Greenpeace wants us to "Wipe" away our Charmin.

[Big Frank]

Somebody tell Greenpeace...

generic toilet paper is for cheap a$$holes. 

[CJS3]

How dare us Americans use our Quilted Northern, and Charmin.... It's worse on the environment than driving those evil Hummer's.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/26/toilet-roll-america

American taste for soft toilet roll 'worse than driving Hummers'

Extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply toilet roll made from virgin forest causes more damage than gas-guzzlers, fast food or McMansions, say campaigners


    * Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
    * guardian.co.uk, Thursday 26 February 2009 18.29 GMT
    * Article history

A toilet roll in a public toilet

The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country's love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners. At fault, they say, is the US public's insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.

"This is a product that we use for less than three seconds and the ecological consequences of manufacturing it from trees is enormous," said Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defence Council.

"Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution." Making toilet paper has a significant impact because of chemicals used in pulp manufacture and cutting down forests.

A campaign by Greenpeace seeks to raise consciousness among Americans about the environmental costs of their toilet habits and counter an aggressive new push by the paper industry giants to market so-called luxury brands.

More than 98% of the toilet roll sold in America comes from virgin forests, said Hershkowitz. In Europe and Latin America, up to 40% of toilet paper comes from recycled products. Greenpeace this week launched a cut-out-and-keep ecological ranking of toilet paper products.

Look out.. BHO will have to raise the luxury TP tax to offset the damage to the forests.

So what do the Brits use to wipe their arses? Maybe that's why their country is turning to S#!T.

[Solus]

I remember back in the late 60's/early 70's, folks where criticized for using toilet paper in Designer Colors.  Claim was that all that dye was polluting our waterways just so vain folks could match their bathroom decor.

Well, the masses responded and the sale of colored TP dwindled.

However, it was found that the bleach used in making TP white did more damage than the dye. 

I didn't see any push to go to "natural" TP.  Perhaps it is not possible to make the product that way.

[Pathfinder]

I remember back in the late 60's/early 70's, folks where criticized for using toilet paper in Designer Colors.  Claim was that all that dye was polluting our waterways just so vain folks could match their bathroom decor.

Well, the masses responded and the sale of colored TP dwindled.

However, it was found that the bleach used in making TP white did more damage than the dye. 

I didn't see any push to go to "natural" TP.  Perhaps it is not possible to make the product that way.

Corn cobs.

[tombogan03884]

I remember back in the late 60's/early 70's, folks where criticized for using toilet paper in Designer Colors.  Claim was that all that dye was polluting our waterways just so vain folks could match their bathroom decor.

Well, the masses responded and the sale of colored TP dwindled.

However, it was found that the bleach used in making TP white did more damage than the dye. 

I didn't see any push to go to "natural" TP.  Perhaps it is not possible to make the product that way.

 I don't know if colored TP was polluting waterways, but I do know that the dyes killed the bacteria in septic systems , leading to clogs and over flows. Not using colored TP is why backed up septic tanks are so much rarer these days even with older systems.

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