Op-Ed: Coronavirus pandemic hoarding pushed me to give up toilet paper

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Op-Ed: Coronavirus pandemic hoarding pushed me to give up toilet paper
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I'm running low on toilet paper, thanks to hoarding in response to the coronavirus outbreak. I'm not worried, because I'm done with TP for good.

the Natural Resources Defense Council says the toilet paper industry has played a key role in the deforestation of the environmentally important boreal forest in Canada.But the environmental impact of toilet paper was not on my mind as I turned to Google the other day. I just wanted to know my options if I ran out of TP before the pandemic ended. The options were many, all unpalatable or ridiculous. I could use newspaper pages, gathered leaves or a sponge on a stick.

Bidets were growing in popularity in the U.S. even before the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020, Tushy founder Miki Agrawal said, but interest has recently surged for obvious reasons. Before the coronavirus pandemic, the biggest hurdle was assuaging such concerns as “Will it squirt, um, poop up my rear end?” and “Does it use dirty toilet water?” . The bidet attachment connects to the water pipe that connects to your toilet tank, not to the toilet rim.

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