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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe're real buttwipes when it comes to the environment......
from Grist:
Maybe youve heard that were now using more trees for toilet paper than for newsprint. (Not least because the newspaper industry is even more in the toilet than toilet paper.) But did you know that because of Americans demand for super-soft TP for our bungholes, 98 percent of the pulp used to make the stuff comes from virgin wood?
Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution, Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defence Council, told the Guardian.
More toilet paper used to be made out of recycled office paper, but now that offices are going paperless, theres less of the really high quality recyclable paper the kind with the long fibers to go around, notes Keira Butler in Mother Jones.
The average American uses 23.6 rolls of toilet paper a year thats about 7 billion rolls for the country. If a single eucalyptus tree yields 1,000 rolls, were wiping our asses with 7 million eucalyptus trees. ..............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://grist.org/list/lets-ban-toilet-paper/
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)I use two 6-packs of double rolls every month. The manufacturers are making less paper on the rolls. I guess I am a real buttwipe.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)the toilet tissue guide
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Global/usa/binaries/2009/2/tissue-guide-view-at-a-glance.pdf
"Our experts have carefully evaluated over 100 brands and recommended those that: contain 100% overall recycled content; contain at least 50% post-consumer recycled content; and are bleached without toxic chlorine compounds.
When you're doing your grocery shopping or just stopping by the corner store to grab a roll of toilet paper, make an informed decision as both a consumer and someone concerned about the world's ancient forests."
athenasatanjesus
(859 posts)Yet I don't think I even use 1 roll per month,and I have allergies.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)originalpckelly
(24,382 posts)there is something sexy about wiping my ass with virgin wood products.
jsmirman
(4,507 posts)to the great Cornholio:
Seriously, though, most of us don't want to walk through a forest of asses.
jsmirman
(4,507 posts)are actually kind of great.
I confess that they totally cut down on my paper towel usage, as if I needed to be reminded. But, apparently, I do.
NMDemDist2
(49,313 posts)by not buying TP in less than a year!!
http://www.biffy.com/cart/index.php/bidets/biffy-universal-bidet.html
Erose999
(5,624 posts)business. Both in making TP and financing the GOP.