Is New Tubeless Toilet Paper Just a Green Tease?
Kimberly-Clark just announced a new toilet paper that — gasp — has no tube. Instead, the paper uses a proprietary winding process that allows the roll to be used up until the very last sheet. An astounding 17 billion paper tubes are used each year in the manufacture of toilet paper, so a small design change like this can literally save millions of pounds of disposed cardboard a year. We applaud Kimberly-Clark with a caveat — currently the new “Naturals” labeled product contains no recycled paper content, which is a much larger environmental concern.
