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

The Guardian UK ^ | 01 Mar 2019 | Sam Wolfson

[Polyxene]

Wouldn’t your backside be wet from the bidet? What would you use to dry off?? Toilet paper?? Paper towels?? Bath towel?? Hair dryer?? Inquiring minds — I never used one.

[SamAdams76]

Don’t know about Canada but there are probably enough trees in Maine alone to supply the world’s population with a hundred rolls of toilet paper a day for a thousand years.

[GOPJ]

Trees as crops - think of them as slow growing VERY tall wheat...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[xp38]

The Brits after decades telling us that Canadian Lumberjacks are ok suddenly aren’t?

[jughandle]

Never actually saw one myself, only pictures and heard some Europeans one time pushing them. Don’t know any details.....maybe I don’t want to know any details!

[Songcraft]

Part of this massively disastrous arboreal problem can undoubtedly be blamed on those Fetid Frisco Fresh-air Fecalizers (Fecalists?), who seem to enjoy the brush-like, purifying effect of the pleasantly-scented needles on those Canadian Christmas tree branches, which serve to provide them with that extra little bit of luxurious cleansing, and impart that thoroughly refreshed feeling, every time those Canadian tree branches are used for such purposes by the filthy, public, SF street-squatters.

       

[Squantos]

Dead on accurate ........ and the value of a red note 5 Bhat, difference between Sabadee and Sawadee if your in Laos. Nitnoy Quay kang is not a complement and no matter how many grooming standard waivers uncle sugar grants you and years at the defense language institute in Monterey you have, the locals know your narcotics interdiction and will shoot at you every chance they get ..........

[Yaelle]

When I went on an educational world voyage (around the globe for a semester) I wrote my term paper on comparative......

Toilets.

I fully agree with you.

[Nailbiter]

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

They convinced me - would be better to grab a socialist to wipe my backside- just rinse them off and use again

[jmcenanly]

Perhaps we will have to learn to use the three sea-shells.

[native texan]

As per The Vintage News: Splinter-free toilet paper didn’t exist until the 1930’s. Northern Issue, in 1935, began to advertise toilet paper that was ‘splinter free’. Up until this point, it was common to have splinters in toilet roll, due to the production techniques used. St. Andrew’s Paper Mill, in the UK, launched 2-ply paper in 1942.