DEFORESTATION AND TOILET PAPER
Posted on April 16th, 2020

LUXMINDRA JAYASEKARA 

1. The first recorded use of toilet paper was in 6th Century China.

2. By the 14th Century, the Chinese government was mass-producing it. As usual, it went viral in China, but not elsewhere, unlike  Corona !!

3. Packaged toilet paper wasn’t sold in the United States until 1857.

4. Joseph Gayety, the man who introduced packaged TP to the U.S. had his name printed on every sheet.

5. Global toilet paper demand uses nearly 30,000 trees every day. AND RISING

6. That’s 10 million trees a year.

7. It wasn’t until 1935 that a manufacturer was able to promise Splinter-Free Toilet Paper.( Before it was “OUCH”!!??)

8. Seven percent of Americans admit to stealing rolls of toilet paper in hotels.

9. Americans use an average of 8.6 sheets of toilet paper per trip to the bathroom.

10. The average roll has 333 sheets.

11. Historically, what you use to wipe depended on your income level.

12. In the middle ages, they used something called a Gompf stick which was just an actual stick used to scrape.

13. Wealthy Romans used wool soaked in rose water and French royalty used lace.

14. Other things that were used before toilet paper include: Hay, corn cobs, sticks, stones, sand, moss, hemp, wool, husks, fruit 

      peels, ferns, sponges, seashells, knotted ropes, and broken pottery (ouch!).

15. 70-75% of the world still doesn’t use toilet paper because it is too expensive or there is not sufficient plumbing.

16. In many Western European countries, bidets are seen as more effective and preferable to toilet paper.

17. Coloured toilet paper was popular in the U.S. until the 1940s.

18. The reason toilet paper disintegrates so quickly when wet is that the fiber used to make it are very short.

19. On the International Space Station, they still use regular toilet paper but it has to be sealed in special containers and Compressed.

20. During Desert Storm, the U.S. Army used toilet paper to camouflage their tanks.

21. The Pentagon uses, on average, 666 rolls of toilet paper per day.

22. IN AN EMERGENCY  CAN BE USED AS A TEMPORARY FACE MASK 

One Response to “DEFORESTATION AND TOILET PAPER”

  1. Ratanapala Says:

    Even the Ice Man found somewhere in the Swiss mountains was found to be carrying moss for this purpose.

    The best option for a greener world is to use water and soap at least for domestic use. The use of toilet paper to be reserved for public places to enable easy sanitation. Hope the world will awake to this reality sooner than later. The spread of the Covid-19 shows a clear correlation that poorer countries have higher immunity than highly sanitised and antiseptic nations!

    The current Covid-19 situation is a good time to make the transition.

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