There’s apparently a huge struggle going on in the toilet paper industry over American’s love of soft toilet tissue for their bums. According to the Washington Post:
The reason, they say, is that plush U.S. toilet paper is usually made by chopping down and grinding up trees that were decades or even a century old. They want Americans, like Europeans, to wipe with tissue made from recycled paper goods…It has been slow going. Big toilet-paper makers say that they’ve taken steps to become more Earth-friendly but that their customers still want the soft stuff, so they’re still selling it.
“It’s like the Hummer product for the paper industry,” said Allen Hershkowitz, senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “We don’t need old-growth forests . . . to wipe our behinds….” The reason for this fight lies in toilet-paper engineering. Each sheet is a web of wood fibers, and fibers from old trees are longer, which produces a smoother and more supple web. Fibers made from recycled paper — in this case magazines, newspapers or computer printouts — are shorter.
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no fuck that!
i want that soft shit!
who wants something hard in the asshole??
not me!
Fuck that i use to wipe my ass with a leaf when i use to do do outside lol we need to make something better than paper so our asses it could be super clean. toilet paper is like waste of paper on ass c’mon son.
like Europeans?? I use Charmin
i never liked the soft stuff anyway, doesn’t have the grabbing power. the softer it is, the more you have to wipe, so its equal in the end.
so that why i wipe soo much?? haha
but seriously. im picky w/ my toilet paper