Posted on 02/28/2009 5:34:18 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Fluffy Toilet Paper Said to Be Worse for Environment Than Hummers
Friday , February 27, 2009
That super-soft toilet paper you're fond of using? It's an ecological disaster, environmentalists say.
Millions of trees are harvested throughout the Americas – including rare old-growth forests in Canada – to sustain the United States’ obsession with quilted, ultra-soft, multi-ply toilet paper, the New York Times reported.
Although toilet paper manufacturers could produce products from recycled materials at a similar cost, the newspaper reported, the fiber taken from standing trees are necessary to help give the tissue its fluffy feel.
“No forest of any kind should be used to make toilet paper,” said Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist and waste expert with the Natural Resource Defense Council told the Times.
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not this crap again.
Sharia Law: Use your left hand, clean it in sand.
I seem to recall an environmental group that claimed flush toilets were the scourge of the earth.
I guess this spells the end of “cottonelle” TP.
Remember the commercial-—”to me, it’s cottony”???
It’s OK, we only use one sheet per trip, remember?
enough laughs for the whole day....
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We could have a better than expected corn crop this summer.
Whipple always looked like a monster to me—that little Hitler moustache and all.
Remind me not to shake hands with her...
Can’t wait to used some recycled material to clean myself. Gee I wonder if it will be a coke bottle or part of an old snapple
“good grief, where does this stop? “
It partially explains why liberals are so full of sh*t.
go back to chucking it out the window into the street
Well, in Great Britain, it was found that fluffy toilet paper clogged up the old sewers.
So, they nationalized toilet paper.
it stops when we DEFEAT LIBERALISM.
I’m trying to figure out what the quiltng has to do with it.
Lets put these dopes out in the wilderness for several days without necessities and see how they like not having toilet paper, soap, etc.
Before I believe this scientist, I would like to see his scientific evidence of the relative danger of flushing a Hummer down a toilet compared to fluffy toilet paper.
“Although toilet paper manufacturers could produce products from recycled materials at a similar cost...”
Recycled toilet paper... Doesn’t sound like a big seller to me.
Just as well. Toilet Paper was never a good race horse, always bring up the rear, you know.
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