Kimberly-Clark rolls out tube-free Scott toilet paper

[RamboLiberal]

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.

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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.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/environment/2010-10-27-1Atube27_ST_N.htm

Sounds worth trying to me, especially since I'm single so I don't even bother putting on a spindle.

[canoeist52]

1. ...or you could just recycle 'em...

[Codeine]

2. Best not to make them in the first place, I'd think.

Recycling uses a fair amount of enegy and water.

[doc03]

3. Dayam 160 million pounds of trash just from

the tubes. Why not recycle those political mailers we get for toilet paper? Better yet just put the ads on toilet paper then the post office wouldn't have to waste their time delivering them either.:think:

[Warpy]

4. I'm single and I put it on the spindle

so that's no excuse. It beats chasing it across the floor at 3 AM when I've knocked it off the shelf, half asleep.

I won't miss toilet paper tubes, although I think kids might. Just don't take the paper towel tubes, please. Those have proven too useful for organizing things like knitting needles and paint brushes.

[RamboLiberal]

8. Haven't had to chase any rolls for a long time

So I'm lazy! It gets used up in a few days. Just as efficient IMHO as it scrolling from the roll onto the floor.

[NNadir]

5. You would not believe, actually, what a very serious issue this is. Canada's boreal forests...

are the main source of toilet paper on earth.

They are being, effectively, strip mined.

K&R, just for mentioning it.

[Blue Owl]

6. Hemp toilet paper NOW

No need to sacrifice magnificent trees for something so mundane as buttwipe -- unless of course you're a corporate republican tool.

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