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Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
kansas.com ^ | 12-17-09 | Donald Bradley

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angelsoft; buttwipe; charmin; cottonelle; napl; northern; toiletpaper
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To: al baby

Thanks! I needed the laugh!


61 posted on 12/17/2009 12:56:40 PM PST by IAMIUBU
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To: BossLady

Drinking fountains like that one are really messy and too low to the floor.


62 posted on 12/17/2009 12:56:40 PM PST by CholeraJoe (I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter.)
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To: al baby

(_o^o_)


63 posted on 12/17/2009 12:57:19 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: TC Rider

Redwood and old growth timber is too valuble to use for toilet paper and it wouldn’t make a quality tissue.


64 posted on 12/17/2009 12:57:39 PM PST by oyez ( damnant quod non intelligunt)
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To: smokingfrog

By their stat that would mean you get what? only 250 rolls per tree?


65 posted on 12/17/2009 12:58:06 PM PST by Pessimist (u)
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To: smokingfrog

Sounds like the envirowackos are running out of ways to annoy us...they’re certainly scraping the bottom for this one.


66 posted on 12/17/2009 12:58:06 PM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: smokingfrog

There was that episode of the Man Show where Jimmy Kimmel wiped with a cat.


67 posted on 12/17/2009 12:59:45 PM PST by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, get a dog.)
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To: al baby
Al...you're supposed to wipe and throw it in the toilet.


68 posted on 12/17/2009 1:00:05 PM PST by BJClinton ("Worse" technically is "change".)
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To: Red Badger

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.


Actually, the joke works more logically this way:

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.


69 posted on 12/17/2009 1:00:24 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("Personal freedom begins when you tell Old Mrs. Grundy to go to Hell." -Lazarus Long)
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To: smokingfrog
"Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists"

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.....

70 posted on 12/17/2009 1:01:47 PM PST by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: smokingfrog

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.


71 posted on 12/17/2009 1:05:02 PM PST by marron
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To: smokingfrog

Just one little question. How many trees were destroyed to print the results of this “study”?


72 posted on 12/17/2009 1:06:32 PM PST by NCC-1701 (ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
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To: smokingfrog

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.


73 posted on 12/17/2009 1:07:34 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: smokingfrog

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?


74 posted on 12/17/2009 1:07:45 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs earn thi title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
It is not about the ecology, it is about power and control.

Exactly. This is someone who wants to micromanage you right down to obsessing over what you do in the toilet.

75 posted on 12/17/2009 1:07:48 PM PST by marron
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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.


76 posted on 12/17/2009 1:07:59 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: smokingfrog

No wonder hippies stink.


77 posted on 12/17/2009 1:11:41 PM PST by Little Ray (Cheney / Norris in 2012!)
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To: hennie pennie
This is exactly what we get for preventing these people, when they were children, from sticking that fork into the wall outlet.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

78 posted on 12/17/2009 1:11:45 PM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Manic_Episode
I thought those were fancy drinking fountains.

Wow! I didn't think there were any Aggies in Minnesota! :^)

79 posted on 12/17/2009 1:13:34 PM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: The Comedian; onyx
>>> "This is exactly what we get for preventing these people, when they were children, from sticking that fork into the wall outlet." <<<<

rotflololololololololllling!!

80 posted on 12/17/2009 1:15:28 PM PST by hennie pennie
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