.: Toilet paper wipes out 27,000 trees a day

Topic The End of the World (By Cif!, Sunday 2 May 2010 @12:05)

«Worldwide, the equivalent of almost 270,000 trees is either flushed or dumped in landfills every day and roughly 10 percent of that total is attributable to toilet paper, according to the latest issue of World Watch magazine.»

Source: National Geographic’s Green Guide

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