Liberal Hypocrites: New York Times Reporter Thinks Americans Should Use Less Toilet Paper
Because that’s how the Europeans do it!
Americans like their toilet tissue soft: exotic confections that are silken, thick and hot-air-fluffed.
The national obsession with soft paper has driven the growth of brands like Cottonelle Ultra, Quilted Northern Ultra and Charmin Ultra — which in 2008 alone increased its sales by 40 percent in some markets, according to Information Resources, Inc., a marketing research firm.
But fluffiness comes at a price: millions of trees harvested in North America and in Latin American countries, including some percentage of trees from rare old-growth forests in Canada. Although toilet tissue can be made at similar cost from recycled material, it is the fiber taken from standing trees that help give it that plush feel, and most large manufacturers rely on them. . . .
Other countries are far less picky about toilet tissue. In many European nations, a rough sheet of paper is deemed sufficient. Other countries are also more willing to use toilet tissue made in part or exclusively from recycled paper.
Personally, I think my TP use is sort of my business. If I want to use an abundance of cushy soft tissue to do my business with, isn’t that my business? I mean, it is a free country isn’t it?
And is toilet paper use really a top problem when it comes to wasting paper? I mean, how many superfluous copies does the New York Times print out every day as it continues its long march to the bottom in terms of circulation and net worth? And how many junk ads are tucked into each copy?
How much paper could we save if papers stopped printing lectures about toilet paper use from twits like Leslie Kaufman, who authored the story above?
More than we would safe by using the European “one rough sheet of paper” method.
