Would you believe that 17 billion toilet paper tubes are produced annually in the United States? Apparently most people toss those tubes rather than recylce them, and those cast off paper tubes account for 160 million pounds of trash. Stretched end-to-end they would reach a length of more than a million miles - as far as from earth to the moon and back twice.
That's a lot of toilet paper tubes
And that's also why Kimberly-Clark, one of the biggest makers of household paper products decided to develop a tubeless toilet paper roll. They introduced at the end of last year in select outlets in the Northeast, Scotts Naturals Tube-Free toilet paper. It doesn't have that perfectly round hole through the middle, so handy for stashing bathroom miscellany (?!), but they do fit over the roller spindle and are good to the last square.
If the new tubeless rolls prove popular, K-C will distribute them more widely and perhaps adapt the same rolling technique to paper towels.
In the meantime? Recycle those tubes, people!
photo credit: grewlike
That's a lot of toilet paper tubes
And that's also why Kimberly-Clark, one of the biggest makers of household paper products decided to develop a tubeless toilet paper roll. They introduced at the end of last year in select outlets in the Northeast, Scotts Naturals Tube-Free toilet paper. It doesn't have that perfectly round hole through the middle, so handy for stashing bathroom miscellany (?!), but they do fit over the roller spindle and are good to the last square.
If the new tubeless rolls prove popular, K-C will distribute them more widely and perhaps adapt the same rolling technique to paper towels.
In the meantime? Recycle those tubes, people!
photo credit: grewlike
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