Posted on 12/17/2009 12:27:42 PM PST by smokingfrog
"They'll take my Ultra Soft Charmin only when they pry it from my cold, dead, aloe-smelling hands."
Highly doubtful it will come to that. Please, sit.
We're talking about toilet paper. Charlton Heston's famous vow was of guns.
The issue over tissue in the bathroom — the really super-soft stuff — is more like the fight about the big SUVs loved by many Americans.
Anti-green, environmentalists say. Politically incorrect. Why should Americans use luxurious toilet paper made from old-growth trees when much of the world gets by with a far more basic and often recycled product?
Why should we flush redwoods, so to speak?
So Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council and other environmental groups have pushed manufacturers such as Kimberly-Clark (Cottonelle) and Procter & Gamble (Charmin) to stop using wood from virgin forests to make tissue products.
Mountains of paper are dumped every day into recycling bins in homes, offices, factories and schools. Use that to make toilet paper, the activists say.
Time to roll off the big number: If each American family would buy one recycled roll just one time, it would save 400,000 trees, allegedly.
The problem, though, is that each time paper is shredded during the recycling process, its fibers get shorter. The shorter the fiber, the less soft the tissue. And Americans, though saying in surveys that they embrace green initiatives, also say they don't want to sacrifice comfort.
"The truth is that other parts of the world are further along in using recycled content," said Kay Jackson, spokeswoman for Kimberly-Clark. "The American consumer still wants softness, and they are speaking with their pocketbooks."
Pulling back in a competitive market is asking a lot, manufacturers say. They also point out that only 5 percent of forest-industry production goes toward toilet paper.
(Excerpt) Read more at kentucky.com ...
With newspapers folding left and right, whatever will be use?
Luckily you can fight back every day on this one.
They can pry me soft toilet tissue from my cold dead ass
If they outlaw soft toilet paper, only outlaws will have soft toilet paper.
Keep these people out of my bedroom and my bathroom!!!
"Recycled Toilet Paper"???
Obama supporters won’t feel the pain until the government comes for their Ed Hardy shirts.
I was ticked at them years ago when I could no longer purchase pink toilet tissue. It looked so lovely with my decor....all beige, green and pink. Then it became beige, green and pink with one ugly roll of white paper.
This will the end the enviromential movement!
...damn near killed him!
I'll just wipe with enviroweenies.
We don’t use that super soft stuff, anyway. It clogs up our plumbing every time..............Scotts is the only way to keep our pipes running free.............
I did once buy recycled toilet paper. It was rough and smelled bad.
I don’t usually use soft toilet paper...Scotts is still my favorite. But how dare these weenies try to tell any of us what to use?
These folks have waaaaay too much time on their hands.
NOTHING is safe from statists with bright ideas.
I am sure the greenies all use sponges.
How in Krom’s Ghost are they going to get TP to recycle??
Did someone make them take the dye out of toilet paper or something? I think I remember having pink TP when I was a kid.
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