Bamboo toilet paper - an eco friendly option.

When it comes to toilet paper, people have very strong opinions. Yet, most people overlook just how many trees are cut down each year to make that coveted ultra soft toilet paper that pampers your nether-regions.

Fact: Humankind currently cuts down an acre of forest every second to make toilet paper.

Why are we cutting down trees just to flush them down the toilet? Why not use a renewable source for toilet paper? Bamboo is the fastest growing plant in the world. It can be harvested after just three years. This makes bamboo a much more renewable and eco-friendly resource for paper products such as toilet paper.

Did you know that some countries don’t even use toilet paper? Filipinos use the “tabò” instead of toilet paper to wash after using the restroom. Not all toilets in the Philippines have an automatic flush, so instead, a timbâ (generally a plastic pail with a metal handle) and a tabò kept floating inside it is used. But I digress.

You may be wondering, what country uses the most toilet paper? That would be China, who uses a whopping 4 billion miles of toilet paper each year. Enough to reach Pluto. Followed by the US, which uses 2.65 billion miles of toilet paper a year - enough to reach the planet Neptune. That’s a lot of toilet paper to just use in a single year.

However, there’s a simple solution - stop cutting down trees that take on average 70 years to grow, and switch to bamboo.

If you’re looking to try out bamboo toilet paper and do your part to help save the environment, Amazon has several options. Caboo is a great pick: