In the 'what will they think of next?' category, Scott Paper Company just announced the introduction of a new tube-free toilet paper. The innovation, which is the result of a proprietary winding process, eliminates the cardboard roll that has formed the core of the roll since 1880.
According to information from Kimberly-Clark, a parent company of Scott Tissue that also makes Kleenex, 17 billion paper toilet paper tubes are produced every year in the U.S. -- that equates to about 56 rolls per person. All those tubes result in eighty thousand tons of trash, or enough to make one tube a million miles long.
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