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Talking about Izal brings back memories . a couple of months before me and hubby got wed he said can we have the soft toilet paper not the shiney stuff youir mom has !!!
Happy days - I remember the newspaper squares hanging on a nail in the outside privey !!!
Love Mary xx

the stuff we had when I was in the army had "WD property" or "property of HM government........"

LOL about the only time you can crap on the government, and get away with it!!!

Okay their ages mean punitive measures maybe a bit extreme.

My parents introduced a three sheets at a time rule, you could use as many 'pieces' as you wanted to but no 'piece' should be more than three sheets. My mum regretted that idea when my younger brother had a nose bleed told me to get some toliet roll and I came back with the regulation three sheets, she sent me back for the whole roll.

While it might not work for the youngest would appealling to them that by using less they would be saving the environment or maybe just go for bribery, each week collect all the empties if its less than x maybe a small treat if its a lot less a big one? Actually maybe a genral star system for 'ecofriendly' behaviour may help, seriously give them a few years and you will be telling them to turn off x and y and where they born in a barn? when they become teens.

Hi Dawnie, in my experience you will always go through lots of toilet rolls as long as you have a girl in the house!!

Totally agree with Maggie.

I have 3 girls as well as myself.................imagine my loo roll bill!!!

love T.x

God knows what they do with it!!

When my teenager daughter was living with me I swear she used a tree every time she went to the loo.

My mum was posh - she had Izal and soft tissue rolls in her loo. lol

One sheet for wiping - one sheet for polishing my Dad used to say!

My girls used to laugh at that until they got older and a bit more eco -conscious...

Packet of Izal in my desk drawer if anyone wants any. Bought it to show the young girls in the office what we had to put up with in the old days.

S

it also depends where you buy it
i bought sainsbrys own brand at 41 p a pack of 4

well its like fly net its so thin,

the men havent said a word yet
but then they keep leaving it on the window sill instead of putting it back on the stand,
arggggggggggh

i doubt theyve noticed yet its cheep

My o.h. is the same Dawnie, but as he buys it.... he even pulls two squares off and rolls them up to dry his ears after bathing, and no his ears aren't that big lol

I don't think people realise how extravagant they are with such a product. Not only is it the producing of the paper, it's what happens to it when it goes down the loo. For instance, I found this:

What happens when you flush the loo on a cruise?(Andrew Clark The Guardian, Friday 5 May 2006 )
Anybody trapped in a confined space for more than a few hours will eventually need to use a toilet - which poses a malodorous problem for cruise-ship operators and airlines.
Cunard, QE2's owner, can tell you that it is trickier than it might sound. (The liner operator accidentally dumped 3,000 litres of waste - in this case soiled paper - too close to Canada's coast and is to be prosecuted by the Canadian government.)

Under laws agreed by the International Maritime Organisation's 166 member countries, ships are allowed to dump their "waste" in the sea but can do so only if they are 12 nautical miles from any coast and moving at speed so that the discharge breaks up rapidly.

In days gone by, raw sewage was routinely discharged by liners. But nowadays, most have treatment facilities on board which purify both "black water" from toilets and "grey water" from showers to create a substance which, in theory, is drinkable. This stuff can be released as close as four miles to any shore.

As for trains, lavatories traditionally simply dumped their contents on to tracks - and passengers were warned not to flush in stations. But newer rolling stock holds sewage in reservoirs that are emptied at depots.

Airlines, understandably, are not allowed to release sewage into the sky. Most planes use vacuum toilets connected to a central tank, making a resounding sucking sound when flushed. Plane manufacturer Airbus says one of the challenges is to ensure these can handle mobile phones, which are often dropped down the pan. Tanks are pumped out at airports by charmingly named "honey wagons", and the contents go to the local sewage works.

Occasional leaks can occur: the Civil Aviation Authority got 31 reports last year of ice falling from the sky. The CAA says many cases involve frozen condensation slipping off the aircraft wings as they reach warmer air on their approach to land. Butsometimes the ice has a giveaway blue tint, coloured by disinfectant from airline toilet tanks. If the ice is blue, the rule of thumb is not to lean too close and sniff.

It might be worth asking youngsters to think about where the loo paper ends up...


Bag it and Bin it for World Toilet Day - 19th November
newsroom published this on 5:16 pm, Tuesday, 11th November, 2008

This is one of those worthy initiatives that the schoolchild in all of us makes it hard to talk about with a straight face. When a Press Release arrived from Scottish Water announcing World Toilet Day and its own Bag it and Bin It campaign, there was a scramble for the diary to check it wasn’t April 1st.

Then the Press Release mentioned that: ‘Throughout Argyll & Bute schools, workplaces and other organisations are playing special games in order to raise vital funding for WaterAid …’ and it was hard to get the imagination beyond the conundrum of ’special games’.

But the 19th November really is the day to flush out all our bad habits around the lavatory - mostly in the area of what not to flush.

Joking apart, lavatories can cope with surprisingly little variety of disposals - nothing other than human waste and a modest volume of lavatory paper - and that does not include moist wipes, which should be binned. If we try to get rid of alien material down the pan, we can not only block up our own system or - not to be contemplated - cause it to back up, but we can sabotage the local sewage system, causing raw sewage flooding like that experienced recently in Dunoon.

Scottish Water points out that around 40 per cent of the world’s population (2.6 billion people) live without a proper toilet, yet in this country we abuse our toilets by flushing items which should be bagged and binned.

The suggestion is that we often get this wrong because we don’t realise what happens after we’ve flushed the lavatory. Once the waste is flushed it goes through a rigid treatment process, passing through a series of pumps and filters before it is discharged. What happens then is that the wrong sort of waste causes major problems because it chokes the screens and pumps causing the system to back up and overflow.

And it’s not just about the bathroom. In the kitchen, warm cooking oil poured away and fats washed directly from cooking utensils cause serious problems. They solidify as they cool and build up over time causing blockages in pipes. This can cause flooding and hinder the operation of waste water treatment works and septic tanks. Sewage can flood into gardens and properties creating a mess and a health hazard.

Bagging and binning is the answer, home and away.

What not to flush includes:
Sanitary items: towels, tampons, applicators, panty liners, backing strips, etc.
Disposable nappies, liners and baby wipes
All wipes, including baby, bathroom and toilet
Incontinence pads
Condoms and femidoms
Colostomy bags
Bandages and plasters
Cotton buds, cotton wool
Contact lenses
Toothbrushes

What do you do with dangerous items? Put razors and razor blades in a rigid container and put that in the bin. Take syringes and needles to a needle bank (ask your GP for the location). Return unwanted or unused medicines and contraceptives to your local pharmacy. When the label says ‘disposable’, it does not always mean it can be flushed down the toilet.



anyone from this area know if the trial worked lol?

Lizxxx

you lot have had me laughing away.

Looked at loo roll in bathroom earlier and thought Not again as it only had a few sheets left on it. Am just waiting to see who shouts first that they need another one cos they never look and check if theres any before sitting down