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I've bought toilet paper made from recycled paper and found it felt better than conventional toilet paper.
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The numbers are shocking: More than 98 percent of the toilet paper we use in the US is from virgin forests, the Guardian reports. Across the world, people are struggling to save our forests from deforestation, and instead of helping out, we're wiping are butts with our best defense against climate change.
This thread is just hilarious! I grew up in post-war (WW2) Britain and, with all the general rationing, TP was the least of our worries. If the TP wasn't cut-up newspaper, the commercial product in those days was very waxy compared to what's available today. In many parts of the world the hand still prevails. Too funny!
Well here I am to gross people out. LOL I rarely use toilet paper and when I do it is recycled. We have rags hanging in the outhouse with our name above the nail, Those are used as needed and other rags are under the sink in the outhouse for BM's. The rags are boiled and washed seperately from other laundry and in a seperate pot as well.
Before everyone starts to fret, I am not the only person to do this, my Amish friends do it as well. They have those same kind of rags hanging from nails in their outhouse and toilet paper in there for guests to use.
It works well, is soft, I have never developed any diseases from doing this and we are clean people. I look at it as no different than washing our cloth diapers, except it is not as uh, nasty (trying not to be too graphic here).
For the record, we do not use paper towels either. I use hand towels for everything and just boil them out and wash them on the weekends, hang them on the line and they are ready for another week.
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