We're real buttwipes when it comes to the environment......

[marmar]

from Grist:





Maybe you’ve heard that we’re 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, there’s 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 — that’s about 7 billion rolls for the country. If a single eucalyptus tree yields 1,000 rolls, we’re wiping our asses with 7 million eucalyptus trees. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://grist.org/list/lets-ban-toilet-paper/

[RebelOne]

1. You gotta be kidding 23.6 rolls a year.

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]

2. a good excuse for me to post...

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]

3. This is one of the things I thought I was bad at.

Yet I don't think I even use 1 roll per month,and I have allergies.

[jwirr]

4. We do not have as many news print media sources anymore and we have more people.

[originalpckelly]

5. As a gay man...

there is something sexy about wiping my ass with virgin wood products.

[jsmirman]

7. Couldn't let this topic pass without a link

to the great Cornholio:

Seriously, though, most of us don't want to walk through a forest of asses.

[jsmirman]

6. Those "these are made from trees" stickers

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]

8. I love my Biffy!! and it's paid for itself

by not buying TP in less than a year!!

http://www.biffy.com/cart/index.php/bidets/biffy-universal-bidet.html

[Erose999]

9. And the real bad news is that its the Koch Bros who profit from all that. They are in the asswipe

business. Both in making TP and financing the GOP.