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NEWS ABOUT: toilet paper

toilet paper stories: 6 news summaries

Kick in the Butt: Soft Toilet Paper Battle Gets Messy

The plusher paper invariably comes from virgin wood, not recycled content

Sep 24, 09 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The environmental campaign against soft toilet paper is heating up, as manufacturers keep pushing the fluff factor—"Quilted Northern Ultra Plush is the first big brand to go three-ply and three-adjective," the Washington Post notes—and environmentalists want the industry to go all recycled. The softer rolls US... More »

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recycling • environmentalism • toilet paper • logging • environmentalists • paper industry • paper products • old growth forest • softness

(Newser) - Cuba is battling a toilet paper shortage, the Miami Herald reports. The country says the global financial crisis and recent hurricanes have forced it to shutter factories and cut down on electricity usage. The result: The cost of a four-pack of TP in Havana is the equivalent of 2... More »

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communism • Newsweek • toilet paper • Cuba • imports • resources • rationing • hurricane • Havana • Fareed Zakaria

 Trust Fund Teens 
 TP Madoff Mansion 

Pranksters blast accused swindler for wiping out future fortunes

Jan 27, 09 2:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Pranksters whose future fortunes were battered by accused swindler Bernard Madofff festooned his tony Palm Beach digs with toilet paper over the weekend, reports the Palm Beach Post. Teenage boys called the newspaper to claim responsibility for the guerrilla tactic and blasted Madoff for wiping out their trust funds. The... More »

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fraud • toilet paper • prank • defrauding customers • Palm Beach • teenager • Bernard Madoff

 Poo-Poo to Navel-Gazing: 
 Look Lower 

Enough navel-gazing; looking lower will yield clues into your inner workings

Mar 12, 08 9:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Poop isn't just joke fodder, Leslie Crawford writes in Salon, it can also be a vital way to assess your health and well-being, and Americans are being prompted to scrutinize (and rhapsodize over) what they produce in a variety of media. From Oprah to the popular book What's Your Poo ... More »

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health • toilet paper • Oprah Winfrey • bathroom • toilet • poop • bowel movements

New Yorkers Inaugurate First Public Loo 

Potty puns swirl at 'first flush' ceremony in Madison Square Park

Jan 10, 08 6:09 PM CST
(Newser) - If you can't hold it on the streets of New York, it's no longer necessary to sneak into a cafe john, the Times reports. The city opened the first of 20 pay toilets today, complete with a toilet-paper-cutting inauguration and "first-flush" ceremony. Until today, New York was one of... More »

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New York City • toilet paper • Madison Square Garden • toilet

Physicist Wants To Wipe Out Toilet Paper

New one-ply TP is a step to a paperless bathroom

Apr 25, 07 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A German physicist is engineering toilet paper that he says is more efficient  and softer than the familiar white roll. TP visionary Siegfried Hustedt claims a single ply of his new paper—which can "hold its shape longer under pressure"—will be sturdy enough to do the job,... More »

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climate change • global warming • environmentalism • Proctor • hygiene • bathroom hygiene • toilet paper • bathroom • toilet • Sheryl Crow

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