Super-Soft Toilet Paper Flushing Boreal Forest Down the Toilet

This is not at all technology related story, although an important topic to cover. While we are targeting Third World countries for clear cutting forests, Canada is doing the same all for the comfort of soft toilet paper. I suppose you could say they really do give a crap, but not for their forests.

And the ancient trees, some hundreds of years old , are being cleared for the production of disposable paper that is used for the messiest of jobs, says Bennett. Greenpeace, which has led a campaign to drastically reduce toilet-paper usage, says that if every household in Canada replaced one roll of regular tissue with 100 per cent recycled paper, 47,962 trees could be saved.

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