Kimberly-Clark Rolls Out Tube-Free Toilet Paper

A monumental day in gerbil history!

So a US company has come up with an idea that's been available in Japan for at least as long as I've been here (25 years and counting). Maybe next a US toilet company will come up with a toilet that let's you use the water filling the tank after a flush to wash your hands before it enters the tank. (And that's been here just as long too.)

While I applaud Kimberly-Clark (I actually know a girl who's name is Kimberly Clark......but that's another story) on reducing trash by eliminating the tube, I am more concerned with plastic waste than the cardboard that tubes are made of. The tubes are bio-degradable, aren't they?

So even if they end up in land fills and such, the harm to the environment I would expect to be minimal. The larger benefit isn't in reducing the trash, but in getting rid of producing something that's unnecessary (unless the energy and expense of making toilet paper tubeless is higher than producing the leaving as is).

Seerz has bin making tubeless tawlit paper fer nigh on a hunnert yerze, whuts the big deel???

Clawd Rufbung

Next will be toilet paper free (paperless) bathrooms.

I foresee the extinction of several dozen species;

And the end of space travel.

And home gadgets

Yer right - entire institutional TV series could become extinct.

Kimberly-Clark, refused to explain the tubeless toilet paper's "special winding process,"

What a teaser. I would really like to know how they did it. I found some interesting information on another (anal) CR4 thread the other day.

Eliminating Dust Bunnies

Not long now and we'll have it all under control, Ky.