The Internet discovered reusable toilet paper. What you should know about it, according to a germ expert
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You don’t even need to get a bidet. You can get a washlet to add to a regular toilet that will do the same thing, which will work for spaces that have smaller footprints. In some places in Asia they just have the hose option.
In India almost every bathroom has a small hose with a sprayer attached that typically hangs on the wall next to the toilet. After I got over the initial user confusion, I actually miss that now that I'm back the US! I think a lot of Asian countries would actually consider American toileting habits to be unhygienic because there is not a water source involved for cleaning.
You don’t even need to get a bidet. You can get a washlet to add to a regular toilet that will do the same thing, which will work for spaces that have smaller footprints. In some places in Asia they just have the hose option.
I was actually thinking about the bidet attachments, which don't take up anymore room than the toilet people already have in their bathroom.
I was actually thinking about the bidet attachments, which don't take up anymore room than the toilet people already have in their bathroom.
So if we use a bidet we save paper/trees, and if we use good old TP we save water (that a bidet would use). I seem to recall the toilet fixture industry being pressured to reduce a toilet's water/flushing capacity not to long ago, which resulted in barely enough water flow to move solid waste. So we now attach a bidet to the low flow toilet, and negate some of the water saving (?). IMO there are far more productive ways to save reduce paper usage than doing away with toilet paper. A very good place to start would be the U.S. government printing office, and every bureaucracy that tends to make unnecessary & redundant paperwork it's sole purpose for existence.
Nope, I'm staying with the old fashioned variety of flushable TP. Thanks, but no thanks.
So if we use a bidet we save paper/trees, and if we use good old TP we save water (that a bidet would use). I seem to recall the toilet fixture industry being pressured to reduce a toilet's water/flushing capacity not to long ago, which resulted in barely enough water flow to move solid waste. So we now attach a bidet to the low flow toilet, and negate some of the water saving (?). IMO there are far more productive ways to save reduce paper usage than doing away with toilet paper. A very good place to start would be the U.S. government printing office, and every bureaucracy that tends to make unnecessary & redundant paperwork it's sole purpose for existence.
Nope, I'm staying with the old fashioned variety of flushable TP. Thanks, but no thanks.
I'm not sure how you turned this topic into a political statement.
The bidet is about cleanliness, not saving trees. You don't clean your hands by rubbing them on a towel, so why would people expect other areas of the body to be free of filth and bacteria with just some paper?
I had more than enough trouble putting used toilet paper in the garbage cans is Greece. (Signs everywhere)
The pipes are too small to handle the paper.
Pretty disgusting!
I've lived over there, and despite all the dire claims - some of which are shadowed in this article, poop-carried diseases are not a major health problem there.
It's the ick factor plain and simple for those not used to the custom. Americans love this sort of "news." It's why a Poop Coven meets regularly in the Health forum.
I'm not sure how you turned this topic into a political statement.
The bidet is about cleanliness, not saving trees. You don't clean your hands by rubbing them on a towel, so why would people expect other areas of the body to be free of filth and bacteria with just some paper?
That wasn't my intention, and I don't think I did. Had I mentioned one political group as 'government wasting paper', then maybe you would have a point. What I should have pointed out in my post is that private businesses also waste tons of paper every day with their endless junk-mail marketing. My intention was to say that much more paper is wasted by other sources than toilet paper.
I didn't introduce the tree-saving theme into this thread. Other posters did that, and I was responding to them.
Sort of like the custom in Mexico of putting used toilet paper in the trash can which is next to the toilet. That way it doesn't choke the sewer pipes.
So that's where that practice originated! The first time I saw it was in the men's room of a Yoplait yogurt factory where I was assigned to do an overnight security detail.
In India almost every bathroom has a small hose with a sprayer attached that typically hangs on the wall next to the toilet. After I got over the initial user confusion, I actually miss that now that I'm back the US! I think a lot of Asian countries would actually consider American toileting habits to be unhygienic because there is not a water source involved for cleaning.
Well most people in India defecate out in the open so they have no reason to get too high and mighty about their "superior" hygiene habits.
I bought one of those bidet attachm can't even ents for my home toliet a long time ago. Will never go back to just toilet paper.
Oh, yes! I like that bidet idea..and it solves the 'chunks' problem mentioned in an earlier post.
But I would 'toss chunks' if I had to save soiled cloths... aggh, I am getting dry heaves just thinking about it.
Put me down for the HELL NO camp.
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IMO there are far more productive ways to save reduce paper usage than doing away with toilet paper. A very good place to start would be the U.S. government printing office, and every bureaucracy that tends to make unnecessary & redundant paperwork it's sole purpose for existence.
