Oh Pleeeese!

Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper

"It is a fight over toilet paper: the kind that is blanket-fluffy and getting fluffier so fast that manufacturers are running out of synonyms for "soft" (Quilted Northern Ultra Plush is the first big brand to go three-ply and three-adjective).

It's a menace, environmental groups say -- and a dark-comedy example of American excess.

The reason, they say, is that plush U.S. toilet paper is usually made by chopping down and grinding up trees that were decades or even a century old. They want Americans, like Europeans, to wipe with tissue made from recycled paper goods. "

Why not just push for people to go back to corn cobs or even the Sears Roebuck catalog??

So the next question is - has it really made that big of a deal in Europe? Will it make that big of a difference? Why don't they talk about the enviromental damage caused by recycling the paper? (and yes it does cuase enviromental damage too)

Actually if they looked at it I would think they would find that over half of the pulp used to make paper, cardboard, tissue, etc comes from the 'spare' bits from logs sent to mills for cutting into lumber.

Now if you believe the video, "Story of Stuff', that have been making its way around the internet ... then there is only 4% of forests left in the world (pardon my snort) ... and toilet paper/tissue uses up only 5% of that ... you know - that's really not that much when you think about it.

They don't mention that there a more trees in the US now than there were in the 1920's and 30's .... in fact over 2 1/2 BILLION trees are packed each year!!! The plantings are exceeding the cutting every year, and its been doing that since the 1940's.

But you won't hear any of that!!