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Bamboo toilet paper is an earth-friendly option and, nope, it s not scratchy. Who Gives a Crap
During the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020, you probably started poking around to see if there were any options available – at all, anywhere. And during your search, you may have come across the fact that bamboo toilet paper exists. Companies like Cloud Paper and Who Gives a Crap sell it as an alternative to traditional toilet paper, touting it as a more earth-friendly way to wipe your bum.
Let s answer the first question first: Is bamboo toilet paper really made of bamboo? Like, the same stuff pandas eat? Yes indeed, it is. Most of the toilet paper sold in the store is made from tree pulp, but bamboo toilet paper is made from bamboo pulp instead. No trees are harmed in the making of this toilet paper.
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Over the last decade or so, people have become increasingly interested in where their products come from and whether they align with their values. Starbucks customers can trace their coffee back to the farm where it was grown; Patagonia will tell you where its Better Sweater fleece was made.
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But what about toilet paper? A new ad campaign is hyping a start-up called Flush, that wants you to know which old growth forest you’re wiping with.
OK, not really. Flush is, thankfully, completely fake. But the campaign is from a real toilet paper start-up called Cloud Paper, which makes TP and paper towels out of bamboo. Launched in 2019, Cloud Paper has an impressive list of backers, including Marc Benioff, Mark Cuban, Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition Ventures fund, Ashton Kutcher, Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Oseary, Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, NFL star Russell Wilson, and C