| Did you know that every time you reel toilet | | | | world countries, using anything other than toilet |
| paper off your toilet paper holder you are | | | | paper would be unhygienic. |
| contributing to a considerate loss of trees? It is | | | | The extensive use of toilet paper, especially in |
| estimated that up to as many as 27 000 trees | | | | first world countries, have made the demand for |
| are cut down daily and this amount is used for | | | | trees higher than ever before as more and more |
| sanitary products such as tissue products and | | | | trees are being felled daily to keep up with toilet |
| toilet paper – products that cannot be | | | | paper demand. Proper sanitation routines are |
| recycled. Not a huge amount of this number | | | | positive but the effect that these sanitation |
| consists of toilet paper but toilet paper is | | | | routines are having on the environment are |
| sometimes used in excess and without a second | | | | starting to strain our natural resources. According |
| thought. | | | | to ecological research, 13 million hectares of trees |
| What makes this number so frightening is the | | | | are lost every year and this number is set to |
| fact that unlike other items such as furniture, | | | | escalate. It is estimated that 15% of this |
| toilet paper is only used once before it is thrown | | | | deforestation is in relation to toilet paper demand. |
| away or flushed down the toilet. We all use more | | | | So why aren't we recycling normal paper and |
| toilet paper than we care to think of, even if it is | | | | using it as toilet paper? Experts say that nearly |
| to clean up a spill or blow our nose. The use of | | | | 40% of all landfills are filled with paper waste and |
| toilet paper cannot be avoided for obvious | | | | recycling this paper to make recycled toilet paper |
| reasons, and many of us are relieved when we | | | | will not only save trees but also save gallons of |
| go into public portable toilets and see that there is | | | | water and create less air pollution and energy in |
| indeed a roll of toilet paper available to use. | | | | the long run. It is also possible to produce toilet |
| But if you think that you only use a small portion | | | | paper that is not used from recycled paper so |
| of toilet paper daily or even annually, think again. | | | | there is more than one alternative to this problem. |
| According to a recent study done by a leading | | | | All we can do is use toilet paper sparingly and |
| environmental magazine, the average toilet paper | | | | hope that the use of recycled toilet paper will be |
| usage amounts to approximately 23 kg per | | | | more widely spread as the cost is ultimately the |
| person in one year. Not all cultures use toilet | | | | loss of our environment. |
| paper to clean up after themselves but in first | | | | |