I doubt these are enviro-low-flow toilets....LOL!
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 ...
Why don’t these eco fascists recycle used toilet paper for their own use and leave us alone. And by recycle I mean use the same square over and over again.
When I was stationed in Europe, my wife had a collection of toilet paper from several countries. Some were close to sandpaper in texture, and one sample was corrugated like cardboard. My guess is that harsh, sub-standard toilet paper may have contributed to the European penchant for starting wars.
we already have at least one brand of recycles tissue on the shelves in this country
This is a womans issue.
no pink TP? huh?
Rabbit is hopping along the forest one day, when he comes upon Bear taking a dump.
Bear says, “Rabbit, do you have a problem with sh!t sticking to your fur?”
Rabbit replies, “No Bear, I don’t. Why do you ask?”
So Bear grabs Rabbit and wipes his ass with him.
During my tour in Germany, I made two trips to Crete for Chaparral missile ASP. On the first trip, I discovered that TP down in Crete was basically fine grade sandpaper.
On the second trip, I packed a coupld of rolls of an American brand in my suitcase. 'Nuff said.
My hemorrhoid will chose the soft fragrance free charmin.
Their new slogan will be “Go greenie, and not Cleanie”
Here I sit in fetid vapor.
Some eco-nazi outlawed my paper.
Whilst congress debates, shall I linger?
Or just give up and use my finger.
Take these jerks seriously. A few years ago, no normal person ever thought they would succeed in getting normal light bulbs outlawed.
There’s a reason why recycled toilet paper is brown.
I saw a sample of Russian TP long ago, it reminded me of wax paper.
butt then how do you get enviroweenies out of your rectal area
Envirowhackos go first & use corncobs.
This is pure fecal matter.
Toilet tissue comes from what the industry calls "Fluff Mills". They 'harvest' trees throughout the South grown just for that purpose. They are a crop.
I doubt these are enviro-low-flow toilets....LOL!
My ex-husband told me that the only items I was NOT allowed to skimp on were ice cream and toilet paper, which is why we always had Blue Bell ice cream and Charmin.
I actually prefer tissue with a little more “bite”.
But, let the market decide, not a bunch of enviro-fags.
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