Environmentalists have a new
target: Charmin toilet paper
CBS News,
by
Irina Ivanova
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
10/14/2019 9:50:07 AM
Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble faces pressure from environmentalists to clean up its act.
More than 150 groups are pushing the maker of Charmin toiler paper and Bounty paper towels to use recycled materials in its products. Currently, neither of those products uses recycled paper, and about one-third of it is sourced from Canada's boreal forest — a large swath of virgin forest that rings the Arctic Circle and acts as a critical check on climate change.
"It's just unacceptable that a company like P&G is making toilet paper, a product that is used for seconds and flushed, from virgin pulp,"
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 10/14/2019 9:57:46 AM (No. 206948)
Time to start buying more Charmin and Bounty to offset these idiots' efforts.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 10/14/2019 9:59:47 AM (No. 206955)
That's it!, they can't touch the Charmin.
Pulp lumber is grown like a crop.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chance_232 10/14/2019 10:01:35 AM (No. 206962)
Again..... trees are a cash crop. They are literally grown and harvested like corn. Recycling paper is a huge waste of time and resources just to virtue signal. If you want to recycle paper, mulch it or burn it for energy.
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Well if all these maroons who are concerned over global-warming-climate-change-climate-disruption would just change back to old corn cobs the "crisis" would be much less threatening. Problem solved for everybody.
Go ahead, all you Chicken Little climate alarmists. Show us how its done.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Clinger 10/14/2019 10:22:41 AM (No. 206984)
A critical check on climate change? I thought we were all doomed in 11 years but if stop wiping my hindquarters with Charmin I could make a difference? I thought Cheryl Crow had this one covered years ago.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
PChristopher 10/14/2019 10:35:09 AM (No. 206994)
I quit using Charmin years ago....too thick and would clog up my toilet all the time. Went with Scott 1000.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kono 10/14/2019 11:09:52 AM (No. 207025)
"and acts as a critical check on climate change" -- oh, bull.
In reply to the environmentalists' assertion that it's unacceptable to make toilet paper from virgin pulp, I can hardly think of something more appropriate to make out of virgin pulp than tissues for wiping the nose or butt (uses that call for maximal softness and strength - properties for which I specifically look to buy the Charmin).
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
FunOne 10/14/2019 11:11:34 AM (No. 207027)
Proctor and Gamble now is taking it from the left. The right hurt them badly after that Gillette toxic masculinity advertisement. I made an effort to avoid using P&G products after Gillette catered approach to the snowflakes at the expense of American men. As such, I found a toilet tissue softer than Charmin, and that is Cottonelle.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jacksin5 10/14/2019 11:16:21 AM (No. 207032)
P&G will be social justiced out of business. There are so many freaks under that tent that you have no chance of pleasing them all.
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Now P&G is really in the ****.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
planetgeo 10/14/2019 11:28:13 AM (No. 207041)
So they're demanding more "Pulp Friction"? Hey, go to Europe if you want to know what it's like to use sandpaper.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
joew9 10/14/2019 11:30:33 AM (No. 207044)
I think this is all a hoax created by P & G to get back their Republican customers after they drove them away with that Gillette anti-male commercial.
Charmin is too soft and comes apart. Bounty is too expensive. I'm liking Aldi products more and more.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hershey 10/14/2019 11:33:57 AM (No. 207047)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't toilet paper designed to dissolve in the toilet??? How can you recycle that??? These envirowackos are really wacko...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
seamusm 10/14/2019 11:50:47 AM (No. 207059)
The problem with recycled paper is that it is flimsy. As toilet paper it is probably better to just use your bare hand. Yeccchhh!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 10/14/2019 11:57:12 AM (No. 207063)
I prefer the Aldi knockoff version of Scott 1000. It doesn't clog the pipes and is more economical than Charmin. Now if they could only solve the "over vs under" debate...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ginadee 10/14/2019 12:08:02 PM (No. 207067)
Hey environmentalists.......wipe this! ?!#&^RF!!?.,
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
john56 10/14/2019 12:09:35 PM (No. 207068)
Fun fact: Charmin toilet paper is made in Green Bay, Wisconsin, who besides the Packers, has the title of "Toliet Paper Capital of the World." As a friend of mine who lives there reminds me, Green Bay will always have a good economy because (1) we all need toilet paper (2) it's not easy to open a toilet paper factory because of environmental issues and (3) any time they've tried to import toilet paper from China, the rolls arrive crushed.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 10/14/2019 12:34:32 PM (No. 207086)
Once again, these groups are showing their ignorance and stupidity about a product. Where I used to live, a great deal of land was given over to the pulp tree crops. These people hate working people so much they don't care to learn actual facts and reality about farming. All they do is spew the nonsense their puppet masters tell them to spew.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rather Read 10/14/2019 1:15:50 PM (No. 207132)
I use the Wal-Mart version of Scott 1000. It doesn't clog the pipes and it's comfortable enough.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
StormCnter 10/14/2019 1:18:50 PM (No. 207135)
If you have a septic system, you're much better off using Scott. My plumber years ago told me to stop buying the soft, pretty, luxury toilet tissue. It doesn't break down as quickly or as efficiently.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 10/14/2019 1:34:59 PM (No. 207150)
#17
The person who invented toilet paper on a roll solved that with his patent in 1891.
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pages/US465588-0.png
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mc squared 10/14/2019 2:06:04 PM (No. 207177)
There's no doubt that over/under has been solved. Rolls with designs on them are printed to show with the roll 'over'. The lower hanging part wouldn't be visible if hung under.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Historybuff 10/14/2019 2:27:58 PM (No. 207197)
Anybody here ever experience Soviet tp? That red stuff ? When you were sitting there thinking, you rolled a ball of it between your hands to soften it up - you could have put a nice finish on mahogany with that stuff.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/14/2019 3:13:13 PM (No. 207237)
Charmin seems like it disintegrates when you touch or use it. Like some other posters, I'm a Cottonelle girl. For many years now.
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Wonder where they think the paper for paper straws comes from ?
Just get a life. Bring back the draft.
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