Wiped out: America's love of luxury toilet paper is destroying Canadian forests

The Guardian UK ^ | 01 Mar 2019 | Sam Wolfson

[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...

[umgud]

Buuuuull Shit!!!

[centurion316]

That’s just a high tech bidet, with exchangeable nozzles.

[faithhopecharity]

Yup. They can do it anytime they want - and blame pdjt, of course There’s nothing the commie-nazi leftists wont stoop - or squat - to ....yo disrupt America and seize total power

[Teacher317]

In American, it is the fault of evil logging companies selling the product.

In Canada, it is the fault of evil Americans buying the product.

[EdnaMode]

“All I wanna do, is use one square.”

[RightGeek]

Solar powered TP

[Valpal1]

They are lying. We have tree plantations of hybrid fast growing trees for paper production of all kinds.

I don’t know what they are using the Canadian timber for, but it’s unlikely to be for paper, unless it’s damaged by insects or something making it unsuitable for higher value uses.

[Lurker]

Great news. The comfort of my bung hole is worth the life of every single Canadian and all of their stupid trees.

L

[Mastador1]

It’s a ... crop. Can they just not plant some more. What am I missing here.

That's what Weyerhaeuser does here in America, either the Canadians are too ignorant, or more likely the author is a moron who doesn't know shit from shinola, has a Gaia worshiper agenda or come to think of it probably both since they go hand in hand.

[fungoking]

I was at a rural church in Cuba and the tp was cut squares of the communist newspaper.

The pastor told me it was the best use for it.

[Secret Agent Man]

They dont flush tp because their old sewer pipes cant handle it.

[goodnesswins]

Ya know...this could really be an issue that turns some lefties to the Right side...don’t mess with people’s tp

[Eagles6]

These people don’t have enough to do.

[the_daug]

For a more fresh feeling.

[BuffaloJack]

What? Can’t they just plant more trees.
It’s an agricultural crop. Just plant more trees.

[onona]

True dat. When I traveled to China, I packed my own.

My lower half thanked me

[Texas Fossil]

Many things are different in foreign countries.

Some seriously different.

[laplata]

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.

[be-baw]

“These people are crazy.”

They just can’t accept that tree bark doesn’t cut the mustard.

[wgmalabama]

They will never take the double ply soft butt paper from my cold dead hands without a fight.

Ok now I’m scrolling down to read the comments.

Don’t make me use the hundreds of distopian fiction books that I tell my wife are toilet paper preps.