How Many Trees are Destroyed Daily to make Toilet Paper?
, by Box Depot, 2 min reading time
With more and more people becoming more environmentally conscious of the products they purchase, many are looking for eco-friendly alternatives to products they use daily. Toilet paper production makes up 15% of deforestation, according to the Natural Resource Defense Council. So how many trees are wasted on toilet paper on a daily basis, and how can switching to sugarcane toilet paper make a difference?
How Many Trees are Destroyed Daily to make Toilet Paper?
Back in 2010, a National Geographic report said that worldwide toilet paper consumption was responsible for 27,000 trees being cut down per day on average.
As the population has grown, you can expect this number to have drastically increased. For reference, in 2010, there were 6.9 billion people worldwide. In 2022, there were 8 billion people worldwide. That would equate to over 31,000 trees being cut down daily if we look at the same average use. This means nearly 11-12 million trees are cut down yearly ... just for toilet paper production!
How Much Toilet Paper Does One Tree Make?
Now that we know how many trees are cut down daily, we can look at how many rolls of toilet paper we get from each tree.
According to most experts, a fully mature tree (that can take 30 years to be mature enough to be cut down!) can produce around 800 toilet paper rolls. With most people using approximately 100 rolls of toilet paper a year, that equates to about eight trees per person a year!
How to Reduce your Environmental Impact with Sugarcane Toilet Paper
If these statistics are alarming, you are not alone. Many people are switching to sugarcane toilet paper for a more eco-friendly alternative to traditional toilet paper - it is the most sustainable and eco-friendly toilet paper available currently in the world! Sugarcane is much more sustainable than trees and requires no destruction of forests to create.
In fact, sugarcane toilet paper is made from a BY-PRODUCT of the sugarcane, namely the fibrous leftovers after the sugar has been extracted from the sugarcane. This by-product (called bagasse) would normally be burned as fuel (not a terribly eco-friendly solution!) but is now being converted into super-soft, easy-to-flush (it dissolves in 4 seconds or less, so no blocked drains!) eco-friendly (sugarcane crops can yield more multiple harvests from each plant) toilet paper!
Check out the full range of sugarcane toilet paper available at Box Depot!
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