Nonetheless, I'm willing to try the seventh-generation office building style, unless I'm preparing for a colonoscopy, or I'm having a C. dif attack. But I will NOT use just one square at a time.
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Posted on 03/02/2019 6:03:07 PM PST by blueplum
We’re all becoming more aware about the damage single-use plastics and fast fashion has on the environment. Yet there is one product we all throw away every single day that, so far, has not been a major part of conversations about sustainability: toilet paper.
But America’s heavy use of toilet paper – particularly the pillowy soft kind – is worsening climate change and taking “a dramatic and irreversible toll” on forests, especially the Canadian boreal forest...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I did a little research. 9.8 million trees are used every year to make TP for world wide consumption. There are a little over 3 trillion trees on earth. These people are crazy.
No surprise there. What pathetic distorters of reality. Lunatics.
Nonetheless, I'm willing to try the seventh-generation office building style, unless I'm preparing for a colonoscopy, or I'm having a C. dif attack. But I will NOT use just one square at a time.
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Thanks for the clarification. No office building style for me.
Yup.
I remember growing up back in either the 60's or 70's the commercials about trees.
It was *Trees. The renewable resource*
Seems that mentality has been lost.
“They’re in our schools, they’re in our gas tank, there in our bathrooms, they’re in our doctors rooms, they’re on our computer and they’re pushing us too far.”
Not enough yet! There are some loons who think we humans should “off ourselves” so the animals can continue to live on Planet Earth in Peace! I have noticed, however, that none of them are interested it taking the first step themselves.
the paper mills have been shutting down nationally for quite a while. There is hardly any newsprint, magazine print, or calendar print paper being made. Paper companies are selling off land.
this is fake news.
Don’t Canadians use toilet paper?
No papers,magazines
or Straws,,,
We should be Good.
Let scientists figure out how to convert leftists into toilet paper.
Not to worry greenies....all of the extra CO2 is making the trees grow way faster.
I worked for a forest product company that made wood pulp from trees on the Canadian boreal forests. I sold that pulp to US toilet paper and paper towel manufacturers
The timberlands from where the trees came were owned by the Province of Alberta and licensed to the company. Very tight standards were set for forestry and environmental practices. Annually, the Province would set limits (Average Allowable Cut) for how many hectares could be harvested. In addition, the companies up there were bound by forestry rules set for by FSC (a Europe based forest practices organization) or SFI (the North American version)
Thousand of hectares were devastated by a spruce beetle that literally ate it’s way west, across central Canada. Logging and proper forest management did not minimise the “tree farms”.
This article implies the trees were cut down (cut and run). The trees were re-planted, ergo sustainable forestry. Had the trees been left by the Province to “save the earth”, a few short years would have turned the trees from a carbon “”bank” to a generator of CO2. New and young trees absorb carbon. Older trees gas it off.
Whoever wrote this article is using the same scare tactics has used here in the Pacific NW with the spotted owl (we must save the trees to save the planet). It is junk science!!
By all means give the TP back to the forests and roll a neighbors lawn today!
Hug a logger. You’ll never go back to trees.
“In many countries the TP is like wax paper. It’s about as useless as you think it would be.”
We call that the Lone Ranger toilet paper - it’s rough, it’s tough, it don’t take crap offa nobody!
pls feel free to come down here and lick my butt clean and stop yer whining then
If Canada doesn’t know how to plan ahead, and regrow their export products, it’s not America’s fault. We’re just providing for their income.
Well maybe the Canucks better quit letting some of those Boreal forests burn each year.
Often, areas as large as some of the states, such as Wisconsin, burn. They let them burn.
There is permafrost in much of those areas. Once it burns, it releases Carbon and continues to release carbon until the area regenerates-if it ever does. Peat is pure carbon, and those areas are permafrost peat. The thawing of that ground releases carbon.
Kind of like soylent green is people. Charmin is liberals.
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