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American households
consume 15,000,000 trees a year using bathroom tissues!
In 1997, daily toilet
paper production by the industry is 83,048,116 rolls, and by year 2001
it reached more than 100,000,000 rolls per day.
If every household in
the U.S. replaced just one roll of 500 sheet virgin fiber bathroom
tissue with 100% recycled ones or our bidet, we could save 297,000
trees, 1.2 million cubic feet of landfill space, equal to 1,400 full
garbage trucks, and 122 million gallons of water, a year supply for
3,500 families of four.
It takes some 2.7kg of
wood, 1.30g of calcium carbonate, 85g of sulphur, 40g of chlorine and
300 liters of water to make 1 kg of conventional toilet paper. A
modern mill typically uses some 10-12 gigajoules of energy to produce
a tone of paper from pulp; it takes some 2 gigajoules of energy to
pulp and clean a tone of waste paper. The toilet paper production uses
large amounts of energy, water, and chemicals, and generates vast
amounts of air and water pollution and solid waste. The toilet paper 7
board industries rank among the largest industrial users of water in
the Europe. Toilet paper has been bleached with a chlorine
compound and has contributed to dioxin pollution. This may make
them a contributor to cancer, reproductive disorders among adults,
deformities and developmental problems in children, immune system
breakdowns.
Use a bidet and help clean the environment. Bidets make ecological sense.
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