{"id":197,"date":"2009-09-28T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T22:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2009-09-28T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T22:14:07","slug":"toilet-paper-the-hummer-of-the-paper-industry","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/toilet-paper-the-hummer-of-the-paper-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Toilet Paper: The Hummer of the Paper Industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-206\" title=\"toiletpaper\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.befrugal.com:444\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/toiletpaper.jpg\" alt=\"toiletpaper\" width=\"376\" height=\"241\" \/>Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/clairity\/\" target=\"_blank\">*clarity*<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Toilet paper is the Hummer SUV of the paper industry, according to Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group. In the U.S., soft fluffy two or three ply toilet paper is made by chopping down decades old trees, and environmentalists want to change that. They want Americans to use single-ply paper, and made from recycled paper goods.<\/p>\n<p>Since single-ply toilet paper is much cheaper than double-ply, you can save the planet and money at the same time. And you can save even more with Befrugal.com's coupons. Visit the Befrugal.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/grocery\/\">Grocery Coupons<\/a> section, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/localcoupons\/\">Local Coupons<\/a> section.<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<br \/>\nWashington Post Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/23\/AR2009092304711.html\" target=\"_blank\">Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper<\/a><br \/>\nNational Resources Defense Council: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/land\/forests\/gtissue.asp\" target=\"_blank\">A Shopper's Guide to Home Tissue Products<\/a><br \/>\nThe Simple Dollar: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesimpledollar.com\/2007\/02\/05\/penny-pinching-in-the-toiletries-aisle-the-simple-dollar-looks-at-toilet-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\">Penny-Pinching In The Toiletries Aisle: The Simple Dollar Looks At Toilet Paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/toilet-paper-the-hummer-of-the-paper-industry\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"excerptimage alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>Image courtesy of *clarity* Toilet paper is the Hummer SUV of the paper industry, according to Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group. ... <a title=\"Toilet Paper: The Hummer of the Paper Industry?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/toilet-paper-the-hummer-of-the-paper-industry\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toilet Paper: The Hummer of the Paper Industry?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[703,774,779,1022,1674],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-frugal-articles","tag-frugal","tag-green","tag-grocery-coupons","tag-local-coupons","tag-toilet-paper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}