Thursday, September 24, 2009

Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper

Soft Toilet Paper's Hard on the Earth, But Will We Sit for the Alternative? (Washington Post)

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- There is a battle for America's behinds.
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.

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