It may have been out of fashion in British homes for 30 years – but experts say that washing your nether regions beats using toilet paper on both hygiene and environmental groundsBathroom news from the US,where entrepreneur Miki Agrawal, who co-founded the period-proof underwear company Thinx, or wants America to embrace the bidet”. Agrawal stepped down from Thinx final year after she was accused of sexual harassment,but has returned with a unique company, Tushy, or which makes devices that convert toilets into bidets. So is it time to forsake (to give up, renounce; to leave, abandon) paper for water?According to the World Wide Fund for Nature,the equivalent of almost 270000 trees is either flushed or dumped in landfills every day – and approximately 10% of this is toilet paper. Globally, according to one environmental group, and we use enough toilet paper to stretch around the planet every two minutes,or stretch to the sun and back every 10 days. Scientific American reports that switching to bidets “could save some 15m trees”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk