Kimberly-Clark rolling out tube-free toilet paper

[LynneSin]

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20101027/NEWS/101027018/Kimberly-Clark-rolling-out-tube-free-toilet-paper

Kimberly-Clark rolling out tube-free toilet paper

The toilet paper roll is about to undergo its biggest change in 100 years: going tubeless.

On Monday, Kimberly-Clark, one of the world's biggest makers of household paper products, will begin testing Scott Naturals Tube-Free toilet paper at Walmart and Sam's Club stores throughout the Northeast. If sales take off, it may introduce the line nationally and globally — and even consider adapting the technology into its paper towel brands.

No, the holes in the rolls aren't perfectly round. But they do fit over TP spindles and come with this promise: Even the last piece of toilet paper will be usable — without glue stuck on it.

The 17 billion toilet paper tubes produced annually in the USA account for 160 million pounds of trash, according to Kimberly-Clark estimates, and could stretch more than a million miles placed end-to-end. That's from here to the moon and back — twice. Most consumers toss, rather than recycle, used tubes, says Doug Daniels, brand manager at Kimberly-Clark. "We found a way to bring innovation to a category as mature as bath tissue," he says.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Finally.

And people who don't recycle piss me off.

[merh]

2. Do you mean that others don't save the rolls to stuff with their

dryer lint to make fire starter logs? Am I the only one?

http://www.ehow.com/how_6744024_make-homemade-fire-starter-logs.html

:shrug:

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. I use mine to make...

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... whole-grain, high-fiber manicotti.
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[HopeHoops]

9. So does Olive Garden.

[Crystal Clarity]

27. Hey that's not a bad idea

I'm going to try it. But I don't get the point of the candle wax. Seems like too much work.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Tubeless T-P, meh. Where are my three shells!?!

:hi:

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. Just as in skydiving...

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...when you run out of toilet paper, it's great
if you can pull your emergency poopachute core.
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[HopeHoops]

6. So what the hell is my wife going to do for craft materials for her classrom now?

Toilet paper tubes are a long-time standard for kindergarten classroom crafts. WHY does Kimberly-Clark HATE America????

[Heidi]

7. EXACTLY.

My mom was a first-grade teacher for 35 years. How well I remember the winter of the jillion one-gallon plastic milk cartons, which her first graders put together in the form of an igloo on the playground.

[HopeHoops]

8. Teachers INVENTED the "reuse" part of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"

[Heidi]

12. Totally agree.

And the "reduce, reuse, recycle" thing became even more pointed from Bush I on, when art started becoming decreasingly important and increasingly defunded in the schools.

I think you're probably a lot younger than me, but when I was in sixth grade and electives became available, I chose an hour of art a day--taught by an art teacher, who was full-time faculty. The only things students had to bring to class were our imaginations and a willingness to work; everything else was provided by the school district: paper, paint, pencils, canvases, clay, a kiln, books. That was an incredibly enriching year in my life and, believe it or not, it happened in Oklahoma -- about 1975.

[HopeHoops]

16. We're about the same age then. I was 7 months old when Kennedy was assassinated.

[Heidi]

17. Ha! Perhaps I'm just having a "feelin' old and reactionary day."

It happens.

Would you happen to know when menopause officially starts?

[HopeHoops]

19. When you stop waking up and just having to "have some".

Fortunately, my wife (whom I've been with for just shy of 26 years) hasn't even gotten close to that point.

:evilgrin:

[charlie and algernon]

10. what are the cats and hampsters of the world going to play with?

Won't someone think of the kitties who bat those tubes around and the hampsters who make a nest out of them????

[KamaAina]

11. Save the der-ders!

although properly speaking, der-ders are the tubes in paper towels. But they'll be next. :scared:

[MiddleFingerMom]

20. "the der-ders"!!!!!!

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You really did make me laugh out loud as I IMMEDIATELY pictured
myself about 8 years old, marching around with not one, but TWO
der-ders... and annoying the crap outta MiddleFingerMomMom.
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[MrScorpio]

13. Tubular, dude!

[NV Whino]

14. OMG!

What am I going to stuff my electrical cords into?

[MilesColtrane]

15. This is horrible.

What will hard up high school kids make bongs out of?

[txwhitedove]

23. Apparently they make pipes out of highlighters, so I discovered

recently! Yes, a yellow highlighter, take the felt marker thingy out, put a hole where there a strategically marked circle is at the end, then pop the highlighter lid into the hole (top cut off lid of course), line bowl with tinfoil -- oh my. Sorry, I didn't preserve the moment with a picture.

[BurtWorm]

18. How am I going to make my binoculars?

[bikebloke]

21. What are kids going to use as telescopes?

And tunnels for cars? And mini-megaphones to annoy adults with?

We're entering the dark ages, for sure.

[jobycom]

22. Why in the HELL

would anyone want to stack all those tubes end to end to reach the moon twice? And why do they need to reach back? can't you just shimmy back down the same tube poll you climbed up in the first place? This is a really stupid story. :grr:

[Fire Walk With Me]

24. What would Cornholio do?

[Tabasco_Dave]

25. I guess this is the end of foxhole radios

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skKmwT0EccE&feature=related.

[rug]

26. First they came for my lightbulbs, then they came for my toilet paper tubes.