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Posted on 04/22/2010 7:24:39 PM PDT by JoeProBono
WASHINGTON, - An American Chemical Society report says a growing shortage of high-quality paper for recycling is threatening the supply of soft toilet paper.
The article by Melody Voith, senior editor of the ACS journal Chemical & Engineering News, explains the decline of newspapers and magazines and the growth of electronic communications have combined to reduce the availability of good white office paper, newsprint and other traditional recyclable paper that has been used to make soft bathroom tissue.
Voith explains recycled office paper itself is containing increasing amounts of recycled paper and that, in turn, decreases its usefulness for making high-quality personal paper that is soft enough to satisfy many consumers.
She says chemists are responding to the paper crunch by searching for new coatings, resins and other additives to improve the softness, strength and performance of today's recycled paper.
If they muck with my Charmin they’ll be slitting their own throats!
I’m afraid that you may be on to something: it is entirely conceivable that a state (think California) will enact some sort of onerous regulation that will result in travellers to bring their own toilet paper—much like travellers did so when visiting the former Soviet Union. Add the federal government, and we have a real stew.
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Well, we are in deep doo doo....
“the end is near” ping...
I’ve been wondering why I cant buy the mega rolls of charmin aloe TP. I knew it had to do with some greenie idea. I’ve been to numerous grocery stores and they just dont carry it anymore. No reasons given.
In his novel Candide, Voltaire wrote that chickens made the best toilet paper.
My father grew up using the Sears catalogue in the old two holer.
If I was stuck on a desert island, the one thing I would want with me is a life time supply of TP.
Isn’t there labor laws to protect them?
I bet they now toss the recyclables in the same pile as the trash.
What a joke.
Back in 1986 I went on a trip to Germany. While riding a train, I visited the restroom. I was quite surprised to see wood chips and large chunks of other stuff in the TP. It was so strange, I actually tore off a sheet and kept it to prove to the folks back home just how bad it was.
Soft toilet paper will soon be banned anyway. The Obama administration will decree that, if developing countries don’t have soft toilet paper, we shouldn’t have any either.
I guess my lifetime supply of incandescent light bulbs wouldn’t help much...
Charmin is not what it used to be, it has lost some of it softness in spite of those irritating bear commercials.....
Paging Johnny Carson for the great artificial toilet paper shortage part two.
Now I appreciate a good imported bean cup of coffee, a good micro/import brew, etc. but a few things that I’ll never be above:
* truck stop type coffee, black
* plain ole bar soap
* scratchy ass toilet paper
* mass brewed crap beer in a can
Oh, I don't know. With enough TP, you can connect the light bulbs together to build a raft and attempt to get back to civilization.
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