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How Much Toilet Paper Every Country In The World Uses, Visualized

How Much Toilet Paper Every Country In The World Uses, Visualized
The world uses 42 million tons of toilet paper every year and it's truly mind boggling to visualize how far that would extend into our solar system.
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The data visualization team at GQ Supplies charted the massive environmental toll of the world's toilet paper consumption.

Using the average number of toilet rolls used per capita in every country in the world, the team then took country population data and life expectancy data from each country to determine the number of rolls a person would hypothetically use over the course of their lifetime. Then they crunched the numbers and observed how many miles in toilet paper that would stretch.

They also found β€” knowing one tree provides 1,500 toilet rolls per year β€” that it takes 31.11 million trees to provide the amount of toilet paper that Americans consume annually.

And finally, if we wanted to visualize our toilet paper consumption from space, China's 4 billion miles of toilet paper consumed each year would nearly stretch to Pluto.

Comments

  1. John S 2 years ago

    John S

    1. John S 2 years ago

      Those trees are grown just like any other crop, such as wheat or rice.

  2. Rich Love 2 years ago

    The US would use much less toilet paper if each person would have a washlet toilet seat.
    It is a bidet built into the toilet.
    Using water to wash your bum is much smarter than using toilet paper.


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