« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it  (Read 1293 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

rangerrebew

  • Guest
Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« on: September 18, 2021, 02:33:01 pm »
    09-17-21

Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
No, you don’t have to stop wiping.
 
 
By Elizabeth Segran4 minute Read

Are you concerned about the devastating impact of climate change? Take a closer look at your toilet paper.

A new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) reveals that the biggest toilet paper brands on the market—like Charmin, Cottonelle, and Quilted Northern—are contributing to global warming by destroying forests that pull carbon from the atmosphere. But the report also points out that consumers aren’t stuck with the big players: Brands like Seventh Generation and Trader Joe’s, along with startups like Who Gives a Crap and Grove Collaborative, offer more sustainable alternatives made from recycled paper and bamboo.

In the past, most consumers haven’t thought much about their toilet paper, says Shelley Vinyard, the author of the report. But that has changed over the past five years, as more sustainable brands have entered the market. “People didn’t know that a product they used for a second then flushed down the toilet could be causing significant harm to the planet and to the climate,” she says.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90677480/toilet-paper-really-is-terrible-for-the-planet-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it?partner=rss&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss
Logged

rangerrebew

  • Guest
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2021, 02:33:52 pm »
 :laughingdog:  No sh*t!
Logged

Offline EdinVA

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4,034
  • Gender: Male
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2021, 03:08:52 pm »
Logged

Offline libertybele

  • Cat Mod
  • *****
  • Posts: 65,237
  • Gender: Female
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2021, 03:13:29 pm »
It'll be yet another stupid mandate; using sustainable tp.  Supermarket brands like Charmin and Scott's and others will be forced to make sustainable tp.  Somehow recycled paper and bamboo don't seem very comforting and how if one is allergic to bamboo??

What does that mean?  Stock up now!  Just my opinion.
« Last Edit: September 18, 2021, 03:14:40 pm by libertybele »
Logged

Online Wingnut

  • The problem with everything is they try and make it better without realizing the old way is fine.
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 22,145
  • Gender: Male
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2021, 03:28:08 pm »
3rd world shithole muslums have that problem under control. Saving the planet since Mohamad took his 1st 10 y/o bride.
Logged
You don’t become cooler with age but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way to actually be cool.

Offline andy58-in-nh

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5,595
  • Gender: Male
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2021, 03:34:00 pm »
There are currently more trees in existence on the planet than at any time in Earth's history, largely due to human influence in preventing the spread of wildfires that before humans arrived, used to burn uncontrolled across continents. 

In other words: they are full of shit. 
Logged
"If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people."    -Calvin Coolidge

Offline Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 62,121
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2021, 11:14:31 pm »
those forests the writer is whining about were planted for the express purpose of being made into paper.
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Online Wingnut

  • The problem with everything is they try and make it better without realizing the old way is fine.
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 22,145
  • Gender: Male
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2021, 10:58:33 am »
The trees are all kept equal
By hatchet,
Axe,
And saw…
Logged
You don’t become cooler with age but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way to actually be cool.

Online roamer_1

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 35,909
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2021, 07:49:09 pm »
Lying bullcrap. Where I logged 30 years ago was indiscernible from the forest around it within a decade... within two decades it was ready to log again... But no timber sale... So now it all burned down...
Logged

Offline Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 62,121
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2021, 07:52:58 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on September 19, 2021, 07:49:09 pm
Lying bullcrap. Where I logged 30 years ago was indiscernible from the forest around it within a decade... within two decades it was ready to log again... But no timber sale... So now it all burned down...
It's nicer when you can use firewood one stick at a time, isn't it?
I'd bet it is more "environmentally friendly", too.
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Offline Weird Tolkienish Figure

  • Technical
  • *****
  • Posts: 13,240
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2021, 08:18:13 pm »
TP is made to break down though, our whole sewage/septic system depends on that fact. We'd have major problems if it didn't.
Logged

Online roamer_1

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 35,909
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2021, 11:37:58 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on September 19, 2021, 07:52:58 pm
It's nicer when you can use firewood one stick at a time, isn't it?
I'd bet it is more "environmentally friendly", too.

You can't tell me a dang thing about saving the trees when you let 250 thousand acres go up in toxic carbon laden smoke every year - And that is only Montana.
Logged

Offline catfish1957

  • The Conservative Carp Rapscallion of Brieferville
  • Political Researcher
  • *****
  • Posts: 25,431
  • Gender: Male
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2021, 11:55:37 pm »
Yeah, pretty funny until you realize that the envirowahcko left is becoming highly successful with their brainwashing campaign.

Glad I am not 20 or 30, and will have to watch our society be taken back to the 19th century.
Logged
I display the Confederate Battle Flag in honor of my great great great grandfathers who spilled blood at Wilson's Creek and Shiloh.  5 others served in the WBTS with honor too.

BassWrangler

  • Guest
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #13 on: September 20, 2021, 01:18:46 am »
Is there anything the fzcking leftists won't ruin? First with the low flow toilets that one has to preemptively flush multiple times to ensure no blockage (thus eliminating any benefit in water consumption), and now they want to do away with TP?
Logged

Offline Sighlass

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5,807
  • Didn't vote for McCain Dole Romney Trump !
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2021, 02:26:47 am »
Around town there is so many trees just rotting that have been cut down and put by the side of the road for the city to pick up. The city is backed up to where it often takes freaking months for them to pick up piles of wood on the street sides.... it is a wood burners dream... I have probable 3 years of wood now ready... I know I have two + years so it will be good and dry by the time I get around to burning it. I have 4 chainsaws and only one back (bad back)... The middle men in the lumber industry make the money, not the land owners, so I decided not to sell my lumber right now.
Logged
Exodus 18:21 Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders over ....

Offline Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 62,121
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #15 on: September 20, 2021, 04:05:10 am »
Quote from: roamer_1 on September 19, 2021, 11:37:58 pm
You can't tell me a dang thing about saving the trees when you let 250 thousand acres go up in toxic carbon laden smoke every year - And that is only Montana.
Yeah, I'm a 'down-winder' who spent weeks out of his summer with gray skies, the smell of wood smoke, and red suns at noon from the policies of the people who bitch about my vehicle emissions. I quit smoking for this?

Normally here, you can see for miles, but this summer visibility was sometimes down to a few hundred yards because of the smoke in the air.
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Offline Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 62,121
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #16 on: September 20, 2021, 04:07:03 am »
Quote from: BassWrangler on September 20, 2021, 01:18:46 am
Is there anything the fzcking leftists won't ruin? First with the low flow toilets that one has to preemptively flush multiple times to ensure no blockage (thus eliminating any benefit in water consumption), and now they want to do away with TP?
Low flow shower heads. Take a half hour to get wet. (meet 3/8 drill bit, much mo bedda) I won't use much more water, but I get clean a lot quicker.
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

BassWrangler

  • Guest
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2021, 04:08:45 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on September 20, 2021, 04:07:03 am
Low flow shower heads. Take a half hour to get wet. (meet 3/8 drill bit, much mo bedda) I won't use much more water, but I get clean a lot quicker.

Here's a tip: on many of those you can just pull the flow restrictor out with a pair of needle-nose pliers - no drilling necessary.
Logged

Offline rustynail

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4,968
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2021, 05:30:55 am »
Eat more fiber.
Logged

Offline SZonian

  • Strike without warning
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2,391
  • 415th Nightstalker
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2021, 07:40:44 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on September 19, 2021, 10:58:33 am
The trees are all kept equal
By hatchet,
Axe,
And saw…
I c what u did there... :yowsa:
Logged
Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.

Offline Polly Ticks

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7,827
  • Gender: Female
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #20 on: September 20, 2021, 08:09:49 am »
Bidet attachments are cheap and easy to install. 
Logged
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. -Groucho Marx

Offline catfish1957

  • The Conservative Carp Rapscallion of Brieferville
  • Political Researcher
  • *****
  • Posts: 25,431
  • Gender: Male
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #21 on: September 20, 2021, 08:19:57 am »
Quote from: BassWrangler on September 20, 2021, 01:18:46 am
Is there anything the fzcking leftists won't ruin? First with the low flow toilets that one has to preemptively flush multiple times to ensure no blockage (thus eliminating any benefit in water consumption), and now they want to do away with TP?

Remember when gasoline cans were decently easibly operable?  There isn't anything the envirowhackos have caused that has made life better for people.
Logged
I display the Confederate Battle Flag in honor of my great great great grandfathers who spilled blood at Wilson's Creek and Shiloh.  5 others served in the WBTS with honor too.

Offline catfish1957

  • The Conservative Carp Rapscallion of Brieferville
  • Political Researcher
  • *****
  • Posts: 25,431
  • Gender: Male
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #22 on: September 20, 2021, 08:20:39 am »
Quote from: SZonian on September 20, 2021, 07:40:44 am
I c what u did there... :yowsa:

Let's not Rush to conclusions.....

We need a Bastille Day to deal with Envirowhackos
« Last Edit: September 20, 2021, 08:21:32 am by catfish1957 »
Logged
I display the Confederate Battle Flag in honor of my great great great grandfathers who spilled blood at Wilson's Creek and Shiloh.  5 others served in the WBTS with honor too.

Offline DefiantMassRINO

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11,976
  • Gender: Male
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #23 on: September 20, 2021, 09:43:32 am »

It was the West's abundant supply of toilet paper which help defeat the Soviet Union.

Only a commie would be anti-TP.

5 simple things people dreamed about in the Soviet Union
Logged
"Political correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it’s entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." - Alan Simpson, Frontline Video Interview

BassWrangler

  • Guest
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #24 on: September 20, 2021, 12:02:44 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on September 20, 2021, 08:19:57 am
Remember when gasoline cans were decently easibly operable?  There isn't anything the envirowhackos have caused that has made life better for people.

Oh yes, without the ridiculous valve you have to hold open while you pour.
Logged

Offline GtHawk

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14,985
  • Gender: Male
  • Well EXCUSE me!
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #25 on: September 20, 2021, 01:58:04 pm »
Not sure about anywhere else but pretty sure h e in America there are sustainable forests owned by paer manufacturers just for this reason. I know Weyerhauser? Has huge tracts in Washington that are harvested and replanted. This is just another dipshit article because no business produces can ng paper is going to eliminate their source of raw material, that would be the job of the government and Gaia worshippers.
Logged

Online roamer_1

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 35,909
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #26 on: September 20, 2021, 02:17:42 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on September 20, 2021, 08:19:57 am
Remember when gasoline cans were decently easibly operable?  There isn't anything the envirowhackos have caused that has made life better for people.

https://ezpourspout.com/

 :whistle: :seeya: :patriot:
Logged

Offline catfish1957

  • The Conservative Carp Rapscallion of Brieferville
  • Political Researcher
  • *****
  • Posts: 25,431
  • Gender: Male
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #27 on: September 20, 2021, 02:19:02 pm »
Logged
I display the Confederate Battle Flag in honor of my great great great grandfathers who spilled blood at Wilson's Creek and Shiloh.  5 others served in the WBTS with honor too.

Online roamer_1

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 35,909
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #28 on: September 20, 2021, 02:23:22 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on September 20, 2021, 01:58:04 pm
Not sure about anywhere else but pretty sure h e in America there are sustainable forests owned by paer manufacturers just for this reason. I know Weyerhauser? Has huge tracts in Washington that are harvested and replanted. This is just another dipshit article because no business produces can ng paper is going to eliminate their source of raw material, that would be the job of the government and Gaia worshippers.

Weyerhauser, LP, Stone Mountain... ALL of em ain't a fraction of what Fed/State timber sales once were.
Logged

Online roamer_1

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 35,909
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #29 on: September 20, 2021, 02:27:06 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on September 20, 2021, 02:19:02 pm
Cool.  Thanks.

np. They're on Amazon...
Logged

Offline GtHawk

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14,985
  • Gender: Male
  • Well EXCUSE me!
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #30 on: September 20, 2021, 02:34:11 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on September 20, 2021, 02:23:22 pm
Weyerhauser, LP, Stone Mountain... ALL of em ain't a fraction of what Fed/State timber sales once were.
After thinking about it I recalled  how as a yute I was so impressed at the images of all the forest clear cut around Lake Tahoe for mning and how it grew back in just over a hundred years. Now the Democrats and Gaia worshippers are accomplishing it without any benefit to man.
Logged

BassWrangler

  • Guest
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #31 on: September 20, 2021, 05:16:52 pm »
Logged

Online roamer_1

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 35,909
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #32 on: September 20, 2021, 05:23:19 pm »
Quote from: BassWrangler on September 20, 2021, 05:16:52 pm
What a great product.

Seriously... Drill a hole for the vent, snap  it in, and screw on the spout, and you are magically transported back to the 80s.  :laugh:

Not that I am one to talk. All my gas cans have motors anymore.  :shrug:
Logged

Online roamer_1

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 35,909
Re: Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it
« Reply #33 on: September 20, 2021, 05:28:29 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on September 20, 2021, 02:34:11 pm
After thinking about it I recalled  how as a yute I was so impressed at the images of all the forest clear cut around Lake Tahoe for mning and how it grew back in just over a hundred years. Now the Democrats and Gaia worshippers are accomplishing it without any benefit to man.
'

AYUP. I was part of that clearcutting. And all of it has grown back just like it was and burned down in the course of my life.

Used to be you couldn't hardly go across town without seeing many logging trucks... Now they are a rarity. That''s the only difference.No more mills, trucks, roads, loggers, sawyers, road crews... etc. And smoke. Lots and lots more smoke. I was stuck in the cabin for almost a month and a half this year. Couldn't see the mountain right behind my house.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »