Are you willing to go Green and give up toilet paper?

[CoolBreeze]

"Alright," you say, "You've convinced me about cloth diapers, and I understand using cloth gift bags and napkins. But toilet paper??" For some people, making the switch to cloth toilet wipes is a huge leap, that's true. But it doesn't need to be!

Using cloth toilet wipes actually has many advantages. For one, it's a lot more comfortable and soft on your most delicate body parts. It's also more economical, uses less paper, and saves you those late-night trips to the store. And cloth wipes can be used wet without any of the sopping disintegration that regular toilet paper is prone to.

Lately, with all the media attention, there've been a lot of naysayers talking about the stench. I can honestly say, our wipes don't stink. They don't go into a sealed container. They go into a little (lidded) garbage can in the bathroom.

http://living.wallypop.net/wipes.html

Extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply toilet roll made from virgin forest causes more damage than gas-guzzlers, fast food or McMansions, say campaigners

The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country's love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners. At fault, they say, is the US public's insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.

"This is a product that we use for less than three seconds and the ecological consequences of manufacturing it from trees is enormous," said Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defence Council.

A campaign by Greenpeace seeks to raise consciousness among Americans about the environmental costs of their toilet habits and counter an aggressive new push by the paper industry giants to market so-called luxury brands.

More than 98% of the toilet roll sold in America comes from virgin forests, said Hershkowitz. In Europe and Latin America, up to 40% of toilet paper comes from recycled products. Greenpeace this week launched a cut-out-and-keep ecological ranking of toilet paper products.

Americans already consume vastly more paper than any other country — about three times more per person than the average European, and 100 times more than the average person in China.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... ll-america

[genlock]

Leaves, old newspapers, sears catalogs, small(declawed) pets.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Your left hand ... in some third world countries ...

[Oldiesdude]

Hoosier Daddy said:

Your left hand ... in some third world countries ...

Or if your, LEFT HANDED, ..... the use of your RIGHT HAND..... (or your best friends hand, if you have none.)

[Arp2]

Using cloth toilet wipes actually has many advantages. For one, it's a lot more comfortable and soft on your most delicate body parts.

There's.....

........NO.....

...........way!!

[weaver]

that's a bunch of crap.

[AmpedNow]

Trees are a renewable resource.

Dummies.