Alright," you say, "You've convinced me about cloth diapers, and I understand using cloth gift bags and napkins. But toilet paper??" For some people, making the switch to cloth toilet wipes is a huge leap, that's true. But it doesn't need to beAdvantages?
Using cloth toilet wipes actually has many advantages. For one, it's a lot more comfortable and soft on your most delicate body parts. It's also more economical, uses less paper, and saves you those late-night trips to the store. And cloth wipes can be used wet without any of the sopping disintegration that regular toilet paper is prone to. For a discussion of the practical aspects of using cloth toilet wipes, please check out our page detailing How to Use Cloth Wipes.
Let's look a a few obvious disadvantages:
-1) Used wipe storage:
You'll need an airtight and vermin-proof storage container next to every toilet to hold these things until washday.
-2) Preliminary cleaning:
After you have flushed down your "deposit" and used your cloth wipes, you'll need to rinse out the things(just
like a cloth diaper) in the toilet and flush a second time.
-3) Sharing appliances:
You will need to wash your clothes in the same washer that just washed a load of your buttwipes. Oh hell yes... sign me up right now! Try to imagine the the laundry room aroma.
-4) Educational opportunities:
You get the unique experience and privilege of instructing all your visitors, friends and relatives, on how to use your new green toilet wipes.
Be certain to remind them to wash their hands - thoroughly - after using your new planet-saving facility.
So. Long-time storage of smelly, nasty rags, dozens and dozens of them, unless you wash them every time the toilet is used. Smelly, insect attracting rags. Much time and effort cleaning and disinfecting these things. Much greater water usage, more detergent required, and a powerful anti-bacterial disinfectant is highly recommended.
I can just hear it now:
Man on toilet:"Honey, I need some clean buttwipes. Have you washed them yet?"
Woman in another room: ....*
*You can figure her response yourself.
3 comments:
Actually, we toss ours in with the diapers when we have kids in dipes, and they go into a little garbage can in the bathroom when we don't have anyone in diapers.
They don't need to be rinsed, and why would the toilet need to be flushed twice??
They don't stink. Most people use them just for pee. I wash diapers in the washer, and then clothes, and it's really not a problem. If you washer doesn't get your laundry clean, you should get a new one!!
And of course we have regular TP for guests.
I would hope EVERYONE washes their hands after using the toilet!!
Thank Al Gump and Dan Blather for this global-warming-deterring product...Butt I'll stick with TP just the same!
Well sarah,
It's a bit startling to hear from someone who actually uses these products, bit I can see your side of it...
Your doing cloth diapers anyway, and use them mostly for pee, and also sensibly provide standard TP for guests.
I'll stick with the regular stuff for two reasons: -1)It's convenient, and -2) it's maufactured from trees grown on tree farms, no old growth trees or stripping of forests. Claims of ecological disaster from the manufacture of TP is bogus.
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