Re: Every day roughly 1.9 million trees are cut down to make traditional toilet paper
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chrisv wrote: > 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 > yea and then they replant enough to cover the earth twice