{"id":9658,"date":"2019-02-26T03:18:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T10:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9658"},"modified":"2019-03-04T03:27:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T10:27:03","slug":"bring-back-the-shit-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/26\/bring-back-the-shit-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Back The Shit Stick!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/u-s-plush-toilet-paper-use-wiping-out-canadas-forests-flushing-away-the-future-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from National Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">U.S. plush toilet paper use wiping out Canada&#8217;s forests, flushing away the future: report<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"excerpt\">The report gave failing grades to the leading toilet paper, tissue and paper towel brands for using only virgin fibre pulp, mostly from Canada\u2019s old boreal forests<\/h2>\n<p>by\u00a0<a class=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/author\/ahumphreys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrian Humphreys<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4b\/Nara_period_toilet_paper.jpg\/800px-Nara_period_toilet_paper.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The voracious use of toilet paper in the United States \u2014 with the average American using almost three rolls each week and major manufacturers spurning alternative fibres \u2014 is destroying Canada\u2019s forests and causing widespread environmental damage, two international environmental groups say.<\/p>\n<p>A report on tissue paper use gave failing grades to the leading toilet paper, tissue and paper towel brands for using only virgin fibre pulp, mostly from Canada\u2019s old boreal forests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForests are too vital to flush away,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/forests-tissue-toilet-paper-sustainability-2629612402.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the report, called The Issue With Tissue<\/a>, released Wednesday by Natural Resources Defense Council and Stand.earth, international nonprofit environmental organizations that cooperated on the study.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/u-s-plush-toilet-paper-use-wiping-out-canadas-forests-flushing-away-the-future-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at National Post<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from National Post U.S. plush toilet paper use wiping out Canada&#8217;s forests, flushing away the future: report The report gave failing grades to the leading toilet paper, tissue and paper towel brands for using only virgin fibre pulp, mostly from Canada\u2019s old boreal forests by\u00a0Adrian Humphreys The voracious use of toilet paper in the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}