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

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