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There is no way in hell that i would ever wipe my arse with my hand...
(one thing i don't get about the Middle Eastern/South Asian custom of "one hand for arse wiping, one hand for eating" is, does that mean they never touch one hand with the other hand? That, to me at any rate, would seem almost impossible to avoid...)
However, in compost toilets (which are, IMO, the ideal eco-friendly toilet future), toilet paper is actually useful, as it (along with the sawdust that you sprinkle over afterwards to prevent persistent shitty smell) provides dry/carbon-heavy material to "balance out" the high water and nitrogen content of (most) human shit, thus contributing to optimum decomposition... so, IMO, particularly if it's recycled, toilet paper doesn't have to be an eco-bad-thing...
some compost toilet info here and here...
(while that first link suggests combining compost toilets with composting other (eg kitchen/garden) waste, the people i've met who have constructed them have recommended composting human waste separately, just mixing with paper/sawdust, and also having separate toilets for shit and urine, the latter being a good "activator" for composting of "dry" garden waste (straw, hedge clippings, etc). the ones which i have used (at the Hori-Zone eco-camp at last year's G8 protests) simply consisted of steps leading up to a toilet seat over a wheelie bin, with a bucket of sawdust beside it, and didn't smell noticeably at all (certainly nowhere near as bad as the chemical portaloos)...) |
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