Wiped out: America's love of luxury toilet paper is destroying Canadian forests
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americans are genuinely afraid of anything touching their asshole
your gay.
I work in a field that overlaps with forestry a fair bit (Ecology) and nothing they said sounds inaccurate to me. Wild forest doesn't tend to get harvested for this sort of thing (at least in the UK/Europe, but I assume it is the same across the pond) - you instead grow commercial plantation of softwood trees such as spruces etc for use for this kind of thing. You can find information regarding this for the UK through the forestry.gov.uk website, though it might be better to google something like "Average age of commercial plantation before harvesting UK" to get links to pdfs that they have buried around the website in hard to access places from the front facing stuff.
even if we switched to these arcane devices known as bidets, I doubt many companies will bother outfitting ever bathroom stall with one. As it is, like my (small) plant goes through like 2 rolls of TP per stall per day sometimes more and its the thin whispy sandpaper stuff.
except paper?
yes
I WONT BE FRENCH AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME
Bidets are only good for getting shit-water everywhere. Why would someone want to wash their ass like a caveman? Toilet paper is the way to go, planet be damned.
have you ever actually used a bidet
please tell me you wouldn't wipe shit off your hand with paper if you got shit on it
Please tell me you wouldn't use a garden hose on a turd if a dog took a shit in the kitchen
Water carved out the Grand Canyon, human shit never had a chance.
if this is hinting at me using one-ply instead of the two-ply stuff, i'm sorry but i'm not gay enough to finger my asshole 20 times when my finger goes through the 1 nanometer toilet paper
the trick is to rip off a 3 square length and then fold it back on itself along the rip lines. Or you could splash shit-water on your balls, to each their own.
In all honesty I think "timber farming" is prefect doublespeak to get conservatives and right wing nuts to support tree planting
How the fuck do you guys shower? Must truly be an apocalyptic sight if you can't properly rince your asscrack without somehow spraying shit everywhere.
I think you need to learn how bidets actually work dude
Yeah They cycle that shit by growth cycles, it's almost like they know what they're doing.
What the hell do you think toilet paper does?
gotta wrap it 3 times to avoid the gay
Well since you asked, first the intake is separated between solids and liquids (the room in which this is controlled only allows people in there for 10 minute periods due to the chemical gasses released from the sewage). Solids are mixed with water in large tank digesters filled with specific breeds of bacteria that break it down. Depending on the density of the solids, it may go through the digesters 3 to 4 times. Eventually, the waste becomes totally liquefied and then joins the rest of the liquids in the cleaning process.
Meanwhile, the liquids are mixed with a number of chemicals of which I do not recall that separates it into parts (sort of like oil and water) and then it goes through a type of distillation process. The liquid part of the sewage treatment I'm unfamiliar with because most of that is restricted to specific personnel, such as the plant chemist (yeah this is a place where you can go with a BA or better in chemistry).
I do know that, at the end of the whole process, the end product is 99% clear water. Around the early 2000s, the head of the plant was giving a tour of the place to state officials and to prove how clean the end product was, he drank a small glass of the water. And he didn't get sick or die, so it must be pretty effective, even back then.
I don't know if it's just boasting or actually true, but my father has told me that his plant is the "most advanced pro-environment sewage plant in the northeast". They're completely self powered, too as they have a large field of solar panels, a modest sized windmill for power, and part of the plant is actually powered via natural gas derived from the sewage.
So out of all this, I hope you at least take away the fact that yes, your farts can generate electricity. Also the sewage plant does not stink as bad as one would think. In specific buildings, such as the receiver building where all of the pipes from the area first enter the facility, it's real bad, but generally the whole place smells like a mild fart and if you're there long enough you don't even notice it.
How do you propose doing this in a public bathroom?
By using dry paper? I mean if you're using wet wipes to actually clean your butt then fair enough, but using dry paper to wipe is not what I'd call cleaning your anus.
Shit, you got me there.
Rated disagree because I read that as "stink water"
What about having a spray bottle on hand for the TP for a more delicate application of water to paper?
Like a little angel's kiss on your butt.
I mistakenly bought a 12 pack of one-ply as well, and it's so unmitigatingly awful that subjecting anyone's brown starfish to that stuff should be considered a war crime most heinous. Not even Josef Stalin would subject his most hated dissidents to it, it's that fucking awful.
I refuse to use it for its intended purpose as I will literally end up with a bloody asshole before I get clean, whereas if I buy the usual Angel Soft 2-ply my household usually buys, I get clean just fine with no damage done.
We need to go to a seashell based wiping system
I hear they put chemicals in the water that turns you gay if it touches your butthole
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