Engineering360: "Study: American's toilet paper preference impacting the environment?"

NRDC approved toilet paper:

Gotta be careful there. I had poison ivy from head to toe when I was 11 or 12, and I knew what it looked like.

People given the choice between virgin toilet paper and already been used paper will choose ________ .

I've always bought recycled paper... I don't see why not. Bamboo is a better alternative-- grows faster, obvious choice. Hemp would be better, as well. And a bidet is even better still, and more sanitary.

https://hellotushy.com/pages/how-does-a-bidet-work

https://grist.org/living/ask-umbra-is-there-really-bpa-in-my-recycled-buttwipe/

I got away almost 100% on toilet paper by installing what is called a mini bidet. In my case I adapted a kitchen sprayer to the water line and can easily clean my self in seconds with no paper or just a tiny amount to dry if needed. I found this on a visit to Thailand some years back at a private home, gave it a try and never looked back. I used to get some rashes in summer heat but with this cleaning never an issue again. I probably use one cup of water total. How many trees can we save with this procedure?

I will admit it took a small leap in faith to try it first time having used TP for 55 years. Yes you can teach an old dog new tricks.

I prefer washing to wiping, as I'm sure most everybody would if recognizing the choice...consequently I use very little toilet paper...

I was reading another article on the same subject and they gave the statistic that the average American uses 9 rolls of TP a week...crazy!

I have been living in Finland for 13 years and use of a "toilet shower" is quite common. It reduces your consumption of paper to almost nothing and a roll lasts several weeks. Once you start washing, you will never go back. When I travel back to the States, I miss my shower so much!

That must be a Finnish article.

According to the " toilet paper encyclopedia " , 9 rolls could be : 4500, 9000 or 18,000 sheets.

No, I don't remember where it was from but they named names as to who was doing the cutting. I found a couple of articles that says 3 rolls per week...maybe I had a "senior moment" and remembered the wrong figure

https://theprovince.com/news/canada/u-s-plush-toilet-paper-use-wiping-out-canadas-forests-flushing-away-the-future-report/wcm/31b46f20-49cf-4314-9095-5ca7148fa60f

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/02/20/does-p-g-deserve-an-f-for-toilet-paper.html

But still, when you consider that a roll lasts me several weeks that says a lot.

Three rolls a week is still an absurd number. One roll lasts me about three weeks. I could see a family of six using 3 rolls a week as it was the case when we had three daughters and a son in the household with the missus and me.

Sounds like a load of .......

What a bunch of softies we have become, I remember during WW 2 as a child, we had to cut small squares from newspapers to do the job

Well I guess that is better than a corn cob.

or keep an old Sears catalog in the outhouse to tear the pages out of.

but the glossy pages aren't worth a cr . . . . for cleaning anything.

As a 40 vet of the paper industry I can tell you that any responsible company making virgin pulp (the raw material for paper cited here) is planting three times the number of trees that it is cutting down or it wouldn't be in business long.

Yes but those folks won't talk about how sustainable it is when it doesn't fit into their agenda.

thank you so much for this amazing blog

https://www.edutour.org.in/course/dubai-educational-tour-operators/

Those forests must contain the softest pine available.