Advocates seek to flush our toilet paper dependency and transform the way we go to the bathroom
Bidets have been part of European culture for years.
Bidets have also had a tough time finding acceptance in polite society. When Americans encountered them decades ago, it was usually as soldiers sent to Europe during the Second World War who saw bidets in many a bordello, thus equating them with sex and prostitution. They were later deemed too promiscuous for the rigid postwar world.Article content
More importantly, the hands-free element reduces toilet paper consumption, while saving trees and the environment. Article content Paper for toilet paper has deforested 28 million acres of Canadian forest since 1996, Agrawal pointed out during a recent interview, saying she created the company as a response to “personal and corporate responsibility” to the environment and the world. “A bidet user uses 80 per cent less toilet paper and can save 384 trees in their lifetime compared to one person’s lifetime toilet paper supply,” she says.
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