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Replace Toilet Roll?
Posted 02/03/08 by Matt B in the Questions category
How can we stop flushing paper down the toilet?
Every year the you might flush as many as 150 rolls of toilet paper away. Much of the paper comes from nonrenewable resources and all of it must be processed by waste treatment plants. Surely there must be a better way?
What other methods exist to clean oneself after a visit to the "little room", "the john", "the little mutants room", "the WC"...?
How can we reduce the waste rate without giving way to lower hygiene or general lack of health?
What's the alternative to "bog paper"?
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Comments
30/03/08 02:24:28 VicinSea [link]
Japanese toilets use a stream of water to clean followed by a jet of warm air to dry...no paper needed.
Mid easterners traditionally use their left hand and water to remove waste completely and then wash their hands. Toilet paper merely picks up the surface mess and leaves a full residue behind on your behind.
Up until the 1950's most western people used catalog pages or corn cobs. Modern "Eco-Freaks" are setting up "Watering stations" in their gardens to add nutrients to garden soil. The cosmetics industry has managed to tell us that everything about human life is dirty, smelly and unhygienic in order to sell us a whole range of new products to fix the "problem" The real problems is that we have been brainwashed and it is going to take some time to get over it.
Toilet paper is a recent invention that will fade away once people realize that it really isn't cleaning anything.
30/03/08 14:47:59 Matt B [link]
Good answer VicinSea, welcome to Green Moral and thanks for your comment. It sounds like the Japanese might have the right idea - I wonder what the cost of [setting up such a system / getting such a loo] might be in the UK (or the US)?
Less seriously - one could always use the money directly as in this youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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Mid easterners traditionally use their left hand and water to remove waste completely and then wash their hands. Toilet paper merely picks up the surface mess and leaves a full residue behind on your behind.
Up until the 1950's most western people used catalog pages or corn cobs. Modern "Eco-Freaks" are setting up "Watering stations" in their gardens to add nutrients to garden soil. The cosmetics industry has managed to tell us that everything about human life is dirty, smelly and unhygienic in order to sell us a whole range of new products to fix the "problem" The real problems is that we have been brainwashed and it is going to take some time to get over it.
Toilet paper is a recent invention that will fade away once people realize that it really isn't cleaning anything.