{"id":103993,"date":"2020-03-19T16:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/if-americans-used-bidets-fifteen-million-trees-could-be-saved"},"modified":"2020-03-19T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:25:15","slug":"if-americans-used-bidets-fifteen-million-trees-could-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/if-americans-used-bidets-fifteen-million-trees-could-be-saved","title":{"rendered":"If Americans used bidets fifteen million trees could be saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-americans-used-bidets-fifteen-million-trees-could-be-saved.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Justin Thomas considers bidets to be \u201ca key green technology\u201d because they eliminate the use of toilet paper. According to his analysis, Americans use 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper every year, representing the pulping of some 15 million trees. Says Thomas: \u201cThis also involves 473,587,500,000 gallons of water to produce the paper and 253,000 tons of chlorine for bleaching.\u201d He adds that manufacturing requires about 17.3 terawatts of electricity annually and that significant amounts of energy and materials are used in packaging and in transportation to retail outlets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s a lot of water, far more than is actually used by the bidet itself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-americans-used-bidets-fifteen-million-trees-could-be-saved2.jpg\" alt=\"toto toilet\" class=\"\"\/><em class=\"\">Lloyd Alter\/ toto toilet with washlet\/<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Thomas considers bidets to be \u201ca key green technology\u201d because they eliminate the use of toilet paper. According to his analysis, Americans use 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper every year, representing the pulping of some 15 million trees. Says Thomas: \u201cThis also involves 473,587,500,000 gallons of water to produce the paper and 253,000 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}