Re: Every day roughly 1.9 million trees are cut down to make traditional toilet paper

Gator Golf wrote:

>Every day roughly 1.9 million trees — enough to cover about 45 Sydney 
>Opera Houses — are cut down to make traditional toilet paper out of virgin 
>wood pulp, according to a new report which looked into how consumer 
>choices can impact the environment.
>
>More than 60 per cent of people recently surveyed across Australia, the 
>United Kingdom and United States were unaware of how their choice in 
>toilet paper contributes to global deforestation, the Toilet Paper 
>Environmental Sustainability Report found.
>
>It's estimated a person goes through 127 rolls a year, adding up to 42 
>million tonnes worldwide. And that's leading to the loss of 700 million 
>trees annually, the data found.
>
><https://www.9news.com.au/world/earth-day-2022-toilet-paper-found-to-contribute-to-mass-deforestation-data-reveals/a6b0763b-54a6-4f66-8a21-8b3fbad064b2>

Link fixed.  I can't believe they didn't mention how bad "ultra soft"
toilet paper is, compared to "regular" toilet paper.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/world/americas/26iht-paper.1.20453524.html

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