + chemicals that dissolved the paper into its constituent fibers making it so the metal settled to the bottom and the paper itself remained at the top. It takes about 12 hours for one run to be totally dissolved and moved on for further processing.
After the paper is dissolved it must be bleached to remove dyes and inks that made the paper useful, this was done with H2O2 in smaller vats, this processing was much faster.
After the fibers were fully processed it was time to turn them back into paper. This was done by quickly spinning and drying new paper at the same time on rollers, I'm not exactly sure how this was done but it was really cool to watch. Also the paper rolls generated were giant, over 1.8m in diameter. It was really cool to see. Each of these rolls were then spun down, into smaller rolls for the purposes of making toilet paper. The smaller rolls were about 2m long, but the diameter of toilet paper rolls.
These smaller rolls were then cut up in many different places, leaving a roll of paper the size of a toilet paper roll remaining. They were then sent to a packaging system that packages them 24 at a time and move to the distribution section of the warehouse.
The plant in total produces about 1million rolls a day, which I though was really cool, but actually its not so much if you think about it.
I really should keep this more updated. I've done a lot of cool things recently, stated dating, went to the gibiri museum, walked around some really nice parks, and I'm planning on going on a crazy fun vacation soon. Maybe I'll post here with more memories when I get some free time.
With that here is my really really badly written Kawasaki Eco Town report.
Kawasaki Eco Town
Factory Study Tour
For our first factory study tour of the quarter we went to the Kawasaki Eco Town in Kawasaki city. The Kawaasaki Eco town is actually a combination of a few different factories in the same area that are all united in providing ecologically friendly factory conditions, and recycling of materials. It is probably the greenest factory we have been to so far.
We began the visit by waiting briefing room for a bit before we were introduced to the a factory head. He gave a brief introduction, and then described the basic layout of the factory and the techniques and technology used inside.
The introduction and the tour followed the same basic pathway so I will describe them in simultaneously.
The factory that we toured that day was a factory for making toilet paper out of recycled goods. All the toilet paper was 100% recycled and they were able to make many different kinds of paper, which I will describe later on.
The first part of the tour we saw the reciving area, where the factory received the goods that have been recycled and fed them into the rest of the supply chain. In the receving area there were trucks and boxes of various things, paper from companies, train tickets, and milk containers . Milk containers were the best paper to make toilet paper out of because of their high fiber count.
Right after the reviving area there was a basic separation station. There the paper and large metal objects were separated out, via centrifuge. However this was not enough to create pure paper for recycling. Staples and other things that can't be recycled were still left in the paper.
That brought us to the next container, which was a giant vat of water + chemicals that dissolved the paper into its constituent fibers making it so the metal settled to the bottom and the paper itself remained at the top. It takes about 12 hours for one run to be totally dissolved and moved on for further processing.
After the paper is dissolved it must be bleached to remove dyes and inks that made the paper useful, this was done with H2O2 in smaller vats, this processing was much faster.
After the fibers were fully processed it was time to turn them back into paper. This was done by quickly spinning and drying new paper at the same time on rollers, I'm not exactly sure how this was done but it was really cool to watch. Also the paper rolls generated were giant, over 1.8m in diameter. It was really cool to see. Each of these rolls were then spun down, into smaller rolls for the purposes of making toilet paper. The smaller rolls were about 2m long, but the diameter of toilet paper rolls.
These smaller rolls were then cut up in many different places, leaving a roll of paper the size of a toilet paper roll remaining. They were then sent to a packaging system that packages them 24 at a time and move to the distribution section of the warehouse.
The plant in total produces about 1million rolls a day, which I though was really cool, but actually its not so much if you think about it.
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