Comments on: 27,000 Trees A Day to Wipe Bottoms – What’s Your Wipe of Choice?

By: BlackDiamond

BlackDiamond — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 19:04:33 +0000

🙂 If you go ONLY before you shower each day you needn't use anything, you're going to wash ANYWAY right?
This is what I do and haven't used paper (at home) in years…. use soap to wash "the area" then hands are washed quickly after your butt so no icky thoughts, and NO extra water is used to wash hands and apart from a normal toilet flush (which uses a tank from the roof) this saves trees AND water!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 05:21:02 +0000

Back in the 1960's I heard from a friend who had traveled in Europe that they had "butt baths" in their bathrooms to wash up rather than using TP. Now I've never been to Europe or seen such an item in a US bathroom but I wonder why it hasn't caught on. It seems like a sensible alternative.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:11:43 +0000

I can confirm this version…
bidet could be used alone as well actually… It would be interesting maybe to know how much water is used per bidet-wash and how much water (and energy and trees and…) is used per PT-cleaning, to compare which would be the most effective and resource saving!
Other solution comes from the past: ancient romans used to wash themselves with a piece of natural sponge previously wetted and inserted on a stick and then wash the sponge (smtng similar to Susan Risk's comment). By re-doing so, the use of water would be much less than using bidet. For hygene porpouses, the sponge could be lefted in a little cup with some sanitizing 🙂 What do you all think?

By: Lisa Michelle

Lisa Michelle — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:11:43 +0000

Do you have a brand recommend for bamboo loo paper? I was overjoyed to see a new rangne in paper towels made of bamboo….. But they are absolute crap, rip and dissolve at the drop of a hat. As such I removed their tp from my "new products to try" . I was very dissapointed. Am using them as serviettes before composting. They defs can't be rinsed and reused before their end of life. 🙁

By: Susan Risk

Susan Risk — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 19:06:38 +0000

We have adopted a partial paper use. We have a basket of 'pee cloths' nearby – which are towels cut up into 5-6" squares. They are laundered on washday and reused. This saves a tremendous amount of paper and isn't much of a shift. Good for squat or western style toilets. For the other function, TP as usual.

By: therese Delfel

therese Delfel — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 14:25:47 +0000

Thank you indeed for this very useful piece of info about an everyday product ! All alternative sources are to be explored but let's keep in mind that "less is more" and of the 6 "R"s in ecology, the three first are : Reduce, Reduce, Reduce (and then only come Reuse (what is possible), Repair and last of the 6 "R"s, Recycle where applicable).

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 09:06:38 +0000

If you ever scratch your butt or find "rust spots" in your underwear, you did not complete the paperwork correctly. That never happens to me since I changed to washing my butt with a 12 oz bottle of water and wipe it dry with a wash clothe I carry, easily.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 09:05:45 +0000

And hemp?

By: Karin

Karin — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 04:25:47 +0000

Hemp is the answer to many if not most of our needs — fiber, food, medicine, fuel, building materials, as well basic ingredients used throughout industry (now provided by synthetic petroleum based products). see http://agreport.bz/2016/08/industrial-uses-of-hemp/.

By: bldyman

bldyman — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 23:05:45 +0000

in italy everybody has bidet…but before uses a lot of paper! lol