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Thread #123866 Message #2731387
Posted By: Bill D
25-Sep-09 - 05:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: things we have to face! so's to speak
Subject: BS: things we have to face! so's to speak
It seems that environmental awareness is finally getting to the bathroom/loo/
"ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- There is a battle for America's behinds.
It is a fight over toilet paper: the kind that is blanket-fluffy and getting fluffier so fast that manufacturers are running out of synonyms for "soft" (Quilted Northern Ultra Plush is the first big brand to go three-ply and three-adjective).
It's a menace, environmental groups say -- and a dark-comedy example of American excess.
The reason, they say, is that plush U.S. toilet paper is usually made by chopping down and grinding up trees that were decades or even a century old. "...etc.....
Years ago, they quit making paper grocery bags out of old trees with long fibers... I hadn't realized the TP industry was doing it. Such travails! *grin*