How to Save Two Million Trees Per Year By Simply Not Being Stubborn Dirtyasses

Approximately 10 million trees per year are cut down to make the world’s supply of toilet paper. While the number can vary quite a bit from tree to tree and with different kinds of toilet paper, a very rough ballpark figure is that each tree produces approximately 1,000-2,000 rolls of TP. People in the United States on average use approximately 50% more toilet paper per person (about 24 rolls per person, per year) than other Western nations, primarily due to the reluctance of Americans to adopt inexpensive water washing systems like bidet toilet seat add-ons that cost less than a few packs of toilet paper and take 10 minutes to install. Crunching the numbers, if Americans on the whole made the switch, that would save around three and a half billion rolls of toilet paper per year, or a little over two million trees annually. And for those thinking bidets would waste clean water, we should point out it takes about 35 gallons of water, or a typical bathtub full, to make a single roll of toilet paper. Do the math on that one.