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 ...
Thanks! I needed the laugh!
Drinking fountains like that one are really messy and too low to the floor.
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Redwood and old growth timber is too valuble to use for toilet paper and it wouldn’t make a quality tissue.
By their stat that would mean you get what? only 250 rolls per tree?
Sounds like the envirowackos are running out of ways to annoy us...they’re certainly scraping the bottom for this one.
There was that episode of the Man Show where Jimmy Kimmel wiped with a cat.
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.
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, “Oh yeah, doncha just hate that?”
So Bear grabs Rabbit and wipes his ass with him.
That's right, Amerika; these folks won't rest until we're all using 80 grit on a belt sander instead of the "Squeezably Soft"/Mr. Whipple stuff.....
There is something wrong with someone who worries about your use of toilet paper. This isn’t a political issue. This is a mental health issue. Someone who obsesses over what you do in the toilet isn’t going to be satisfied with anything you do or don’t do, this isn’t about you anymore, its something missing in his own psyche.
Don’t bother arguing with crazy people. Ignore them. Defeat them if it comes to that, but otherwise ignore them. Don’t ask their opinions about anything, and don’t debate them, because they are crazy.
Just one little question. How many trees were destroyed to print the results of this “study”?
Yup - they had to remove the evil dye. I bought up as much as I could, but, alas, it’s all gone. IIRC, it was Cottonelle.
I was shopping at whole foods once, (after the nuts started the leftist boycott because the CEO came out against socialized medicine)
Needed a roll. Bought ONE roll of “7th Generation” toilet paper, with great suspicion. I was not dissappointed. Worst toilet paper ever. What is it about these liberal luddites that they hate everything that makes life better?
Exactly. This is someone who wants to micromanage you right down to obsessing over what you do in the toilet.
I guess the enviro-con folks don’t know much about people who don’t get along well with a lot of food and whatever is in it.
Bidet or Charmin Ultra. Bidet or Charmin Ultra. Hmmmmm.
No wonder hippies stink.
Wow! I didn't think there were any Aggies in Minnesota! :^)
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