“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,” Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defence Council, told the Guardian.
The average American uses 23.6 rolls of toilet paper a year — that’s about 7 billion rolls for the country. If a single eucalyptus tree yields 1,000 rolls, it amounts to seven million eucalyptus trees to clean Americans. With offices reducing use of paper, it has meant less recyclable paper in general.
Can't the Americans do without tissue? While this may seem simple to most of us in the east, in fact more hygienic to use water, only about 6 percent Americans are willing to reconsider!
Makes one think how simple things taken for granted have big stories behind them. Habits die hard.
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