I went to a natural food store yesterday and saw "recycled toilet paper". Now, I'm sure this paper came from toilets that only had fresh non-poison injected paper being flushed. Which then ended in a nice little pile, at my local sewer treatment plant, ready for the recycling company to come by and grab. Probably took it back to their processing facility and scraped all the poop off the paper, hung it up and washed with a bristle brush to get the impacted poop out of the fibers, and then put in a sunny spot to dry. But that roll sure did look brand new. Guess the toilet paper recycling business is a lot cleaner than automobile recyclers. Anyway, two rolls only cost about $2.50 and it certainly had me tempted. After todays news I just might bicycle down to that food store and purchase both rolls on the shelf. Gotta do my part to keep the recycling places in business.
I went to a natural food store yesterday and saw "recycled toilet paper". Now, I'm sure this paper came from toilets that only had fresh non-poison injected paper being flushed. Which then ended in a nice little pile, at my local sewer treatment plant, ready for the recycling company to come by and grab. Probably took it back to their processing facility and scraped all the poop off the paper, hung it up and washed with a bristle brush to get the impacted poop out of the fibers, and then put in a sunny spot to dry. But that roll sure did look brand new. Guess the toilet paper recycling business is a lot cleaner than automobile recyclers. Anyway, two rolls only cost about $2.50 and it certainly had me tempted. After todays news I just might bicycle down to that food store and purchase both rolls on the shelf. Gotta do my part to keep the recycling places in business.
To me, toilet paper is a one time use item. I don't want to drink water that came from pee, or use paper that had already served it's purpose once.