Wiped out: America's love of luxury toilet paper is destroying Canadian forests

The Guardian UK ^ | 01 Mar 2019 | Sam Wolfson

[blueplum]

We’re all becoming more aware about the damage single-use plastics and fast fashion has on the environment. Yet there is one product we all throw away every single day that, so far, has not been a major part of conversations about sustainability: toilet paper.

But America’s heavy use of toilet paper – particularly the pillowy soft kind – is worsening climate change and taking “a dramatic and irreversible toll” on forests, especially the Canadian boreal forest...

[blueplum]

The Mrs. Kravitzes of the world have been reduced to poking their noses in American toilets.

[crusty old prospector]

I guess they convinced me to go back to corn cobs or Sears Roebuck catalogues.

[Persevero]

It’s a ... crop.

Can they just not plant some more. What am I missing here.

[be-baw]

Don’t mess with my Charmin, dude.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Sheryl Crow has weighed in on this. One square

[BipolarBob]

They’re in our schools, they’re in our gas tank, there in our bathrooms, they’re in our doctors rooms, they’re on our computer and they’re pushing us too far.

[Fungi]

Pure unadulterated crap.

[Paladin2]

Uh, TP is Sustainable.

If the lefties want to stop using it, we are going to need some serious segregation.

[gibsonguy]

The Guardian - Read no further.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Papermills have millions of acres of pine forests in the South. Don’t hear them complaining.

[marajade]

Well Canada can stop exporting the material toilet paper manufacturers use to make toilet paper to the US.

[Paladin2]

The Lefties are firing on Fort Sumter now....

[Deaf Smith]

Trees are a agriculture crop.

[bk1000]

Nobody clear cuts without replanting. The trees will grow back. Get a grip, snowflakes!

[Forgotten Amendments]

These people are clinically insane. Costco quit making the best TP ever & I repeatedly asked the company what happened to it. No response. Knowing Costco, I figured it would be something like this.

Oh, & the “deforestation” scare is so 1980’s. I thought they’d given up on that panic and were panicked that the clear cutters had moved back to the cities.

[A strike]

UK Guardian should be the new toilet paper, without reading of course.

[abb]

Yes. They’re full of sh!t.

[Telepathic Intruder]

That’s it. Now they’re coming for my toilet paper. Is nothing sacred?

[guyman]

Do I give a crap about Canadian forest? Absolutely not.

[abb]

“From my cold, dead hands!!”