In the US alone, the annual spend on toilet paper is US$6 billion. The environmental cost is equally eye-watering. To feed the demand, it takes 1.7 trillion litres of water, 250,000 tonnes of bleach and 15 million trees.
Accordingly, how many trees cut down a day?
How much trees are cut down every day? Throughout the world, about 900 million trees are cut down annually. This equates to about 2.47 million trees cut down every day.
People also ask, what is toilet paper made out of today?
Toilet paper is made from virgin wood fibers or from a combination of recycled paper pulp mixed in water with chemical sulfates to help it break down, starches that create wet strength and chemicals to make it white.
What kind of trees make toilet paper?
The long, strong fibers of softwood trees like Southern yellow pines and Douglas-firs are used to make toilet paper strong. The shorter fibers of hardwood trees like oaks and maples give toilet paper its soft texture. Toilet paper gets its softness from virgin pine pulp.
Where do toilet paper trees come from?
Much of the tissue pulp in the US comes from the boreal forest of Canada. This vast landscape of coniferous, birch, and aspen trees contains some of the last of the world’s remaining intact forests. It’s home to over 600 Indigenous communities, as well as boreal caribou, pine marten, and billions of songbirds.