Toilet Paper, an Ecological Disaster

Published by Lerinti Sorin
May 3, 2011, Category: Technology

Extra-soft toilet paper is May damaging the environment than cars, officials said the Natural Resources Defense Council for the United States of America.

Hartia igienica, un dezastru ecologic

One of the “obsessions” Americans are multi-layered toilet paper, extra soft, high quality, but what they do not know is that it is necessary to get thousands of trees cut each year, only to meet demand in the United States .

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More than 98% of toilet paper which is on the U.S. market is the primary source material virgin wood from forests and only a 2% is generated from recycled materials. Bad news does not stop there. Raw material processing involves the release of large quantities of toxic gases into the atmosphere as a result of chemicals used in the production process.
An American consumes three times more than a British toilet paper and 100 times more than a Chinese. In Europe, 40% of toilet paper available on the market is manufactured from recycled paper.
“This is a product that we use for a few seconds, but getting it are devastating consequences for the environment. Future generations will look to obtain the current mode of toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age, “said researcher Allen Hershowitz of the National Council for the Protection of Natural Resources.